Jesus Spirituality
Jesus,
after he was
raised from the dead was not immediately recognized by his followers.
Can I suggest he had the look of a man that had completed His destiny.
He had peeled off all the layers of self and stepped into that purpose
God had created for him. You see the Jesus Spirituality in this
struggle in the garden praying to God with droplets of blood forming on
his brow because of the stress of his circumstance. We know from this
experience, that even the perfect incarnation of God is going to
struggle in their humanly body. Personally I experience a great sense
of compassion in knowing my own suffering was shared. We can gain from
this that this suffering was for us and that is what the Jesus
Spirituality is all about.
With every compassionate act,
every gift of the self, we become a little more like Jesus and and our
spirituality blossoms.
The
Jesus Spirituality in that
struggle in the garden made up for the struggle man had failed in in
the first garden. One man in a garden experiencing the struggle of all
man. One man becoming transparent before God on behalf of all of us.
Exposing the darkness in us to the light of the creator to shine his
goodness through and make whole again. At each stage accepting and
letting go of his physical boundedness on our behalf. All his thoughts
and awareness of Self completely given over to God in the form of his
destiny.
His destiny to redeem mankind from
the shackles that
bind them is completed in a bloody mess. Out of the grave of that mess
steps a bodily form that was completed in the spiritual form in the
garden. The hollow man which followed the Garden of Eden is restored in
the form of Jesus rising from the dead. His form represents the
purposes and destinies man failed to walk into. Like Moses and his
friends, man walked around in the dessert for years before Jesus came
to
restore the destiny for mankind with the Jesus Spirituality.
If
we could trace the steps of this spiritual unfolding we could see that
there is a pattern of moving away from self to an immersion
in
the growth and total giving of oneself to others.
And
when Jesus went up that Jesus Spirituality came down in the form of a
dove. That dove of the holy spirit can fly right into your heart and
fill out your emptiness, take away that blood stained brow. It's about
letting go of that brokenness and letting heart resonate with that
destiny inside of us that goes as deep as heaven. That Dove can fill
out your Self to give you a body that you can walk right into heaven
with when you can trust it over your noisy mind and self talk.
You
will also have to acknowledge to that noisy hard shell of yours that
your true self is deeper than your skin and bones. You will need to
acknowledge that dove inside you that will allow you to realize heaven
in your heart right NOW. Tracking the spirituality of Jesus and what it
would mean to walk his walk today.
This
is the Journey of looking into ourselves and letting God shine his
light shine into us.This journey of identifying with Jesus, which is
traced
through the journey of the transformation Spiritual-Self. We have
traced some of stages that the average business man may go through to
complete this metamorphosis of the spirit. Like a caterpillor he would
emerge a newly created being.
These levels are dedicated not only to the purpose of finding the Jesus
Spirituality in our selves but also enlightening it in others.
Spiritual
Self Level 4
Spiritual
Self Level 5
Spiritual
Self Level 6
Spiritual
Self Level 7
Spiritual
Self Level 8
Spiritual
Self Level 9
The levels from 1 to 9 are assigned
different characteristics dependent
on place on the spiritual journey. The levels contain the elements of
spirituality that together make up a body. After completing the first
nine levels you will have encountered all the spiritual gifts, and had
a chance to gage your success against all the fruits of the spirit.
These levels are equal and not better or worse than other but do levels
evolve in degree of consciousness. Higher levels have had more
experience in the world and more responsibility to initiate change for
the better. Level one for example operates on raw instinct but has the
love that enables the transition to the next level. Beyond Level 9
communication of the levels purpose becomes more difficult and more
tailored to the individual community of faith. The meanings of further
levels will come about in prayer and spirit only for now.
Because levels then are evolutionary
in the spiritual sense this guide
becomes a tool, and provides an opportunity to grow in a
holistic spiritual sense. There is a presence of God at each Level that
makes that level whole. The first level may have a focus on basic
instincts but the gift of the love gift of the holy spirit at that
level makes it complete. Then if you have all the knowledge
and experience in the world but lack love, now is your opportunity to
grow and nurture love in a safe environment. Level one then becomes
foundational to move to the next level.
A
new way of organizing knowledge away from the largely Greek academic
foundations and into a new format that places spirit as the foundation
becomes the key to a spiritual revival.
You can think of the author, Arthur
Koestler, and his term 'holon' to
help understand the relationship between levels. This is the idea that
everything consists of wholes and parts. Like sentences the body is
made of cells, cells are made of their parts, and it goes on forever.
Eventually you have to accept that God created everything out of
nothing. Reality is constructed on these whole/parts of truth which are
God because God is truth. God is THE ONE holon while bodies
there are billions of and cells there are trillions of, and on it goes.
The same goes with consciousness and spirituality we move from
spiritual infants to becoming one with God. We move from fragmented
understanding to an integrated holistic state. A
state of bliss with both the semi-mapped out material world we know and
the accurate interpretation of what is happening in that world
of endless possibilities. We move from the separated disconnected an
un-enlightened state of trillions of cells to the One body of The
Christ
to oneness and unification of these worlds.
Spiritual
Intelligence in the (I)
individual subjective self
.eg. Transcendence of the barriers to knowing God through self practices |
Spiritual
Intelligence in
the (it) objective self of the individual
eg. Seeing the Spiritual reality of all life through Science |
Spiritual
Intelligence in the (We) the
collective subjective self and culture.
eg. Living in the truth of God in Culture |
Spiritual
Intelligence in
the (it's) the collective objective self of the many.
eg. Understanding holistic Systems and Society |
The
Spiritual Self Tools to set you on the journey
Spiritual Self Values.
Spiritual Self
Foundation.
The Spiritual Self
Problem
| Spiritual
Self Tools |
Function
in the Spiritual-Self journey
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Spiritual
Self
Levels |
Represent
transformations in human, societal, cultural and self development |
Spiritual
Self
Spiritual
Gifts |
Represent
intelligences that can assist our ascent through the spiritual levels
and the breath of our compassion for others. |
Spiritual
Self
Fruits of
the Spirit |
An
efficient tool to track development through the stages and how
effective the aspects of the One spirit have been integrated into the
likeness of God. |
Spiritual
Self
Spiral
Dynamic Colors |
Human
nature, the self, culture, society, consciousness and understanding of
Spirit is not fixed but evolves through MEMES. We were all Spirits
creation and created equal but you need to choose to know spirit to
ascend through the developmental journey.
|
Spiritual
Self
Page
Titles |
Identify core areas
of development at each of the stages of this journey. |
Spiritual
Self
Heroes Journey |
Sequences
Spiritual Development in a symbolic quest that has remained stable
throughout the ages. Inspires you to stay the course and go on to
inspire others.
|
Spiritual
Self
Process
Drama |
A powerful
agent of change where you create and learn from acting from inside
experiences. |
Spiritual
Self
Key
Issues |
Represent issues of
everyday concern and empower the individual for victory in those areas
of their lives. |
More detail is provided in the interactive
table below.
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