Beyond Jesus: A Spiritual Odyssey

Enlightening, revelatory, and bold, Beyond Jesus is a compelling account of a remarkable spiritual journey. In the crucible of grief following a friend’s death, Presbyterian pastor Patricia Pearce resolved to discover a dimension of existence she sensed was present beneath her ordinary perception. She soon found herself in a vortex of revelatory dreams, synchronicities, energy openings, and insights that shattered her worldview, exposed a unified Reality of Love, and unveiled the illusory nature of the ego and the world it has created—and, faced with these discoveries, she struggled to remain in a religion that she now realized had been shaped by the very ego consciousness Jesus had transcended and urged others to abandon.

Tracing Pearce’s spiritual journey—including her experiences with the Quichua Indians in the Andes of Ecuador, where she worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer; her time at the federal prison, where she served time for nonviolent civil disobedience; and her eventual departure from the ministry—Beyond Jesus reveals how our political and religious institutions are an outward manifestation of the inner beliefs we hold about who we are, and that beneath the layers of dogma about Jesus lies a key to our spiritual evolution and the astonishing possibility it holds for the future.