7.1.7 How can the committed and dedicated Christian attain enlightenment using this secular Implicate Technology meditative system?

God’s love permeates and sustains this world. This experience of infinite and all-embracing love is characteristic of the fully enlightened mind, when inclined towards a devotional path. Temperamentally inclined to worship the divine which is inherent in perceptible reality, the aspirant works towards the goal of realising the transcendent re-unification with God, whose nature is love.

The practical path by which the committed Christian can attain the transcendent re-unification with God is the same as for anyone else. The simple meditation on breathing taught in The beginner’s guide to enlightenment forms the basis for the first transformation of consciousness. All that is required, in addition to committed daily practice, is an understanding of the process in terms of Christian concepts.

From the Christian perspective, the many trials experienced during the period of karmic testing preceding the attainment of the first stage of enlightenment can be understood as tests to establish whether you are pure enough to be worthy of God’s love. God will test your capacity to rise above, and become detached from, your own desires. The Implicate Technology teaching of karma as the purposeful influence in a meaningful and integrated process simply provides a detailed way to discuss the technical mechanism whereby God tests the aspirant for inner purity.

As taught in chapter 2 of this book, before you can attain the experience of samadhi, you must set your life in harmony with the moral pattern inherent in the structure of reality. Samadhi, or the peace that passes all understanding as it is referred to in the Bible, is the result of a life lived in harmony with, and acceptance of, God’s loving will. The committed Christian can rely, with confidence, on Jesus’s original moral teachings as a guide to morally harmonious living in accordance with the divine will.

Once God’s grace has been received through the gift of samadhi, you will be preoccupied with dwelling on the nature of God. Through concentrating, with unwavering determination, on your love of God, you will gain the capacity for one-pointed meditation on God’s nature. Sustained experience of undistractedly concentrating on God’s nature will reveal the illusory distinction between the lover and the beloved – in truth, you and God have always and only been one.

Once the illusion of individuality and separateness has been dissolved, it will only require sustained one-pointed meditation on the nature of God for the equally illusory barriers of birth and ageing, suffering and death to fall away. Alternatively, you may choose to follow the detailed Implicate Technology meditations in chapters 4 and 5, substituting ‘Godhead’ for ‘that‘ and substituting ‘God’ for ‘wisdom, clarity and delight’. Once you have realised the divine unity of all that exists, you will be as a driverless vehicle dedicated to the service of God’s infinite love.