The mystical Jesus and non-dualism — Unadulterated Love

Christ clearly was a mystic. I mean, there’s not the slightest doubt about that. And the question I would ask is, why did I—growing up ten years in the Church of England—why did I hear so little of mysticism, given that Christ was a mystic? I mean, I never considered this puzzle properly until I found a series of lectures given by Aldous Huxley in

We go at these dualisms tooth and nail, and dualistically bludgeon them into what we triumphantly label “the non-dual.”

non-dual thinking. This is the way the saints and mystics think, not either-or but both-and. It is the inner hardware which makes them able to forgive, overlook offenses, show mercy to all, care for the poor, and even to love their enemies. Most of us know we should do these things, but frankly we do not know how.

Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

Mysticism, the interior dialogue with a personal yet ineffable God, is not something peripheral to the human condition. It is central to knowing the human person, and the tensions built into the human encounter with the infinite are the key to the drama of human life. We cannot really know others unless we know them as persons called to communion w