To shape a new national identity and effectively respond to the globality of threats, I contend we must develop comprehensive and integrative worldviews that promote the holistic transformation of ourselves, society, and world. To that end, I focus on "consciousness" as a useful integrative concept that may be equally applied to the psychospiritual, sociopolitical, and ecological dimensions of our lives. I also examine the interaction between consciousness and identity, and how they both apply to the promotion of spiritual awakening, psychological transformation, and sociopolitical liberation. The interrelationship between consciousness and identity is the primary theme of this paper.

This study identifies four modes of consciousness that are especially relevant to the renewal of our personal and collective identities. They are awakened consciousness, critical consciousness, prophetic consciousness, and apocalyptic consciousness. I explore these modes of consciousness from conceptual, historical, methodological, experiential, and biblical perspectives and consider how they might be practically applied. I give special attention to Pauline apocalyptic theology. I conclude that all four modes of consciousness are integral to the cultivation of a nonbinary/nondual mode of consciousness that promotes multiplicity, intersectionality, and fluidity of identity, all of which help to repair and heal the fragmentation and polarization of our times and to promote the co-creation of a more whole, just, and loving world.