Many / One
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The Alternative Gospel
John Baldock
Written for readers of all religious persuasions, this new interpretation of the gospel story shows how the events described by the gospel writers - from the virgin birth of Jesus to his ascension - offer us expansive images of a cosmic process.
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"Myths give form to the wisdom and insights of the collective unconscious which, on emerging into the light of day, become our own inner wisdom reflected in the mirror of our conscious mind."
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"Home is the One Reality, the Ultimate Mystery, God, the One, the All, the Absolute – or whatever else we like to call it – which can perhaps best be described as a non-dualistic, Self-revealing, Self-knowing state of being."
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"Unconditional love is nondualistic. Like the Spirit from which it emanates, it is all-embracing, open-hearted and freely given."
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"What each of us learns individually contributes to the learning process of humankind as a whole."
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"The One manifests as the Many while never ceasing to be the One."
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"We cannot separate ourselves from the creative power of the Spirit. Whatever we do, wherever we go, the Spirit is there within us."
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"The One Reality creates the diversity of the natural world without compromising its own unity."
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"The self (the individual human being) is an aspect of a greater Self (the Spirit or universal I AM)."
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"What humankind as a whole has learnt in the course of its evolution forms an ever-expanding pool of collective wisdom. Also known as the perennial wisdom, or 'sophia perennis', this collective wisdom is freely available to us all."
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"While each of us is a unique human being, we are all equal in essence."
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"The Will of God seeks to accomplish itself through our human will as the self-expression of our essence."
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"Wherever you turn, by certain traces which wisdom has impressed on her works, she speaks to you, and recalls you within, gliding back into interior things by the very forms of exterior things." St. Augustine, De lib. Arb II, 41
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"Collective wisdom goes straight down into our innermost parts – to our heart, or soul – from where, through 'hearing' the words with our inner ears, we may receive valuable insights into the nature of human being."
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"In many religious and spiritual traditions we find the nonduality of the universe expressed in terms of a single cosmic power, which is both the origin and infinite totality of the universe….the causal force manifests itself without in any way compromising its essential nonduality."
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"According to the principle of 'ask and you will receive', spiritual food is freely available to us all from within ourselves."
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"The I AM, the One, is the 'Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.'"
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"We are all invited to consummate our inherent oneness with Reality….Knowingly or not, we are all involved in our own process of self-realization, of spiritual expansion, all of the time."
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"In the One Reality there is only One Healer, One Teacher, to whom we all have free and instant access."
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"Direct experience of the One Reality is itself the One Teacher."
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"We are a means of expression for the eternal and infinite I AM, the Spirit; the dynamic flow of energy, the all-encompassing motivating force that Is the One Reality."
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"Once we begin to understand the workings of mythical language – the language of the collective wisdom – we can begin to use that same understanding to connect with the deeper significance and purpose that lie beneath the apparently mundane events of our everyday lives."
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