{"id":19638,"date":"2020-12-22T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2020-12-22T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:24:42","slug":"manifesting-the-great-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19638","title":{"rendered":"Manifesting the Great I AM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RPkdkG_Kcf0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, \u202fDecember 22, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all practical purposes, the dualistic mind is not able to accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine at the same time. Our dualistic minds need to choose one or the other, with the result that they understand Jesus as&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;divine and humans as&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;human, despite all scriptural and mystical affirmations to the contrary. The overcoming of this divide was the whole point of the incarnation of God in Christ, and precisely what we celebrate on Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The manifestation of the Great I AM in Jesus was the momentous Christian epiphany. It became so thrilling to early Christians that they forgot the continued need to balance Jesus\u2019 newly discovered divinity&nbsp;<em>with his personally and even more strongly proclaimed humanity<\/em>. Remember, virtually Jesus\u2019 only form of self-reference\u2014eighty-seven times among the four Gospels\u2014was&nbsp;<em>ben \u2019adam<\/em>, a son of the human one. Jesus is emphasizing \u201cI am of you\u201d\u2014a mortal and human!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our preoccupation with Jesus\u2019 divinity did not allow us to hear about his own clearly emphasized humanity. In practice, most Christians have been guilty of thinking of Jesus as having&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;a divine nature, which misses and avoids the major point he came to bring. We have not been able to balance humanity and divinity in Jesus, which probably reflects why we are unable to put it together in ourselves. We did not have the proper software for the task. Jesus is the archetypal model for all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theism believes there is a God.&nbsp;<em>Christianity believes that God and humanity truly coexist in the same body, in the same place!<\/em>&nbsp;These are two utterly different proclamations about the nature of the universe. In my experience, most Christians are very good theists who just happen to have named their god Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With dualistic minds it is always one or the other\u2014it can never be both. The result is that we still think of ourselves as mere humans trying desperately to become \u201cspiritual.\u201d The Christian revelation was precisely that we are already spiritual (\u201cin God\u201d), and our difficult but necessary task is to learn how to become human. Jesus came to model the full integration for us (see 1 Corinthians 15:47\u201349). He told us, in effect, that divinity looked just like him\u2014while he looked ordinarily human to everybody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It is the contemplative, nondual mind that allows us to say yes to the infinite mystery of Jesus and the infinite mystery that we are to ourselves. They are finally the same mystery.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-10.21.23-AM-500x367.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-10.21.23-AM-500x367.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-10.21.23-AM-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-10.21.23-AM-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-10.21.23-AM.png 1832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story from Our Community:<\/strong><br><em>May you be astonished by \/ the sheer generosity of being loved, and in the returning of it, may you see the miracle of your life \/ twice blessed.<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014Mary S.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, \u202fDecember 22, 2020 For all practical purposes, the dualistic mind is not able to accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine at the same time. 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