WAS JESUS A YOGI?

Eighteen years. The Gospels say nothing.

At twelve, Jesus astonished the teachers in the temple. At thirty, He walked out of the desert with an authority no one could explain. In between, the Gospels go silent.

Where was He?

In the first century, trade roads ran from Galilee to India and beyond. Along them lived monks, hermits and forest yogis teaching ideas that sound startlingly like the Sermon on the Mount. Was Jesus a Yogi? follows those roads. It walks through the life of Jesus scene by scene, from the river and the desert to the mountain, the storm, the garden and the cross. At each stop it sets His words beside the ancient wisdom of the East.

What emerges is not a smaller Jesus. It is a sharper one. He is a Teacher whose instructions were meant to be lived, not just believed, and He mapped the battle inside the human mind more precisely than anyone before or since.

In this book, Jason Monroe explores:

• The missing years, the trade roads, and the legend of Saint Issa: what the evidence shows and what it doesn't
• Why the voice that tempted Jesus in the desert still speaks in your own voice today
• The striking parallels between Jesus and the teachings of the Gita, the Buddha, the Dao and the yogis
• Why Jesus saves us the way every great teacher does: by showing us how to live
• How the Observer Mind can catch a destructive thought before it takes over your life
• Why God is bigger than the box religion built around Him

Written by a follower of Jesus who refuses to stop asking questions, this book challenges much of what Christianity has taught about who Jesus was and what He came to do. It never turns against the One it is searching for.

This is not a book against Jesus. It is for anyone who suspects His story is bigger than the box it was put in.