In these turbulent times, many people are wondering whether we are experiencing the End Times as prophesized. I believe we are, but in the words of the song by R E.M, “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.”
It’s the end of the world as we know it. In other words, the world isn’t going to end, but something major is going to change everything. You might think it’s Artificial Intelligence. Certainly, AI has the potential to change a lot, as did the computer microchip. But I believe something is coming far bigger than that.
What’s coming is a fundamental change in how we see ourselves. We think of ourselves as only human, but we are far more than that. This is what the enlightened masters have been trying to teach us for a very long time, but many have refused to accept it.
The truth is that we are Life Itself – Pure Life. The Life that animates our human body is who we really are. Life is the active, experiencing part of Being, or existence. Being has no beginning and no end. Just as Being can never cease to be, Life can never cease to live. It can never die. This same Life is in everyone and in everything that is alive.
Life can’t be separate from Being any more than the sun’s rays can be separated from the sun. As Life, we are eternally connected to Being, our Source. Therefore, in Reality, there is only one Being. There is no “other.” This is what Jesus meant when he said in John 14:11, “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.”
Jesus was able to do the works that he did because he didn’t deny who he is. He knew that the man called “Jesus of Nazareth” was just a container for his true identity: Life (a.k.a. the Christ). He also tried to teach his disciples that this same Life is also who they are. The same Life is in every living thing just as the same light glows out of a variety of light bulbs. The container doesn’t change the nature or quality of the light at all.
Our bodies are merely temporary containers for the Life that we are. This is what Jesus tried to teach Peter when he refused to let Jesus wash his feet. He said to Peter, “Unless I wash you, you have not part with me” (John 13:8). As long as Peter viewed his fundamental nature as different from Jesus’, he wasn’t accepting his true identity. He wasn’t “joining with him in Christ.” This is what it truly means to be saved. It doesn’t mean to become part of an exclusive club. This club is all-inclusive. Anyone who sees himself or herself as either inferior or superior to others cannot join with Christ.
What does that mean? It means the absolute equality of every living thing – that every living thing is eternally part of the One Being (a.k.a. God) and equally beloved. Now, there have always been people strongly opposed to this idea. Even Jesus’ disciples struggled to accept that the Samaritans were equally beloved of God. But the Bible says, “God saw ALL that he had made, and it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).
Each human expression of Life has an individual body and a mind which provides Being with the ability to experience its infinite nature in all of its wonderful diversity. In Reality, however, this individuality doesn’t exist. How can it when there is only one Being? However, over time, human beings became lost in the illusion of individuality. We forgot about our true identity, and began to think of ourselves as only human.
This is what we call “original sin,” but it didn’t really happen. We didn’t really separate from God; we only “thought” we did. We only thought of ourselves as only human, but that thought didn’t have the power to change who we really are. This mistaken thought eventually pushed our original mind, the “Mind of Christ” into the background and allowed a different kind of mind to take over: the egoic mind.
This “takeover” is represented in the Bible as Adam and Eve taking a bite out of the apple from the forbidden “tree of knowledge.” They suddenly realized they were naked, and they were filled with fear. Fear is the base emotion of the egoic mind. When fear took over, their perspective changed. God became a harsh judge, life became a struggle, and “others” became a threat. Heaven turned into hell.
The development of the egoic mind is part of the design. It’s necessary in order for Life to become self-aware. Nothing can be experienced without its opposite. Since in Reality, all is One, an unreal world of duality was needed. Just as we can’t know hot without cold, we can’t know ourselves as Life without death. We can’t know ourselves as the Light without the darkness. We can’t know ourselves as love without fear. We can’t know ourselves as the Truth without the lie. The egoic mind contains all of the ideas about who we are not. It is the anti-Christ.
The second coming of Christ is about humanity “waking up” and remembering our true identity. Through this, we will be released from the fear of the egoic mind and return to the love and peace of the Mind of Christ. Our perspective will shift back to the Unity Consciousness of Eden, but with the added bonus of Self-Awareness.
It will change everything.
We still have free will. Each individual can choose to wake up or remain asleep, but in order to make an informed decision, we need a clear picture of each choice. Two-thousand years ago, Jesus gave us a clear picture of the Christ. Today, we are being given a clear picture of the anti-Christ.
Stay tuned for my next post in this series: “The End Times: Who is the Anti-Christ?”
Rev. Joan M. Kistler 