Christ consciousness

CHAPTER SIX — THE TACTICAL SPIRITUAL

“They plan, and Allah plans — and Allah is the best of planners.” — Qur’an 3:54

Practical spirituality teaches a person how to stand. Tactical spirituality teaches a person how to move. Life does not unfold in straight lines, and neither does healing. There are currents in the world and currents in the self — some lift, some obscure, some conceal, some reveal.

The seeker who begins to live from Withness must learn how to navigate these currents with wisdom, subtlety, responsiveness, and above all, tact. For the Qur’an does not say that human beings plan and God ignores them; it says:

They plan — and God plans.

This means the world is dynamic. Layers of intention act upon one another: human plans, ego plans, cultural plans, systemic plans. Yet above and within all these movements is another Intent — the Creative Plan that holds the seeker, shapes the path, and redirects the one who listens.

Tactical spirituality begins here: recognising that you are moving within a field that is already in motion.

The left-hand word of DRT believes it must control everything: “If I plan enough, I will be safe.” The right-hand word knows otherwise: “I attend, I listen, I adjust — I am being led.”

Tactical spirituality is not manipulation or scheming. It is alignment-in-motion — a willingness to respond to the unfolding moment rather than impose the ego’s agenda upon it. Thus the seeker must learn tact: when to advance, when to retreat, when to pause, when to speak, when to remain silent, when to ask, when to wait, and when to surrender the tactic entirely because a larger Plan is becoming clear.

The Misconception of Power

From Pharaoh in the time of Moses to the emperors of global empires today, the powerful have always believed a quiet lie: that the Angel of Death walks on their leash.

They imagine their planning absolute, their systems unbreakable, their dominance eternal. But history answers this delusion again and again. Empire after empire has discovered that death is loyal to no ruler, and sovereignty belongs to no throne.

Pharaoh believed he commanded fate — yet the Angel passed over the huts of slaves and entered the palaces of the mighty. Rome believed itself unchallengeable — yet a crucified Jew reshaped the world long after Caesar’s breath was dust. Modern empires imagine surveillance, markets, and digital reach have mastered destiny — yet the same pattern holds.

The Angel walks freely. And the Planner is not them.

This is mercy. If human beings truly controlled death, the world would have ended long ago. The powerful confuse strategy with sovereignty. The seeker must not repeat their mistake.

Tactical spirituality knows that the One who plans is not moved by domination but by alignment; not by fear but by purpose; not by force but by presence.

The seeker walks tactically because they walk within a Plan that cannot be manipulated and cannot be dethroned.

The Movements of the Tactical Spiritual

Living tactically means moving with humility inside a world that moves. The Twelve Step lineage teaches continual watchfulness, self-inventory, amends, prayer, meditation, and service — not as moral demands but as tactical movements that keep a person aligned with reality rather than trapped in egoic planning.

The Addictive System has tactics. Ego has tactics. Despair has tactics. Therefore the seeker must learn the counter-tactic of humility, responsiveness, relationality, and subtle listening.

The highest tact is knowing that safety lies not in domination, but in alignment with the Plan that precedes the world.

The Mighty Counsellor

All tact leads to one revelation: the One who plans is also the One who cares. Power without compassion is Pharaoh’s mistake. Strategy without mercy becomes tyranny. Tactics without tenderness become cruelty dressed as wisdom.

But the seeker is not moving towards a throne — they are moving towards a Presence. In the Christian lineage, this Presence is the Mighty Counsellor, the Christ Consciousness, the Word made flesh — the Repaired Pair in perfect wholeness.

And like any true counsellor, He arrives not with doctrine or judgement but with one question — the only question that can open the human heart:

“Where does it hurt, and how can I help you?”

This is not sentiment. It is divine tact. Until a person knows where it hurts, they cannot know where to begin. Until they feel accompanied, they cannot trust the beginning. The Addictive System never asks this question. It demands performance, adjustment, endurance, and numbness.

Global psychiatry rests upon a diagnostic dictionary (DSM-5) designed primarily for practitioner categorisation and reimbursement. But the letters of the acronym reveal a deeper, older truth:

Death, Sex, and Money — the three unchanging lines of force shaping every individual and collective life recorded in the story of Mankind.

All forms of stuck addiction arise from a breakdown in relationship with these three forces. Until a new attitude is established — a healed relationship with Death, Sex, and Money — no movement towards a more consistently Human behaviour is possible.

DSM is not merely a taxonomy. It is a spiritual relational wound.

The Mighty Counsellor asks only what a healer, a sponsor, a true friend, or a Higher Power asks when the soul becomes quiet enough to hear:

“Where does it hurt?”
“How can I help you?”

This is the Groundhog Day lesson: that life changes not through grand plans, but through the quiet, repeated willingness to help others have their best day — not knowing that in doing so, you are shaping your own. And when this dawns, the Just for Today card of the global Twelve Step movement ceases to be a slogan and becomes a living tactic: a way of aligning each ordinary day with the extraordinary Plan that moves beneath it. In this daily tact, the seeker discovers that service is strategy, that presence is protection, and that each repeated “today” becomes a step back into Humankind.

Immaculate Conception

The place of “neutrality”, the place of the awakening or second birth to the returning experience of being.

The parables of The Christ, Jesus, are for the most part relegated to a mainly external theology, a phenomenon that has laid the doctrines of the Christian Church open to a weaponisation that has built empires over the last two thousand years.

When the parables are internalised with the help of a realised guide, then the reality of becoming like The Christ Jesus, can be actually experienced.

The virginal place of ripeness in a person, whether male or female, is experienced in a place of Neutrality, ne uteris, not born per se, but a place that then connects all previous and present experience for that then realised Human being.

The stable vehicle that permits the necessary connection of the opposites good and bad, is required to be built under guidance by means of a template. The template for this time is the 12 Step Programme.

This birthing phenomenon is connected here across the work of Joseph Campbell and the 12 Step Programme

Inside a person arriving on Earth, there is deposited a place best described as precious. It is in a position of being, a place prepared. In other words a place of being prior to the paring that occurs as a child is introduced to how they have to be which disciplines them away from their principial centre of their spherical arrival, their being.

Later in a person’s life, if sensitive, a break down of their inner sub-spheres occurs. Then Universal Consciousness has a chance of activating Its own prepared place of possible contact with Itself, when the precious transforms into conscience, an individuation.

The words precious, conscience and conscious all root to scire, the verb meaning to know.

So, the mystery of E=mc² becomes laid open, rude and bare. One Energy seeking to know Itself, created the World and the Universe to know Itself.

In that knowing, the meniscus of the ontology present in the biology of Mankind stands the optimal chance of being the mirror for this Singularity to witness Itself as other when the journey from have to be, to be, is accomplished.

This is to become like little children again as The Christ Jesus said, not to become ignorant again, but to revive the dying have to be experiencing of the sub-spheres of personal existential occurrence with the conscious returning to the centre of one’s principial sphere that every child is born into.

This returning to being, needs help. It is what Mankind is here on Earth to achieve, but the systems of cultural orthodoxy become eventual baffles to this flow of becoming Human and then calamities increase in the collective enterprise.

My blog post called The Quantum Christ brings a parable to life to expose how to have hope in the 21st century that though the harvest is great but the workers are few, as is ever the case, that people in this era are not left without any resource whatsoever.

My work overall, in my personal experience, my writing and my professional therapy practice, is as a midwifery service to a global ripeness which is ready now to be born.

Peace.