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from Jesus:
I explain my view on channeling
in great detail in the answer to another question.
When you read that answer, you will see that I am by no means saying
that people should not exercise their spiritual abilities. However,
I am also saying that it is essential to develop Christ discernment
before one starts exercising spiritual abilities.
You see, even the statement that people have been given a gift can be
misleading. It is not a gift that some people receive and some people
do not receive. It is something that people must earn through their
efforts. Obviously, different people have different missions on Earth,
and therefore not everyone will serve as the messenger for spiritual
beings, at least not in the form of bringing forth messages or prophecies.
However, a spiritual or psychic ability is not necessarily a gift from
God. It is something people have developed. The question is why and
how they developed this ability.
What must be considered here is that not everyone who has the ability
to do psychic readings, have visions or give prophecies has earned that
gift. Some people have indeed taken that gift in an attempt to take
Heaven by force. As I explain in my discourse on channeling, some people
have impure motives, and therefore they end up becoming a channel for
lower forces rather than messengers of the Ascended Host.
If a person has a genuine ability to become a messenger of the Ascended
Host, it would certainly be a loss if that ability was not developed.
However, it would be equally regretful if the person was overly anxious
and therefore became a messenger for lower forces in an attempt to develop
his or her abilities prematurely.
If you will read Kim’s story
and my comments on it, you might surmise that he was born with the ability
to serve as a messenger. This was an ability he developed in past lifetimes.
Yet he spent 25 years studying spiritual teachings without doing anything
to develop his ability. His ability was not consciously unlocked until
he came to the point of total surrender, whereby he surrendered all
human motives or desires. This is what I would like to see happen to
other people who have the potential to become messengers and serve in
various capacities.
It is extremely important to surrender the human will before you attempt
to become a messenger. And even after you have started serving as a
messenger, you must continually surrender the human will, which will
rear its ugly head in subtle ways that you will not notice unless you
are alert. This is especially dangerous after a messenger starts to
develop a following who might idolize the messenger and put him or her
on a pedestal.
You are quite right that I am not trying to prevent people from developing
their abilities. I am saying they should be cautious. The best way to
be cautious is to focus your attention on developing your Christ discernment.
By seeking to develop attunement with your Christ self rather than seeking
to develop your spiritual abilities, you can circumvent the human desire
that can lead to a misuse of your abilities.
The key insight here is that the essence of life is to develop the ability
to discern what is of God and what is not of God, meaning that it springs
from the relativity of the carnal mind. You cannot develop that ability
by using the human intellect, the outer mind or even what many people
call psychic abilities. You can develop it only by seeking attunement
with your Christ self, which is the one that will judge righteous judgments.
There is a subtle distinction here. What most people call psychic or
spiritual abilities is simply the ability to turn the dial of consciousness
and tune in to a level of reality that is beyond the material realm.
I have compared it to a radio, and the important point here is that
the radio itself will tune in to any station without evaluating whether
the station is good or bad. You must make that evaluation with your
conscious mind, but to judge correctly, you must base the evaluation
on contact with your Christ self.
Many people have learned to turn the dial of consciousness, and they
uncritically accept that anything which comes through is okay or even
of the light. If you are not aware of the existence of lower forces
and the potential for tuning in to them, how can you protect yourself?
So there is indeed good reason to be cautious, but one should not react
with fear and refuse to exercise the ability to turn the dial of consciousness.
If you avoid both of these extremes and allow your Christ self to show
you the middle way, you will make much faster progress.
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