Jesus never saw Himself as God or equal to God yet He said the He and God are one. This tells us that we can still be individuals and yet part of a collective or a greater whole. he also prayed to God to preserve His disciple as a unit, as one. “I pray Father that they are one as we are one” While we celebrate our individuality we tend to loose sight of our collectivity. God is the source of all things, in God we are one because he is the source of all things. Some how we lost the awareness of our oneness with God; in order to find God again we must first deny the process that gave us our individuality.
“If a man wants to fallow Me, let him deny himself and fallow Me”. Everything we do in this world revolves around the self. It is the self that make us individuals yet we are a collective. The proof is in the pudding; Christ save us as individuals, each one of us is saved differently. Only as individuals can we be saved, yet Christ is coming for a collective. He is coming for the church or the body of believers that made up the church. Here is the nuance, we must loose ourselves in order to find ourselves. God saves humanity, not just me or you but the whole of humanity. That is the awareness we must cultivate. Jesus never lost his position as master, nor did his status diminished when he washed the feet of His disciples. He was one with them yet still retained His individuality. He did not have to negate them to make Himself more important than them or greater than them. He knew who He was as an individual and as a collective.
See: The individual VS the collective http://www.bitesizeawareness.com/
The babel syndrome
Genesis 3:17 to 19“cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art , and unto dust shalt thou return”. This is the sentence that we incurred when Adam decided to put his individuality above God. What is it that took place when God said to Adam that you shall not eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. “which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it “. What is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil?
Man is a collective entity, a fragmented being that needs the presence of his fellow human beings to find wholeness. The moment we consume the fruit of our individuality we loose sight of our spiritual oneness. This is why it is said that sin separated man from God. The process by which we arrive at our individuality is negation. We must negate others as to say that you are not me. It is this process that leads us to consume the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. We know that we are better than that is good and everything else that is not me is evil. Resorting that difference is the act of consuming the fruit of the knowledge we gain that we are separate and I am not you and you are not me. This is what causes us to be fragmented, we lost sight of the spiritual link that binds us together as one. Without the spirit there is no oneness. It is t he spirit that makes us one. “We know in part and we prophesize in part” Paul said. Some of us may hold the gift of prophesy and still some others have the gift to interpret prophesies. Everyman has a blind widow which he needs some one else to help him see. jesus put great emphasis on oneness. The question that I am inviting you to ask is why is it so difficult for the people of the Third world to see eye to eye, share the same vision or come together collectively to achieve great things? Why is it so difficult for some of us to come together in one accord? Why is it so difficult for some of us to see eye to eye, share one vision collectively? Jesus Christ teachings revolve around teaching us how to be one... he knows how much we need each other. He knows that we are not complete without one another. In His teachings, He said: “Do unto others, as you would like them to do unto you”; forgive your brother seven time seven, turn the other cheek that is seek alternatives to resolve conflict, avoid head on collision, be like the good Samaritan, be kind to others in need, take up your cross that is to embrace your humanity, the weaknesses and the short comings of your fellow human beings”.
“A man discovers himself in the midst of his fellow human beings” we need other to help us see ourselves, help us see a reflection of ourselves. Are we our brother’s keepers? Yes we are, because our survival depends on others. God will not pour His blessing until there is unity. “Where the unity is, there t he Lord commands the blessing”. Jesus prayer for His disciples is that they remained one as a unit, one as a group with the same purpose. He knew that they could not accomplish their mission unless they remain one as a group with the same purpose. “I pray father the are one as you and I are one”
“Lo the people are one; nothing will be refrained from them which they imagine to do”. There is power in oneness. We were created to be at one with God. We must deny the self, the awareness of our individuality to regain the awareness of our collectivity. “If a man wants to fallow Mw, let him first deny himself and fallow Me”. Jesus came to undo the works of darkness; he came to undo the process by which we arrive at our self awareness. We are perpetually consuming the fruit of the knowledge of Good and evil. We arrive at our self awareness by negating that which we think or believe is not us. This is consuming the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Why we negate others? We do that to promote ourselves, to claim our individuality as better than the next person and in the process for go our awareness of the connection we have with that person. Jesus came to show us other wise. There is no humanity without the awareness of our collectivity, our dependence on each other, most importantly our connection to the source.
The crux of success in the industrial world is the ability of the people to come together collectively to achieve great things. This entails a denial of our individuality for the purpose of coming together for a greater good.
My question to you is what is the Babel Syndrome?
The babel Syndrome is a mental state that is common to countries that are underdeveloped commonly called Third World Countries. If there is an indicator, something by which to measure the Third World it is in the frequency of the mental disease called Babel syndrome.
Jesus claimed his individuality yet never separated Himself from God. He never claimed to be God. He said: “The father is greater than me yet He and the father are one”.
“If a man wants to fallow Me, let him deny himself and fallow Me”. Everything we do in this world revolves around the self. It is the self that make us individuals yet we are a collective. The proof is in the pudding; Christ save us as individuals, each one of us is saved differently. Only as individuals can we be saved, yet Christ is coming for a collective. He is coming for the church or the body of believers that made up the church. Here is the nuance, we must loose ourselves in order to find ourselves. God saves humanity, not just me or you but the whole of humanity. That is the awareness we must cultivate. Jesus never lost his position as master, nor did his status diminished when he washed the feet of His disciples. He was one with them yet still retained His individuality. He did not have to negate them to make Himself more important than them or greater than them. He knew who He was as an individual and as a collective.
See: The individual VS the collective http://www.bitesizeawareness.com/
The babel syndrome
Genesis 3:17 to 19“cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art , and unto dust shalt thou return”. This is the sentence that we incurred when Adam decided to put his individuality above God. What is it that took place when God said to Adam that you shall not eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. “which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it “. What is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil?
Man is a collective entity, a fragmented being that needs the presence of his fellow human beings to find wholeness. The moment we consume the fruit of our individuality we loose sight of our spiritual oneness. This is why it is said that sin separated man from God. The process by which we arrive at our individuality is negation. We must negate others as to say that you are not me. It is this process that leads us to consume the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. We know that we are better than that is good and everything else that is not me is evil. Resorting that difference is the act of consuming the fruit of the knowledge we gain that we are separate and I am not you and you are not me. This is what causes us to be fragmented, we lost sight of the spiritual link that binds us together as one. Without the spirit there is no oneness. It is t he spirit that makes us one. “We know in part and we prophesize in part” Paul said. Some of us may hold the gift of prophesy and still some others have the gift to interpret prophesies. Everyman has a blind widow which he needs some one else to help him see. jesus put great emphasis on oneness. The question that I am inviting you to ask is why is it so difficult for the people of the Third world to see eye to eye, share the same vision or come together collectively to achieve great things? Why is it so difficult for some of us to come together in one accord? Why is it so difficult for some of us to see eye to eye, share one vision collectively? Jesus Christ teachings revolve around teaching us how to be one... he knows how much we need each other. He knows that we are not complete without one another. In His teachings, He said: “Do unto others, as you would like them to do unto you”; forgive your brother seven time seven, turn the other cheek that is seek alternatives to resolve conflict, avoid head on collision, be like the good Samaritan, be kind to others in need, take up your cross that is to embrace your humanity, the weaknesses and the short comings of your fellow human beings”.
“A man discovers himself in the midst of his fellow human beings” we need other to help us see ourselves, help us see a reflection of ourselves. Are we our brother’s keepers? Yes we are, because our survival depends on others. God will not pour His blessing until there is unity. “Where the unity is, there t he Lord commands the blessing”. Jesus prayer for His disciples is that they remained one as a unit, one as a group with the same purpose. He knew that they could not accomplish their mission unless they remain one as a group with the same purpose. “I pray father the are one as you and I are one”
“Lo the people are one; nothing will be refrained from them which they imagine to do”. There is power in oneness. We were created to be at one with God. We must deny the self, the awareness of our individuality to regain the awareness of our collectivity. “If a man wants to fallow Mw, let him first deny himself and fallow Me”. Jesus came to undo the works of darkness; he came to undo the process by which we arrive at our self awareness. We are perpetually consuming the fruit of the knowledge of Good and evil. We arrive at our self awareness by negating that which we think or believe is not us. This is consuming the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Why we negate others? We do that to promote ourselves, to claim our individuality as better than the next person and in the process for go our awareness of the connection we have with that person. Jesus came to show us other wise. There is no humanity without the awareness of our collectivity, our dependence on each other, most importantly our connection to the source.
The crux of success in the industrial world is the ability of the people to come together collectively to achieve great things. This entails a denial of our individuality for the purpose of coming together for a greater good.
My question to you is what is the Babel Syndrome?
The babel Syndrome is a mental state that is common to countries that are underdeveloped commonly called Third World Countries. If there is an indicator, something by which to measure the Third World it is in the frequency of the mental disease called Babel syndrome.
Jesus claimed his individuality yet never separated Himself from God. He never claimed to be God. He said: “The father is greater than me yet He and the father are one”.
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