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The following post got be banned from a Christian forum. I guess the post is more true than I could imagine. Thank God for Progressive Christians!!!! Unity is love so emphasis on religious differences, race or intolerance rather than the unity of God is a strange god indeed and can be a challenge for us to overcome so we need to invoke the unity of God in all things. Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," because it provides an effective answer to the many problems of modern life. This call for love tells us that we are united and that no other person is separate or apart in God\'s spiritual consciousness. Recognizing that we are all one in God\'s consciousness gives us full protection in His unity by integrating our individual life with the world around us and providing a basic harmony and equilibrium in our hearts and minds. This is a kind of insurance from the flood of negativity surrounding us because a relaxed mind and body is positive, priceless and an indestructible way to receive successful ideas and results. I can see some people's point of view that Christians are intolerant because many are. We all know sincere Christians and they are not the problem, but Crhsitians without love who see Christianity as an ego trip to put others down are giving Christianity a bad name.

About the fall most of the following I got from the book "Evolution of Consciousness". A person in Christ consciousness is in total harmony and is at peace and happiness within the mind, the body and with others. Men and women determine their own destiny with some independence. They don't have to stay in harmony or seek it, and they can seek support from other means instead of from the divine source. "And the Lord said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh..." (Gen. 6:3). If the hierarchy of Spirit over mind over body is destroyed and pure consciousness is no longer called into existence, then people cease to be like God and desire not to unite with pure consciousness. This is the Fall of Adam from paradise. This fragmentation causes man's spirit to disengage from pure consciousness, and it no longer is the life source of man. Man is left to himself until once again he tries to recover the lost harmony. The moment the mind of man ceases to be a channel to pure consciousness, the inspiration of unity ceases to be channeled from the soul into the psyche and ceases to invigorate the body. This cut off from ecstasy is the fall from the harmony of Eden. After the fall from the Eden state of mind, we as individuals must labor and be troubled to gain support for the rest of our days unless we decide to change our course of action. Instead of communing with pure consciousness and unity, after the fall we share in the life of the material world. The material world is where our bodies obtain life, ill health, unhappiness, confusion and death because our bodies came from dust and will return to dust. It is our invisible spiritual nature, which harmonizes, balances, cultivates and brings forth the good in our body and mind. If we don’t associate with pure consciousness in a harmonious state of mind, body and affairs, we have to depend totally on the created world and are subject to its pain and hardship. After becoming more and more involved with the external world and experiencing pain, the struggle of the flesh once again becomes a struggle for happiness. The nature of the flesh being self-centered, possessive, fearful, and always trying to force its will on others after suffering in the world, finally returns our mind on a direction back through individual consciousness to Christ consciousness to a path leading to the soul. Suffering makes us not happy with the material world so our minds lead us back through the depths of our own being to the kingdom of God.

You have the strength and the experience to reach, love and respect many people. You will light many minds. Namaste

We are all sitting on the beach and we all see the sun setting on the horrizon. Each one of us see a path of light coming across the water and each one is separate, but they all lead to the same sun. We say we are following Jesus and yes we still see different paths on the water. Let us learn, celebrate and help each other on our different paths to the same place. There inevitably comes a time when evil, the devil and matter fail as an answer to life’s problems. I like to think of Jesus as the man and Christ as a consciousness that is leading me to the pure consciousness of the Father. People intuitively know that God is one and that we are all united in pure consciousness; therefore, no one is left out of heaven, and everyone possess the inherent ability to discover God. No one needs to remain in evil and darkness, if one desires to find light and live in pure consciousness. When everything is seen as God, then there is nothing evil that can oppose God or divine consciousness. The devil cannot squelch, repeal or conceal pure consciousness just like we cannot stop the sun from rising; nothing has the power to stop pure consciousness in the individual mind. Make a Christian a better Christian, a Buddhist a better Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Tantric ect.

Christ Consciousness Is All Powerful The microcosm cannot grasp the macrocosm because it is too vast. The image that our unit minds can grasp is another unit being who serves as a model for spiritual life. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Jesus is pointing the way to the macrocosmic mind and is the tangential point between the macrocosm and the microcosm. By using Jesus as a personal model and a focal point, we can attain Christ consciousness. It is the perfect consciousness for the human model because it has attained all of the possibilities in the human state. In it all potential is actualized on this earthly plane so it becomes the prototype of being for the Christ conscious mind. It admits and supports the idea that there are varied upward paths to pure consciousness, and the diversity in different world faiths diminishes as one approaches Christ consciousness. Evolution and all spiritual paths lead to pure consciousness. In Christ consciousness the human ego with which most of us identify is nothing but a tool to do service with on this earthly plane, the external reality. The inward reality is linked with the inward reality of the whole universe. In Christ consciousness there is a place in the mind that merges with the Mind of God and draws strength and inspiration from it. Therefore, Christ said, "I and the Father are one." The words, "I and the Father are one" can be interpreted to mean that I, the individual ego does not exist. The Father is everything so nothing has existence except pure consciousness; God is all there is; and I am a nonentity. Christ consciousness is not identified with the ego; therefore, Christ is the image of the true self that is developed. He is a model for us to imitate, an ideal that exists in our hearts and is a tangential point between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Jesus is pointing to God, the Father so we should not mistake his fingers as the goal and run over his hand, but see Jesus as the way. When we come closer to our spiritual role models, we come closer to all, and vice a versa; when we come closer to all, we come closer to our role models. Thus, we should work on expanding our minds and seeing the all-pervading consciousness working in life.

BeachofEden, Thank you for your Liberal Catholic links. I just had a book published and I am willing to give free classes and lectures to groups in the Reno vicinity or California. I feel the ideas in the book are progressive Christian. The fundamental Christians will not read it and feel threatened by it. The Christians you have been referring to have given me a lot of positive feedback. "Evolution of Consciousness" is a book that merits serious and quality attention. I lived as a monk and have written some refreshing ideas on Christianity.The book is appealing in particular because it explains the Christian mysteries so everyone can understand them. The book evolves in stages as the reader is taken on a transforming journey through the layers of the mind, the parts of the mind and evolution. Among the themes explored are: Christ Consciousness, Trinity, and the Soul. It answered many questions that I had and it leads one to Christian Mysticism. I would recommend Evolution of Consciousness as a resource for spiritual renewal because the book outlines, with specific and practical guidelines, a life any person in the world—no matter their station—might adopt with great benefit. Here is ancient Christian wisdom written so contemporary Christians may understand. If you have any more sites or places that might be interested please let me know. I wrote the book to appeal to Christians who want more and want to go deeper in themselves and Christianity. This is my mode for spreading Progressive Christian Beliefs.

What is a Maronite Catholic?

A good progressive Catholiic site. Read all the links. The web site is http://geocities.com/trinitypublishing2004/

Science and inspiration are working together to describe the path of pure consciousness from the invisible to the visible and then from the physical struggle of matter back to the inner peace and happiness of pure consciousness. Science recognizes some religious principles that are universal and intangible, but its main purpose is to support the tangible values that have already been discovered because science is measurement, description and classification of natural development. It describes life in action, but does not dare to say what the purpose of life is intended to perform. We accept the invisible principles of science because the deductions made can be proven, and the results are observable. The scientist is the grammarian who classifies the different words in an essay and identifies them as nouns, verbs or objects. He can describe the words in relation to one another, but he does not venture to say whether the essay is good or bad in respect to literature, philosophy or art; therefore, science does not give us a philosophy of life. Remember, the scientist is a grammarian he doesn’t supply a conclusion to an essay. Modern science does look at the facts it has collected and make ingenious guesses though, for example the electron. The scientists tried to understand the mechanism of an atom and they have formed pictures of a mechanism, which could be responsible for all the things observed in their limited instruments, but they are never quite sure because the pictures keep changing, as the instruments get better. Therefore, we see scientific knowledge as speculative on what the scientist sees that could be experimentally applicable to the physical world. Religion on the other hand is not so much knowledge either as it is belief. It takes another person’s internal experiences and forms ideas on ethics and morality using symbolic forms that are speculative about the experience. Sometimes we are betrayed by the ideas in science and religion, because people stumble and are merely human so skepticism can be healthy, when we consider the source, but we cannot doubt everything. We must believe in our own capacity to know, speculate, be good, and all will be well. We must believe in our moral and spiritual qualities, our capacity to love and our commitment to know who we really are so we can begin to develop our spiritual consciousness.

Jesus said, "I am the light and the way and it is only through me that my Father's kingdom can be attained." Jesus was a man, and Christ was the perfect man. Christ consciousness is perfect. The Christ way is to lay aside our fears, doubts and worries so we can enter into a silent, peaceful contemplation of pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is within us and is perfect and because it is perfect, it destroys our doubts and fears, and casts out all uncertainty and disbelief. We must let go of everything, drop every fear from our minds, and enter into inner communion with the Father in pure consciousness. Now, from pure consciousness we draw full, complete and perfect joy, which causes us to surrender to the Father then God can remove every mental obstruction to peace because we surrender all confusion, doubt, condemnation and judgment to Him. Because the Soul is higher than the mind and more than the body, all conflicts can be removed and healed without effort, both in the mind and the body. The Christ way governs the activities of our life leading us to fulfillment with joy, love, unity, happiness and success. There are many paths to perfection. The way of Jesus Christ is the path to perfection that I chose, but I realize that there are many paths to perfection as there are individuals. The only way is through the light of perfection, but there are many candles giving off and lighting other candles so I think Jesus was saying it is only through perfection that one experiences the kingdom of pure consciousness.

I am glad you are drawing on the invisible forces of unity and can feel the oneness and see that responsibility, decision-making and optimism all flow together in one universal consciousness, where God is an obvious reality. Jesus said, "I and the Father are one." Christ consciousness is lighting a path to pure consciousness. Without a doubt the mind of God the Father is everywhere in pure consciousness and in the individual consciousness of all living things. The spirit of God is the principal partner in the human compound of body, mind and spirit, but it is usually ignored because it does not come across as the voice of authority especially to those who like things cut and dried. Organized religion is the voice of authority and it can meddle, tinker and mean well, but to break up old patterns of thought and behavior, we need to open ourselves to new possibilities. With the highest exercise of our intellect we know the purpose of our existence and can proceed to live intelligently according to it, if we direct our physical and mental activities to the pure consciousness of God. We know we are on the right path because pure consciousness makes cheerful every action and person contacted. Thanks for the encouragement.

Yes, this book is timely, for it responds to the “knowledge of the heart” which one can say is also Gnosis. Yet today,at the end of the second millennium we see radical deterioration of many Christian ideologies because they have evaded the great questions and answers addressed by science and psychology. The clarity, frankness, and authenticity of this Christian book to answer these questions for the human mind cannot fail to impress and (in time) to convince Christians that they have a divine spark resident within them. The book talks about Christ consciousness an invisible force of unity where a person can feel the oneness and see that responsibility, decision-making and optimism all flow together in one universal consciousness, where God is an obvious reality (God the Father). One benefits tremendously physically, mentally and spiritually, when a deep awareness of unity is established because the habit of being positive is acquired, and God is no longer a closed concept, but an infinite vast always present consciousness. I believe in one God, but his book explained how one God is beyond the myriad forms so we are not tricked into thinking that there are more than one God. My God is better than your god insinuates that there is more than one God. This statement I feel is false and a misuse of belief. I feel this book flows with intelligence, inspiring, guiding and helping people to take and put more back into life by becomming better Christians internally and externally.

I believe in the Christian’s consciousness of acceptance that there is one God and that He created all things is a conceptual truth that frees the mind to think of God all the time. This should relax the emotions so we can praise everything as good because it came from God. Some Christian philosophies have a lack of total explanation; therefore, they have lost the power to bring about the original experience of oneness and have become superstitions and an impediment on the road to spiritual development. Christ consciousness is beyond the normal mundane world of time and space and is the living expression of the pure consciousness of God where everyone can find fulfillment. Turning from material beliefs to spiritual beliefs will change our perspective and reveal the ever-present divine Love that is in pure consciousness. Therefore, we should not be afraid to mingle with other groups or individuals from those institutions, but the organization of those other groups are afraid to mingle with us because their superstitions will be exposed.

The exceptional finding that there is one God awaits each one of us, giving us the ability to change our lives for the better. When we understand the true meaning of one God, our concept of god expands and builds a greater awareness of God’s presence within us. It is a journey towards unity and a new way of living. As we progress on this journey to oneness, we find our lives gradually transformed in a positive way, which includes both the conscious and the unconscious. This balance brings the discovery of a new reality along with a balance between the rational and the irrational, between the intellect and instinct, and between the conscious mind and the unconscious. As we acquire unity, we see that nothing exist in isolation so the nature of our being is unity, a unity of body, mind and spirit. Wholeness or holiness can be achieved with a watchful mind and the knowledge that everything is united in God, if old fears, doubts and prejudices wear away to make room for new ideas and understanding. Unity is not a new concept, but we must open up to it to make it effective so it can change our lives, making us aware that our bodies are in harmony with God, and His power is within. God flows through every atom of our being fortifying, energizing and renewing, but we are not aware of it. Embracing and identifying with unity, instead of our minds easily opens our being to the influx of new ideas, new thoughts, new people, and the new situations that come into our experience.

I was baptised Catholic too, but found that God ithe Father is explained in many forms and in many ways, but that God is the same. I like to think of God the Father as the all pervading pure consciousness that is guiding us internally and externally. The force that maintains our life is the same consciousness that controls the stars and the planets in the universe. This happens through the law's of nature and as we know the pull of gravity. Man's true knowledge of himself; therefore, includes the external knowledge of everything or the universe and the internal. realization. Divine intelligence flows, inspires, guides and enables us to take and put more back into life. All we have to do is to recognize that pure consciousness exists and accept its action internally and externally. Jesus is guiding you and your family to Christ consciousness all you have to do is listen to your internal messages, you are on the right path. God bless your and your family.

Greetings, I read a book titled "Evolution of Consciousness" By John Kuykendall. This book is a step by step excursion into the unfolding of consciousness. It merges science and spirituality in simple Christian terms to attune the reader to body, mind, and spirit. The book begins with the knowledge of our oneness with a God that is everywhere in pure consciousness and then it leads one to the ultimate Christian goal. The book attunes the reader to science and spirituality because they are not divorced, but compliment each other. Scientist and prophets through out all the ages of civilization have recognized the immense power that governs and controls the universe. It is controversial because it explains the Trinity and other Crhtistian mysteries in a logical and rational way so they can't be used to manipulate Christians to think they are the only ones who beleve in God. This book presents Christian wisdom with philosophy and psychology to go beyond the limitations of conceptual thought in religion today to calm and ground the mind and initiate deep internal healing. With the ability to change our lives for the better "Evolution of Consciousness" is a journey towards unity and a new way of living. Its uniqueness lies in a psycho-spiritual development where religion and science strengthen each other's belief because they are both concerned with what is true. The web site is http://geocities.com/trinitypublishing2004/ http://www.geocities.com/trinitypublishing...4/artpage1.html