New Thinking, Radical New Thinking

It seems that with Christianity, after you read the Bible, and after you figure out the doctrine, (and after you are born again) you then have to finesse yourself into the new thinking and experiencing of being in contact with Jesus Christ, via the Spirit (and so on and so on). No one theologian can describe it in a perfunctory way (I notice). They all try it from their own angle, usually not totally conscious of their task, and the reader is left getting alot of nebulous this and that, usually in pieces, here and there, as you pick them up, that don't connect readily to mind.

Which is why the Work is so valuable. It's the complete program, when you can see it. Along with the Bible and the deeper, purer doctrine. It all comes together. At least it's all there to be taken into possession and used to complete the process of sanctification, as much as one can, prior to death and glorification.

It starts with the effort to be awake (third state of consciousness) in the moment (something all the pietist Puritan types speak of but don't quite get at in that "above the glass ceiling" way).