New Consciousness Review December, 2014 | Page 54

FEATURES “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 54 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW