Ask: Shouldn't we avoid labels and see Christ in everyone?
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article in which I referred to someone on the national stage as a narcissistic sociopath. The article was about projection, but some have taken issue with me labeling someone. (More on labels at the end of this article.) They ask, aren’t we supposed to see Christ in everyone? Let me share the experience here with that idea. When Liz here was first a student of A Course in Miracles she had the spontaneous mystical experience of seeing the reflection of a self that was not Liz “in another” for a brief time. It was an experience of oneness. She understood this self to be universal, not limited to her, or to the other. She didn’t call this Christ at the time but knew this experience of oneness was what was meant by Christ . (It could also be called holiness or divinity or true self ). The experience faded but was never forgotten. Although she referred to it as seeing the universal self “in another”...