Get High on God Consciousness!

 
Wanna get high, little boy?

Ready to blow your mind, little girl?

All natural! No drugs!

Get high on the Most High!

Here at The Calling, one of the greatest contemplations or meditations we know

is the answer to a question every one of us has asked: ‘Why can’t I see God?’

Really...this all-important Being, source and origin of EVERYTHING, why can’t

we see Him? Forgetting about all the well-intended arguments like how He wants
us to ‘approach Him by faith’ (whatever that means), what is the real answer?

We’re going to tell you the answer, and by deeply contemplating and meditating
on this (which means putting your mind into alignment and focus with the idea),
you will realize one of the highest, most profound concepts we have found.

So, why can’t God be seen?

God cannot be seen because God is not an object. God is infinite

subject.

God cannot be seen because God is both the seer and the way of seeing.

Everything comes from God. As a result, there is no place you can go to see
Him. God is the power by which we see, hear, taste and smell. God is the power
by with we live, move…exist.

Language Lesson

The structure upon with human language is based is “subject – predicate.”

God is infinite subject. You are the predicate.

The basis upon everything we experience is “subject – object”

I (subject) listen to music (object).

 You (subject) read this document (object).

Sally (subject) sees a bird (object).

Joe (subject) sings a song (object).

God cannot be perceived as an object, because God is Infinite Subject.

Contemplate this idea with diligent effort, and it can change your life.

Research the terms subject, predicate, object, and examine the structure of
language and how it relates to experience.

In your inner being, ponder deeply how Infinite Subject, the Mind of God,
constantly works to peer into the world through your eyes, hear through your
ears, love with your heart…and you can’t see Him, can’t feel Him, can’t touch
Him, because only objects can be seen, felt and touched.

Simply put, you cannot see God, but you can see as God sees, feel as God feels
and think as God thinks. That’s what God consciousness means: to think, see
and feel as God does.

From your inner being, what does God see, feel and think about this image of His
starving child?
How about His overfed child? Are you sure those are God’s thoughts you’re
thinking?

We are all meant to live healthy, whole and free. The Calling cares about both of
these beloved children of God, and ALL of us. To us, it’s abundantly obvious that
humanity must chart a course for evolution, where our limited, ego-filled, small
human ways of thinking are transformed.

Lift up the eyes of your spirit and see beyond our small, limiting human ideas.
Begin to see, feel, think, and move with the Higher Mind that indeed, lays within
all of us…the Mind of God.

Bible Study

We don’t do many Bible studies here at The Calling – at least, not according to
the usual meaning of the term. Even in our deeply Biblical discussions (like
Jesus’ death and resurrection), we often spare chapter and verse quotes. Why?
Because frankly, we know it bores most people, and we do not want to be boring!
There are other reasons, like the almost-inevitable conjugation arguments. With
‘regular’ ideas (even if they are religious), it’s possible to present the material and
get on with it. But when you quote the Bible, it often seems to bring out the worst
in people, and instead of focusing on the meaning or purpose of what is being
presented, the discussion devolves into proper translation and conjugation of
ancient verb forms...yuck.

Then, there’s the whole point of view thing. These days, if you’re unwilling to
swear upon all that is Holy that every single word in the entire Bible is completely,
totally, 100% literally and scientifically true, get ready. You will be rebuked;
scorned, called a Satanist - and everything you have researched and written will
be ignored. This is the state of Bible discussion in America today. Double yuck.

Despite the yuck, God consciousness is a REALLY important topic. At The

Calling, we are charting a course toward a worldwide transformation of human
consciousness. We are determined to use every tool at our disposal to be part of
making it happen.

And, we think the Bible is cool! Oh yes, it has been abused and has gotten a lot
of bad press. The Bible has really weird old cultural stuff in it that today’s modern
person can’t understand or deal with…but so does Shakespeare! The Bible,
properly understood, is a precious, beautiful and glorious picture of God.

So, on with the Bible study!

The Bible chronicles the transformation of the human soul. In fact, the Bible, your
life, the history of humanity, the idea of evolution: all can be seen as a journey
from the small, limited, ego-filled, hateful, sin-state of human consciousness, to
the large, limitless, egoless, loving, bliss-state of God consciousness. The
following are Bible passages (NIV) that directly address the transformation of the
human soul.

We agree with the prayer of St. Paul, in Ephesians 1:18-19:

“18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you
may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us
who believe.”

Beloved friends, this whole religion thing is real. And it’s not just about saying the
right prayer, going to church on Sunday (or Saturday if that’s what you do!) and
taking a casserole to the pot-luck on Wednesday night – this whole religion thing
is about enlightenment, knowledge, hope, inheritance, and great power! St.
Paul’s prayer is The Calling’s prayer.
Matthew 4:17, repentance as transformed consciousness:
“From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is near.”

Before we go an inch further, ‘repent’ doesn’t mean what you learned in church.
When Jesus spoke, the word he used meant change your thinking. Repent
doesn’t mean ‘stop doing bad stuff,’ but change your being from the inside-out,
starting with your thinking.

This idea of changed thinking is expanded in Romans 12:2:

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what
God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

The concept that Christ and God are within you, from 1 Corinthians 2:11-16:

“11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within
them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the
Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but
the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has
freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by
human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual
realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not
accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them
foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only
through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about
all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But
we have the mind of Christ.”

Read it again and again: the mind of Christ (equated with the mind of God) lives
in you! This one verse, this one idea, if true, means we are not what we’ve been
told we are, we are not what we think we are, and we do not live in the world we
think we do! The mind of Christ lives in every single one of us!

Just what is the mind of Christ? Colossians 1:13-19

“13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of the Son [Christ] he loves, 14 in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 The Son is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were
created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
 thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created
through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the
beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he
might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his
fullness dwell in him.”

The fullness of God is in Christ. The fullness of God encompasses the entire
UNIVERSE…and that same Divine Mind is inside of YOU!

Again, at 1 Corinthians 3:16, we find this:

“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that
God’s Spirit lives in you?”

2 Corinthians 13:5:

“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.
Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail
the test?”

In the next passage, St. Paul said his limited, ego-self was gone entirely. He
recognized that as a raindrop, he was nothing more than a channel for the Ocean
to pour through. Isn’t that the whole point? We praise the movie, not the
projector! St. Paul, at Galatians 2:20:

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in
me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me.”

Note the phrase “crucified with Christ.” Despite all the messages we have
received to the contrary, THIS is the ENTIRE POINT of Christian theology. It has
never been enough to simply ‘believe’ Jesus died or did anything for you – the
actual message of Christ himself consists in being united with him, so that his
life, death and resurrection become ours.

Similar truth at Galatians 3:27:

“…for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves
with Christ.”

Next comes the revelation that Christ in you is the mystery of all ages and
generations. Colossians 1:25-27:
 “25 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present
to you the word of God in its fullness— 26 the mystery that has been kept
hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s
people. 27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles
the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory.”

More Christ-life at Philippians 1:21

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

And more God-in-you at Philippians 2:13

“For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good
purpose.”

Dear friends, the Bible is quite clear that God is in you! By no means a ‘new age’
thing – this is ancient proclamation.

Your life is not about being the small, limited ego-you.

Your destiny is to know as much about God as God knows about you. That’s
another meaning to God consciousness, from 1 Corinthians 13:12:

“Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to
face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

Eventually, this Mind of Christ that lives in embryo will grow to fill us entirely, until
Christ is fully formed in us – from Galatians 4:19:

“My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until
Christ is formed in you...”

The Calling has some favorite Bible verses, and the next is one of them. It shows
that our true calling, our destiny, the REAL purpose of human life, is to have that
same infinite glory that is in God Himself through Christ. 1 Peter 5:10

“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ,
after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you
strong, firm and steadfast.”

So how do we get from ego to Christ consciousness? Start with Ephesians 3:14-
19:
 “14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family
in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious
riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner
being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray
that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power,
together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and
high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that
surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the
fullness of God.”

The pathway to God consciousness and the fullness of Christ is clear. You leave
your old, small ego-self behind and, born again in a renewal of mind, live as the
true, real, you. Ephesians 4:17-24

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer
live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are
darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God
because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their
hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to
sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of
greed.
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard
about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in
Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off
your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be
made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self,
created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”

Ephesians 5:1

“Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children”

Colossians 3:9-10

“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its
practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge in the image of its Creator.”

Our small, limited family, regional and national ‘us vs. them’ views are gone,
replaced with a Universal perspective. Colossians 3:11

“Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian,

Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.”
And the ‘final word’ to round out our Bible Study is at Hebrews 11:1:

“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not
see.”

That’s the final word. FAITH. Not a requirement to believe according to a certain
creed or doctrine, but faith as a living, breathing, tangible pathway from

small to large,

illusion to reality,

sinner to saint,

raindrop to Ocean.