In this Christmas season, which invites us to honor the Christ nature that is our own true essence, I speak with mystic Mary Reed about the nature of Christ consciousness.

In our conversation, Mary shares some of her metaphysical experiences of union with the consciousness of Jesus and Buddha, and talks about Christ consciousness as a visceral knowing of the Heart in which all is embraced in Love.

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Patricia
Hello, beautiful souls and welcome to this week’s podcast episode. Today I joined in conversation with Mary Reed. Mary was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington DC, when she began venturing uncontrollably into metaphysical experiences with Jesus, Buddha and angels. Amidst her confusion, Mary’s normal life eventually collapsed, leading her to spend several years in the Himalayas, coming to terms with her unexpected mystical abilities. In her award winning memoir, unwitting mystic, Mary evokes the deeply resonant feeling of spiritual awakening. And in her latest book, divine new being, she insights that recognition again, as she brings others into union with an arena full of light beings that share exquisite guidance for these times. Mary’s profound experiences are both a roadmap and an invitation into the divine wisdom we all hold within. She has appeared on numerous programs, including Buddha at the Gas Pump, conscious TV, and unity online radio, and offers a range of resources that insight and support spiritual awakening through her website, lovemaryreed.com.

Patricia
So Mary, thank you, I really appreciate your ability and your willingness to join me in this conversation during this week of Christmas.

Mary
I’m very excited. I love this idea. I really appreciate the invitation. It’s always a pleasure to talk with you, Patricia.

Patricia
Well, likewise, I just always enjoy where we are taken in our conversations. And we never, we never know what that’s gonna be. But we just follow it.

Patricia
So Mary, I was really interested in talking to you around this season of Christmas, because because of what it has come to mean for me, and probably what it has come to mean for you. Now you grew up agnostic. So I’m just curious when you were growing up, and maybe in your early adulthood, did you have any associations with the word Christ? Did that mean anything to you?

Mary
No, it didn’t. I did grow up agnostic. But I grew up around a lot of Southern Baptists, all of my family down in New Mexico, which is where my roots are. We’re Southern Baptist. And I really, you know, people didn’t talk about Christ as much as they talked about Jesus. And so for me, they were just interchangeable. And but in my world, around the Southern Baptist community, where I grew up, Jesus was associated with a lot of judgments that I didn’t relate to. And you know, a lot of that came from my family coming home from church, and then just, like, judging everybody, they were sitting in the pews with a church, and it just didn’t make any sense to me.

Mary
I did have an association with Jesus. In my heart when I was little, like, I was really aware that there was this beautiful presence in my heart that I understood very clearly was Jesus. And it was confusing to me why people would go to church to learn about him. And so there was never, in my own experience, and in the church, people that I was around, there wasn’t really a lot of talk about Christ. And so when I was growing up, you know, in young adulthood or whatever, again, not around school, not around work like Christ, the word Christ or the greater connotation of Christ versus a man Jesus just wasn’t in my sphere of awareness. It wasn’t around at all.

Patricia
So at this point in your life, and let me just say that you despite your agnostic upbringing or inclinations, you started experiencing these spontaneous, mystical experiences where you were in your body and in your consciousness in your awareness, you are experiencing these metaphysical realities. Your experience, I think, am I correct that the first real opening of this was when you were experiencing yourself in the consciousness of Jesus, as the consciousness of Jesus in the crucifixion.

Mary
That’s exactly right, my very first experience, which was a total shock to me, back in mid December 2000, I went into the body and being of Jesus on the cross at the moment of crucifixion, and then seeing all of humanity and it’s evolution from that Christ Consciousness vantage point. So while I was in and as the body of Jesus, I was well aware that I am in the Christ consciousness, I am as the Christ consciousness, viewing humanity from that vantage point. And so it was a really powerful, that experience lasted three and a half hours. And so it was a really powerful first entree into understanding really what Christ consciousness is, and how the exploitation of the understanding of Jesus particularly the life of Jesus, was exploited over the years, and therefore sort of the, the ideas of what Christ is was also distorted drastically. And then over the years, just again, and again, and again, I keep returning to being within the body of Jesus or within the greater Christ consciousness. So I have the, I have the experience of Christ consciousness from many vantage points. That’s probably the best way to say that from over 20 years of these experiences.

Patricia
And how would you describe that experience of Christ consciousness?

Mary
You know, the first word that pops up is profound compassion. I in addition to going into the Christ consciousness, or the body of Jesus, I’ve also had the experiences of going into Buddha, and other other beings, other masters, if you will. And there’s a distinct difference. In my experience, Buddha is very much associated with the mind. So very playful spirit, it’s all about the dissolution of the conceptual ways of living in the mind. In Jesus, or the Christ consciousness, it is always associated with the deep, compassionate love of the heart from the heart. So there’s a great in the Christ consciousness, in my experience, it’s a compassion based experience of divine love. That is our true nature. And so Jesus was sort of the avenue for the expression of that, and teaching or an understanding of that, that we could understand through a human being conveying all of that, but it is obviously beyond the human experience. And that’s often and that’s usually how I experienced it, beyond a human representation of it. It’s more about the full bodied just, you know, the godness of the world. I suppose that’s the best way to put it is really th Christ consciousness experience for me is the experience of that profound, cherishing, compassionate love in the godness of our world.

Patricia
I love the way you put that. Beautiful. And that compassionate heart, that Christ consciousness, that is rooted in the heart, and and in this boundless compassion is in such contrast to what you were describing, growing up in this experience of judgment, and, you know, seeing the judgment that people were holding towards one another. And I know for yourself, in your own openings to these greater and greater understandings, this idea of the dualism of good and evil, in this idea of the battle going on in this idea of judgment, can you kind of riff on that a little bit? I mean, we could we could go on and on about, you know, how judgment sort of infiltrated that tradition, and we don’t need to do that. But I am curious to know from you, how you have sort of zoomed out from that perspective of judgment, to understand that we are living in a time now that is really transcending or calling us to transcend that dualism, that battle of good versus evil.

Mary
Yeah, and you know, it’s interesting, it’s in my own experiences in my own work, the calling is really calling us absolutely into a new relationship, even with judgment, from a compassionate standpoint. When we you know, throughout history, there’s been this conquering mindset, which was one of the lessons that came out in my very first experience back in 2000, on the cross in the Christ crucifixion, understanding tha the lesson came about in that moment of what actually caused the crucifixion was not, you know, a few people in power who felt threatened by Jesus. It was a mindset that had taken ages to cultivate and entrench and perpetuate. And that was a mindset of conquering. And so in that moment, the understanding was that mankind didn’t want a Christ that healed. Mankind wanted a Christ who conquered. And when we drill down into why that was, it was really just, you know, a fear based reality. Fear always is seeking to stay safe. And the way that it knows to stay safe, is to try to control and to try to conquer. And so from the compassionate standpoint, you know, throughout history, everybody’s just been trying to feel okay, trying to feel safe, and not realizing the cycle of suffering, that they’re perpetuating in the conquering mentality in the good trying to conquer the bad, right. And so this is, you know, this is played out in multiple, multiple ways. And so now, it’s really such a joy when I can work with people, and lead them into a compassionate relationship with that history, not just within themselves, but within our world, often represented, right today, in today’s times through like a patriarchal domination, ideology, to be like, understanding what was it doing all along, but just really trying in the way that it knew to keep us all safe, and trying to be okay, trying to earn their way into heaven. This was like the sinners mentality, you know, you have to be worthy of the love of God. And so when we drill out, or actually zoom out, as you said, into what was really happening, and find a compassionate viewpoint of that, we can then embrace that history, we can bring it into the embrace. In my experience, there was a really, really big metaphysical experience back in 2016. And this was where the really profound good-trumps-bad paradigm lesson came out. It was, you know, understanding very, very clearly that all the things that we label as bad in our good-trumps-bad paradigm, every single one of them are simply a cry for love. And we keep rejecting that cry for love when we’re trying to conquer that bad, right, we just keep perpetuating, we reject our cry for love, and therefore create more cries for love. And so when we can consider, if we re-label or review, what I’ve been taught is sort of changing the angle of perception, and relate that “bad” to this is the cry for love, then our relationship to that cry becomes different. Our understanding is our work, our opportunity, our compassionate response, is to answer that cry, is to give it what it’s asking for, which is the embrace of love. And then everything shifts in that. And this has been my work pretty much solely for the last few years because of that.

Patricia
Yeah, I so appreciate how you describe that. Because oftentimes, we can bring even, we can bring that attitude of judgment into our desire to release judgment. And we can, yes, when we notice judgment arising in us, we judge ourselves for judging and it’s just this endless cycle. And to see, you know, it’s to see what’s happening. And like you’re saying that what’s happening is it’s either love or it’s a cry for love. So to recognize those thoughts and those feelings as they arise and to hold everything in this compassionate embrace. I think that’s is the way forward for us as a human community. And during this season, of course of Christmas, there’s so much focus on the understanding of Christ as a person, as this one person: Jesus. Talk to us about your understanding of our own inherent Christ nature.

Mary
Mm hmm. Yeah, I mean, from the very, very beginning, it was clear to me and it’s been conveyed again and again and again, in my experiences about, you know, the Christ, basically, is there a place that you can’t find it? Right? It’s within everything, it is the isness of life, it is the experience of the awareness of the godness in all, and you know, I want to I want to to circle back to this idea of our response now changing in judging our judgment and whatever, if we think about, if we, if we just simplify it to say that let’s say that if you know Christ is love, we use this word a lot, which is part of our problem, we don’t really understand exactly what love is. But if we think about in very, very simple terms, that Christ is love and love is, is sort of the fabric or the canvas upon which all of life is created and exists. When we think about the nature of love, that all love knows to do, all love does is love. It really simplifies things. So in the face of judgment, or fear, or blame or anger, all love knows how to do is love. So the question of whether we’re worthy of love, whether this is in fact, an aspect of love, it doesn’t matter that, everything becomes moot, because all love knows to do, all love does, is love. So all judgment does is judge, all fear does is fear, all blame does is blame, all love does is love. So when we think about Christ, the Christ consciousness, as that presence of love in absolutely everything, it really simplifies it, and it you know, it makes it a lot harder then to put it in dualistic terms.

Patricia
So true, so true. So to shift our understanding from Christ as a person to recognizing that, that Christ and Christness is the essence of all that is, and it is this essence of love. I think that understanding and opening up to that can help us experience the season very differently. Because a lot of times when we you know, when we read these stories around Christmas, and we hear all the Christmas carols and all that, if we understand that this celebration, this, this angel song of joy that we associate with the birth of Jesus is the same angel song of joy that is being sung for all of us.

Mary
Yes, yes. And if we think about, we’re joining in the chorus of life, that all of it, we can imagine that all of life is joining in that recognition of the goddess or the Christ consciousness within all, then our relationship changes to everything, we become in union with all that’s underway. So we can use those beautiful Carols that joyful spirit, we can use all of it to simply let that unite us with everything that’s happening. Everything that’s underway is in the spirit of celebration of all of it.

Patricia
Yeah, and I don’t know about you, I’m sure you. I’m sure you and I know a lot of people are feeling that things are accelerating, things are really like accelerating. And I feel in myself just sometimes these upwellings of joy that are so immense. And I think that sometimes we can kind of get lost in the fog or the density of what we experienced in this world. And lose track of of this, this other thing that’s happening, which is the birthing of awareness of this essential Christ nature within us. Yeah, maybe you can just talk about that, how maybe you experienced that and, and what that means to you to, for this awakening to be happening in us.

Mary
Oh, it’s such a beautiful, exciting time. And you know, this has been really such an extraordinary time, especially through the pandemic, of watching the shifts, and in so many things rising up in our awareness, things, feeling new and unusual, and in some respects, for many people scary and, but from my perspective, from the mystical embodied perspective, having seen what’s really at the core of all of this, it is so incredibly exciting because from the metaphysical experience, from that, that vantage point, that Christ vantage points, if you will, the divine love vantage point, all that’s underway right now, in this awakening is happening because there is an ever increasing presence of divine love. And as that volume of divine love, as that momentum of divine love continues to infuse into our world, all of these old systems can’t sustain, like because they’re built on foundations of fear. They’re built in that systemic way of control and conquering and domination and that’s the way that you succeed in life. Right? And so as those systems start to get challenged, then it becomes things begin to start crumbling and for many people that can feel very fearful and very scary. But when you look at it from oh my gosh, look at all of these things that are crying out for love. If we look at every single one of these things that we consider scary as the cry for love, then what is our opportunity? How deeply how profoundly does that call us into a response of love, of being the presence of Love, it’s such a beautiful invitation again, and again and again. And more people in our awakening states are able to realize, Oh, hey, this is my opportunity to love or to respond in a way that I have never known how to do before. And so in my experience, that’s what’s happening. And it’s, you know, it’s not so overt, I think with most people, but people are realizing that the old ways of responding haven’t worked. And so we’re called into the exploration of new ways to do that. And, you know, even right now, in our world, this very Christmas, it feels really different, you know, people aren’t quite back to the old ways yet. And they’re realizing that maybe we can’t go back to the old ways, even of you know, holidaying, if you will. But there’s just some you can feel there’s just something different in our association with Christmas this year. And I think that’s representative of things shifting within our hearts shifting within the collective consciousness, that we approach things from a different perspective. And I in that I think there’s, there’s just this sort of infiltration of a seeking of more authenticity in relationship to Christ and Christmas, and what we’re actually celebrating, I think there’s a call for deepening that we’re, some of us are really reaching into and recognizing.

Patricia
I really appreciate you sort of pulling that back and recognizing that right now we are in this time of, you know, a lot of the superficialities that we’d been so busily engaged in have fallen away. And I think a lot of us are in this time where we are in our own lives, and maybe in our own beings experiencing this—I guess I’ll say reconfiguration, maybe of priorities, and even of some relationships. And we’re in this this moment now, where we have this opportunity to do this kind of deep exploration and introspection. And when you talk about, Mary, when you talk about, you know, these times being this invitation to expand our understanding of love and to and to to embody that, and I’m so recognizing how that response of love begins within us, and loving and accepting the things that arise in us which, in my own experience, I know that the more that I do that in myself, the more I have a very real understanding of what love is, and it becomes more and more readily available, when I’m sort of, you know, witnessing what’s happening in the world.

Mary
You know, what you’ve expressed is exactly what I talk a lot about, which is the visceral experience of love, the visceral experience of Christ, if you will, which is what we’re beginning to experience, we’re coming out of the mental association or relationship with life, you know, from the beliefs, from the doctrinal association and relationship through ideas or concepts into the living experience of that. And so as we’re in this is the, this is the result of the presence of divine, you know, coming into our own being. I mean, when you think about it, all of Divine Presence arrives here through us, we are that visceral experience of the flow of divine presence through us and into this reality and into the collective. And so we begin to experience viscerally the embodied understanding, the embodied remembrance, of divine love of that Christ within, you know. Jesus talked repeatedly about Christ is only within this is the place where you find and I’ll share one, one anecdote of an experience that I had one of the first experiences that I had, I was swept up into the arms of Jesus into the body of Jesus, and then the two of us were at the Mount of Beatitudes. And I’ve never read the Bible, so I don’t know what was talked about at the Mount of Beatitudes, but in this experience, I within Jesus, we’re standing up on this hill, Jesus has just given his talk, and people are starting to walk away and Jesus is well aware that none of these people took in his words to live as their own. Instead, they revered him for having said the words because they did not believe that they were Christ, or they were good enough or anything, for those words to be their own. And Christ’s whole, Jesus’s whole experience was to illuminate, his intention was to illuminate the Christ within each of them, to become a part of them in that way. But instead, because of people’s ingrained disbelief in their own divinity, they set him apart from themselves. So it had the opposite effect. And so that, you know, the, over the centuries, after centuries, after centuries, you know, the teaching has never changed. Christ is within, and now, we’re starting to be like, Oh, hey, I’m experiencing the visceral sense, that visceral remembrance and recognition of that Christ within and so when you say you’re feeling it more and more, yes, that’s what happens. That’s exactly what happens is that we come out of the mind and into the body into the energetic presence, that isn’t conceptual, it is very real. It is in our lineage, it’s in our history, it’s in our nature. And that’s what we’re experiencing more and more.

Patricia
Yeah, I really appreciate your talking about the visceral nature of it, because it is so in the body. And for myself, I experience it really profoundly in the heart. And you know the mind grasps for these understandings. But it’s, it’s abstract, its conceptual, and when it moves into the bodily experience, and of course, we, that’s what Christmas is all about, right? The incarnation, it’s the incarnation. Yeah, this consciousness of this awareness of this love. So we, the season celebrates the incarnation and in the body in the flesh. That’s what we’re experiencing now. It’s like these things are moving from an idea from an idea or a concept of the mind into an experiential reality we know.

Mary
Yes, and think about the compassion that’s happening as we finally finally, give our mind a rest from its burdens. Because our mind is always trying to figure it out, trying to fix it, trying to be okay, trying to make us safe. This is where, you know, lots of people want to bash the ego and all that. And in my experience that is so the opposite. Our ego or mind has tried so hard to keep us okay. And when we think about literally the gift of Christmas, being able to embrace the mind to say, you know, you’ve worked so hard, let us let us now take care of you. You can rest, you can put down all your burdens, and we’ve got you. This Christ presence here has got all of us, all parts of us, all aspects of us. And that includes the mental calisthenics that we’ve all been doing for all these years. And now, this presence is saying, You know what, you can just rest we’ve got you here. We’ve got you.

Patricia
Yeah, yes, the mind has been laboring under a tremendous burden for so long. And I was in meditation awhile ago, and I was experiencing that. Sort of, I would say, almost like an oppressive burden that the mind has carried of trying to figure things out and create things and make things happen. And the image that came to me in meditation was the mind was trying to put things together like a set of tinker toys, tinker toys were the tools that the mind had to try to, to put all these pieces together. And it was trying so hard. It was trying so so hard. And I just felt such compassion for this burden the mind has carried.

Mary
Yeah. You know, many years ago in India, when I was living in this little tiny Nunnery in the Himalayas, I had an I was doing a meditation on what does it mean to be the light of God? I didn’t understand what that meant. Was it a real light was it just you know, metaphoric? What? What did that mean? And so I was, I was doing a meditation on that, and suddenly within me pops up two screens side by side. One of them is being the light of God from the perspective of the mind. And the other was being the light of God from the perspective of the heart. And they were two very different screens, and the one on the mind side was really very basic and rudimentary. It was like stick figures in a life setting. And the one from the heart was really vibrant and colorful and lively. And what I understood in that time was that, you know, the mind, bless its heart, the mind can only ever try to figure things out. It can’t, it’s trying to understand. But it is not what it’s trying to understand. It is not the reality. It’s the analysis, or the figuring out of the reality, it is not the reality itself. So from the heart, what’s really true is that vibrant, lively truth of life. And so again, just like you were saying, I had such compassion, for my mind trying so hard, but it can’t recreate its, you know, it can’t create what it’s trying to understand.

Patricia
I hear you know, Mary, I’d heard you describe, well, it’s in your book, Unwitting Mystic, you talk about that. And it called to my mind or recalled to my mind a dream that I had—this was years ago, and it’s a very complex dream, and I’m not going to go into the details—but it was really depicting this thing that’s happening right now on the planet in terms of this, you know, the fear energies and the love energies and, and the love embracing the fear energies. But anyway, at the end of this dream, I’m taken to this place in South America. And I’m looking out at this landscape, but the landscape is like a child’s drawing, like a crayon drawing, and there’s a little hut and a little girl standing next to it, and she’s a stick figure. And this narrator in the dream says, “Traditionally, the people lived in small wisdoms. When the winter came, it was time for that to change.” And I understood that the small wisdoms were their little villages, and that they were being that they were now moving out into wider communities. But when I read that, about your experience of the mind being this, this attempt to convey something, to represent something that is rudimentary, that helped me actually see another dimension in that dream, that what I was being shown, the small wisdoms, were the stick figure wisdoms of the mind. And that the the experiential wisdom is the wisdom of the heart, the knowing of the heart.

Mary
That’s exactly right, the experiential wisdom. And this is, you know, I think that this is one of the joyous things that I’ve been watching in people in this awakening process, as people experience something new. And when I say something new, something new that the mind hasn’t recognized before, but it’s actually something ancient within us that’s rising up in our awareness. And it is that deeper, like, we just realize in that moment, oh, my gosh, look how small we have thought we were. And this is related to all kinds of things in our society that we deal with, which is in particular unworthiness, issues of unworthiness, which unfortunately, a lot of church doctrine has perpetuated in feeling like you know, you the whole ideology of sinner, you know, you’re everybody’s a sinner, and you have to atone and you have to be worthy of the love of God, which is really such a disservice to the whole fundamental truth of Christ consciousness, or Christ, or God in itself is that everybody is perfect and exquisitely loved simply because they are, that is what they are. So, yeah, it’s all tied into this idea that we’ve entered in, I’ve also had really great experiences about, again, the burden that we’ve experienced in feeling so small, and always trying to think that we have to figure it out that we have to fix things in there’s so much just look around at our world. Imagine being so tiny that our little individual tiny self has to figure out and fix all the problems with the world. Like, how overwhelming is that? And it’s in humanity’s consciousness, right? When what we’re waking up to is the realization that just the awakening process itself is the thing that is healing. And that is resolving so much that’s going on. And so as part of that, within each and every single one of us, as every, every single one of us, comes into the healing place and has that experience of a different way of being a different response in the world that has this healing ripple tremendously out into how we then experience the world in our own lives and in our communities in the greater global consciousness as well.

Patricia
Yeah, that this that this thing that’s happening on the planet, it’s not on our shoulders to pull off. It’s more an experience of surrendering to this thing that is happening. It is happening.

Mary
Yeah, you know, and I’m glad you brought up the word surrender, because that’s really a trigger for so many people in their fear. They feel like, they have a great fear that if they surrender, then they’re giving up their power. And in fact, what we’re surrendering to is our power. We’re surrendering to our supreme power, when we surrender into the trust, and and the experience of that Christ within us.

Patricia
Amen. Sister.

Mary
Amen, sister.

Patricia
Yeah. So could you fill us in about your your latest work and your experience with Consensus and let people know about that experience for you?

Mary
Yes, what a beautiful surprise. This has been, you know, for 20 years, all of my metaphysical experiences were embodied experiences and the way that I describe it, you can imagine a blackboard that has like a lesson written on it, some kind of ancient spiritual understanding or truth. But instead of looking at the blackboard to understand the lesson or learn it, I enter into the blackboard and become the lesson itself. So all of my experiences are very embodied. And then I view humanity or the wisdom that’s being conveyed from that experience. I from that vantage point, I become that wisdom itself. So I literally do it from the inside out. And so as you can imagine, that’s been quite profound over all these 20 years of lots and lots of different lessons. And last year, in April, so the pandemic really got underway in mid March. And I was gathering with people in my private community on a weekly basis, doing satsangs, and also meeting with my friend Corene in Australia, for meditations between the two of us, and also weekly. And in the one of the meditations with Corene on April 2, 2020, just a couple weeks into the pandemic, suddenly, something was telling me to yield. It was literally I could feel my, my energy just sort of being pulled aside. And this other thing coming through to speak, and it was, I experienced Consensus as a very large arena full of divine beings, like thousands of light beings. And they operate with they come, they tell me, they come for what’s needed in the moment. And what’s needed in the moment is like, you can imagine hitting a tuning fork, and then the that alignment with that vibration of whatever that key thing is, and the tuning fork, vibration is the thing that I narrate. And that’s the Consensus vibration of all those thousands of beings in that arena. And so then I began to just narrate whatever that key vibration was, the key lesson. And that turned into me then channeling to my private group, every single week, sometimes twice a week with Consensus, and that turned into the series, unbeknownst to me, series of teachings called the Divine New Being. And ultimately, it is basically calling us again and again and again, into that Christ within, into that Christ consciousness and what it is to embody the remembrance in the living of the Christ consciousness in relationship with all of life. And that’s ultimately what the Divine Being teachings, which is what that series was called ultimately. And so that’s also the title of my new book is The Divine New Being. And that is, the subtitle, which Consensus yelled to me, is A Sublime Guided Passage to the End of Hell. And by that they mean, we’re going to guide you out of the ideologies that have been so painful for all of these years and into that state of being the divine love that you truly are, that Christ consciousness in its living, awakened experience. So it’s been a beautiful, absolutely surprising and beautiful thing to bring into this world and to experience as I do it.

Patricia
And these teachings have been compiled into your new book by that title, which people can find . . .

Mary
On Amazon. And it’s also it’s also a cours that people can take a it’s a, you know, these are not to be done, just sit down and do it and it’s done in a day or two or even the book. Consensus is very clear, you know, this is a process and it’s an integration process. So they address this very much like you would a garden, you know, where you tear up the soil, and then you make sure that the environment in which you’re going to be planting new seeds to grow new things needs to be just right. So we’re not just planting new seeds, we’re creating new soil in this and then you have to nurture you know, the seeds, when they’re planted, you have to nurture them, you have to allow time for that growth, and then experiencing all of the various nutrients of life that come in to make us fully into our, you know, new, bountiful life. And so that’s the way they approach these teachings. So the course and the book, both are very methodical, and taking us deeply, compassionately, into extremely exciting end results. For all of us who went through these teachings, originally, and every single person who’s gone through the course, the end result is just so ecstatic, really exciting because it takes us to where we didn’t think we were going to go, which is ultimately into the embodiment, realizing the embodiment of the Divine teachers within us, basically, having like Consensus, become aware within us. So this is the Christ consciousness coming into full light. Within each and every one of us. It’s really such an extraordinary experience.

Patricia
Yes. And you also have another book, your previous book, your memoir, Unwitting Mystic.

Mary
Yes. Which you just recently wrote the foreword for the new edition of which I’m so grateful. And it was so beautiful. I really appreciate that. That’s been very exciting to offer that new edition out to the world.

Patricia
Well, it was my honor to write that foreword, Mary, thank you for for inviting me to do that. And people can visit your website and find both of these books as well as your courses, right. And you have a new, new website, new URL, so tell us.

Mary
I do I’m so excited. It’s lovemaryreed.com. And people can go on there and find all of my books, there’s also a little booklet which is sort of, I did it for a holiday stocking stuffer kind of gift ideas somebody wanted. That’s on the books tab under offerings. And then the courses, there’s a few events, I’m going to do some New Year’s Eve meditations. If people want to join those. They can check out everything on lovemaryreed.com.

Patricia
Great. Well, I can’t think of a better place to land than on your website during the season of Christmas, celebrating the divine new being, right? So I just really appreciate Mary, all that you do, and all that you are, and all that you bring forth into the world. It’s such a gift.

Mary
Thank you, Patricia, I wonder if you wouldn’t mind if I close this out with maybe a little reading from Unwitting Mystic, and this is on the part three of the book are words given to me specifically on what it is to live as Christ consciousness. And so I want to read a couple of little passages here, I think that are just pertinent to what we’ve been talking about if that’s okay.

Patricia
Sure.

Mary
So the first is the I Am. And so this these are the words what it is to live as Christ consciousness. “I am the way of love, the truth of love, and the luminous light of love. Where the rhythm of awareness beats in the heart, I am Christ, where trust prevails and fear is no more. I am Christ. I am pure compassion, kindness and wisdom. I am absolute peace and love. I am all possibility I am all I am.” And then the other one I want to read is because we were talking about the experience of Christ within and living that experience. “I am within where there is unity with a love within I am. I am the soothingly rich depth of the quiet mind and the vast knowing flowing through the heart. When the mind and heart reconciled to the truth of oneness, I am. No scripture or sermon is necessary to live according to love. Every heart knows the way. The very current pulsing through every heart is love. And in love, there is no other admonition than to be love. I am this love.”

Patricia
So beautiful.

Mary
It was really a joy to bring those things through, and especially for that to be the end of the book. So it was it was really great. And Patricia I really appreciate the opportunity to talk about Christ and Christ Consciousness it is always a blessing, joy, to bring into the world the contribution of awareness of Christ, to literally bring Christ into the conversation and into our presence here together. So thank you for that opportunity.

Patricia
Well, thank you for your willingness to be with us and share all the all the wisdom that you’ve shared with us today, Mary.

Mary
My pleasure.

Patricia
Many, many blessings and thank you again.

Mary
Thank you