Saniel Bonder – Christing 2.0

In this opening session, you’ll be introduced to “Christing” as an orientation to dynamic personal and spiritual transformation. You’ll learn to see beyond the historical connotations of Christ as a noun, and learn to embrace a more personalized version of Christing as a verb – a vivid, lively way of being. You’ll experience a chant, “We Are Christing 2.0,” that is built upon this new meaning and touches upon all of the core teachings of this course.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how and why we are moving beyond “Christing 1.0,” the time of the Christ as a lone spiritual hero, and into “Christing 2.0,” when great numbers of us are awakening to and embodying the Christ spirit together
• Discover a unique heart-chant that can help you identify and invoke the key elements of Christing as a path of incarnating the Divine into your daily life
• Understand how you are already Christing by being committed to personal healing and growth and spiritual awakening – regardless of your particular faith or practice tradition
• Begin to realize the extraordinary opportunities and responsibilities of living with the awareness, “I am Christing!”

We’ll explore the long-banned gospels attributed to Mary Magdalene, Thomas and Philip that came to light in the late 19th and mid 20th centuries, and began changing our whole understanding of the origins and nature of Christianity. This new orientation shows us that Jesus may very well have been teaching the principles of “Christing 2.0” to his most advanced disciples 2,000 years ago. This session reveals both Jesus and his primary female disciple, Mary Magdalene, as enlightened sages on mutual paths of conscious love, who may also have been intimate partners or spouses.
In this module, you will:

• Take to heart Jesus and Mary’s vivid, simple – yet still cutting-edge – teachings on how to become a divinely “single” human being
• Be inspired by “gazing” with the spirit of Mary Magdalene through a heart-rending painting of her looking directly into your eyes and heart
• Examine the signs that Jesus’ closest male disciples may not have understood his deeper teachings and may have started the marginalization of both Mary Magdalene and the feminine
• Use information from leading-edge studies of the ancient texts to take you much further into “owning” and stewarding your own self-transformation as a Christing process

This session takes us into the crucial unification of Spirit and matter, and of all our apparent opposites – including masculine and feminine – as a key transition in our current evolutionary development as a species. We’ll look at how the residue of this split is present in our consciousness, character traits – and even civilization. We’ll explore healing this divide so that we can stop unconsciously poisoning and sabotaging our best efforts to achieve peace, save the environment, and realize our ultimate potential as individuals and societies.

In this module, you will:

• Start to appreciate that Jesus may never have intended to create a heaven-oriented, life- and sex-negative religion
• Explore how reality is not arranged on a vertical scale from “not divine” up to “truly divine,” but rather is a singular, all-divine event containing all qualities.
• Give yourself permission to hold cognitively and emotionally that matter is as real, divine and important as Spirit
• Learn a simple chant you can use to remind yourself that you are both infinite Spirit and finite matter living in mutuality with others and the world
• Let this healing process take you ever deeper into embodying the Christ spirit and incarnating the Divine, so that your whole mundane daily life becomes imbued with grace
• Appreciate that the ultimate crucifixion for each of us may be our moment-to-moment predicament – or “core wound” – of being simultaneously infinite and finite

In this session, we’ll explore the three primary elements of any “Path of Conscious Love.” You’ll discover that real self-emptying is not renunciation, but rather a heartfelt opening to all that exists. Singleness involves becoming whole and integrated – a unification within yourself – of your masculine and feminine, light and dark, spiritual and material natures. You’ll learn to develop a deep disposition of abundance, where you recognize that all that is needed is always being provided. Through powerful modes of participation, you’ll increasingly embrace the world in, as and through love.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how to go beyond trying to renounce ego, desires, the body and life, as if you need to cut away your humanness to get to the divine
• Discover the natural joy of true self-emptying, the “giving-over-ness” and “given-over-ness” of letting go and letting be through love
• Explore your own shadow side, and learn how to integrate it – rather than seeking to eliminate it – so you become truly whole in “singleness”
• Develop a much deeper, and yet truly simple, understanding and embodiment of both your masculine and feminine sides
• Experience the liberation of starting to trust that your own evolution into Christ-like living comes through love, and daring to embrace rather than fear and trying to avoid
• Experience how primal trust opens your world out into a sphere of inherent abundance, where all of your real needs are constantly being met
• Allow this path of conscious love to open your heart and life ever more completely into generosity and service, truly seeing and feeling that we are all one

One of the most powerful contributions to our authentic Christing is the recent emergence of new understandings about the heart. Recent mystic sages firmly insist that the “place” of the Divine is not somewhere outside us – above our bodies, minds and the world – but rather is seated in the very place in our hearts that medical anatomy finds is the source of the heartbeat. In this session, we’ll explore the implications of this revelation which are immense, and profoundly positive for our divine, or divinely human, incarnation.

In this module, you will:

• Find out about leading-edge spiritual and scientific discoveries that reveal the unique seat of conscious awakening in your physical heart (not the heart chakra)
• Discover how “finding God in your heart” can gently show you that there is no “false self,” and there never actually was – you are not wrong, a mistake, deficient, a sinful failure
• Become increasingly confident that your ego was never separate from your divine identity and never will be – it is a natural part of being human
• Learn why this can be so liberating for your practice – and quickening for your heart-and-guts, cellular embodiment of Christing 2.0
• Explore 3 stages of authentic self or personhood: the unawakened persona, the awakened person, and the personification of the awakening cosmos in your own Christing
• Practice a meditation that allows your attention and mind to naturally fall into the heart and be released in Spirit (even right in the midst of life’s challenges)
• Unlock the link between your ordinary, workaday awareness in every mundane situation and the radiant consciousness of divine spirit

In this session, we’ll go deep into the mysteries of the individual soul’s union with the Divine Self – the sacred marriage with the infinite Beloved that is truly our own Christ-identity. And we’ll explore a key to this passage – understanding and moving more fluidly between our ordinary material perceptions and participation in the “imaginal,” numinous, and often magical, realm of uncommon sensitivities and insights.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how gazing with human partners and teachers can enhance heartfelt discoveries
• Learn other practices of invocation and simple prayer that don’t require belief, but help you open into the imaginal realm as the gateway to ever-deeper Christing in daily life
• Reframe your understanding of masculine and feminine to include their fully divine attributes, beyond the archetypal and psychological traits of your human self
• Feel in yourself why you need to, and how you can, integrate those distinct attributes into increasingly wholeness or male-female singleness
• Attune to a unique “spiritual DNA” of transmission that can both bring Christ consciousness down from higher dimensions into material embodiment and manifest it in all directions from its root-seat in the heart
• Discover how this integration leads you into the “bridal chamber” of an ultimate sacred marriage that makes a new – always-divinizing life possible

Humanity’s spiritual history is full of stories of how more evolved or advanced souls are able to “take on” and relieve the sufferings, sins, illnesses and karmas of other, less developed beings. We’ll look at how this extraordinary “charisma” or blessing gift of Spirit can become a natural healing alchemy of love in those prepared to undertake it. Many who serve others in intense personal ways experience, and have to learn how to deal with, the effects of that alchemical transmutation. In this session, we’ll explore its realities and possibilities for Christing 2.0.

In this module, you will:

• Feel how “taking on others’ stuff’” is actually a natural part of daily living – something we do for others and they do for us all the time
• See how this can become much more profound and intense as we increasingly embody the Divine in ourselves and together
• Explore how this powerful healing alchemy is becoming possible for many of us in the era of Christing 2.0 – and why we need to respect its potential downsides for us and others
• Begin to experience what it can mean to take responsibility for this as a way of living the path of conscious love and blessing others and the world simply by being who you are

It is said that before his crucifixion, Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus’s head and feet with perfumed oils – and that he said of that it was the greatest service anyone ever performed for him. Esoterically, Jesus appreciated she was serving him as an empowered Goddess-priestess, helping him usher his Christ-consciousness down into full incarnation. Washing and anointing others’ feet has become a frequent practice in many Christian communities – and, quite independently – in many other sacred cultures. In this final session, we’ll open up the powerful secrets of anointment.

In this module, you will:

• Practice the simple mystery of anointing one another’s head and feet – much in the manner Mary Magdalene is said to have done with Jesus
• Allow that loving, heartfelt practice of blessing to show you how it can help us all ground our Christ consciousness
• Let this, in turn, help you envision and invoke humanity’s evolutionary convergence into eventual species-wide unity-consciousness, and simultaneous emergence into our natural divinity
• See how in Christing 2.0 we are truly moving beyond the days of the lone hero or heroes, the singular Christs and Buddhas
• Celebrate that we are entering the time when these mysteries are potently shared among many ordinary yet extraordinary human beings – folks just like you

Many of us consider Barbara Marx Hubbard to be the great Mother of conscious evolutionary understanding and transformation of our time. Barbara, herself, has been gratefully championing the evolutionary contributions of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin for more than 40 years. On this special bonus teleconference call, Saniel Bonder and Shift Network founder and CEO, Stephen Dinan, welcome Barbara to give us all her brilliant, deeply inspired thoughts and reflections on de Chardin’s work – especially his last essay, “The Christic,” which he wrote weeks before dying in 1955 – and its meaning for us all today. She’ll also tell us about her recent participation in the creation of an “Evolutionary Eucharist” based on de Chardin’s vision.

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called “the voice for conscious evolution of our time” by Deepak Chopra, and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s new book, The Mother of Invention. A prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, she is co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

Stephen Dinan is the CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders groups. As the former Director of Membership and Marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program, which grew to 10,000 paying members, and the One Minute Shift video series, which was seen by more than one million viewers.

In this bonus audio interview, Saniel invites Mercedes to share Mary Magdalene’s uncommonly practical instructions on what we can do to realize the masculine-feminine union in ourselves and in relationship (which Mary clarifies is the key to our next stage of consciousness). Mercedes will also introduce her new book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene – with Mary’s instructions on sacred sexuality, – along with Mercedes’s fascinating story of engaging the practices with her partner.

Mercedes Kirkel is a multi-award-winning author and channel for Mary Magdalene. In the summer of 2010, Mary Magdalene began coming to Mercedes daily, giving profound messages for moving into our next stage of spiritual development. That was the birth of Mercedes’s first book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love. Mercedes’s second book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene, has just been released.

All the messages Mercedes shares are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.

Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mercedes offers workshops, courses and private sessions. Her specialties include guidance from Mary Magdalene and other beings of light; Akashic healing and soul path guidance; Light-Filled Intimacy instruction; Heart-Source life-and-relationships coaching; and spiritual instruction and support.

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. He has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.

Matthew Fox is author of 28 books, including Original Blessing: The Reinvention of Work; Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, and many more. Matthew Fox was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate (received summa cum laude) in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris.