When We Wake Up
When the body dies, awareness doesn’t go anywhere—although, like in a dream, it may appear to—for there isn’t some other separate, independent space outside of awareness to which awareness can relocate. When the body dies, awareness simply loses the limitations imposed by the body-mind.
Think of the space in your room. That space is not separate and independent from the space outside your room although from a limited point of view it may appear to be. If the building collapses, the space in your room will not go anywhere; it will not return to its source. The space in your room is the source. The walls and ceiling are just a temporary enclosure within a single, physical space. So in the broader context, the perception of separate space is an illusion, and the vast, physical space only appears to be divided from a limited point of view.
In the same way, feelings, sensations, thoughts and perceptions make up the temporary enclosure of the body-mind. When we wake up from the dream of separateness, our true essence as infinite awareness will shine.
Jesus did not come to redeem our true essence because the divine presence of awareness doesn’t need redeeming. Rather, Jesus shows the way for the troubled mind entangled in thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. Jesus experienced directly the oneness of being, which he called the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven, and he sought to liberate others from the bondage of perceived separation.