Posts tagged Mystical Community
Living in the Communal Body (of Christ)

As we now reach part eight of this series, we have been with our two primary, fundamental orientations regarding Beloved Community. Parts 1-4 went through the different aspects of divine reality we integrate into our holistic experience of communion. And after, we have been considering different components of healthy and effusive mutuality, which relate to the interplay and integration of both the I and the We.

Now, we turn to how we inhabit the reality of this communal body, so that we can not only just spiritually experience the dynamics of the body of Christ, but also create and bear life from this larger being—which is who we truly are. We are this and we can act from this in service to the loving evolution of Christianity and the world.

Rooted in the ground of trust, with our capacity for connectedness growing more and more, and bearing life from the vitality of our spiritual intimacy, we find a whole new level of collective participation in a holistic vision of inhabiting the mystical body of Christ communally.

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Our Vital Need for Spiritual Intimacy

In moving from Me to We, we are recalibrating from self-referentialism to healthy and effusive mutuality, which means that we relate with one another in ways that are generous, overflowing, and serving so much more than ourselves alone.

To be more precise, we are actually integrating both the I & and We in generative mutuality, as we don’t leave behind our precious personhood and sacred uniqueness. Rather, we bring our deeper, more essential-self-being into relationship and in community. In this way, we find we are not so attached to the old patterns and lesser stories of the self-referential “me.”

Rooted in the ground of trust, with our capacity for connectedness growing more and more, we are able to come into greater, generative, spiritual intimacy amidst beloved community.

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Beloved Being

In “practicing” community, we are engaging in the very work of evolution itself—which is to inhabit love in living relationship, to grow in our capacity to embody love, and to deepen in our being, which is communal.

From our beckoning to practice community and the evolutionary becoming that occurs through the great force of love–amorization–we now come to our rhythm of being.

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The Spiritual Practice of Community

Community is not just something that happens alongside our personal spiritual pursuits, but is the vital and necessary calling—especially in this time—of coming into our “unity together.” Of participating in the interbeing among us to actively and necessarily realize that our divine nature is collective. That we must come into this deeper way of mutuality not only to evolve further in our consciousness, but perhaps even essentially for our survival as a species.

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Communal Being

As we continue to release our self-referentialism and separateness, we have been embracing several qualities of divine communion offered in our Becoming invitation last week.

And now, how might we inhabit these communal ways of being even more?

In support of our daily, any-and-every-moment inhabiting of our communal being, we offer a simple process you might take up this week.

Each morning and each evening, you can be with each of these qualities, holding the intention and recognition of your/our living inhabitation in divine communion. You may want to choose one quality for the day, or all of them each day.

The phrasing offered below is suggestive. You are welcome to craft your own language, choosing how you want to attune and engage with your pathways of inhabiting.

If you made a commitment last week, you could consider how you might interweave that into this daily process.

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