Both the gospels of Matthew and Luke trace Jesus’ lineage. They give different records, which has caused some consternation in trying to account for the discrepancy. While outlining the biological line of Jesus most likely served different purposes for the authors of these gospels, for our focus here we will consider the heritage of divine vitality in the mystical lineage of Christ—all the way down to us.
Read MoreDivine Vitality is the primary energetic of this advent, this arrival of the divine being born anew in the most elemental substance of matter itself. It suffuses and grows into many shapes and forms, each as expressions of Christ. And even in ourselves we can inhabit, bear, and bring forth expressions of Christ in and from our very being—charged with the energy of God, the vibratory light of Christ permeating and illuminating our embodied presence as divine creation.
Do we believe it?
Do we feel it?
Can we welcome it?
Can we be here with it in the annunciation of the gift of our divine being within?
Might we consent to receiving this conception of Christ in us too?
As we journey through this Advent season, we are invited to live out practices of becoming in our daily lives, embracing the unique opportunities to impact our spheres of influence—whether local, virtual, or mystical.
The phrase, “For such a time as this,” calls us to rise with heart and courage, embodying our spiritual learnings through actions that ripple outward. Whether we find ourselves healing relationships, fostering peace, or sparking transformation, we are reminded of the deep truth: “We were made for these times.”
Read MoreLove, in its essence, is an evolutionary force, constantly becoming and expressing in new ways. This cosmic birthing is not abstract; it is incarnate in our actions, our presence, and our hearts, as we participate in the unfolding of divine love in the universe.
Through practices like Curatio Divina, inspired by the sacredness of nature, and reflecting on our spheres of influence, we are invited to embody love. Let us give and receive the Christ-light, create space for new beginnings, and co-participate in the birthing movements of love in the world.
This Christmas, may we awaken as love—born anew, radiant with divine light, ready to nurture and transform the world.
Read MoreThis Advent, we are invited into the womb of the Divine Mother, nurturing our divine becoming as Christ is born anew within us. Joy, rooted in creation and the cycles of life, is our focus this week—not fleeting happiness, but the deep, abiding joy that flows from the womb of God and the earth itself.
As we walk in the fullness of joy, let us impact our spheres of influence with the presence of Christ, offering blessings and embodying love.
This advent season, we are receiving the invitation into the womb of the Divine Mother. We are welcoming our place as the Christ child to come into this world anew, nurturing and gestating our divine becoming.
From the deep hope of new life being born of the womb of God, we are invited this week into the peace that passes all understanding.
Read MoreThis Advent season, we are invited into the nurturing mystery of the Divine Mother’s womb—a sacred space of waiting, regeneration, and unknowing. It is a time to rest in the depths of God’s embrace, cultivating our Christ-being as we are held in faith and anticipation of new life.
We are invited to embody hope, trust in unseen growth, and embrace the calling of these times with courage and intention. In this season of gestation, we prepare for the collective birthing of God's presence in us and the world around us, awakening to our divine identity and purpose.
Read MoreIn ICN, we believe the call is clear: to cultivate a loving evolution amidst a world of rapid change. Though we may not control global powers, each of us holds the power to create change through mystical activism and spiritual transformation. Together, we can co-create a future where divine love and human growth flourish.
Will you step into this journey with us?
Read MoreIn this series, we have been considering how we might participate in adventing—which is to say, actively engaging in the arrival of Christ Consciousness in this season. As Christmas is upon us, the time for birth may be drawing near.
Do you feel them? The contractions of a world in the early pangs of labor?
We all have our personal journey in the ways we bear and bring forth the divine in our lives. Individually, we might be more than ready for the birth to come. Or, we could still be in a place of early gestation. Perhaps we continue to wait for the gift of a new inner conception. The calendar says it’s time, yet we may be living in barrenness or miscarriage.
Sometimes, in the passage toward birth and new life, it will feel like death.
Wherever you are in this rite unfolding, we are all, at the same time—in this time, participating in a collective natal arrival. Christ Consciousness is not a possession to be attained by some but a flow of divine being we open up to and move with. And the current is growing. The tide is rising in a global awakening. A cosmic imperative for the advent of a new divine initiation.
Do you see them? The angels among the expanse of stars in the sky twinkling with the celestial light of proclamation?
For unto us is born a savior, in the cities and stables of every part of the earth. In the fields and in the forests. There is no need to journey to Bethlehem, for Christ comes in ubiquity. She is all around us and before us. They are beside us and beyond.
Do you hear them? The voices of spirit declaring across the land: we are making all things new.
I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be for all people. The divine life is born among you. Lo, behold, it is within you!
Come, taste and see.
Come, come with haste.
Read More“In the humanity which is begotten today, the Word prolongs the unending act of God’s own birth; and by virtue of God’s immersion in the world’s womb, the great waters of the kingdom of matter have, without even a ripple, been imbued with life. The immense host which is the universe is made flesh.”
—Teilhard de Chardin
The question of consciousness is one of the enduring mysteries of both science and spirituality. Certainly no one has all of the answers about it, and we carry conscious and unconscious assumptions about its nature, particularly depending on our religious upbringing and cultural background.
Many of our presuppositions about the nature of consciousness, especially in the heavily-Platonic-influenced Christian tradition, are rooted in a separation of matter and spirit. Without going into the long philosophical and theological history of this split, it will suffice to say that this orientation is a more traditionally masculine and dualistic approach. As such, consciousness is often separated—implicitly and explicitly—into the realm of spirit and immateriality, detached from the physical.
The more feminine principle of life does not split knowing and being, awareness and presence, mind and body. It does not privilege the experience of reality from the objective and removed perspective, but rather lives enmeshed in the manifest, through the energy of imbued presence in the midst of the substance of things. Things like the trees, the soil, the cat, the baby crying, the dirty toilet, the grief of loss, the joy of delight, the lack of sleep, the sick, the hurt, and the pearls of irritation. And everything else that is alive and dead, growing and composting, here and now. All that has been and is yet to come.
This is where our consciousness lives while we’re on this earth. And it is not only present in our mental recognition and reflective human awareness.
We are learning more about the consciousness of animals, plants, and even fungi. While the nature of these other forms of awareness is still somewhat undetermined and being further discovered, we are seeing our human-centric assumptions and dominator-attitude dismantling more and more. Escaping the confines of materiality (and spirituality rooted in similar fundamental assumptions, even when they are in opposition to it), we can come to not only see but also experience how all of life is animated in spirit. There is a mystical, fundamental—perhaps even quantum—presence of spirit/energy/consciousness in all things. This is the Cosmic Christ.
This is crucial to our spirituality because it anchors our sense of where we find God, where we look for the divine. If we are searching for heaven in an entirely removed realm, and expecting spirit to appear only in an ethereal ghostly haze—an immaterial, faint external object—we will continue to disembody and disconnect from “earthly” things (which is tellingly often used as a pejorative). And in so doing we will further doom the earth.
The Christ principle in its most cosmic sense is rooted in the immanence and immediacy of the divine in materiality. In and through the physical, which is not divorced from spirit. Christ is the divine incarnated, enfleshed, and somatized. So Christ Consciousness is the living, embodied awareness from the divine entwined and present in us, coming in the energy and knowing through our very material element of being. This is God-With-Us, Emmanuel in the heart of matter, in the deepest substance of all things.
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