soma
John Kuykendall
A miracle occurs when a person is willing to shift his experience from the ego to pure consciousness. This Gnosticism is accomplished when one looks to Christ consciousness for guidance and finds ones true self because the most fundamental error for human beings is misidentification of the ego. It loves to be identified, when we were born we were given a name for identification purposes, and we go through life thinking that we are who the name says we are. We also identify with our sex, race, religion, occupation, political party, possessions, where we live, social status, opinions and other things. We go through life never considering that we are more than our identity and that our ego is the main cause of our suffering in this life. When we experience ourselves as consciousness and realize that we are not our ego, we find that instantly and magically we transform our lives from effort and struggle to be somebody with the peace and satisfaction of just being alive.
Tranquility and peace present themselves, when the ego and its passions do not prevail because the ego can pervert the mind and shackle the consciousness, or it can show us the healthy effects of striving for a higher self. We dont need a whip and bridle to curb the ego, but an incentive to force it into life so love takes the place of fear as the driving force. When the love for our body and mind expands beyond the ego and replaces aversion as the motive for our determination, our consciousness emerges from the gloom and refuses any longer to be suppressed, as it becomes the guiding light to attain a better life. It gives us an aim in life to free the mind, to know God and to realize that pure consciousness is the only cause, medium and effect in our lives. It gives us a motive that spurs us on to hack at the chains that get in our way, chains that bind the mind to pain and pleasure. Information and knowledge are the tools that assist in making a clear cut transformation so understanding, enlightenment and serenity can be achieved and kept in the mind because before Christ consciousness can be received the mind has to be spiritualized. The mind groans under the tyranny of an intellect that suppresses the energies of the body so energy needs to be cherished and tended to so we dont develop the intellect at the expense of the soul, the effect would be neurosis. Christ cannot guide us if our mind is distracted with excessiveness because that causes spiritual blindness, which is to say, if we see Christ clearly without blurring or double vision, we will be full of his consciousness. Waiting for the coming of Christ is not merely the filling in of time, but a being filled with his consciousness with the divine gift of love.
Those who blend Christ consciousness into their lives have no need to preach the word because they are living the word. A person of this temperament will follow the letter and the spirit of the word as a matter of principle and not as policy. This person is moral for the sake of eternal value and not because there is a human law imposing a punishment to keep him honest. This portrayal of Christ consciousness demands intelligence because this theory can't be turned into a mechanical system and crammed into unimaginative minds because it is a spiritual awareness in the here and now. http://thinkunity.com
Tranquility and peace present themselves, when the ego and its passions do not prevail because the ego can pervert the mind and shackle the consciousness, or it can show us the healthy effects of striving for a higher self. We dont need a whip and bridle to curb the ego, but an incentive to force it into life so love takes the place of fear as the driving force. When the love for our body and mind expands beyond the ego and replaces aversion as the motive for our determination, our consciousness emerges from the gloom and refuses any longer to be suppressed, as it becomes the guiding light to attain a better life. It gives us an aim in life to free the mind, to know God and to realize that pure consciousness is the only cause, medium and effect in our lives. It gives us a motive that spurs us on to hack at the chains that get in our way, chains that bind the mind to pain and pleasure. Information and knowledge are the tools that assist in making a clear cut transformation so understanding, enlightenment and serenity can be achieved and kept in the mind because before Christ consciousness can be received the mind has to be spiritualized. The mind groans under the tyranny of an intellect that suppresses the energies of the body so energy needs to be cherished and tended to so we dont develop the intellect at the expense of the soul, the effect would be neurosis. Christ cannot guide us if our mind is distracted with excessiveness because that causes spiritual blindness, which is to say, if we see Christ clearly without blurring or double vision, we will be full of his consciousness. Waiting for the coming of Christ is not merely the filling in of time, but a being filled with his consciousness with the divine gift of love.
Those who blend Christ consciousness into their lives have no need to preach the word because they are living the word. A person of this temperament will follow the letter and the spirit of the word as a matter of principle and not as policy. This person is moral for the sake of eternal value and not because there is a human law imposing a punishment to keep him honest. This portrayal of Christ consciousness demands intelligence because this theory can't be turned into a mechanical system and crammed into unimaginative minds because it is a spiritual awareness in the here and now. http://thinkunity.com
