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“The New Human”
John C. Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min.
We are entering a new stage of human spiritual evolution, a time when
God - the one consciousness that is and fills the cosmos and everything in it - is finally understood to be what you and I are. Because unity
means one not two, you and God must be the same substance. This
simple yet profound theological advance, when lived as a personal and
immediate experience, has huge implications. It is the shift behind the
creation of a “New Human.”
W
hen we make God
separate and external
from our own self, we
inadvertently distance
our self from divinity.
Rather than experience the unity that God
is, this dualistic belief in “self and other” instead
encourages fantasy-based beliefs and projections
about the nature of the divine “other.” We liken God
to a father, mother, king friend judge, punisher, etc.
To let God be what you are, on the other hand, is to
experience the divine essence in its purest form, as
your own essence.
Nor is God what you think and believe. To confine
God with definitions and theological concepts constitutes yet another way we separate and distance
from the divine. God is not somebody else, God is
what you are and what everything is. Beliefs, projections, fantasies, ego, emotions, etc. are merely
illusions of the mind that come between you and
direct contact, ideas that trap you in an endless
labyrinth of thought. You will not experience God
there, though you may know have many thoughts
and write vast tombs on theological subjects.
We discover our oneness with God only through
direct experience. How? First we need to get over
the idea that we are not God. Many western religions resist this personal experience of unity, fearing that the mystically-inclined individual will defy
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