Some of us in the Spark of Humanity network cringe at anything that pertains to Christianity or the person Jesus. Others find food for our “roots” and strengthen our sparks in the depths of that tradition. Across this spectrum of those associated with the network, we agree that there is a spark of humanity in everyone, in each of us, and that we want the work we are doing through this website to be accessible and welcoming to everyone.
As mentioned on our “What We Believe” page, some of us doing this work with the network are experiencing a press toward fulfillment, a sense of being caught up in the evolving power of the ever-evolving, multi-dimensional dance of which we are creatures. It feels like a dynamic pressing toward realizing the potential of the All.
We are playing with calling that dynamic christ. This, as we see it, can open the way to a discussion that breaks out of the constraints of the currently perceived Church, freeing this power that presses toward fulfillment, this power that might legitimately be called christ.
We want to appropriate resources from the Christian tradition while understanding the christ to be free of some assumptions of conventional Christianity. This, we are hoping, will keep the website and the work we do feeling safe for those who are averse to anything Christian. Please let us know if you have ideas about how we might handle this better.
We’re interested in your response to this experiment if you care to share it. Email us at sparkofhumanitydotnet@gmail.com
Thank you.
To learn more about the christ Spark, listen to the audio below.
You may also be interested in the following, which went out in a letter to some folks in early 2021. We are, by that time, feeling more sure of our ground.
The word ‘christ’, meaning “anointed,” is familiar as capitalized and referring to Jesus of Nazareth. It need not be so limited. We intuit that the christ has been “coming” as surges in the evolution of human consciousness in cultures around the globe since the beginning. That these surges have been associated with male individuals (Moses, the Buddha, the prophet Mohammad, Lao Tzu, Jesus, etc) says more about our cultures, we suspect, than about the christ dynamic itself.
This dynamic is within each one of us, pressing toward fulfillment, toward more fully Becoming. In this time, we are in the early stages of another christ surge. This one is global, emerging from wide and deep catalysis focused on no single individual.
We may think of the spark of humanity as being horizontal and connective; it acknowledges our common humanity. Speaking of the spark of humanity as also being of christ, acknowledges the vertical, that surging toward fulfillment. The Spark project is calling this cruciform nature of our sparks, which we all have, into awareness, calling it to awaken, calling it to join intentionally in this surge.
We all have sparks of humanity, of christ. We all have this potential. This is the time for it to awaken, to be responsive to the times, and to become what it has the capacity to become. That is to say, this is the time for us to awaken, to be responsive to the times, and to become what we have the capacity to become.
As we claim our sparks, we become agents of transformation. As agents of transformation, all the resources we need are available to us. It works best when we ourselves are willing to be transformed.