The Christ Question: Jesus, Divine Presence, and the Practice of Participation
The Christ Question: Jesus, Divine Presence, and the Practice of Participation
Come curious. We have some untangling to do.
Fridays
Sept 4 – 18
4:00–7:00pm CT
Live Online
3 sessions
Investment: $145/100
I thought I understood Christ.
Christ. Christ consciousness. The Christ within. Jesus Christ.
The words are everywhere in contemporary spirituality.
But what exactly do they mean?
Are Christ and Christ consciousness the same thing? Is Christ another name for Jesus? A divine presence within us? A state of consciousness? Human potential? Something we become? Something already present?
And perhaps the more important question:
What difference does any of this make in how we actually live?
This three-session live online course takes one of Christianity’s most familiar—and most frequently reinterpreted—ideas and opens it back up.
We’ll explore Jesus and Christ, the radical reinterpretation that emerged through New Thought, the distinctive voices of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, and what happens when Christ stops being merely something we believe in and becomes something we participate in.
You don’t need to be a Unity student.
You don’t need to have the “right” theology.
You don’t even need to be sure what you believe about Jesus.
Come curious. We have some untangling to do.
You may have heard…
“The Christ is your divine potential.”
“Jesus demonstrated the Christ.”
“We all have the Christ within us.”
“Christ consciousness is the highest state of consciousness.”
Maybe.
But each of those statements carries assumptions about Jesus, humanity, God, consciousness, and what spiritual life is for.
And we rarely stop long enough to examine them.
In this course, we will.
Not so we can replace one set of correct answers with another, but so we can ask better questions—and discover what becomes possible when Christ is understood not simply as an idea to affirm, but as a life to participate in.
What we’ll explore
- Jesus, Christ, and Christ consciousness: three terms we routinely collapse—and why separating them matters.
- The New Thought revolution: what happened when Jesus became not only someone to worship, but someone whose life revealed something about human possibility.
- Charles Fillmore: Christ as divine idea, spiritual identity, and metaphysical principle.
- Myrtle Fillmore: a less-systematized but profoundly relational vision of indwelling Life, healing, belonging, and participation.
- The trouble with “higher consciousness”: what our spiritual hierarchies may accidentally teach us about ourselves and one another.
- From attainment to participation: what changes when Christ isn’t something you achieve, ascend toward, or perfect—but something you embody in relationship with Life.
- Christ in 2026: what any of this has to do with bodies, neighbors, suffering, difference, responsibility, community, and the world we’re actually living in.
This won’t be three sessions of me telling you what Christ means.
We’re going to find out what happens when we stop assuming we already know.
