7.1.8 How can committed Christians re-establish the freshness and vitality of Jesus’s original teachings?

Seeking God’s grace and love, the committed Christian can find direct experience of God through practice of these Implicate Technology meditations from a religious perspective. In due course, God willing, practice of meditation will bring direct, intuitive experience of the divine nature underlying the world of everyday experience. The committed Christian will naturally seek to interpret and understand such experience in terms of Christ’s teachings.

The way for the committed Christian to understand the experiences encountered along the path to unity with God is to go back to Jesus’s original teachings in the gospels. First, pare away all accretions on Jesus’s original teaching, leaving only the record of his sayings. Then, re-interpret the original sayings in the light of what you have learned, through your own experience of meditation within the fully developed framework of Implicate Technology, of the nature and structure of perceptible reality.

The primary purpose of the Implicate Technology meditative system is to teach direct intuitive realisation of the absolute subjectivity of the Godhead. The committed Christian who has attained unity with God through practice of these meditations is capable of producing specifically Christian devotional meditations to help and guide other Christians along the path to God. Implicate Technology is only one of many paths to enlightenment – Christianity will be able to reach out to, and help, far greater numbers of seekers of God’s love when its advocates recognise that, like every other model of reality, Christianity is only one of many paths to the eternal truth.

The committed and dedicated Christian, who has experienced the reality of God’s all-pervading love and who wishes to express that understanding within the officially approved structures of the Christian hierarchy, can expect severe opposition and obstruction from those in power. As with all bureaucracies which institutionalize an original and great idea, the maintaining of the current power balance within the institution becomes more important than the founding vision. The Christian Church is much more interested in maintaining its social, moral, political and economic influence than it is concerned to spread Jesus’s message of universal love.

As well as being preoccupied with maintaining its temporal power base, the Christian Church has a long history of alienating itself from elements essential to any fully developed model of reality. The Second Council of Constantinople, meeting in A. D. 553, anathematized the supporters of reincarnation and karma [Evans-Wentz, W. Y.; The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1960; pp 4, 185n, 234-5, 239]. The Christian Church officially upholds an incomplete model of reality which cannot, of itself lead the committed Christian to direct intuitive experience of the unity of humanity and God.

It follows that the committed and dedicated Christian who has direct transcendental experience of the love of God faces an uphill and difficult struggle in attempting to re-introduce the full breadth of Jesus’s original vision into the contemporary Church. The Catholic Church has a long history of isolating and excommunicating Christians whose views fall outside of acceptable official norms. The Christian who attempts to breathe relevance and vitality into the temporal power base of Christianity, perhaps by working for the ordination of women in a male-dominated system, will need to move slowly, carefully and cautiously.

Careful study and practice of the power discipline, as taught in chapter 3 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment, will enable the Christian seeking to transform the Church from within to deal with obstruction from those in authority. Reality will inevitably unfold in its own way; your task is always to Act in harmony with the flow of reality. The perfect vehicle for God’s love knows that all obstructions to unity with God are the will of God, and it is God alone who will deal with those who obstruct across endless lifetimes.