Circle of Christhood

From Walter's Website:

1. “But they all say you’ve got to get rid of your humanity — lock it up in the false morality we’ve created — and that creates a duality."

CC: The Infinite Way does not deal with human sin or with morality. By the time we enter a teaching like The Infinite Way, our consciousness has been fine tuned.  Most students are good, honest humans.  They desire  to fill the void in their soul.  Joel teaches that morality is such a subjective thing. What is acceptable in one country, is out-lawed in another. Our teaching has no human rules or regulations. What we must do is learn The Nature of Error.  Then we see that sin and punishment is merely our own reaping from what we have sown.  Our behavior is not governed by the Law of Moses and The Ten Commandments of The Old Testament, but rather by the two Commandments of Jesus, Love God above all else, treat your fellowman as your brother.

As for duality: It cannot be created, it is the definition of "this world."  We cannot escape duality while living on this planet for the earth is comprised of the polar opposites.  All science functions from these material laws. Everything in the world has an opposite and all opposites are error.  What is Error?  our  ACCEPTANCE of the BELIEF in a selfhood apart from God.  How do we get out of that?  Not by changing our thinking or our moral attitude, but by meditation and communion with God so that we are in the world, but OF GOD.  This is Infinite Way and the teaching of Joel. 

2. “Anyone in the religious field who doesn’t share their humanity is laying a guilt trip on everyone else."

CC: First we must distinguish illumined, spiritual teachers from "anyone in the religious field."  

 As for teachers sharing their humanity, the most important thing teachers do is impart their spiritual consciousness. Their humanity is a by-product. If one is illumined, they are transparencies for the imprisoned splendor.  Their "humanity" simply makes them more human and vulnerable. These are not what we are looking for.  To see that they are people like us, gives us courage to pursue our own studies. When teachers personalize, boundaries are sometimes crossed.  The best teachers are those who do not personalize, who do not sympathize, but who see us for who we are and love us unconditionally.  At the same time, teachers, such as Joel, do not hide who and what they are. They reveal themselves to us and show us that as they are normal, average people, so we who are the same can attain as they did. Walter mentions about Joel on p. 111,  "Though he taught impersonalization, we also loved him because of his humanity." 

 Joel often speaks about The Infinite Way being his experience and given his average background, he was simply living what all of us could attain. As we come to know Joel through is audio tapes, we find him funny and clever, discerning and well-read. He is a politically and historically savy businessman with experiences we all can relate to. Yet, when it comes down to helping students, he sees through the material picture to the truth of their being. In that are healings and eventually illuminations.

The Infinite Way is not interested in "guilt trips."  Quite the contrary, The Infinite Way teaches students to meditate and as consciousness is lifted, the past is dissolved.   In The Infinite Way, we live in the now. We let God go before us to make the crooked places straight.  Teachers of the IW do not concern themselves with guilt or making students feel guilty, not by sharing our humanity but rather, by not "personalizing" or giving power to our humanity.

3. "So, my quest in life, until this minute, is to close that gap between our divinity and our humanity. Until we do that, we can’t be whole,” he adds. "

CC: There is NO GAP between our divinity and our humanity. We are whole this minute. We do not have to become whole or ANYTHING else. We ARE the child of God, ONE with the Father, this minute, as we were in the beginning and as we will be forever.    God is "closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet."

We are spiritual beings operating in the human, material world, functioning in a body we have materialized for this purpose.  We have not been given all of the wisdom to know how and why we materialized. We just know that we are in a very dense, real-appearing dream. We are souls driving in the vehicles of our bodies. The body and its senses are human, material. We learn to meditate and drop our human identity and begin to accept and relate with our spiritual Christ-identity.

 To fully grasp Walter's statement, we would have to imagine the driver in a car saying,

"Hmmm I want to close the gap between me and my "brand-new, tomato-bisque-colored Saab"."

Could I possilbly integrate my car into my body so that there is no separation and we can be one whole unit traveling around?  It is an absurd image. It is equally confused to think that a human body and spiritual soul can become integrated. 

 We live IN the world, but we are not OF it...spiritually speaking.  Now, if you want to be a human....that is another story. Join the ranks of material beings unaware of their Sonship and you have the Man of Earth.  Seems we are back to square one then.  Hello, Genesis Chapter 2....."Who told you, you were naked?"