Surrealism and The Kingdom of God

You can see on the side of my blog that I have a Salvador Dali “picture of the day” display. Surrealism is one of my favorite art forms. I guess that’s because I believe that, above and beyond my five senses, there is a reality that is something I must pay attention to. John Wesley said (an I am convinced) that “The things that are invisible are more real than the things that are visible.” Surrealism is tribute to that higher reality. The prefix sur literally means “above”(a surtax or surcharge is a charge or tax on top of the regular charges) and, when added to realism denotes a realism or reality above what our five senses indicate. 
  Surrealism has seems to have come to describe a state of perception that people have when they experience an event that seems so bizarre and they are tempted to misapprehend it because of the way things appear at the time. It’s not that it seems too real; it seems that it can’t really be what their senses are telling them. It’s come to mean a false sense of reality. Surrealism is trying to point to a reality that is more real than what we can’t account for by ‘normal’, sensical and rational means of apperception.
One of the best cinematic demonstrations of this is when Neo was initiated out of the Matrix. In the film he discovered that he had never experienced reality, but, with the help of Morpheus and the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar, he discovered his true reality was the impersonal and slave-like confines of the real world. He awoke to find himself tethered to feeding machines and that his body’s energy was being harvested by machines, which controlled the Matrix. In a scene analogous to the new birth, he was detached from his artificial womb and ‘flushed’ into the cold harsh reality of the real world(click here to see the 'birth of Neo clip). 
  The Kingdom of God is everywhere, yet it can easily escape the attention of most people – even Christians. Everything Jesus taught about life and reality all stemmed from the reality of the Kingdom of God. Jesus said in John 3, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” What Jesus is saying that unless you have a spiritual awakening of such magnitude that it can be compared to a birthing process into a new world that you’ve only heretofore guessed at, then you’ll never come to apprehend the reality or enter into the dynamic operational reality that is the Kingdom of God. 
  The writer of Hebrews tells that God is shaking the world and will continue to shake it until there is nothing left shake loose of real reality. Hebrews 12:25-27 says See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
  Another way to say this is: God is, today, shaking everything that doesn’t look like or facilitate the further implementation of the Kingdom. Plain and simple.