As I shared with my readers,

The call to holiness is a call to make God’s Kingdom real right now. It means giving meaning to the words of John the Baptizer and Jesus when they said: Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

As one author, Ken Wilber, put it: The Kingdom of God is nondual consciousness, the highest level of human consciousness. There are many different levels of human consciousness. Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, who was a professor of child psychology at the University of Geneva, was a pioneer in the study of the developing consciousness of children.

The nondual consciousness that is the vision of the Kingdom of God is the highest stage in the growth of human consciousness from infancy to full spiritual maturity. By the process of inner growth in spiritual awareness, a pat of constant inner realization, we gradually come to see our own union with God in Christ so that, at the final stage of nondual awareness, God alone and His Kingdom remain. We see, when we realize the vision of the Kingdom of God, that we, like Jesus, are not mere human beings after all, but are now, and have always been, nothing less than immortal, unlimited, divine Spirit.

In His ministry, Jesus wanted more than anything else to tell us about the nondual vision of the Kingdom He saw. He saw a Kingdom right here on Earth in which everyone was truly and substantially one with God and one with each other. At the same time, however, He saw that this nondual oneness didn’t take away from God’s transcendence or from our own humanness or individuality.

To our human minds this sounds like a paradox: how can we and God be one (divine) and yet God remain transcendent and we remain human and individual? So the call to holiness is a call to come to an awareness of this reality and an understanding of its implications for how we think and live.