Jesus was able to teach St.Paul and some of His close discipiles how to take up the cross daily (or die daily - the man body with arms stretched resembles the cross)but Jesus is not able to teach any of us how to rise above body consciousness now.Why?
This is because Jesus is not the only Saviour sent by God to help mankind. If He were the only Saviour what are the fates of those born before Him. He told us He was not the only Saviour.He said:
As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.(St.John 9:5)
St. Luke likewise echoed the above point when He said:
As He spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets which has been since the world began.(St.Luke 1:70)
Some of my favorite Bible verses:
Psalm 91:9, which is about CHOOSING to make the Most High your habitation...
Psalm 139:7-12, which is about there being no place where the Most High is not..
Acts 17:28, where Paul says that "This is God, in whom we live and move and have our being"...
and
Ephesians 4:6, where Paul says that there is "One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all and in all."