Riding The Wave

I've been giving little talks on Christ and the inner Friend, short heart-to-hearts shared on my website, Uradiance, on Youtube, sometimes on facebook. These talks feel very present and personal to me, like I'm talking one to one with You. It's where the crest of the wave of continuing revelation takes my surfboard now.

Seeing the chaos of this fractured world through the lens of Christ, the transparency of his Grace, suddenly reveals that all is happening according to plan, and the world doesn't appear crazy anymore. But its not the plan of the human intellect.

Some people think I'm becoming too "Christian." If that makes you uncomfortable then just gently "unfriend" me and it will make room for new contacts. Its OK. Yet as I see it, I'm really not very Christian at all in an orthodox sense. Christ is not someone to be abandoned by the New Age, but updated with a new understanding. The update of the vision of Christ Consciousness began in the twentieth century with Teilhard de Chardin, and with our old pal Paramahansa Yogananda. It also came in the Urantia Book, and The Course In Miracles, which was actually dictated by the voice of the Christ.

The main shift we need to make in this new revelation is a shift from the intellect to the intuition, from the theological to the mystical. We do this with Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi traditions; why are we too embittered to do it with our own? I am not regressing into a bygone Christianity, but evolving toward the Parousia, the New Testament term that is improperly translated as "second coming."

The word "para" means full, complete. "Ousia" doesn't mean "coming" at all: it is the participle of the verb "to be." So Christ's Parousia means "fullness of Being," the flowering of Christ Consciousness. The real second coming is happening now, happening wherever Being overflows in Consciousness and Bliss. And this overflow permeates Matter with divine light. The grace of Christ does not just infuse the soul, but the embodied earth.

I am no longer afraid to share the personal friendship of Jesus in my heart. Though formless, God is not impersonal. "Non-duality" has really done a job on our heads, insisting on the impersonal One. But "One" can be a very cruel word, used as a bludgeon to suppress the play of devotion in waves of divine Friendship. Yes, the ocean is all one, yet it plays in waves, and celebrates its wholeness in a drop.

I hope that you will meet the Friend, who waits in a place that is deeper inside you than your very soul. There is no sweeter Companion than your own heart. If you cannot find the Beloved in your own heart's core, how can you give your love to anyone else? This opening of beauty and truth in my life is like a late Winter flower. For this grace I thank my sweet Lord.