The Psychology of Vicarious Atonment through Sacrifice

In many ways the Jesus Christ myth fulfills an important psychological need for certain people who find themselves in modern urban settings.

Having a hearty meal is bliss that may come  by way of a blessing. To be blessed literally means to be covered in blood, and when you sacrifice a chicken or a goat as a spiritual practice you just might get some blood splashed on you.

However most meat and poultry eaters living in modern urban centers of the West are divorced from the means by which the animals that they eat are brought to their dinner tables.

Three thousand years ago a man would slaughter a goat to address a spiritual need for himself that affected him and his family. They all would then gather to consume the flesh in their hunger together.

Animals always follow natural law, whereas men and women are now prone to rebel against it because of a lack of patience, confidence or just an outright feeling of unwarranted entitlement.

The sacrificed animal was part of man’s petition of atonement to the spiritual hierarchy that he had a personal contract with. He asked the great spirit, or spirits, to accept the pure and pristine energy signature of the sacrificed animal that he and his familywould in turn cloak themselves in. He retained his human soul and mind while appropriating—with permission—the clean energy of the law-abiding animal. It’s a temporary cheat code, a work around to get on track and buy some time.

 In principle it isn’t much different from the class nerd letting the jock cheat off of him for a calculus exam. The jock will make the grade for that exam, but if he wants to pass the class he’s going to have to learn some calculus. In life, there are no short cuts. You have to be truly exceptional at some things to live a worthy existence, and there are no quick rituals to achive that.

As you might imagine, the ancient man and his family felt a genuine sense of gratitude towards the goat for being a medium for their personal bliss through blessing. The jock in like manner  is appreciative of his math savior because he was on academic probation and now he can play in the big game, which is his heaven.

A woman who doesn’t kill the chicken she eats because she buys it at Whole Foods doesn’t appreciate the chicken in the same way that the man who raised it, slaughtered it, and got the response he needed for a spiritual question on his altar before he cleaned, cooked and ate it.

Religion helps a person to evolve FROM THE PLACE WHERE THEY ARE STANDING until they are able to cultivate a richer spiritual awareness through time and experience.

Christ allows the city girl who is  divorced from the conscious act of relying on nature to experience vicarious atonement. She comes into energetic alignment through a wonderful white knight who lost his life for her benefit. Since she did not kill her savior herself with a cutlas any guilt that she may have had as a modern woman is transmuted into gratitude.

The path of the fool leads to a destination of mastery, but we all have to start from somewhere. So let a fool be a fool, because a fool is a Master in the making. Through allowance we find our own atonement where the slayer and the sacrificed are truly one.