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from Jesus:
When you perform muscle testing,
you are essentially making a measurement, much like a scientist who
is measuring a subatomic particle. As you know from quantum physics,
any measurement made by scientists is a product of three factors, and
one of them is the consciousness of the scientist.
When you perform muscle testing, you have an interaction between the
consciousness of the person being tested and the consciousness of the
person performing the test. That is why there is no such thing as a
completely accurate muscle test. However, this also holds true for any
other kind of test, including what many scientists call objective experimentation.
One could take this into an extreme viewpoint and say that muscle testing
is therefore useless. However, this is not a completely accurate reaction.
Nevertheless, I must also caution about going into the other extreme
and thinking that muscle testing is always accurate. The truth is found
somewhere in the middle.
In Save Yourself I give detailed teachings about why spiritual
or intuitive visions can be very different, and it would take too long
to go into detail here. The bottom line is this that muscle testing,
or any other procedure like it, will be influenced by the consciousness
of both people involved. The question then is how great this influence
is, or rather whether it is so great an influence that the muscle testing
becomes invalid.
That answer can be given only on an individual basis. It has a lot to
do with the purity of motive of both of the people involved. If the
person seeking answers through muscle testing is attached to a certain
type of answer, then that will affect the outcome. If the person performing
the muscle testing is attached to a certain type of answer, that too
will affect the outcome.
There are many examples of people who have engaged in muscle testing
and received completely unreliable results that were simply a reflection
of these people’s subconscious minds and desires. However there
are also many examples of people who have used this technique to gain
valid answers. I sense that your question will be, ”Well, how
can I determine what is valid and what is not?” The answer is,
as I have stated in all of the books, to build a relationship to your
Christ self and thereby achieve inner discernment. I know this is not
a cut and dry answer, but it is the only answer there is.
When a person begins to recognize the spiritual side of life, the person
realizes that there is more to understand about life than what you can
receive through outer, intellectual knowledge. However, the person has
not yet built a strong enough relationship to the Christ self to always
get accurate and complete answers from within. In this interim stage,
it is natural that the soul will seek some help and guidance from outer
sources.
What is really happening here is that the soul’s outer mind, or
lower mind, is interfering with or blocking the insights that the soul
receives from the Christ self. So what the soul needs is some source
outside its lower mind that can give it answers that are not influenced
by that lower mind. One might say that the soul needs a way to bypass
the subjective lower mind and get more objective directions.
If you find a practitioner who has achieved a higher level of Christhood
than yourself and who is completely non-attached to the answers, then
muscle testing can be used as a viable technique for bypassing the lower
mind. Yet you will always face the risk that if you are strongly attached
to a particular answer, or if you are strongly opposed to a particular
answer, then you will influence the muscle testing.
So my guideline here would be to recognize muscle testing as a valid,
but not infallible, tool. You should engage in an effort to create the
right conditions for the muscle testing by raising your own consciousness
and by working on overcoming attachments. Yet at the same time you should
recognize the limitations of muscle testing.
Because muscle testing involves the body, it is best suited for answers
that relate to the body. However, skilled practitioners can use muscle
testing for other topics, such as emotional and psychological issues.
You must recognize that there are certain questions that you should
not ask through muscle testing because it will not give reliable results.
This is especially true for questions about what to do in life. The
spiritual path is about helping you master your free will and make better
decisions. So if you use a tool, such as muscle testing, in an attempt
to avoid making your own decisions, you are jeopardizing your spiritual
growth.
An important consideration is the fact that muscle testing gives you
only “yes” and “no” answers. When you formulate
a question in such a way that it can be answered by a yes or no, you
will have certain limitations on the type of questions you can ask.
You also run the risk that the wording of the question can have a huge
influence upon the answer.
In general, muscle testing is not suited to asking philosophical questions
or even questions about the big decisions in your life. These are the
questions you must answer from an inner source namely from your Christ
self.
In a nutshell, feel free to experiment with muscle testing but see it
as a tool with certain limitations. Be aware that any tool can become
a set of crutches. If you rely too much on the tool, it will hold you
back and restrict you instead of setting you free. What I am basically
saying here is that you should not allow any tool to become a substitute
for Christ consciousness.
In the end, the reliable answers are the ones you get directly from
your Christ self. If muscle testing helps you get such answers or clarify
your intuitive answers, then by all means use it. If muscle testing
becomes a crutch that influences or distorts the answers, then it no
longer serves a viable purpose.
You should be especially careful not to become codependent upon a tool
so that you become afraid to make decisions without using the tool.
You simply cannot grow spiritually if you make all of your decisions
based on muscle testing or any other tool.
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