Naomi Wolf, Feminist has Vision of Jesus

Naomi Wolf, one of feminism's most well know authors next to Germaine Greer has revealed she has had a vision of Jesus. Raised a San Francisco liberal Jew this is not what one would expect, but shouldn't discount either.

Today, Wolf seems sharp and incisive . This is no Valley Girl on some psychobabble trip. But when one of the foremost feminists in the world, who is Jewish to boot, says she has met Jesus, the ultimate figure of Christianity and the redeemer of lost souls, it's more than a little disconcerting.

She describes this mystical experience – which happened "a few years ago" – as terrifying, inexplicable and "completely not the appropriate spiritual experience of someone of my background".

Too right. According to Judaism, Jesus is not God made flesh, or a Messianic vision. In a profane world, for anyone of Wolf's publicly acknowledged intellect to confess to achieving spiritual fulfilment through Jesus is to invite mockery. In her native America, where interfaith rivalry informs all politics, it is a highly volatile admission. Typically of a writer who has spent a lifetime self-dramatising her experiences, Wolf's epiphany seems to have been of Damascene proportions.

"I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision of … of Jesus, and I'm sure it was Jesus." Anticipating a raised eyebrow, she adds quickly: "But it wasn't this crazy theological thing; it was just this figure who was the most perfected human being – full of light and full of love. And completely accessible. Any of us could be like that. There was light coming out of him holographically, simply because he was unclouded. But any of us could become that as human beings."

God is perfectly capable of reaching anyone in any way He chooses, I'm not going to address her vision or what she says about it. There are questions I'd like to ask, but until the opportunity presents itself I'll have to wait in silence.

She has a tough row to hoe at this point. The crowd she has been part of is as dogmatic about their beliefs as any religion and arguably more intolerant of any deviance from the path. She should talk with David Horowitz about his experience in this department. He has written in Radical Son and Left Illusions how the left is quick to disown any who step from the path. She is already being accused of being a feminist lightweight.

All that probably won't matter to her much, Jesus has a way of outshining the accolades of this world. I'll certainly keep her in my prayers.

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