The unique teachings of Jesus Christ can help us become a living conduit of love — a love that is at once radically transcendent and immediately immanent; a love that itself reflects the sacred union of heaven and earth. This, after all, was one of Jesus Christ’s most important messages to humanity: that we are all of two natures, both fully human and fully divine.

As a mountain cuts into the sky without ever actually touching the sky, and the heavens embrace the earth without ever touching the earth, Jesus understood that only love can possibly bridge the immeasurable gap between the two — that only within God’s most sacred heart can both our natures be brought into phase with each other. In this sense, Jesus Christ was one of the most extraordinary spiritual teachers the world has ever seen, having found a direct path to the majesty of God’s love, and inviting us all to follow.

So what does following Christ really mean?

Here is where we return to the heart of the Christian Tradition, the secret Holiest of Holies at the core of the religion, the Tootsie Roll center of the celestial Tootsie Pop. It is no longer enough to accept salvation as hearsay. We must taste it for ourselves, be it for ourselves, and ultimately find the Kingdom of Heaven within ourselves — the infinite stillness within our hearts that Jesus Christ told us we would find, if we simply cared to look.

While we should always remain cautious as to which parts of Scripture we interpret as literal truth, there are some parts can only be taken literally, and none more so than the words of the apostle Paul: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

On this page we share a number of perspectives and practices to help you deepen, evolve, and energize your Christian practice, featuring presentations by luminaries like Ken Wilber, Adyashanti, Father Thomas Keating, Cynthia Bourgeault, Paul Smith, and many others.

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The Heart of Christ Consciousness
Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber offers a guided tour through the layers of the Christian mystical experience, pointing the way toward the innermost heart of Christ Consciousness.
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Awakening Christ Consciousness
Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber offers a special teaching to awaken Christ Consciousness within your own heart and mind, right here and right now.
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Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
Adyashanti
Adyashanti invites us to rediscover the life and teachings of Jesus, recounts his own personal encounter with Christ, and offers some much-needed guidance to help you transform your own relationship with the Christian story.
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Life, Death, Love, and Awakening
Adyashanti and Ken Wilber
A lively, intimate, and tremendously moving discussion that covers an astonishing amount of ground — ranging from Ken and Adya’s personal lives, to spiritual materialism and enlightened activism, to the outermost frontiers of knowledge, technology, and future potentials.
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The Gift of Contemplation
Father Thomas Keating and Cynthia Bourgeault
Father Thomas Keating talks to Cynthia Bourgeault about how his own efforts around the Centering Prayer movement grew from this incredibly fertile ground, his hopes for the future of Christian spiritual practice, and the promise this newly-unfolding contemplative Christianity offers to the rest of the world.
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Becoming Nothing
Father Thomas Keating
Father Thomas Keating offers a personal glimpse into his own spiritual practice, allowing us precious insight into the heart and mind of one of the world’s most cherished mystics. Watch as Fr. Keating shares how his innermost experience of the sacred continues to transform as he approaches the twilight years of his life.
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Patterns of Resistance: What Stands Between You and Spiritual Experience?
Helen Palmer
Helen Palmer presents the Enneagram as a means to recognize and rehabilitate the conditioning of the everyday ego — reducing the opacity of our everyday habituated minds, transcending the illusion of separation, and allowing the self-liberating light of God to shine through more clearly.
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Building a Transformative Friendship with Jesus
Paul Smith
Paul Smith takes us beneath the crust of evangelical extremism and beyond the noise of outdated belief systems into the very heart of Christ Consciousness itself. One of the finest presentations on Integral Christianity you will ever see.
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The Healing Wisdom of the Christos
Helen Palmer
Joan Borysenko takes us on her personal journey from Judaism to Yogananda to Jesus, melding ancient wisdom, modern neuroscience, and positive psychology.
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Finding the Christ
Cynthia James
Cynthia James looks at Jesus as a representative of Universal wholeness and the idea of Universal Christ Consciousness that exists within all. She explores the Mystic Christ and his teachings from a metaphysical perspective.

Other Pieces You May Enjoy

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Mary Magdalene and the Christian Path of Conscious Love
Cynthia Bourgeault
Far beyond sensationalized conspiracy theories or pabulum reclamation of the feminine, Rev. Bourgeault’s intriguing portrait of Mary Magdalene recognizes her distinct yet intertwined roles as Jesus’ disciple, apostle, and intimate beloved.
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Esoteric Christianity: Two Kinds of Religion
Father Thomas Keating, Rollie Stanich, and Ken Wilber
Father Thomas, Rollie, and Ken explore the rich contemplative legacy that exists at the core of the world’s largest religion.
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Integral Christianity: Answering the Call to Evolve
Paul Smith and Ken Wilber
Paul Smith and Ken Wilber lay the groundwork for a truly integral approach to Christianity that identifies, honors, and includes the very best of all previous interpretations of the Gospel, while clearing the space for radically new understandings, expressions, and experiences of Christianity to emerge.
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A Transforming Relationship with Jesus
Paul Smith
Paul offers a powerful practice that leads you to a full-spectrum realization of God — a God who is big enough to satisfy our minds, close enough to touch our hearts, and familiar enough to easily recognize how God intersects with innermost Self.
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Centering Prayer: Its History and Importance
Father Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber
Distilled from the profound teachings of the Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer has aimed to bring a living spirituality into an age where God is typically reduced to the New-Age vicissitudes of emotionality, if not simply pronounced dead. Listen as Fr. Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber discuss the remarkable history and importance of Centering Prayer.
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A Taste of Centering Prayer
Father Thomas Keating
Centering Prayer is a simple Christian practice that helps us to locate and take refuge in our “inner room,” consent to the presence of God-in-2nd-person, and lead us into deep prayer, devotion, and contemplation of the divine. Listen as Father Thomas offers a short guided practice of Centering Prayer.
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Evolutionary Panentheism: A Godview for Today’s World
Brother David Steindl-Rast and Ken Wilber
Brother David Steindl-Rast, the author of Gratefulness: The Heart of Prayer and a practicing Benedictine monk for over half a century, discusses why a new understanding of God is needed to carry spirituality into the future.
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Living the Apostle's Creed
Paul Smith
Brother David Steindl-Rast offers a fascinating re-interpretation of the Apostles' Creed. In his carefully thought-out, lovingly rendered, phrase-by-phrase translation, Br. David liberates the hidden meaning of the text from the yoke of mythic symbolism, revealing the silent, timeless, esoteric core at the heart of the Christian tradition.

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