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Christ consciousness is not passive.

I remember the exact moment when I started realizing something was deeply wrong.

I had just shared another post about Gaza. It was a post filled with grief, with urgency, with the raw, undeniable reality of what was happening to innocent people, the majority of which were kids.

And then, silence. Post after post—more silence.

Not just from strangers, but from the very people who preach love and unity. The ones who flood their timelines with messages of “Christ Consciousness,” “5D awakening,” and “embodying the divine.”

At first, I told myself they just hadn’t seen any of my posts anymore. Maybe my posts were shadow banned. Maybe the algorithm swallowed it whole. Maybe they were offline. But then, I started to notice something unsettling: they were posting. About cacao ceremonies. Retreat invitations to Bali. Another full moon activation. More “love and light.”

I waited; surely, someone would say…something. Surely, in a community that claims to embody the highest truth, someone would break the silence.

But the silence stayed.

And that silence said more than words ever could.

But first, let me explain what I mean by Christ Consciousness in case you’ve never heard of it:

Christ Consciousness is a term popularized in New Age Spirituality to describe an enlightened state of being: one that embodies divine love, wisdom, and unity beyond religious dogma. It emerged in the 20th century as metaphysical and esoteric traditions reinterpreted Jesus not just as a historical figure but as a universal archetype of spiritual awakening. Often associated with ascension, 5D consciousness, and inner divinity, it is used to signify a shift from ego-based living to a higher, more compassionate awareness.

However, what does it mean to be “Christ Conscious” if we cannot stand with the suffering? What does it mean to talk about love while looking away from oppression? How can we claim enlightenment when we refuse to acknowledge the darkness right in front of us?

I had always believed that spirituality was about truth. That awakening meant seeing all things clearly, even the ones that hurt. But when I spoke up, when I called for action instead of passivity, I was met with a wall of resistance.

“Focus on raising your vibration.”
“Don’t feed the negativity.”
“Speaking about war just keeps us trapped in duality.”
“The more you speak about war, the more you manifest war.”

As if genocide is something we can vibrate away. As if injustice will dissolve because we refuse to look at it. As if Jesus himself would have stood by and said nothing.

And it got worse: my Palestinian friends were told it was karma, as if they had deserved what was happening. One prominent spiritual influencer with a massive platform dared to announce that all Palestinians should get deported.

But I wonder: how can we as spiritual community claim to embody Christ Consciousness while turning our backs on the suffering of others? Christ Consciousness is not about avoiding hard conversations.

Somewhere along the way, spirituality in the West was sanitized into something soft and palatable. The version of Christ that is often presented in spiritual spaces is not the radical, justice-driven teacher who confronted oppression. We turned him into this vague, feel-good archetype used to promote personal enlightenment.

Jesus did not come to Earth to play it safe.

He did not teach passive acceptance of injustice. He did not tell the oppressed to simply raise their vibration. He did not sit in meditation and hope oppression would dissolve on its own.

He flipped tables in the Temple when he saw corruption. He called out the religious elite for their hypocrisy. He walked alongside the marginalized, the persecuted, the forgotten. He did not look away from suffering—he entered it, with an unshakable devotion to truth and justice.

And yet, in today’s spiritual spaces, Christ Consciousness is often reduced to little more than a personal brand of enlightenment. One that conveniently requires nothing of us but inner peace. I have heard the excuses. We all have.

“We are all one.”

If that is true, then why do some lives seem to matter less in our spiritual circles? Why is it so easy for people to speak of love when it comes to abstract concepts, yet so hard for them to utter a single word of support when real people are being bombed in occupied land?

“Separation is an illusion.”

Tell that to the families who have been torn apart by war, to the children who have watched their homes reduced to rubble. If we truly believe in oneness, then we should feel their pain as our own. And if we feel it, how can we stay silent?

“War is just a reflection of our collective consciousness.”

This kind of spiritual detachment is a privilege. It allows us to intellectualize suffering instead of confronting it. It allows us to remove ourselves from responsibility while pretending to be evolved. But Christ did not detach—he engaged.

Silence is complicity. Christ was not silent.

There is a disturbing trend in spiritual spaces where talking about Gaza, Palestine, or any form of oppression is dismissed as “too political.”

Yet these same spaces are completely open to discussions on shadow work, past-life trauma, and inter-dimensional light codes. Why is deep healing work welcomed—except when it comes to healing the wounds of systemic violence?

Jesus did not avoid hard conversations to keep the peace. He disrupted the system to create real peace. He was executed not for preaching love, but for threatening those in power.

If we can channel high-frequency wisdom but can’t say “Free Palestine,” what exactly are we awakening to?

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Acknowledging Jesus was from Palestine:

Jesus was not a white European mystic. He was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew, born under Roman occupation in what is now Palestine. His entire story is deeply connected to colonialism, oppression, and resistance.

When we erase where Jesus came from, we erase part of his radical message.

If our Christ Consciousness does not include Palestine, we do not understand Jesus.

Christ Consciousness without justice is just another spiritual ego trip.

There is no “middle ground” when human rights are being stripped away.

We do not get to call ourselves Christ-like while ignoring genocide.

We do not get to preach divine unity while staying silent on apartheid.

We do not get to claim enlightenment while avoiding hard truths.

If we truly want to embody Christ Consciousness, it is time to act. To speak. To stand in radical love, even when it is inconvenient.

Especially when it is inconvenient.

The real Christ Consciousness? It looks like activism. It looks like justice. It looks like radical love that refuses to look away.

So may we be bold. May we be fierce. May we be the kind of lightworkers who actually work for justice.

Because Christ Consciousness is not just a state of being. It is a call to action.

And the time to answer is now.

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