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SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE
INDEX
A good Start makes a difference.
A core reality.
Coping, or Denial ?
An Experience of Miracles.
God's Way or my way ?
A good Start makes a difference.
From the day of birth in most modern human cultures, the individual is mentored and patterned by those well-intentioned behaviors and attached attitudes of nearby and influential persons. Most of these persons are now responding to Energy Blocks which they have inherited and developed. Most of those responses are obsessive reactions focused on security, acceptance, power, safety, and fear --- materialism. The result has historically confirmed a continuing and intensifying experience of failure, for individuals and societies. A few people fare well, while most are falling into deeper degrees of unhappiness, constraint, and unfulfillment. A spiritually guided approach would be greatly successful for all concerned.
We are all aware of the multitude of examples of these failures, yet, most of us are in denial. Examples include increasing rates of ---
- participation in illegal activities;
- wasted skills, resources and capital;
- abuse of the rights & freedoms of others;
- acquisition of chronic health problems;
- repeated severance of relationships;
- constant expression of passivity, or
- constant expression of aggressiveness.
If we were not in denial (a refusal to accept responsibility for reality and take constructive action) the rates would not be climbing. Every factor is intensifying because we are conditioned to either ignore the reality ("It won't happen to me."), to justify and excuse the reality ("Everyone does it --- so I must do it also in order to survive."), or remain ignorant of the reality (by treating it as a taboo or alienating subject).
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 the destructive behaviors and consequences noted above.
So.
How does "spiritual guidance" fit into all of this?
A Core 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 functions 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.
The comfort of social dependency historically seems to indicate that as a civilization increases in size and power and material focus --- the coping skills of the individual wither. Responsibly, if you want to take credit for apparent successes of your personal identity-based decisions, you should equally take the credit for your decision making obvious failures.
Unaware of many decision making options and unused to actively seeking and being rewarded for uncommon solutions --- failure produces anxiety and frustration. 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 are slow to the point of absent.
You will often receive criticism, rejection, ridicule, doubt, and rationalization from others around you --- for your confidence, your beliefs, your awareness, and your cautions as the majority of society participates in life from a materialistic, physically obsessive, Ego and SuperEgo focus. With such negatives why would anyone want to admit to receiving spiritual guidance, seek it, or ever take it --- and why would anyone ever take the time to develop an openness and assertiveness to receive it?
To encourage another to develop spiritual skills and appreciate Spiritual Guidance, point to benefits which they and others have received. I cannot experience it for you. As a reality which defies description in the materialistic-based language we have developed, words do not exist which can convey what spiritual guidance is in other than abstract and apparently extreme contexts. Ask yourself this question:
Why would any skilled and intelligent person choose to set aside a potential for job stability, social prestige, political power, peer acceptance --- to focus their life on activities which helped others and for which they were rarely and minimally paid?
Asking for and Accepting Spiritual Guidance has been the choice and path of every founder of a well accepted religion, yet today, few of the followers of such religions are aware of this reality and are in denial of these historical experiences.
Jesus (Messiah) Christ is one example commonly acknowledged by many.
Here is a man who was born into poverty. He was interested in and studied ethics and spiritual topics from an early age. He became a professional carpenter. About the age of 30, he learned how to request Spiritual Guidance and he chose to consistently follow it. He gave up his career to become a homeless social activist, alternative medicine therapist, and itinerant unpaid teacher. He was seen as such a threat by the proud, powerful and pious leaders of his ancestral religion --- that they demanded that the political system execute him.
Following a non-violent lifestyle, his Spiritual Guidance had impressed upon him, he had to accept an early death at the hands of technicians and bureaucrats. His Ego and SuperEgo were at odds with this fate and gave rise to his requesting assurance from his Higher Self guidance that he must indeed allow the status quo leaders take his life. The guidance received obviously was that he should, and He accepted it.
Political power would have come easily to Jesus Christ ... many of his Jewish countryman wanted a military and political leader --- if that had been his choice. Within a generation before his birth and after his death, they had one. Both of those times, many lives were lost and the Jews were no better served. Indeed, they were repressed and humiliated more. What Christ offered was a choice of a content and fulfilling spiritually-directed lifestyle over the destructiveness of materialism. Coercion and force only raises defensiveness and intolerance.
The Christian legacy is that both more good and harm has been carried out in the name of Christ in the past 1500 years than can be attributed to any other human. Christ asked his followers to meet in small numbers to discuss his teachings. Christians were first suppressed by the Romans because they called to question the supreme leadership of the Roman emperor, and, they offered a choice of self-esteem and spiritual guidance --- which opposes the co-dependent attitude enforced by all human institutions. Then, the tables turned. Out of superstition, a Roman emperor simplified his bureaucracy by converting Christianity into a one god Roman religion. Reverting back to idol worship, Christians were now encouraged to worship human leaders and abandon spiritual guidance.
Early Christian philosophy encouraged every individual to thank God for daily benefits, act with compassion and empathy to assist others, resist the accumulation of material possessions, respect the freedoms and choices of others, and, to speak out against injustices. Had this been truly understood and followed by humanity, we would be living in an earthly paradise today --- free of ecological disaster, chronic illnesses, abuse, war.
The life of this founder of Christianity was to stand as an example of what ANYONE could do IF they chose to ask for spiritual guidance and to follow that guidance. They could work miracles. They could heal the sick. They could live apart from the abusive and destructive lifestyles of those addicted to self-centeredness. His life also demonstrated that the challenge of following such a lifestyle could be great in risk and demanded courage.
Idolization of the messenger and denial of the Path has been the power behind many institutions. Military power, social acceptance, and wealth would be added as acceptable idols --- the very things Jesus warned others to avoid. His choice was that of a spiritual reality as superior to that of a materialistic reality. And as he advised his early followers, it is almost impossible to focus on either one of those without excluding the other.
COPING or DENIAL?
How you go through life has a lot to do with what you ultimate appreciate about life.
Many people living in the 20th century have endured lives of disappointment. Yet to have disappointments you must have expectations. For the past 100 years, our mass media has been filled with the promises and expectations of our political leaders.
Our human leaders have promised us dignity through the deprivation of others.
They have promised us freedom through the surrender of our individuality.
They have promised us wealth at the expense of the environment.
They have promised us health through the payment of ever increasing taxes.
They have promised us economic stability through increased competition.
They have promised us security through education and state sanction.
They have promised us salvation through slavish repetition of magical phrases and the worship of idols.
The myth is that all of these promises are possible.
The reality is that few persons ever actually receive the benefits.
As we near the end of the 1990s, more and more people face the following realities:
- prevalent depression & tiredness;
- lifestyle according to media presentation;
- increasing severity of ecological disaster;
- endemic multiple chronic illnesses;
- no savings & total credit indebtedness;
- persistent closure of businesses;
- constant career change.
If you do not think that such developments can extend to you, neither did any of the majority of persons already slowly and passively dying under the weight of such realities. These are the result of a rejection of spiritual guidance.
Our educational leaders have increasingly dominated our development during the first 25 years of our life. They have increasingly impressed upon us our responsibility to plan out our future --- from course selection -- to career -- to security -- to comfortable retirement. Immature and easily impressed egos are massaged by superego mentors whose only goals is their own exercise of power, or, a reaffirmation of their material success through our spiritual sellout.
The reality for the past 20 years, 1983-2004, has been an increasing necessity for professionals to continually upgrade their technical education, credentials, or networking contacts --- while still risking the downsizing or closure of their employer. Experience and loyalty once provided security. Then a degree or certification gained a position. That graduated to a requirement of certification AND experience. In the late 1990s, nothing provides job security.
Who is in denial?
Financial planners now add to the "planning" agenda.
They remark with piousness at the low number of Canadians who are putting monies into RRSPs, paying down their debts, or buying long-term investments. These so-called financial experts exude a self-serving ignorance of the reality that few Canadians have monies to save from their income --- nor even enough to restrain the increase in their debt.
The market reality is that 90% of investors lose money through greed, fear, lack of self-awareness, or, the following of self-appointed experts who confidently guess at the future. So-called market experts guide hundreds of thousands of investors into profitable investments from which they emerge penniless. Their choices are not a result of spiritual guidance.
Health care experts demean us and chastise us for asking questions about our health and about the options they prescribe for us. So we shut up --- and become more sick. They tell us they can make us better and that other forms of medicine, for which they do not get paid, are quackery. And we get more sick. When we become very sick, our human expert says "That's too bad, you'll have to live (or die) with it." And so our health care bill and the taxes which support it continue to rise --- because our health care is worsening! Who is in denial?
Many law enforcement professionals or taxation department workers will tell you that the ratio of law breakers to law abiders has increased consistently over the past 30 years. If conviction statistics have gone down, it is only because of a lack of enforcement and a weak justice system. As the myths regarding the good (materialistic) life have failed to materialize for more and more persons, those persons have been challenged to accept the reality of the lies told to them, or, take measures to right the apparent wrong.
These "failures of the myth" have simply excused their present losses as temporary.
They have rationalized that in order to be "average, normal, and comfortable" they are justified in cutting corners, telling lies, abusing others, stealing, manipulating, and deceiving. After all, doesn't everyone? How many times does their church leader forgive them for simply and privately acknowledging their wrong. Just admit it, pay the fine, and move on. Anything is OK, as long as you pay for forgiveness. This is not the way of spiritual guidance.
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These are Not the ways of constructive coping.
An Experience of Miracles --
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 by 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 2011.
Just staying alive was not enough.
I wanted to get better and carry on as a fully active and functioning participant in society. So, I asked more questions. And received more answers. And as I practiced the dynamic more, it became easier and more accurate --- because I became healthier, learned to manage my Ego and SuperEgo better, and increased in spiritual strength. I gradually eliminated more and more of the distraction and distortion from the communication being sent to me. I got better.
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. So, by the gift of my Basic Personality my life continued to be full of challenges I would not wish on my worst enemy. These challenges afforded me the opportunity to learn more about and extend my application of spiritual guidance. I could have given up at any time --- and simply died. I found that such a path of weakness and cowardice was not the preference of my personal spirit. 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.
Here are a few of my more dramatic challenges:
- 4 acute hypersensitivities;
- 100's of energy blocks;
- 3 ocurrences of acute mercury poisoning;
- rapidly progressing colon cancer;
- an undiagnosable near fatal virus;
- severe parasite infestation;
- near liver failure;
- kidney dysfunction;
- testicular cancer;
- homelessness.
I survived --- and you can also.
Even better, you can avoid all of the above by learning about them from the guided information on my webpages, and, by learning how to access spiritual guidance yourself.
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 studying --- to be wrong! Life is so much better when you know what God wants for you to do. But 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. And that can be a real time saver.
God's Way, or, my way?
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. 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, 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 their 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 spirit's desire to follow spiritual guidance. They kept hoping that they would get their way by adding their noise to the spiritual guidance signals coming my way. And they kept losing! They 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 until you get on track. And next time, it won't be as easy as it is now.
I have accomplished more in each year of the two decades, during which I accepted Spiritual Guidance, than I did in any 4 years from my early 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 be yours also. The critical decision you must be willing to make at some point is this:
I want what God wants for me;
not what I want for me.
If you make it through the early times, your identity team will come to appreciate that without LIFE, no identity factor survives or has any potential for short-term or long-term success. That is when life really starts to be a pleasure --- because dependable access to spiritual guidance becomes easy and immediate.
Are you missing out?
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