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What Is Christ Consciousness?

  • Apr 7, 2024
  • 2 min read

Bria Rivello | 24 December 2023


In the spirit of Christmas, I want to address an essential universal spiritual topic: Christ Consciousness. Like many American children, I grew up in mainstream Christianity that celebrates Jesus’ birth on Christmas. When I was 19, I discovered New Thought, which is the faith that truly speaks to my soul. While New Thought celebrates Jesus’ birth on Christmas, it also takes a metaphysical look at it as the birth of Christ’s Consciousness within ourselves.


I like to describe New Thought as a very progressive form of Christianity that believes in God as an omnipresent, unconditionally loving spirit, the interconnectedness of God and all life, and the inner divinity that lives in all of us. There is no fear or dogma, so we are free to look critically at spirituality and explore the golden thread of truth in all the world’s religions. New Thought places a significant value on our thoughts to create our reality. Which brings me to…


The Definition of Christ Consciousness


Christ Consciousness is “higher consciousness.” It is an elevated way of thinking and living that transcends beyond the fear of the materialistic world. This was the way of thinking and living that Jesus and all other enlightened beings of the ages, such as Buddha, Krishna, Moses, Muhammad, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and even Mr. Fred Rogers possessed.


But the Christ Consciousness is the consciousness which does pervade the universe, but is exemplified by the life of Jesus, and all the avatars and all liberated beings, in that they express, not ego consciousness, not a separate, diluted, or divided consciousness, but the unitive consciousness of the Divine Father, and that is the Christ. -Nayaswami Ananta


We Can All Achieve Christ Consciousness


Contrary to popular belief, “Christ” was not Jesus’ last name. Therefore, Mary and Joseph were not “Mr. and Mrs. Christ.” His name was “Jesus of Nazareth.” The Greek word Christ means “anointed one.” At the time, many enlightened people were considered “Christs.” Jesus became the Christ because he was the greatest of them all.


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