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23-03-2021, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Still_Waters
There are only two passages in the Judaic-Christian scriptures of which I can think which specifically direct one regarding how to "see" or "know" God (Christ-consciousness).
1. Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall "see" God. (Beatitudes)
2. Be still and know that I AM God. (Psalms 46:10)
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Thanks for your helpful post. Still a bit of mystery what precisely Christ Consciousness actually is but it seems to be aligned to the Christian God (i.e a personal God that I have a problem with, since I lean towards pantheism). I suppose I was hoping it might be about Divine Love....clearly not then?
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23-03-2021, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by ameliorate
Thanks for your helpful post. Still a bit of mystery what precisely Christ Consciousness actually is but it seems to be aligned to the Christian God (i.e a personal God that I have a problem with, since I lean towards pantheism). I suppose I was hoping it might be about Divine Love....clearly not then?
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Personal God, impersonal God, all the same.
Believe or listen to what you'd like, it's all perfect. 
Coming from a place of being open to all beliefs or concepts of a Supreme Spirit or Creator ..and having had many moments
of what I consider to be Awakenings into the magical altered state of Christ Consc, or Krishna Consc
or Cosmic Divine Consciousness... from the age of 8 yrs on....it is about Divine Love, along with Insights galore
about God Himself ( this creator, whatever), vast knowledge about this Universe ...much like how a person is opened
suddenly during NDEs....you aren't 'you' anymore for minutes or hours ---you see who and what you and
everything around you 'is'....and the love continues for weeks or months or years ....
your aura changes, your animals treat you differently...children see the aura around you and smile 'that knowing smile'.
Biologically, it's almost like you can feel the folds of your sleeping brain has been squirted with
the right chemicals that have opened it up so
The Doors of Perception are opened...you can see almost like an electron magnetic microscope...
what has always been there...
like suddenly having the hearing of a dog ---things that you just didn't hear...but dogs could....
you see into things ... vastness inside and out is a good word.
There's lots more I could say ...but gotta run.
It is a worthy focus on your part! 
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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23-03-2021, 10:00 PM
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I have heard the term but i dont take much heed of labels to be honest
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23-03-2021, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Personal God, impersonal God, all the same.
Believe or listen to what you'd like, it's all perfect.
Coming from a place of being open to all beliefs or concepts of a Supreme Spirit or Creator ..and having had many momentsof what I consider to be Awakenings... |
I respect and admire your full acceptance and experiences - very impressive.
True, that one can get pedantic about labels, names but these come with descriptions, concepts.
I know being judgemental is a dirty word in spiritual circles but, being a realist - keen in knowing what I can about objective reality - discernment is key to me. I am very keen not to be duped/conditioned and so I am wary about what I accept/open up to when it comes to 'God'. That said, I am encouraged by what you say about Divine Love.
Children see my aura too or feel easy with my energy since I have a natural gravitation with them. (I made a thread in the Sanctuary - Celebrating Childhood Innocence!) page 10, if you're interested....full of their amusing/sweet quotes.
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24-03-2021, 12:20 AM
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It's about personal experience and cultivating that connection to the divine within. It's not about dogma.
You could think of the divine in whatever way you think of it.
I think of it as the fullness. The collective consciousness. Transcendent divinity. Boundless light. The treasury of endless good and the well of infinite compassion.
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24-03-2021, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ameliorate
I am encouraged by what you say about Divine Love.
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Now this you have brought up a couple times.
Do you know in 2011 right here on this forum my life took a whole new direction...
because of posts by someone named 'Divine Love'? Rhetorical.
''It's'' ALL about Divine Love...not this sweet human love; but Divine Love.
Should we talk more about this -
moving on from Christ Consciousness... into Divine Love talk? 
I have a lot to say about that...
since this is our destiny, what we were meant for, and are moving towards.
Hi, GlitterRose :)
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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24-03-2021, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by GlitterRose
It's about personal experience and cultivating that connection to the divine within. It's not about dogma.
You could think of the divine in whatever way you think of it.
I think of it as the fullness. The collective consciousness. Transcendent divinity. Boundless light. The treasury of endless good and the well of infinite compassion.
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Thanks for this explanation. Clearly then, the term Christ Consciousness may not be a precise phenomenon but just another word for a heightened altered state of consciousness then e.g. a mystical experience. I've had one of those and wish for more!
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24-03-2021, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Now this you have brought up a couple times.
Do you know in 2011 right here on this forum my life took a whole new direction...
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Ah yes, indeed! Divine Love....surely the most beautiful, awesome and transforming experience we can have. Being a heightened feeling though, can words adequately convey it, i.e. is it worth making a thread on? It reminds me of once trying to fully convey what the word Love is....I spent a textbook of verbal explanations - each description valid but all failing the mark because, simply, the experience is beyond words.
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24-03-2021, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Oh you reminded Still_Waters --
in a message from Jesus in, "The Way of Mastery", he says:
Sit 5 min a day, practice as an infinite creator - play with what it would feel like to sit in a chair as a Christ.
Italics in the book. Page 114.
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That is an excellent practice. I like it.
There was a classic essay by Kabbalistic Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, "If you were God", which similarly approaches things from the perspective "If you were God" (Christ Consciousness).
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