CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS is a term used by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) and other teachers of Hinduism and New Thought to describe the divinity available to all through higher yoga practice. Imbedded in this term is the doctrine that Jesus was merely the first person to achieve Christhood.
“As your consciousness begins to bond with the Christ child, it will grow and eventually ascend to dwell on the throne of Christ.” Norman Paulsen, student of Yogananda.
Books which purport to detail the developmental process Jesus went through in finding his own “Inner Christ Self” include The Urantia Book, published in 1955, and A Course In Miracles, published in 1976 and dictated by an entity who called himself “Christ.”
The Judeo-Christian title Christ (anointed) and the name of the Hindu deity Krishna (black, dark) are incorrectly interchanged in the teaching of Christ-consciousness/Krishna-consciousness.
Author Leonard Sweet introduced the term into the Christian mainstream: “The church is fundamentally one being, one person, a comm-union whose cells are connected to one another within the information network called the Christ consciousness.” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 122)
Related terms: Planetary Christ, Cosmic Christ, Solar Logos, Co-creator
“For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible” (Matthew 24:24).
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