{"id":589,"date":"2009-05-19T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/oh-cheesus-on-hallucination-and-other-spiritual-traps.html"},"modified":"2009-05-19T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T10:55:07","slug":"oh-cheesus-on-hallucination-and-other-spiritual-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/oh-cheesus-on-hallucination-and-other-spiritual-traps.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Cheesus! On Hallucination and Other Spiritual Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from Preston Hollow, Texas, Sara Bell, claims she saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?Cheesy_Jesus_appears_in_snack&amp;in_article_id=666997&amp;in_page_id=2\">Jesus<\/a> Christ in A Cheeto, and named it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/05\/19\/2009-05-19_sara_bell_from_preston_hollow_texas_claims_she_saw_jesus_in_a_bag_of_cheetos_nam.html\">Cheesus<\/a> Christ. Cheetos, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cheeto, Cheetos, Cheesus Christ\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/is_cheetos2_070905_ms.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"310\" width=\"413\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that if you think you are having a big deal experience or revelation while practicing sitting meditation, such as seeing Mohammed in a bottle of root beer, that no experience is a big deal. Visions come, visions going. Staying present is what matters.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we turn a (dreadfully unhealthy) snack into a spiritual revelation? And why does the woman have to be from Texas? I&#8217;m trying to get over my stereotyping here, not confirm it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from Preston Hollow, Texas, Sara Bell, claims she saw Jesus Christ in A Cheeto, and named it Cheesus Christ. Cheetos, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everybody-hurts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oh, Cheesus! 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