Re: Very good reply
Have seen and experienced miracles happen live (on myself), so I feel that must of the BS is shat out by modernists and the humanist movement that oriented out of france and formulated the majority of the thinking of the american forefathers.
One has to look at the documentaries of the way of thinking of the 'gods' mounted on pedastools round and about in DC, I grew up and was intimately familiar with the museum of Natural and American history (Smithmansonian institutions). More relevantly, I took a book of greek mytholongy to hart in 4rth grade and ended up taking the book home from the school shelves. It's in unbound tatters today. xD
All of history is the retelling, retelling, andretelling of stories with spin. Apple cider until it's nothing but Granny Weatherwaxes' scumble (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_and_fauna_of_the_Discworld#Scumble ). Of many things I got tired of very early, it was spin! So I went for the apple, so to speak! Started reading all the books they left out of my 'library'. 'Biblios', aka, the defenition.
Yes, the theorem of Jesus spending time at the Essene colony makes good sense. Especially since archaelogical proof of their activities has been found around Jerusalem.
Also where he would have split off from the common cannon of oral law and studied proper history.
When people start to try and explain away the business of astral travel, after death experiences, angelic visitations, UFO activity in the stratosphere, and the like from their own imaginations instead of spending the time researching the matter, you can see the BS welling up!
As for Stitchin and the like, I haven't wasted a penny. Lectures on youtube and reading free is fine enough for me, and he drew his own conclusions, and I draw mine by reading what he read.