Christ consciousness is typically presented as some elevated spiritual state that only the holiest can achieve. But what if it’s something more practical?
Neville Goddard, one of the early teachers of manifestation, proposed something radical: Christ is your imagination. Not the historical figure. The creative power that makes things real.
When you look at the Bible through this lens, something interesting happens. The verses start describing something psychological rather than religious.
The Power That Creates
In Corinthians, Christ is described as the power and wisdom of God. In John, it says all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.
If Christ is the creative power, and all things were made by that power, what actually creates things in your experience? Your imagination.
Look around the room you’re in. Everything made by humans started as a mental image first. The chair, the table, the building. Someone imagined it before it existed. That’s the creative power in action.
Highest Imagination
Christ consciousness isn’t just any imagination. It’s the highest potential of imagination.
You use imagination all the time. Some of it creates fear and anxiety. Some of it creates possibility and hope. Christ consciousness is tuning into the most optimal outcome available to you.
When the Bible talks about accepting Christ into your heart, this interpretation suggests you’re accepting access to the highest level of creative vision. Not just for yourself, but in a way that benefits everyone around you.
This is the mystical interpretation of Scripture.
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The Victory Already Won
Christianity teaches that the victory is already won in Christ. From this perspective, that means the optimal outcome already exists in imagination. Your job is to feel into it, to live in the end of what you want rather than being stuck in current circumstances.
This is why Neville Goddard taught “living in the end.” If Christ consciousness is the ability to hold the highest vision so vividly that reality shapes itself around it, then living in the end is the practice of wearing that mantle.
Crucifixion as Transformation
The crucifixion in this reading represents the death of an old way of seeing. You kill the idea that physical reality is the only reality. You die to the belief that what’s in front of you is more real than what you can imagine.
And then you’re reborn. Not as someone who maps their imagination to what exists, but as someone who uses imagination to call new things into existence.
That’s the resurrection. The creative power coming back online, no longer limited by what the senses report.
What This Changes
If Christ consciousness is the highest imagination, then accessing it isn’t about being religious. It’s about being willing to see beyond current circumstances.
When you’re in doubt, you’re using imagination to create fear. When you’re in faith, you’re using imagination to create possibility. Christ consciousness is the choice to use that power for the highest good.
The question isn’t whether you have imagination. You do. The question is whether you’re willing to use it as Christ would, to see the victory before it manifests.