• What is it?
• Where is it?
• How to get it.
• Why to use it.
• Results!

What is Spiritual Guidance?

Wisdom that exceeds human capabilities and awareness is obtainable from a source I refer to here as "Spiritual Guidance". Since spiritual realities are not physical, their description in words intended to describe our physical environment and our human activities is very difficult. Many mystics, who have experienced a spiritual reality, find they must describe those experiences in words which generally indicate opposite meanings. This confuses the many people who have not yet experienced a spiritual reality for themselves.

Ultimately, a spiritual reality is never understood until you personally have experienced and accessed it. There is little that someone else can do to persuade you that such exists or to provide you with an understanding of it. Typically, the use of allegories, similes, and metaphors are used for such ... illusions too often mistaken for the reality. There are many mystical writings and religious scriptures which you may choose from to glimpse how other humans have tried to convey their experience into words.

Common expressions used by institutionalized religions and study groups for "Spiritual Guidance" include these:

• Holy Spirit
• Holy Ghost
• Angel of God
• Higher Self
• Spiritual Guide
• Spiritual Messenger

Where is it?

Specific states of mind are required for most humans to access this source of wisdom. Given choice, humans have an Ego (personal desires), a SuperEgo (social conscience and standards), and an Unconscious (Reptilian mind, instincts, patterning, imprinting, reflexes, reactions, habits) --- to maintain a physical and a social identity and existence. The former two form our conscious awareness with many of us being largely unaware of our Unconscious ... which actually makes most of our decisions for us.

How often do you tell your heart to beat, or your lungs to breathe, or instruct your body as to how it is going to maintain a healthy temperature and blood pressure level? These physical environment regulators, fundamentally, are at odds with our capability for access to Spiritual Guidance, which is available on a non-physical plane. To quieten these common uses and detractors of our awareness, we can choose to enter states of mental functioning which relax these areas. We then have uninterrupted, open, and clear access to spiritual levels of awareness and "Spiritual Guidance".

Where Spiritual Guidance is Not, is often a suggestion of where we may find it, or, find it more easily. The "where" and "how" blur as we find that the ease with which we receive and gain access to Guidance has more to do with our physical and emotional environments than any "location" of spiritual energies. A spiritual perspective can be acquired through learning and entered into anywhere, IF, the participant is well self-disciplined and clear and strong in their skills.

The less-disciplined and the less skilled the student, the more easily distractions in the physical environment force one's conscious and unconscious abilities to take primary use of one's energies and disrupt one's access to spiritual levels. Finding where spiritual access is difficult to access is thus a way for us to know "where" we can more easily access that which is around us and present everywhere. It is not that we must hunt for it. Rather, we must prepare for it.

Locations which push the mind to distraction, obsession, confusion, preoccupation, reaction, and defensiveness:

noisy;
• stimulating;
• disgusting;
• aggressive/passive;
• deceptive;
• manipulative;
• cold, or hot;
• turbulent;
• coercive;
• competitive.

How to get Spiritual Guidance.

Unaware of many decision making options and unused to actively seeking and being rewarded for uncommon solutions, which may be suggested by Spiritual Guidance, --- our common failures produce anxiety and frustration. If unskilled in reflection, humility, meditation, prayer --- we tend to forget our mistakes rather than learn from them. This allows us to repeat mistakes which could have been avoided. Individual progress in identity maturation and awareness is often slow to the point of absent.

Core emotion experience ability studies have consistently revealed that most persons in post-agricultural societies have a low ability to express the emotion of Reverence. It is also demonstrated that all humans possess this capability and often require little practice in attempting to express reverence before becoming relatively successful in doing so. Persons who experience reverence on a daily basis have a much lower incidence of destructive behaviors and consequences. The emotion of reverence places one in a positive perceptual attitude which enables one to be open, confident, and trusting --- all necessary to ask for and receive Spiritual Guidance.

An expression of "No-emotion" works with the emotion of Reverence to relax, open, and focus the mind. There are a number of descriptions for this state, each partly correct. It is a state of mind in which the constant rationalizations and thoughts have been diminished by distraction or by a process of "blanking" out one's thoughts. Certain yogic practices have one focus on their breathing. Some meditative practices have one focus on a flame, a light, an image, or a "nonsense" ritual saying.

All of these are self-hypnotic in that they focus the capabilities of one's brain on opening it to external sources of information and energies rather than allowing it to use internal resident means of perceiving, assessing, and projecting ... to reach an answer or conclusion. One may practice entering these states with certain cues of expectation, movement, posture, or speech. Later, one may use the cues to take the place of the more lengthy practices. Other persons may refer to this state as one of trance. Still others will appear to be listening, or seeing something of a different reality.

Once you have become aware of the spiritual reality which exists and the power and truth of the guidance which can be obtained on the spiritual level, you can never doubt its authenticity. You will always be encouraged by those expressions of your mind which are generally referred to as the rational (SuperEgo), emotional (Ego), and habit (Reptilian) --- to deny spiritual guidance and make decisions which you can proudly take the credit for. Spiritual guidance neither rules your life nor interferes. If you do not ask for it, you never receive it.
You always have choice.

If you make it through the early times of skill-building, your identity team may come to appreciate that without LIFE, no expression of identity survives or has any potential for short-term or long-term success. Then, life becomes increasingly joyful and content --- for dependable access to spiritual guidance can then become easier and immediate as each of our expressions of Identity begin working together to accept and choose to follow Guidance.
Are you missing out?

Why use Spiritual Guidance.

Sceptical and Doubtful.
I would be amongst the first to be such regarding the existence of spiritual guidance, its benefits, and the fact that almost any human can access it --- if I had not experienced it first-hand.

I came to Spiritual Guidance by the grace of God, my Basic Personality, and my choices. I was facing certain death from a chronic illness when a new acquaintance suggested that some form of "superior" guidance was actually possible and that access to it could be learned. What did I have to lose? My life was already on the line. And what if I gained --- I could gain more life! That was in 1987-88. Today is 2001.

Living a spiritually directed life, is not something you can just decide to pick up in the bad times and abandon in the good times. Nor is it something you can do part-time or only when you feel like it or when you don't want to do it your way. If you do not commit to follow it All the time, you are doing worse than not Asking for Guidance at all. That is because when you ask for Guidance only when You feel like it, it is like asking for a recipe or a set of tire change procedures or a football scrimmage strategy --- and then you leave out several of the ingredients, procedures or runs. Of course, the cake doesn't taste any good, the wheel falls off the car, or you lose the game. Then your doubting and obstinate conscious mind blames the failure on Spiritual Guidance. Now you doubt more, ask less, fail more. Better to have none than only take some. A winner wants it all: Success! There is no room for a little failure with the person who wants to do it God's Way.

Every Spiritually Guided person is still a person.
I am no more intelligent or angelic than I was before choosing Guidance.
I have a much stronger spiritual perspective, a strong inner strength, a wide range of emotions, a certain self-directedness, am increasingly compassionate and empathetic, and, participate in daily miracles which bring joy --- but all of these are because I chose to use Spiritual Guidance to rid myself of Energy Blocks. The person is not and does not become the Source. A fake is someone who acts as if they have become God and takes the credit for the wisdom they receive from beyond them. A truly spiritual person is humbled with their knowledge, based on experience, that they know nothing compared to what is available through Guidance.

My Basic Personality gifted me with extreme challenges from which I could learn more and have more to share with others. With these opportunities, I learned more about The Higher-Self System of Balancing, and, extended my application of spiritual guidance. I could have given up at any time. I persisted. I asked for information that I thought would be impossible to receive or to use. I got it. I used it.

I survived, and continue to survive many physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges. I assist others on a daily basis to better lives with greater joy and contentment. What is your mission that will bring great fulfillment to you? You have been given a unique Basic Personality to carry it out. By asking for and following Spiritual Guidance, you will learn what your mission is and be successful in it. There is no greater gift than life itself.

YOU can avoid the severe challenges that were necessary for me to grow. Most of the information on the Earthtym webpages I have found or gained an understanding of by way of Spiritual Guidance. Those questions have been asked and the answers are here for you. That can be a big start for you. If I as a simple person could put together and electronically publish the content of this site with almost no capital, think of what You may be able to do.

Even if you were to simply be able to live a life free of anxiety and fear, filled with a daily excitement of achievements, revelations, and positive interactions --- with constantly improving health, relationships, and a sense of contentment --- would that be enough for you? Enough to spend a few hours each day building, refining, and using skills which allow you to work with God rather than against the forces of the universe?

I request spiritual guidance anywhere from dozens to thousands of times each day. If spiritual guidance gives me a correct answer every time, why do I want to be proud and stupid and waste time rationalizing and analysing --- to be wrong! Life is so much better when you know what God wants for you to do. But, you have to Ask!

There is a caution.
Do not expect materialistically focused persons to encourage you or acknowledge your successes. You will soon find out who really respects you for who you are and who simply respects you for what you can do for them. Be prepared for honesty and truth in the spiritually guided life. They are real time savers.

Results of Spiritual Guidance!

What God wants for each of us is to be fulfilled and content.
I have learned that from personal experience. Usually, we believe that we can make better decisions than God. Otherwise, we would ask for and follow the direction of God. Or, we believe, as we have been taught, that someone else must take the place of God and direct us.

Even when we blow it, we seldom admit to our failures.
And our human mentors cannot be expected to take responsibility for their part. If you are not popular, powerful, pompous, political, pagan, and parasitically co-dependent --- don't blame Them. They will tell you that it is Your fault --- you are not following their advice closely enough. If their guidance was so perfect, how is it that humanity keeps making a bigger mess of the earth and our relationships to one another? If you are not a slave to all of "them", who stands to lose?

Choosing "What God wants for us" demands courage, commitment and strength. It took a great amount of emotional pain for my Ego and my SuperEgo to get on the team and work in support of my Personal Spirit's desire to follow spiritual guidance. It took a great amount of physical pain for my Unconscious to get on the team and support my Spirit. They kept hoping that they would get their way by adding their noise to the spiritual guidance signals coming my way. And every time they had Their way, They lost! Those expressions of my Identity wanted security, acceptance, wealth, satisfaction, ease. Instead, spiritual guidance gave me knowledge, tolerance, compassion, empathy, cures, self-acceptance, accomplishment, a continuing and growing ability to help others, LOTS of change, and LIFE!

ALL of those "benefits" are focal points of my Basic Personality. Spiritual guidance never asks you to deny your Basic Personality - your true individuality. There are as many different basic personalities in the world as their are persons alive. My life is NOT an indication of what a Spiritually Guided life would be for you.

Find out what your Basic Personality is and you will find what you and God have to work with to bring more positive energy into the world. If you have nothing to show at the end of each day, week, and month --- which contributes to the will and glory of God, get prepared. You'll be back in another lifetime, with fewer advantages next time, until you get on track. Or, you can opt for eternal contentment in a spiritual realm.

I have accomplished more in each year of the last decade, during which I accepted Spiritual Guidance, than I did in any 5 years from my previous 40 years of life. And, I was Very Active throughout those previous years. The difference is Spiritual Guidance and my Choices to request it, and, usually follow it. Such benefits can also be yours. The critical decision you must be willing to make at some point is this: