The Creative Process Blog

My life has been ‘preoccupied with’ Jesus (inspired, confused, disturbed, ruined, challenged, questioned, committed, dominated, engrossed, obsessed, concerned, absorbed, wrapped-up, . . . on and on!).

Jesus, who said he was at-one-with the I AM, brought down ‘power of transformation’ into the Earth. What he meant by this has not been fully understood. He asked his followers to be transformed: “You must be perfect (compassionate) even as your Father in heaven is perfect;” and thereby, he established an ethic of divinity.

During the first decades, the question simply was, “Who was he?”; and then followed the question, “Who are we?” ‘The many’ had been called to follow him, asking them to get lost into the work of the I AM (lose your life). Only ‘the few’ were willing to be suffering servants, willing to forget external comfort and security to be chosen for the I AM working in and through them.

Unfortunately, ‘the radical community of faith’ was replaced by mental systems of belief, putting off the ‘Kingdom of God’ to another time and place. Instead of being “at hand”, breaking into the everyday, the spiritual was understood as occurring after death. Spiritual came to means ‘otherworldly’, not the transformation of this world.

Instead of projecting Christ into a mental system, the Christ was (and is) the subject to be lived. “For my sake” is the willingness to do the work of becoming the ‘revelatory process’, realizing the I AM immediately, transforming the world into a community of Spirit.

The transcultural ethic by which this work is done is beyond religion, trusting that all religions, anthropologies, depth psychologies, . . . are working toward an ethic of the diversity of the One. We do not need one world government, one world corporation, and not even one world religion, but we do need one world ethic, which Einstein called “an enabling, unified understanding.”

“For my sake” finally means living as friends . . . “Love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends.” We are called to do the work of creating a community within which all people live to capacity and creativity as One.

My life has been ‘preoccupied with’ Jesus (inspired, confused, disturbed, ruined, challenged, questioned, committed, dominated, engrossed, obsessed, concerned, absorbed, wrapped-up, . . . on and on!).

Jesus, who said he was at-one-with the I AM, brought down ‘power of transformation’ into the Earth. What he meant by this has not been fully understood. He asked his followers to be transformed: “You must be perfect (compassionate) even as your Father in heaven is perfect;” and thereby, he established an ethic of divinity.

During the first decades, the question simply was, “Who was he?”; and then followed the question, “Who are we?” ‘The many’ had been called to follow him, asking them to get lost into the work of the I AM (lose your life). Only ‘the few’ were willing to be suffering servants, willing to forget external comfort and security to be chosen for the I AM working in and through them.

Unfortunately, ‘the radical community of faith’ was replaced by mental systems of belief, putting off the ‘Kingdom of God’ to another time and place. Instead of being “at hand”, breaking into the everyday, the spiritual was understood as occurring after death. Spiritual came to means ‘otherworldly’, not the transformation of this world.

Instead of projecting Christ into a mental system, the Christ was (and is) the subject to be lived. “For my sake” is the willingness to do the work of becoming the ‘revelatory process’, realizing the I AM immediately, transforming the world into a community of Spirit.

The transcultural ethic by which this work is done is beyond religion, trusting that all religions, anthropologies, depth psychologies, . . . are working toward an ethic of the diversity of the One. We do not need one world government, one world corporation, and not even one world religion, but we do need one world ethic, which Einstein called “an enabling, unified understanding.”

“For my sake” finally means living as friends . . . “Love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends.” We are called to do the work of creating a community within which all people live to capacity and creativity as One.