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from Jesus:
A very good question, that
has no black-and-white answer. The simple fact is that most people are
still so enveloped in the dualistic state of consciousness that they
will hear many “voices” that are trying to deceive them.
It can be their egos, or it can be dark forces from the outside that
are seeking to take them off the spiritual path.
The simple fact is that there is no absolute or mechanical way to determine
whether the direction you get is truly from your Christ self and the
Ascended Host or from lower forces. You can determine the validity of
your directions only by gradually building your own sense of discernment,
so that you can tell the difference by simply feeling the vibration
of the message or the source.
When you are new to this activity, it is safe to assume that you will
hear a mixture of voices. Therefore, you should not uncritically follow
any thought or direction you get. It should always be evaluated based
on your common sense. Let me give a few hints that can help people learn
to separate the chaff from the wheat in their inner directions.
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Start by realizing that
there are dark forces who would love to give you a false direction
that will take you into a blind alley on your spiritual path. To
minimize the risk of receiving such instruction, make a determined
effort to use spiritual protection. Archangel
Michael’s Rosary is directly designed to protect you from
such sources.
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Study spiritual teachings
and get a feel for what is true and how the Ascended Host have guided
people over the millennia. This will help you evaluate whether an
inner direction is in line with our timeless instructions or whether
it goes too far beyond those instructions.
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Make an effort to sharpen
your intuition and tune in to your Christ self, for example by using
the technique
for attunement.
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Always use your common
sense to evaluate any directions you get. Be especially alert toward
any direction that seeks to inflate the two major pitfalls on the
path, namely fear and pride. If the direction plays upon your fears
and seeks to make you take certain actions out of fear, then it
is not from the Ascended Host or your Christ self. Likewise, if
the direction plays upon your pride and tells you how great and
wonderful you are and that the salvation of the entire universe
depends on you taking a particular action, then it is not from a
higher source.
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Also be aware that dark
forces will aggressively seek to manipulate you into taking certain
actions, and this often manifest as a sense of compulsion, making
you feel you simply have to do something. Your Christ self or the
Ascended Host will never seek to manipulate you, but will only seek
to give you an understanding that helps to make the best possible
choices on your own. The dark forces will gladly run your life.
The Ascended Host will not run your life because we know that it
is only by refining your ability to make right choices that you
will make it to the kingdom of Heaven.
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If you get a direction
that doesn't quite seem right, whether because of the contents or
the vibration of the direction, then do not act on it. Simply put
it on the shelf and be completely non-attached to whether the direction
is true. Continue doing your spiritual work and wait for further
directions or confirmation.
- In some cases, you might
get very persistent directions that seek to get you to take a certain
action. If such directions seem aggressive or invasive, they are not
from a higher source. Yet if you put a particular direction on the
shelf and after some time get an inner or an outer confirmation that
the direction was true, you can generally assume that it was from
a higher source. In the case of important, life-changing decisions,
you might want to surrender a direction several times before acting
upon it.
Let me say again that there
truly is no mechanical or absolute way to tell whether a direction is
from a higher or lower source. You simply cannot do this with your analytical
mind or your emotions because they will tell you what you want to hear.
In the end, you can do this only by vibration, which requires you to
have some degree of attunement with your Christ self and the Ascended
Host.
When you have this attunement, you have a sense of the vibration of
your Christ self or an ascended master, and thereby you have a frame
of reference that allows you to compare the vibration of a certain direction
and know from which source it came. This is not a mechanical but an
artistic process. It will not happen overnight, but if you persist in
using the tools I have given on this website, you will gradually expand
your ability to discern.
I know some people will feel like I have not given a very clear direction,
but the reason is that there is no mechanical path to Christhood. The
path to Christhood requires you to make choices by using your own understanding,
discernment and vision. In most situations there is more than one right
choice, so the choice that is right for you is the choice that best
expresses your unique individuality.
The dark forces will seek to make you deny your God-given individuality.
The forces of light will seek to help you express that individuality.
The dark forces want you to accept the identity defined by your human
ego. The forces of light will seek to help you abandon the pseudo identity
of the ego and accept your true identity as a unique spiritual flame.
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