Gina Lake - In the World but Not of It: New Teachings from Jesus on Embodying the Divine

IN THE WORLD

BUT NOT OF IT

New Teachings from Jesus

on Embodying the Divine

GINA LAKE

Endless Satsang Foundation

http://www.RadicalHappiness.com

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Copyright 2016 by GinaLake

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To the Christ in everyone.

The Illusion Spun by ThoughtsThoughts AreLike CloudsThe Kinds of Thoughts in the Thought-StreamSubtle Waysthe Ego HidesDegrees of IdentificationHow to Tell When You AreEgo Identified

Perfect ImperfectionThe Duality Created bythe MindTranscending DualitiesCreating Space

Being in PresenceMoving intoPresenceStaying in PresenceActing and Speaking fromPresenceOvercoming Challenges to Being Present in the World

Disidentifying with ThoughtHow to StopBelieving Your ThoughtsThe Impersonal Nature of ThoughtThePractice of NoticingWorking with FeelingsThe Practice ofSilenceOvercoming Roadblocks to Silence

What Remains in the MindFollowing YourHeartThe Purified PersonalityPitfalls on the SpiritualPathOvercoming Habits and Addictions

I, the one you have known as Jesus theChrist, am writing this, another book, through this scribe, GinaLake, to assist you in living the teachings I gave so long ago.These teachings have nothing to do with religion, rules, orcommandments, but with transcending the need for such things and,instead, living from the wellspring of your being, which knows howto move in this world in perfect grace, peace, and love.

This wellspring is what I will call ChristConsciousness, although there are many names for it in variousspiritual traditions. It is called Buddha nature in Buddhism, Atmanin Hinduism, and the Self in Advaita Vedanta. In spiritual circles,it is called Presence, Essence, Stillness, true self, or simplyConsciousness, to name but a few of the terms.

Christ Consciousness, as I am using it,points to the divinity within everyone and the potential for thatdivinity to become a living reality, to become what lives you. Iwas an example of that possibility in my lifetime two thousandyears ago. I and my Father are one expresses this.

This is an advanced teaching and not foreveryone. Some still require the rules and commandments to keep theego in check. They need an external authority to guide theirbehavior. This was especially true two thousand years ago, whenhumanity was still in its infancy and less evolved than it istoday.

But now, many are ready for the Christ withinto come forward and manifest in the world more fully. The birthingof this Christof Christ Consciousnessis the true secondcoming. You are to be witnesses to this birth within yourself andothers. This is an important and special time on earth.

Christ Consciousness is within everyone,whether they recognize me as a master or not and whether theyrecognize that potential within themselves or not. What I came toteach in that incarnation so long ago was this: The consciousnessthat is within me is also within you. You are the son as equally asI am. You are the I am I spoke of. You and I are one. You andeveryone else are one.

There is only one consciousness withinfinitely many unique manifestations. Each is an expression oflove from that which gave birth to them, whether you call thatGod/Goddess, the Father/Mother, Oneness, the Divine, Allah, Spirit,Source, the Formless, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Nameless, orthe Unmanifest. There are many names for what is behind all lifeand which cannot be understood by the mind or expressed inwords.

By imagining this mysterious force ofcreation as an individualas a god or a Fatherit is mademanageable for the mind. But any concept of God cannot begin totouch the reality of God, which can only be experienced, neverunderstood.

When you are experiencing God, to the extentthat is possible as a human being, you are experiencing ChristConsciousness. God lives within you, and you experience that as aparticular state of consciousness, a state of being. Although oftenobscured, this state is not a passing state, like other states ofconsciousness, but always present and available. Although ChristConsciousness may seem to be an experience or a state ofconsciousness, it is actually what is conscious. It is theexperience of Christ alive in you, as you.

Two thousand years ago, I came to show youhow to be peace and love and ultimately to bring those tothis world. I taught by example and through other means what it islike to live in Christ Consciousness. My message was misunderstoodby many then and distorted by many others since then. But today,people are more ready for this message and more able to understandit and embody it than ever before.

So in this book, I will speak to you usingtodays language and terms, and I will build upon what others havetaught since, for the truth that I taught has been taught by manyothers throughout history and is being taught today by many morethan ever before.

The truth I am speaking of is the truth aboutwho you areabout your human and divine nature, for you areequally both. You are as divine as you perceive me to be. And, fornow, you are also human. You walk with one foot in the world ofform and another in the Formless. You are a bridge between the two.This mysterious duality within your being is what this book isabout.

I want to speak with you intimately aboutthis, as a brother, as a friend, as one who has lived this duality.And, yes, I will speak as a teacher too, but not as someone who isabove you, not as someone who is more godlike than you, but someonewho is no different than you.

This is blasphemy to some, but only to thosewho do not understand the truth hidden in your scriptures. It wasnot my intention to be made into a god. That was not why I came,and I did not make myself into a god. I came to show you the beautyof your own soul and what is possible as a human. I came to showyou that it is possible to be both human and divine, to be loveincarnate.

Many worship me, for they see me as theembodiment of love, but that love is equally in you. What I havecome to teach now is that you can embody love, as I did. You canbecome Christ within this human life and learn to embody all thatis good within you.

This is no small task, but many of you are upto it and want this more than anything else. To reunite with yourdivine self, such a drive and longing are essential. Although thisHomecoming is everyones destiny, the journey is long and arduous,and for such journeys a trusted guide is useful and oftennecessary.

This book is but one external guide. Thetruest guide rests in your Heart, and any true outer guide knowsthis and points you to that. My task is to point you to your owninner wisdom, to the Christ within, which is trustworthy, patient,generous, courageous, loving, and compassionate.

Every good quality is already yours as partof your divine inheritance. And yet, something else is here as wellthat veils your innate goodness and causes suffering. We willexamine this aspect of your humanitythe egoso that you can moreeasily overcome this obstacle to realizing your divinity.