Awakening/Enlightenment experiences happen within certain streams of most major religions. Judaism has Kabbala, Islam has the Sufi’s, Christians have the mystics and even Buddhists even though they are not technically a religion, have a form of it.
Most Christians define awakening as “waking up to the truth”. The problem is that this truth gets redefined, changed, deepened, etc over time. What was once awakening becomes old outdated theology. Awakening/enlightenment when based on truth(s) will eventually disappear because of growth in understanding and beliefs
Instead, it is generally accepted among the groups/streams historically that awakening/enlightenment is an experience or growth in an experience.
It is the experience where we are no longer living in reaction to our thoughts but have learned to quiet or ignore them altogether. It is the experience (not just idea or belief) of being one with all creation… people, water, trees, life, etc.
It is the experience of being undifferentiated from God and union with God. This is the testimony and experience of streams within all religions including Christianity throughout history.
If your stream isn’t leading you there, you may want to explore more than just a new truth but the possibility of a very deep experience.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SHARING:
The world mind had its little fun with me for a spell pulling me away from regular meditation but wow when I got back it was in spades!!! I do meditation in two parts. First I speak to whatever comes to mind I speak truth. All of this is in preparation to go deep into Spirit. I just saw so much. I saw that everything that God is, every single thing, I am. I saw that no one but no one was ever born. I could see that. It was so exciting. I saw everyone especially the problematic ones as Christ, nothing less. I knew that I couldn’t afford to see anyone as less than the Son of the Living God. Having removed all of the worldly, fleshly, dastardly junk from these people, I could see clearly spiritually. In my meditation everything got lifted one by one by one to pure spirituality which is the tangible and real and only. Toward the end of the meditation I wondered why I would even want to end it and then the answer came. To share it with everyone else, especially those who really need it. There is nothing in the whole wide world quite like successful meditation. When you get to the point in the meditation where you’re seeing way way way beyond anything the world could possibly show you and you really don’t want to stop that’s a sign that you are really on the King’s Highway and all the lights are green!!!
Love is when you steal my chocolate everyday from my bag and I still hide it in the same place…
~Isaac Oforah
QQQ: Doesn’t that encourage the girl to steal?
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LITERAL vs SPIRITUAL interpretation is like comparing apples and oranges. That’s why spiritual interpretation is usually protected be a shroud of mysticism.
RJS
Love is when you steal my chocolate everyday from my bag and I still hide it in the same place…
~Isaac Oforah
QQQ: That encourages the girl to steal….
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LITERAL versus SPIRITUAL interpretation is like comparing apples and oranges. (That’s why spiritual interpretations always have to be protected by a shroud of mysticism.)
RJS
Some live divided, some fight matter with matter, some dwell in the secret place of the most high.
The only way Divine Grace can take over in any/all situations is for us to let go of human retaliation, & take the journey to learn to hear & trust in the Greater One, the Divine presence within.
One with Father, Christ in you. All God is, embodied within us!
Its a great day to relinquish human understanding, ego, depart from the chaos, & trust the Divine presence within.
The Greater one lives within all of us, the Kingdom within! Glory! Sons of God!
There are two levels of life: the human level which is made up entirely of mind and body, and the level which is the Son of God or spirit. If you have discerned that there is a “man of earth” and that there is “a man who has his being in Christ”–if you have discerned why it was taught that you must put off mortality and put on immortality–then you are ready to understand the message as you will receive it from now on. You will now approach that time in your own spiritual development when you will be taught of God, as indeed everyone must be eventually.
The Master provided for that by saying: “If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.” The Master did not provide for his remaining on earth forever to be our shepherd. Therefore, in the end every knee must bend, every consciousness must open to receive instruction, guidance, protection, illumination, from the Father within. Then eventually we will all be able to say: “I am instructed, guided, protected, and illumined by God.”
Let us take the subject of protection. I am sure that most of you in this room have no fear of atomic bombs. I do not see how you could have such a fear after being with us this past year, because you definitely must have attained the conviction that God is; and if God is, that means omnipotence. Is there then any power to fear? Each one must answer this for himself: “Is the teaching of The Infinite Way truth or fiction?” No one can convince you of this, either way. You yourself must have an inner experience which is not a blind faith. Blind faith has been a terrible thing through the centuries, a blind faith because “my” mother or “my” minister told me to have faith.
Why not have our own convictions? It must be possible for everyone on the face of the globe to receive an assurance from God that there is a God. “Fear not, for I am with thee.” What is this, fact or fiction? Are we to accept the Bible as the word of God, or as pleasant fiction? All the really great Hebrew leaders, and all the great Christian leaders have been able to say without exception: “Fear not, for I am with thee. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I will be with thee unto the end of the world. Fear not the armies of the alien; they have only the arm of flesh,” they have only temporal power.
As long as you are the natural man thinking with your mind, you cannot accept these passages of scripture and you cannot adopt them as your way of life. Even though the human race repeats scriptural quotations, you know the world does not accept them. Why? Because the passages of scripture were not made for “man whose breath is in his nostrils.”
According to the Old Testament you must live and move and dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and the Old Testament made it very clear that, “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.” The New Testament is equally clear that “He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered.” That is what you are witnessing of the human world. The Bible recognizes two levels of life as we do. That level of humanity which is not consciously abiding in the word, and which does not consciously accept God as the life which is “closer than breathing,” is cut off. The Bible also recognizes the second level of life–those who live and dwell in the “secret place of the Most High.”
As you come to the state of consciousness revealed to us this year, and given to us as a mode of life, remember that God is the life of individual man or men, saint or sinner, Jew or Greek, bond or free. God is the life of every individual. When Moses received the name of God, the Hebrew followers who had been in slavery were certainly not prepared to understand that name. They could have misunderstood it so easily that Moses refused to allow them to know the true name of God, and they were given a substitute name. Only the high priests were permitted to know that name.
We learn now that, one hundred years before the Master came to earth, there was another Hebrew master who was crucified because he attempted to impart this secret to the Hebrew world. For one hundred years the name was again secret, but then Jesus was determined to follow in the footsteps of this great master and he revealed the secret for three years until he too was crucified.
The importance of the name is this: Unless you know it, you never can fully relax the tension of living, nor can you relax in the spirit and be God-governed, God-taught, God-protected, God-supported, and God-maintained. Only when you receive the revelation of Moses and Jesus as to the identity of God, will you be able to realize why it was taught: “The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” You now know why it was taught; you have had it all year. You also know why the Master said: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” You know the import of that, but you cannot know it with your mind.
You will have to have the same discernment that Peter had when the Master said: “Whom say ye that I am?” Peter answered “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” to which the Master replied: “Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Nothing in the mind could reveal this, it was the Father within, it was the divine consciousness. In other words, “Whereas I probably look and talk like a Hebrew rabbi, you have discerned that behind this face and this robe I am the Christ.”
J. S. Goldsmith: Consciousness Transformed. Spiritual Discernment; Kindle location: 5307-5353
ZYX: Yes we do. 77% of Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry have been Christians. The only person we should be requesting evidence of coherent thought processes is you.
