“We need to open ourselves up the spirit of God’s word which lives inside us as a collective consciousness.”
Response:
I really appreciate your sharing your writings with me. They are obviously personal to you, and represent your thoughts and reflections over your life. Sounds like you had an extraordinary experience with your severe illness.
Your writings are very intriguing to me, and raise fresh questions. I see this communication with you more of a conversation of friends over coffee than a debate over issues.
“We need to open ourselves up the spirit of God’s word which lives inside us as a collective consciousness.”
Reponse:
You imply that there is a spirit of God’s word, and that every person has this spirit within them.
As Jesus Christ is also known as The Word, you may be referring to the Holy Spirit. But the Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit does not dwell in all people, but only Christians. The Biblical perspective is that the triune God (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) is separate from and distinct from all of creation, including mankind. Furthermore, when a person becomes a Christian, that person receives a new spirit which communes with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit of the sovereign, living God comes to dwell within Christians.
But for non-Christians to become open to another spirit is dangerous, as the spirit world is inhabited by demons as well as angels. People who have sought to tap into the spirit world have often discovered that something has come into them which is malicious.
I suspect that the only collective consciousness known to all would be:
- the universal realization that we are all creatures who are at some point destined to die, and
- a desire to connect with the infinite – a hunger to know God, and an underlying realization that we were created distinct from animals, with the capacity to know the sovereign, living God of the universe. (Blaise Pascal stated that each of us has “a God-shaped vacuum within us”.)
When we see we are caught up in an endless morass of conditioned patterns, one is presented with the opportunity for the avenue of intellect enlightened to show up in one’s life.
Response:
Yes, particularly when we are young, operating from our conditioning, how we were raised, is most common. And as we mature, our ability to use reason to learn about and discuss various world views and lifestyles availability to us. However, a critical question is whether we are a Christian or not. A non-Christian may be highly educated and informed, but do not have access to insights into the spiritual world available to Christians.
“But the natural man does not receive he things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” I Corinthians 2:14
Life in the Spirit 