A Riff for Eastertide

Once I realized that I was in need of a spiritual community I wanted to be a Quaker or a Buddhist. Something cool and non-violent. Instead, I am a high church Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian. Which can be cool, and even non-violent – when we are being honest about our true roots.  

One cool thing for me is the antiphons of Eastertide, the six weeks between Easter and the expansion of Jesus from our three or four dimensions to the greater dimensionality traditionally called the Ascension. This year I have been struck by the story of the three women going to the tomb on Easter morning to anoint the body of their beloved leader and friend. The body wasn’t there. They were told that Jesus wasn’t dead and had gone back to his workaday home region. They would find him there.  

As I have been chanting the antiphons of this season, based on this story of the three women, the antiphons have melded into the three intuitions that have emerged through the Spark work: 

1. We are in the early stages of a new phase of global consciousness.
2. In the Spark lingo we are calling this a christ surge—a movement of the dynamic that evolves human consciousness.  
3. Jesus is pressing into this—what we are calling a christ surge– as further fulfillment of his mission.

Here is the riff. Jesus, that life-offering way-show-er, has been as good as dead, entombed in our assumptions, our convenient resistances, our aversion to responsibility.   When we come to offer his remains the social rituals which express the respect we feel is due him, he ain’t there.  

He is alive.  

He is going before us into a new phase of human consciousness, grounded in the familiarity of our home places, yet new. And real.  

We can find him there. 

As we are willing to move into this new consciousness, to explore its possibilities, we will find him there, in the grounding of our workaday world. Showing us the way.  Offering life. Regardless of whether we recognize him, regardless of whether we like him, regardless of whether we align with the faith tradition nominally associated with him. He is in a new phase, the emerging consciousness, the current coming of the christ.  Ready to help us, to accompany us, to show us how we each uniquely can contribute to this new way of being. To bring us toward our greater and true fulfillment. 

Happy Easter indeed.