Reflection by Doug Scott

This is what I try on for size:

A Metamodern Christian understands their own woundedness and blindness, as well as their own glories and worth. One is aware of one’s False Self (and the its needs for power, prestige, and possessions), while also aware that Christ lives in you, fully, right now, and that your spiritual DNA, as it were, is divine!

Holding this tension–indeed, making sacred space inside the inner world–is heavy. The contrast potentiates energy. The potentiated energy is potentiated power, a power that seeks a release into the world. This is our Crosses, the sacred coincidence of opposites, that we carry willingly. This is an honor and duty.

And it keeps us keeping an eye towards the “bottom,” the marginal, the castaway areas of our lives so that we can grant to others more mercy and grace. There will be little “over there” that isn’t right “in here,” in my own inner life. The Metamodern Christian makes a continual preferential option for the poor in all of the domains (political, economic, religious, spiritual, emotional, internal, and external), and this constant option orients our behavior. Down here, we attempt to do small things with great love.

A Metamodern Christian does not carry another’s Cross because that would be an infringement upon another’s path–but we do help others to bear the burdens, even as we are also able to gratefully receive help from others when they show up to shoulder some of the weight of our own Crosses. A Metamodern Christian’s primary mantra–something that sinks down into the depths of the deep mind and then reverberates back up, sounding through our motivations, intentions, and actions–is this: “Connection over Correction.”

• Cosmic Christ