{"id":5248,"date":"2014-02-21T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:08:59","slug":"what-does-the-symbolism-of-the-cross-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/21\/what-does-the-symbolism-of-the-cross-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Symbolism of The Cross Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the Western Way.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the Eastern Way.<br \/>\nNor the Northern or Southern Way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your way.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s your heart&#8217;s way.<br \/>\nNotice how the intersection of the Christian Cross is not in the middle, but rather at the level of the 4th Chakra, the Heart Chakra.<\/p>\n<p>What does your heart want to do? There&#8217;s your entryway to your destiny. The transcendence of these pairs of opposites: North, South, East, and West.<br \/>\nAnd then there&#8217;s the crucifixion, not of the body literally, but rather of this mode of egocentric consciousness. Crucifying that puts you on the automatic track of transcendence.<\/p>\n<p>What does it really, really, really, really, want to do with this life of yours?<\/p>\n<p>Not what&#8217;s been programmed into you from the outside.<\/p>\n<p>But down deep in your soul, what do you want to do with your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the Western Way. It&#8217;s not the Eastern Way. Nor the Northern or Southern Way. It&#8217;s your way. It&#8217;s your heart&#8217;s way. Notice how the intersection of the Christian Cross is not in the middle, but rather at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/21\/what-does-the-symbolism-of-the-cross-mean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}