What Is Real?

                             Photo of Dorothy Day by my friend Bob Fitch

Contrary to the seeming evidence of the time in which we live, might there still be space for the search for truth? Who now wonders "what is real?" Why is it now so easy to confuse people with a plethora of stupidity, malicious misinformation (lies), and manufactured dullness?

Billionaires ride their rocket-dildos to the edge of space and the Big Lie festers in millions of previously intelligent people: none giving the least bit of evidence that there just might be a Really Real worth finding and following... Recently, a Facebook friend shared a post outlining a "religious faith" in which a rapture featured in a cosmic rupture of time and space: confused with a "Second Coming" of Jesus... and the surety of a Heaven for the "saved"...

Now, Jesus seemed to think that there was, in fact, a heaven... for he oftentimes referred to it... But you know what? As a first-class mystic, he was far more rEvolutionary than given credit by the fundamentalists of the now Christian faith. In fact, his revolutionary thought placed heaven in the least likely of places: in you and me! In our hearts and in our thinking minds! The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!

Our Father who art in heaven... so begins the prayer that he taught his disciples... He is, through these words, proposing a complete re-orientation of spirituality from desired outcomes to a radical change of consciousness! With the wild quantum physicists of the past one hundred years and the mystics of the ages (and every religion), Jesus is directing our attention inward: the Real Reality is the Root-of-the-root-of-the-root all the way down and through "reality" into the very structures of atoms and the empty space that fills all the Universe: the kingdom of heaven is within you...

You can't rupture, rapture, or "get there" because there is no "there" other than "here" (which, of course, is everywhere)... The Real Reality is the Oneness... Jesus stretched the imagination of his people with the mystic-proposition that "God" was Father (Abba-Daddy): that the "I Am" of ancient Jewish insight was an all-encompassing, yes feminine, Wisdom... in every way contrary to ordinary thought and everyday actions...

Christian religion has surrendered its original insight and passion to a boring path of self-adoration (rapture) mixed with the manufactured fear of hell: parable became policy, the better to serve empire and control. Political obedience annihilated the rEvolution of Jesus: burying the Magnificat, ignoring the Beatitudes, and blessing predatory greed, militarism, and sexism (now masked as conservatism or neo-fascism and belief in Jesus!) 

Attention was diverted from the radicalism of the Magnificat by means of virgin-worship... And just how many fundamentalists are there petitioning local government officials to erect monuments to the Beatitudes instead of to the Ten Commandments? Right belief became (and still is) the phony essence of Christianity as it is generally "practiced", while Jesus always spoke about the importance of right action: whatsoever you do to the least person among you, you do to me! I was hungry and you fed me! Love your neighbor as your "other" self! Woe to you rich! How blessed are you poor! Love your enemies! 

Christians should be worshipping the heavenly-God (Divine Beloved) within every human being and within all of nature: we should be celebrating jubilee-lives by re-distributing all wealth so there are no poor: we should be celebrating the equality of all persons, female with male, like Jesus did: we should be racing to the bottom, not clawing for nearness to the top: we should be loving every neighbor on the Planet: all made possible because we have cleaned our eyes with an interior vision informed by a unitive consciousness: God flowing, as a river, in you, in me, in-between us and everyone as we surrender into the divine grace of an inter-abiding: as cells of the One Body of the Kingdom of Heaven! ​This! This is the Real Reality...