Hearing stories of enlightened Masters who’ve crossed over from quotidian lives to achieve a God-like, divinized status, like Jesus or Buddha, in modern times seems virtually impossible for ordinary human beings.

            But this is a mistake. People looking back, historically, projected superhuman status onto people who spoke or acted as God would act if God were human – especially at critical moments in their lives. What’s been overlooked is that they never acted like this all the time. In normal times, they spent their time eating, walking from one room to the next, noticing birds, talking to other people out in the kitchen, and, regularly, taking time to defecate – in other words, living as everyday people. So, most of the time, they weren’t enlightened – in the slightest degree.

            Enlightenment is a breakthrough accomplishment for a human being – an in-depth divine opening of one’s consciousness that allows, whenever one’s attention is fully focused, to permit a human being to speak and act as God would speak and act if God were human.

            And, the point is, if you’ve ever achieved this, you can go back there anytime you want!

            Looking back at Jesus’ life, people took it for granted that, during all the critical times, Jesus was able to act and speak as God would act and speak if God were human – and concluded that he must either be God, or, at least, God’s “son.” Posterity therefore collapsed Jesus’ humanity into a God/human (as “Jesus Christ”) – as if he was like that all the time. But he wasn’t – just like we’re not either.

            Personally, some 75 years following my early childhood, I’m able to now realize what God wants from me at any given time, and, consequently, I’m able to break free from my quotidian self through a “pure spiritual consciousness,” and become aware of what’s actually going on. Then, contextualizing this reality with what  I understand God wants done at that particular moment – i.e., what would be loving in the situation, what’s the truth of this particular reality, what’s the just action to take, and how can I achieve whatever intrinsic beauty is hiding there.

            Yes, even though, most of the time, I’m living simply as an everyday human being, with an ego as big or small as anybody else’s, yet, after a long lifetime of hard and difficult spiritual work, together with some surprising encouragement from God, I’m able to, temporarily, on an interim basis, step into the shoes of an “enlightened” human being – whenever and wherever I consciously choose to do so.

            Moreover, it’s true that you (and everyone else on earth) has the possibility of doing the same thing – if you simply decide to do it.