Pastorerick,

Yes, the Bible does speak of some of the spirits in existence. Modernity is at a disadvantage from the First Century Christians. Spiritual knowledge, as opposed to spiritual wisdom, was in abundance before the Church strained it out of popular culture. Though today we can conceptually understand the existence of a spirit world, we have no first-hand experience outside of the God/Jesus/ human pipeline.

The taboos in the Church are called ‘heresy.’ That which is outside of the conceptual doctrine of the Church. The reality of the spirit world is effectively a taboo, precisely from your attitude towards it. There is no need to explore it. We only need God and Jesus and we will be fine. Don’t worry ourselves with things we cannot understand, and may be dangerous.

The quest for the Emerging Church is to connect with the post-modern world to make relevant Christ’s message in a new cultural milieu. Does this segment of the Church know the conditions of post-modern man and the freedom of thought and exploration that science affords? This is a condition that calls into question the constraints of Christian dogma that has not changed in two millennia. The attraction of non-Christian spirituality is caused by its claims to be able to explain spirituality outside of the God-human pipe that constricts Christianity. How can the Church compete, depite its remarkable depths, when it does not have any real spiritual knowledge outside the primary duality?

I do not speak of a Christian ‘science.’ There are enough groups around claiming to harness the natural laws of spirituality to help achieve our ambitions. I am talking about Creation. God Created and Is everything. What does this mean if we conceptually know more spirits exist? What is their relationship with God? What is their relationship to us? Would this help to explain the reality that Jesus lived versus our relationship with the material world, when He obviously related to reality in a totally different way than we do? It could go some way in helping to solve the debate on the nature of Christ, or at least infuse something new into the debate.

The ancient Israelites worshipped a golden calf instead of God. Yet Jesus had a relationship with a tree that would not provide a snack for Him, and sent some pigs over a cliff with some sort of demon in them. He had a relationship with the spirit world that didn’t involve mistaking who and what God is. Everything started with God, anchored in God, directed from the Wisdom of God.

What is the element in the civilized that made such explorations a taboo? Have we evolved intellectually, theologically, spiritually to begin to explore the spirit world anchored in God? Traditional theology says there is no need. But artificial, post-modern man is a little different than historical humans who still had a relationship with nature and not so dependent on conceptual thinking. Having recognized the problem, where do you begin?

It is odd that there still exists cultures that did not need that one Commandment. Native North Americans, for example, never confused spirits with God. For this reason they maintained a deep understanding of the spiritual nature of Creation which is lost to the civilized. We had to be cut off because we could not intellectually handle that reality. Why?

Pastorerik,

It is a question of both cosmology and authority. You have outlined the orthodox explanation of both. With that kind of firepower behind our restrictions the questions of the limitations of the Church must appear quite odd.

There is little ground to discuss the existence of Mother Earth, for example, as a spiritual entity because it is not allowed. There is no purpose and it is forbidden. Who knows what errant ways could come from it.

I would have agreed with you before one moment in my life. But in the next all those restrictions were lifted by God. Strange but true, though I do not beg you to lift your skepticism.

The introduction of Mother Earth, not by Her, but by God Himself, gave credence to Her existence and Her alliance with the Creator. Though this did not throw Paul or Salvation out the door, it certainly raised a number of questions about the assumptions we hold after encountering the consciousness that is the planet. What gives? Why has She been so silent? Why have we, the children, been given the run of the house all these years? Odd.

Encountering other spirits, like the Owl and the Hawk, and finding their wisdom aligned with the Creator, two separate consciousnesses that have the Creator’s wisdom and love, was an eye-opener. They love to help us just as God and Jesus do. Quite interesting. If we are surrounded by all these consciousnesses then what are the implications for our faith? They exhibit all the Love that Jesus expressed about Creation and God. And they are not some wild Gnostic rendition, but simple everyday creatures that exist in the material world with us. Paul told us not to acknowledge them or we would end up worshipping them instead of God. But God seemed to think I could handle the revelation.

Other odd things happened. I was introduced to past lives. This, again, is beyond the scope of the religion that I was born into. I resisted for the longest time, but in the end God won. Christianity teaches us the ‘zero-sum’ theory of life: the soul is formed in the womb with the embryo, has one life to live, one chance to get into heaven, and then its off to eternity. If past lives were realized by the faithful, what would it do to our theology? What impact would it have on our interpretation of the Resurrection, our life stories, let alone discovering that our souls have their own stories that involve many lives. The Church is not equipped to handle these questions. It is not allowed. But it was God who forced these realizations onto me, so I must accept authority as well. I tested the experiences against all my academic training and skepticism, and God beat it every time.

Does this not make me a Christian? Jesus is still the Son of God. Everything He said was true. And thank goodness for Paul, who took all these crazy mystical things of Jesus and made it reasonably rational to get our heads around.

Despite your skepticism, consider the implications. Almost all of Creation recognizes and is aligned with God’s wisdom. Are we sufficiently embedded in our faith in God to actually hear something new from Him? It depends on your relationship with God Himself versus the God-through-the-Bible. Many have faith without an actual confrontation with the specific Consciousness of God. That is a wonderful thing. I, on the other hand, had long ago given up on religion and then was Given the shocking, traumatic, exhausting experience of His actual Consciousness. Others have had it. Mine mirrored much of their encounter. We would have to dismiss much that we believe if we dismissed their experiences.

From these two examples one is left with many questions about why God didn’t tell us this stuff earlier. Why would He do that to us? And what new explanations of the Jesus phenomenon can we deduce?

I do not wish to prick the pride of the Church. It did what it was meant to do during the time of the ascendant mind, civilization. And it would take more than a few posts on an Internet site to move that mountain. It is heavily fortified with explanations and assumptions that were built to resist the errors that lead Israel astray in the past.

Much like the early Christians who needed the actual spiritual experience of Christ to solidify their faith, to understand the Church from outside of the doctrine takes experience that is considered heresy but condoned when it is within God. The wisdom does exist outside the Church to help safely do this, but one must first understand oneself as a part of civilization, mind culture, and what this entails. Until you know yourself, it is difficult to get beyond it. The mind has a way of resisting the dominance of the true heart. It is in control, an unnatural condition that is unacknowledged in our society.

After 200 years of secular assault, the Church may be weary of yet another challenge to its orthodoxy. The Resurrection showed that souls could pop in and out of bodies. We just misinterpreted it as an exceptional occurance. We were not allowed contact with any other spirit but God and Jesus, and if you want to throw in some saints and angels, that is okay. We interpreted this to mean we were to concentrate on our lot in this one life within civilization. That was correct. But we demonized most of the spirits of Creation in the process, and extinguished cultures that knew something about the spirits’ wisdom within Creation. We didn’t realize that we were on the journey of the ascending mind, just that we had the only Truth. Still to this day the debate rages on about the historical life of Jesus and the nature of Christ. So we obviously don’t have enough information to put that question to bed.

The basic message to me from God was ‘I am All.’ What does that mean when we have such a limited perception of Creation? If Mother Earth does exist, then what is Her relationship with God and us? If we live surrounded by other consciousnesses then what does that do to our assumptions about reality and our place in it? If we live more than one life, then what gives with all the stress over Salvation? What is really going on??? Why would God do this to us? Does He not respect us? Why has He treated us like we could not handle the Truth?

It really gets one out of the circular arguments that the Church has been in for 2000 years. Perhaps your Christianity is limited to the doctrine of the Church. My Christianity merely explains Jesus a little bit more. How many times have we had to adjust Paul in the past. First slavery, then women, now homosexuals… The spiritual reality of Jesus has not changed. His Light is just not standing in so much darkness anymore. After all, that mystical gobble-de-gook that Jesus babbled on about at the Temple sounded pretty strange to those Jewish priests as well.

This does not take the focus off God by diverting it to ‘Creation.’ Both are One, as you have observed. But could there be a possible benefit acknowledging more aspects of Creation, instead of the priest blessing the dynamite before blowing up a river to make a dam? Let alone perceiving our souls’ Salvation as part of the greater reality of Creation?

Pastorerik,

No apology necessary. I respect your faith and your interpretation of the Bible’s instruction.

I recently saw an interview with Tom Caldwell, a devout Christian and the head of Caldwell Securities. He uses his faith to guide his business activities. In support of his faith in God, Tom set up a foundation to help the unfortunate.

Upon helping a young man, Tom told him that it came from God. How could it, the young man asked, it came from you? Tom told him that if he had not found Jesus then the help would not be there, so it was coming from God.

One of the things God reassured me in the beginning is ‘the divine is real.’ If we recognize this, we can see God in everything. The instruction from the Bible is to have no other God but God. The Israelites were confused. They worshipped a golden calf INSTEAD of God. They thought that would be more effective.

But, as we can see in Tom’s example, Tom wasn’t asking the man to worship him instead of God after providing for him, but that God was working through Tom. So too God works through all of Creation, because He is Creation.

Certain groups in feminism worship Mother Earth instead of God. They see Her as the source of life and stop there. What they do not understand is the single most important principle of Mother Earth. She begins with Her love of Father. Until you realize that, one falls under the admonition of the Bible verses you quoted. Just as Tom acted in his love for God, so does Mother Earth.

Christianity is a religion of sacrifice. Jesus sacrificed His life for us, so that we may live. Tom sacrificed his earnings so that a young man may live and know God. So too Mother Earth sacrificed Her Creation in Her love for God.

God asked someone whom He had Created to allow others of His Creation, souls, to use Her to learn and grow as spirits. He told Her that it would be painful, that they would be blind, and that She would suffer much destruction during this time. She loved God so much that She agreed. Mother Earth begins with Her love of Father. She was asked to choose of Her own free will to sacrifice Her Creation, who She is.

Does simple acknowledgement of Her existence constitute ‘worship?’ The Biblical instructions involves two components: worshipping something instead of God, and that ‘something’ is perceived as inherently superior to the worshipper. Accepting the dominance of that which is greater than you.

We acknowledge as humans many things that are greater than us. The forces of society, the weather, terminal illness are all out of our control. Do we worship them as we exist within them? No. Should that young man worship Tom Caldwell? No. The thing that is disturbing about the existence of Mother Earth is that She is spirit and superior to us. She never ‘Fell’ as we did. We know God. He is love and all-powerful and creates security for us. The acknowledgement of Mother Earth’s existence is strange and unsettling. But if you understand that She begins with Her love of Father, it is more like sitting in church with your mother, singing and praying to God. She is a sister spirit, older, more mature, wiser, having never succumbed to the error of choosing to live by knowledge over wisdom.

Humans cannot create Her by moulding a golden calf. The kernel of truth in those idolizers is the need for themselves to be in control of unseen forces. Can’t be done with Mother Earth. You’re rooked because She worships God and is not lead astray by ego. Golden calfs point to a humanity that does not know who or where they are.

Jesus taught us how to recognize God. Using these basic principles, it is easy to recognize the same qualities in the other monotheists in Creation outside of humans.

If we have a problem that by simply acknowledging the existence of other spirits in Creation constitutes ‘worship,’ we need to remember what we already know. Souls are spirits too. Do we mistake these spirits for God and worship them instead of God?

The wise man built his house upon a rock. David did so by slaying a giant with a small rock, and then cut off his head. God was using a stone to make a point about the dominance of the mind and knowledge. The rock spoke.

Jesus renamed Simon ‘the rock,’ and founded His Church upon his heart, not Paul’s mind. The consciousness of the heart embedded in the earth, of which the body is a part of. Why would God use ‘rock imagery’ twice when He was obviously recognizing the lives of two devoted hearts? It seems incongruous. How could the two be one? How could a rock, this world that leads us astray, be metaphorically chosen to speak for the true heart?

Creation is an endless duality. Our meaning is derived from relation, to God, to our fellow humans, to our material environment. We have a problem combining separation and oneness. Theology struggles to perceive and then turn this perception into experience. Part of the problem is that in all practical sense, despite our concept of God’s immanence and transcendance, our daily life depends upon relating to the material world as ‘lower’ than us. The cows, trees, and vegetables are there for our use and survival. They may technically be alive, and thus not inert, but we treat them like we do rock in a mine. Our dominion over Creation must be wise, but we are in control, today with science more than ever. Knowledge has given us this ability. The dominant mind has grown strong. But the separation remains. There is no consciousness that is as special or rivals humans. That makes us special to God. We can point to a theory to say otherwise. But then we go to McDonalds and throw out the new packaging ten minutes after receiving it. The apologetics is divorced from our actual reality. We cannot survive without the grocery store and money. Death and suffering would ensue, and that would be un-Christian to our fellow humans.

This is the gap between the heaven-on-earth that Jesus spoke of, and our knowledge-compromised existence. The mind is on top, not wisdom, the heart. It is so interwoven into us that we cannot appreciate it. We are human-centered, in relation to God and the material world, and here we sit. Until we understand this situation for what it is, we cannot begin to accept another reality. We know God, humans and inert matter. But we do not know the spirit layers of reality, the consciousnesses, that create the small spectrum of reality that we derive meaning from.

Do Christians really believe that they can, alone, stop the rape of the planet from business and armies? Do Christians really believe they have enough spiritual knowledge to counter the exponential expansion and choice that scientific knowledge is providing? Do we really understand how it actually warps us, eventhough we cling to our Bibles and our prayers? Do we really think we can ‘manage’ the environment from our ‘dominion’ perspective to avert ecological disaster? Do Christians really have enough of the ‘story’ of how God directs everything yet lets humans hurl toward disaster and death?

The limits of our cosmology, the limits of our interpretation of the Jesus Story and realization of the true spiritual existence of Creation hinders our grasp of Jesus’ Promise. Until Christians begin to expand beyond its human-centered doctrine it will continue to fall short by only offering ‘Salvation’ for the single individual human being.

Jesus was the extreme counter-weight to mind culture. He was necessary to get mankind through the time of the mind in one piece. He created the ideal that took our growing knowledge culture 2000 years to get to. Today, secular culture has created the best facsimile of Jesus’ heaven-on-earth. We heal the sick with fantastic medicine, our prosperity limits poverty, tolerance and democracy limits abusive dominance, war is unthinkable between the democracies, and the mind has even figured out how to bring the dead back to life on the operating table. And we can do it more reliably than through prayer. A remarkable achievement based on the ideals and heritage of the formerly dominant institution, the Church. Even more remarkable based on how little the mind had to go on, perceiving reality as inert matter.

But now the curse of Adam, the limits of knowledge, the choices we have made to create this ideal life has reached a critical mass. We are going to destroy ourselves. In achieving this victory, the dark side now looms. The polar ice caps are melting. Pollution from China covers the arctic. When 3 billion Asians reach the lifestyle of 600 million Westerners, the biosphere will collapse for our survival. We thought we could manage without wisdom, using knowledge, but we see both pain and pleasure in everything we do. Our intentions may be good, but the down side to feeding the poor of the world will destroy us all. Yet much of the Church believes that Jesus was not apocalyptic. He knew more than we did. The times have changed. But has the Church changed since the Council of Nicea? What can it offer that it has not in the past? How can it speak to a culture that is so artificial now that it does not even ask the question anymore, ‘what is natural man?’

It has to offer more. It has to compete and offer what post-modern man is conditoned to, expansive, unrestricted knowledge. But what they are really looking for is an avenue to wisdom through their paradigm. That is the crux of this ‘spiritual yearning’ that rejects traditional Church. But the Church is in no shape to deal with it on a mass scale. It cannot diagnose the problem that cuts through all the academic-speak of theology to give the average citizen the ‘aha!’ in plain, simple language. It cannot describe Creation, actually connect with it in an experiential way, better than science can. Until it does so, the blind cannot see. The language of the Emerging Church is highly academic, conceptual, hair-splitting in the best tradition of theology. But it is dismissed by post-modern citizens as just more concept. How will this combination ever have an effect if it does not recognize itself, let alone find the courage to go beyond itself? The Church now has an opportunity to return to being the best hope for mankind, and become a blessing to all of Creation if it can break out of the limits of the human-centered focus of a cosmology based upon the soul of Jesus and the services God grants to us, alone in the dust.

Samlcarr,

I totally understand where you are coming from. And it is quite legitimate. I too believe that Christ is The Way.

I am not talking about other spirits ‘saving’ us. Such a situation is not needed. Christ reflects God, and so do they. What I am talking about is simply recognizing Creation. Christ was sent to help mankind through the time of the mind. One must make the distinction first between living from the mind and living from the heart. As much as we want to live solely from the love and wisdom that Christ showed us, we are born into a mind culture that structures our consciousness in a certain way. We can make great steps toward a heart-centered existence, but we cannot, as civilized human beings, take the blinders off enough, or lift the Veil to put it another way.

Civilization is divided into two. The West has an intimate knowledge between the human and the specific Consciousness of God. The East has a spiritual tradition that believes God does not have a specific consciousness but is manifested in all things. They retain much spiritual wisdom that was lost when monotheism conquered the non-Christian world. They are two solitudes.

Both are products of civilization. It began in China, India and the Levant some 5 - 12,000 years ago, depending on your archaeologist. Knowledge began to grow with the discovery of fire, agriculture, technology, writing, and increasingly hierarchical structures of social organization. All of this involved increasing quantities of mental labour using knowledge, relating to the world as objects. With this rise in knowledge, the dependence on wisdom declined as society became increasingly self-confident to provide for itself from these new systems.

Religion itself is a product of civilization. Mind culture systematized and contained wisdom in institutions until roughly 1960, when the dominance of the Church receded amid the social, economic, technological and social welfare revolution of that decade. Today our Western world is so artificial that we cannot survive without equation and conceptual thinking, in a complex survival system known as grocery stores, the office, money, central heating, etc. We are mind man, complete and unadulterated. Theology is the conceptual expression of the mind’s interaction with wisdom. It has been since Paul. We have refined it to a fine powder.

The Church is the expression of our faith in this social environment. It is not concerned with nature, but humans. The time of civilization is part of the Great Story. Jesus was inserted into it to give direction to its history. Today, the Church’s child, the West, is spreading its historical development throughout the world. There are many benefits to it.

However, one of the drawbacks is that, despite Christ’s promise to Save us, the human forces in the world are propelling humans toward a fate that will ensure our doom.

This is fine, if one’s only concern is with souls getting into heaven. We all have to die sometime. Gets us into bliss a little bit early.

What the human-centered cosmology of Christianity doesn’t realize is that there is more to Creation than themselves, God far away, and inert matter. There are more spirits than just souls and God. This is completely foreign to the Christian worldview. It takes a lot to make the leap.

One of those spirits is Mother Earth. God loves Her as much as He loves us. He has a responsibility to Her well-being as He does to our own. More so, because She sacrificed Her Creation, the Earth, so that our souls could grow as spirits within this thing knowledge culture that Adam chose for us.

Everything around us is conscious. The trees, the rock, the rivers, the animals and plants. We, as Christians, are conditioned to reject this reality. If we ever wondered about the spiritual reality that Jesus lived, we need to know more about Creation. We have focused on the Jesus-is-God issue, as if there was nothing more to Creation. We have been ignorant of much of the spirituality that Jesus exhibited in the Bible.

If we are truly interested in creating Jesus’ heaven-on-earth, a heart-based existence that Adam once knew, then we need more information on the spiritual nature of Creation. The human-God pipeline won’t do. If this does not interest us, then our confusion over events will propel us with our secular friends into our fate. It will demonstrate to God that our hearts are not open, that we have not learned enough spiritually to love Him. If we do not understand that He IS Creation, and what that means beyond our Christian paradigm, how can we ever help fulfill the promise that Jesus made?

We are currently confused about Jesus’ prophesies. On the one hand the world will end and we will be Judged. On the other hand, the world will be wiped clean and we’ll have 1000 years of living on earth that is much better than mind culture. What we don’t understand is what good is this for us, if we are already dead and just waiting for Judgment Day. Nothing is clear.

Without a little more knowledge of the spirit world we will remain in our confusion, debating small points about verses written 2000 years ago. We will not go where Jesus was pointing to. We will remain in the seeming contradictions that He espoused.

It is not about bowing down to other gods. It is simply realizing that we live in a ‘community’ of spirits, not just souls. It alters our cosmology and our understanding of the seeming confusion that Jesus introduced. Our minds pride ourselves in feeling secure that we have figured Him out. We are not seeing the bigger picture. We are still mind-centered, unaware of it or its implications for us. Jesus’ heart-centered reality will forever elude us if we don’t have the honesty and courage to explore what we have forbidden ourselves as knowledge-based humans.

I think what I am saying is something that we already know, we just need to look at it again.

We’ve always had a sense that civilization is superior to other ‘primitive’ societies. Today we assume it more than ever, and even apply it to other civilizations that don’t have the freedom and democracy that we enjoy.

We use the term ‘mind’ and ‘consciousness’ interchangeably. I define the mind differently from the consciousness of the heart. The mind of civilization objectifies reality and in so doing preys upon it for its own ends without regard for that reality. Treating it the equivalent of ‘inert matter.’ The only thing that is sacred, truly, is human life. We put dogs to sleep. We keep human vegetables alive. We go to extremes for human life where we would not think of it for anything else. The United States kills 2.5 million cows a month to feed itself. We are thankful to God for Providing. But don’t think about the cow when we open the cellophane wrapper. We may feel sad when our dog dies. But it does not compare to the loss of a child, a wound of the soul that never heals.

We love to define the rest of reality. But when it comes to human consciousness we recoil. Small schools of scientists want to reduce consciousness down to the chemical firing of synapses in the brain. But we resist. No one wants to think of themselves as just a bunch of chemicals. That would open us up for the kind of manipulation that we treat the rest of reality. We are special.

This is part of our human-centered existence. Christianity reflects this. It was fine during the time of the mind, civilization. From this tiny self-centered focus out of the entire Creation mind culture, through the Church, has discovered so many deep deep spiritual truths. It is quite remarkable.

I know I beat up on the ascendant mind. But I am in true awe of it. We were sent here by God to learn from knowledge, not wisdom, deciding what was truth, not just accepting it. Instead of the natural heart-centered existence of natural man, we have been existing in the inverted reality of the mind-on-top, forcing the heart, body, emotions and will, let alone the rest of reality, into its submission. Since this state was unnatural, all the faculties rebelled against the mind that did not use wisdom as its primary source of dominance to create meaning. The mind has learned how to govern this rebellion with a lot less force. Kudos to it.

But the mind has grown so much using knowledge that it has created a society that is a parallel universe to wisdom. Western society, the most rational of civilizations, does not stand for poverty like they do in India. Power has been converted from the abusive dominance of princes, to business which must sell pain relief to stay in business, and realizes it must treat its workers with a minimum of respect and comfort to maintain production to make money/power. Our medicine is incredible, especially since it is produced by the greed of business (ironic). And tolerance and freedom are prized.

We are at a stage now in mind culture to take the blinders off. The mind has grown up and has a rough equivelancy, or at least recognition, of what wisdom knew in the first place.

The truth about Jesus that is not appreciated clearly, is that He was sent to get mind culture through this phase of history in one piece. Remember how the Jewish Temple in Jesus’ time had taken the simple truths of the Ten Commandments and warped them into the abominable abuses that Jesus protested? That was the mind at work, taking the wisdom and using it as knowledge for its purposes of control and security.

Upon seeing this, God decided that the mind needed something that it could not figure out. He sent Jesus. And there has never been anything more confusing than Jesus. Why was Jesus so confusing? Why not just be plain and simple like the Ten Commandments? We still haven’t figured Him out. Did He rise bodily from the dead or just appear as spirit? He talked about love AND bringing fire and the sword. He did bizarre things like the Transfiguration. So many bizarre things that were beyond the mind’s reference points of being able to control the world as object matter.

Then Jesus was married to a mind institution, the Church. The mind wanted to control this phenomenon like it did the rest of reality. But Jesus was a rebel. Everytime we thought we had Him figured out, He rose up and contradicted us. The dialectic between Jesus and the Church set the ideals for our society. When the secular revolution occurred, all it was doing was trying to create those ideals, just without the spiritual part. It did a pretty good job. My dad had a hip replacement. Pain gone. I’ve never experienced poverty or hunger. So, eventhough we have created the closest facsimile of Jesus’ heaven-on-earth by just using knowledge, we still have not figured out Jesus. The mind got so fed-up, and so confident in its own abilities, that it pretty much gave up on Jesus, and the Church, forty years ago. He is popularly dismissed as quaint myth. Most kids don’t even know the Bible stories today.

We all know this. But do we look at it this plainly? Do we appreciate the Great Story of the mind as a whole? We recognize that Jesus did not live from the mind. He pitied us. We have been able to glean quite a bit from the little information passed down to us, however. The mind has done an incredible job with what it had to work with.

If we are really interested in helping to create Jesus’ heaven-on-earth, what is missing? We haven’t been able to do that yet, spiritually. What is a wisdom culture versus the mind culture that we are bound up in?

As I have said, the world is split between the Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Both are civilized. It seems each got half the story. Is there still a culture in existence that can remember what it was like before mind culture split everything up?

Of course there is. That is the indigenous people of the world. The Native North Americans instantly recognized Jesus when they were preached to. They just didn’t understand why the missionaries didn’t see it. The Natives have had 500 years of mind culture, versus our 5000 years. They cling to their Original Wisdom because they can see the truth of mind culture, what it cannot see because of the conditions of its dominant, human-centered mind. They respect Christianity, but can see through it as well. Jesus is obvious to them. What can they see that we don’t?

To them, Creation remains whole. There is one God, and He is Creation. There is no debate about transcendant versus immanent God. The debate is ludicrous. But it is important to mind culture. Why?

And they maintain a healthy understanding of the spirit world. Their ‘devil’ is called ‘trickster.’ It is merely a nuicance. It is mind culture that has fed the fear and made it almost equal to God in some quarters. They know that 99.999% of the spirits of Creation recognize the one true God. So all of Creation is positive. They are not at war with nature, as our heritage has bestowed upon us.

And they know how to listen to the wisdom of the spirit world. They have a connection to the Earth that we have lost. They understand it as whole. They recognize Jesus in that reality. Nothing special. Quite obvious. They have known His Original Wisdom since time began. But mind culture, including Christianity, nearly wiped them out.

So what use is the spirit world of reality, Creation, to us? We’ve got Jesus and that’s enough. But if God IS Creation, and not separate from it, then the way we relate to reality is, in fact, preventing us from seeing God in a much clearer light. How we understand the manifestation of consciousnesses all around us gets us closer to God and ourselves. Who are we, and what is reality? The age old civilized questions. Do we seek God? What if more is available to us and we ignore Him? Does that show love for God? If mind man treats God’s Children of Creation like an object, in effect we are treating the love of God as such as well. The two are one. We treat our fellow humans as special because of our unique consciousness. We need to treat the rest of Creation the same way. They have not Fallen. And they are as sacred as humans and God is. Do we not want to respect the sacrifice of their silence and their creations while we lived during the time of the mind? We respect Jesus for His sacrifice?