Welcoming Expanded Consciousness/Spirit Into Your Life

Part One: States of Consciousness in Integral Christianity

What do you think of when you read and hear the term " Spirit"? (Traditionally written with an upper case "S" to make sure (wrongly, in my opinion) that we are thinking about God's spirit and not the human spirit.)

What do you think of when you read or hear the term "consciousness?" Consciousness is what allows you to be aware of reading this sentence. It has been defined as a complex and multifaceted concept that refers to our subjective awareness and experience of the world and ourselves. This dimension of being human is crucially important because it encompasses our ability to perceive, think, reason, have self-awareness, and connect with spiritual realities.

Paul SmithAugust 5, 2023Comment

From Enlightenment to Enlivenment

Part Four: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Think of a time when you felt really alive. What did that feel like in your body? What brought it about?

Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).

I have always felt drawn and a bit intrigued by that statement. What is abundant life?

PracticeLuke HealyJuly 29, 2023WBMP, Consciousness, Attunement, presencing, Embodiment Comment

Everyday Consciousness Beyond the Ordinary

Part Three: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

We have our everyday “ordinary” consciousness, and then we have times when we move into other states of elevated or “more spiritual” consciousness.

Whole-Body Mystical Presencing is a practice to help us to shift from having these peak/peek experiences of mystical awareness we remember or look forward to, and create a new everyday/every moment experience of enlivened consciousness. This “continuously renewed immediacy” is a regular attunement that begins to move our everyday consciousness, our “default” state of being, into a new reality. Into a new way of being.

But it doesn’t happen just by realizing this or learning this concept. We have to re-train and re-pattern our “ordinary” consciousness.

PracticeLuke HealyJuly 22, 2023WBMP, presencing, practice, Embodiment, Consciousness Comments

Is It Possible to Pray Continuously?

Part Two: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Whole-Body Mystical Presencing is a practice to enter into the everyday, every moment reality of Christ consciousness. It is a way to welcome and invoke holistic presence at all times, not just in “spiritual” settings or “sacred” places and times. All of life and every moment is sacred. We can presence into this way of being at any time.

Before we get into the specifics of this practice, I want to draw upon some of the Christian heritage for this way of being, along with sharing some of my own story coming to this practice.

Practice, MysticismLuke HealyJuly 15, 2023WBMP, practice, Embodiment, presencing Comments

Can I Get (More Than) a Witness?

Part One: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

You are not a spectator.

One of the great spiritual evolutions today is the rise of the mystic. And by that I don’t mean an increasing number of spiritual superheroes. The mystic is rising in us all. It is the longing for more than we have been given, and coming to embrace the spiritual power that is naturally within us. It is moving from the spiritual sidelines and into the joy of the action.

Practice, MysticismLuke HealyJuly 8, 2023WBMP, practice, Embodiment, presencingComment

God as Energy & Light

New Images of Jesus and God – Part Three

I went to visit my niece, Meredith, in Lawrence, Kansas, when she was a student at Kansas University. Since we both were following a spiritual path, the topic of conversation quickly dove into the depths of spiritual understanding. Thinking of the subject of what God looks like to different people, I asked her, “What does God look like to you?” Without hesitation she waved her hand in the air in an undulating motion making energy waves.

“You think God is like energy waves?” I asked, just to clarify what she was saying. “Yes!” came the immediate, emphatic reply.

I began contemplating this image of God and found it to be extremely helpful in understanding the essence of God and how God works.

Marcia FleischmanJuly 1, 2023 Comments

Jesus the Energy Healer

New Images of Jesus and God – Part Two

To focus on Jesus as an energy healer is to assert that he is not just using his own energy but is so connected to God, that it is God’s energy within him, flowing out of him, that heals people. It is his expanded consciousness, that we refer to as being filled with the Holy Spirit. The term” Spirit-filled” expounds on the experience of a person being connected to and empowered by the energy of God.

Marcia FleischmanJune 24, 2023Jesus Comment

New Images of Jesus and God

Part One: Who Was Jesus?

God has been seen interacting with humans in human form. It is difficult to get away from personifying God, seeing God as human form. As we explore some images of God and Jesus, I invite you to ask: How do we see God this way? How would we interact with God this way?

Open your mind and heart to some new ideas, new thoughts, new images of God. See how we can understand God in new ways and, therefore, interact with God differently. Perhaps we can experience God in new ways since God is not limited by body, by time, by space. Consider these different images.

Marcia FleischmanJune 17, 2023JesusComment

Transmitting Awakened Spirit Consciousness

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit?
Part Four

When we define spirit as awakened consciousness, we can then see there are many avenues to it. A sudden transforming experience, as we see in Acts. We see the slow work of contemplative prayer in mystics down through the ages. The Enlightenment found in Eastern traditions. Some Eastern traditions transmit spirit-awakening in a way similar to what Jesus, Paul, and Peter did.

MysticismPaul SmithJune 10, 2023Spirit, Consciousness, Transmission Comment

Who Else Believes Spirit is Consciousness?

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit?
Part Three

What comes to your mind when you see, hear, or say the word "spirit"? Spirit personified as a shadowy, mystical presence? A vague, mysterious force in the universe? God at work everywhere? The third person of the Trinity?

What comes to my mind after considering this for several years is the amazing, still mysterious, single word: "consciousness." God's spirit as Consciousness Beyond Us, Beside Us, and Being Us. We are that divine consciousness, localized and encased in a human body.

MysticismPaul SmithJune 3, 2023Consciousness, Spirit Comments

Part One: States of Consciousness in Integral Christianity

Part Four: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Part Three: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Part Two: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Part One: Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

New Images of Jesus and God – Part Three

New Images of Jesus and God – Part Two

Part One: Who Was Jesus?

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit? Part Four

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit? Part Three

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit?
Part Four

What, in the World, is Holy Spirit?
Part Three