During a meditation a few days ago, this thought emerged: It's time to kickstart the resurrection!
In my life as an activist, I have sometimes heard the phrase "kickstart the revolution". I've also been fascinated by the concept of crowdsourcing creative projects via Kickstarter, where "together, creators and backers make projects happen."
My first association to "kickstarting the resurrection" during this 2013 Easter cycle was to the mass scale, collective return of all on Earth to Christ consciousness, and mass expression of spiritual embodiment as a necessary step in evolution for each person and for humanity itself. I'm sure more will unfold about this over the next few months, but, no doubt about it, this would be a monumental crowdsourced creative project of conscious evolution!
Today I got a link to this great article by Paul Smith, author of Integral Christianity: The Spirit's Call to Evolve. Reading the article "resurrected" the feeling of excited anticipation I had felt earlier in the week. Here are the concluding paragraphs of Paul's article:
The resurrection holds three potential realities for those on an intentional spiritual path. First, if so desired, anyone can commune with Jesus as an icon of the Divine in 2nd-person surrender and devotion in a meaningful way that may have some similarities to that which the early Christians experienced after the resurrection. This does not mean we must relate to Jesus as some Christians insist. Jesus, in his own practice, framed the intimate face of the Divine Presence as “Abba,’ using the paternal name he called his own earthly father. Whatever the meaningful deity forms that may come to us in our I-Thou relationship with the Sacred Mystery, they are embraced in integrally-informed spiritual devotion.
Second, we may find reminders of the eternal existence of our Essence, our True Self, in Jesus’ resurrection appearances back then and today in a recognizable “spiritual” body form, revealing both our own universal oneness with God and also our own timeless, recognizable, unique selves.
And third, Jesus’ model and the practices of mystics of all traditions down through the centuries and today offer us spiritual disciplines and psychospiritual technologies where we can test these possibilities for ourselves. The scientific method of experiment, experience, and evidence is available as a laboratory for us to discover the reality of “resurrection” in own experience.
Read the full article at integrallife.com
