Christ and Spiritual (R)evolution: A Very Brief Pointer

The Incarnation of Christ was a spiritual revolution against an empire. In physical terms it was a counter-revolution conceived as non-violent. The revolution conceived as a continuous whole began against God, hierarchy and logos in heaven - whether you believe that literally, metaphorically, psychically or actually. The Incarnation of Christ was not just a reaction to rejection of God and spirit but a pathway to spiritual evolution. The empire of worldliness had effectively managed to thwart the spiritual evolution we needed to recover an original position or operate as spiritual beings activating our spiritual potential for conviviality and healing, creativity and civilisation – and ultimately salvation.

I argue that the mono-revolution explains most subsequent Western and modern revolutions. They are predicated on disconnecting from God, untethering and escaping hierarchy. The connection to God, the yoke or God or yoga is to be collapsed into the mundane and reduced to a clockwork mechanism powered by a dynamo that enabled a transformation of humans into silicon. Then the external world will be certain and manageable and anxiety about God removed. It intends to make absolute alienation from spiritual possibility or at least spiritual connection or re-acquaintance with or homing to God, the spiritual world and spiritual light.

Evolution has been captured as a narrative that ousts stories of God. Ironically those who claim that natural selection is the sole truth without soul are the very ones who insist in intervening therein to thwart it for some new directed destination. The opportunistic reduction of theories of evolution to techniques to alter humans falsifies the claim that their philosophical naturalism is natural.

We need spiritual evolution instead based on preservation and recognition of our consciousness as spiritual. What we are trying to find in explaining away consciousness is the mystery of spirit we thought we could discard because our biological determinism was so well developed. That evolution needs to continue the spiritual revolution to oppose the mono-revolution which is purely about the mortal, material, mundane and mechanistic.

Thus spiritual (r)evolution suggests the need to resist rejection of the divine order as well as the need to actively expand our spiritual awareness. The Singularity was anticipated for me in the Passion of Christ. It tells in some way how the race will be scourged, subjected to a crown of thorns, mocked and crucified. That crucifixion may for example involve a fixing of the race to a network. The scourge may be the continued assault by networks of violence and control on the consciousness of the world. The crown of thorns is the continuous assault in the brain by technology. The nails may be the mobile phones that attach us to the network. In the feet will be the processes that lock us down. The mockery of the soldiers will be by those paid soldiers of comedy and culture that challenge your God. We can opt for the right brain robber or the left one.

Whether the Passion happens to the race, and I think it will, the only antidote will be Christ. No other spiritual tradition has been so focused on flesh for better and for some people sometimes apparently worse. We are facing a posthuman world where humans and nature are mechanised and controlled. As Illich realised, our concept of life came from Christ. As Jung realised individuation came therefrom. We need spiritual (r)evolution to prepare for the second coming and it has nothing to do with the Rapture or Israel but you heart first. You are asked to till the field, clarify, prepare, to be receptive, be humble, open, to be attractive to the seed and not be distracted. But that does not mean to be weak. We live in a hell of a time but you don’t want to make that eternal.