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In the process, emotional and sometimes physical healing also take place, as a clearing of energy blocks from the energy field is a necessary and natural part of raising consciousness.
Christ is not a particular individual, but a state of consciousness: the enlightened state.
There is nothing special about the enlightened state. This may seem like blasphemy, since enlightenment is something every spiritually-oriented person strives desperately for.
This actualization has its own wise timing, and you are not in control of that timing, except that you can resist this actualization and, therefore, slow it down. But a certain readiness must be arrived at on the part of the soul before the awakening process is set in motion, and you are not in control of that.
Enlightenment is the full experience of here and now, without referral to your thoughts or feelings about it. When you experience this, you discover how very ordinary it is to just be here without all the thoughts and ideas your mind brings into life. You know this state because you were in a similar state as a child before you had words for things and before your sense of self had developed. You also experience it, if only briefly, several times a day. You already know Christ Consciousness. It is also called Presence. If you imagine that Christ Consciousness is something extraordinary and mystical, you will miss it. It’s not a state that comes and goes, like a spiritual experience or an altered state of consciousness. It is your natural state, the underlying hum of your existence, where love, peace, and wisdom flow from.
Christ Consciousness is known by love, peace, compassion, acceptance, wisdom, discernment, clarity, integrity, strength, courage, faith, trust, kindness, inclusiveness, and goodness.
When I suggest that you simply be in the moment, I mean be here without your evaluations and desires for the moment to be other than the way it is. The “I” is always discontent, always pushing for things to be different, always running away from the present moment into the past and future. When you stop doing that and just stay in your present moment experience, you land in Christ Consciousness, where there is nothing but love and peace.
Chapter 2 Behave as If You Are Enlightened
The only “honorable” way to relate to your feelings is to see them for what they are and treat them accordingly. Feelings must be dealt with in the same way you would deal with an out-of-control child. Like children, feelings need acknowledgment, acceptance, and nonindulgence. Feelings need to be sat with, understood, and neither pushed away and rejected nor acted out.
The wise parent gives the unruly child the needed hug and understanding but does not indulge the child’s bad behavior, which would only reinforce
AI Summary
Jesus Speaking by Gina Lake presents key insights from the Christian Mysticism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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