Learning to trust your Self and spiritual discernment are two of the greatest skills one can learn on the path to Awakening. The spiritual community sometimes feels like a veritable minefield of misinformation, ego, and experts who should not be dispensing advice.
Sometimes I think this is by design. Today on planet Earth there is a wide range of human frequencies. Discernment is imperative, and it shouldn’t be turned off just because someone is “spiritual.”
When it comes to teachers, I have never met someone who has an accuracy better than 90%. And I think that 90% is as good as it gets. Teachers and healers can be 100% in integrity, for your best and highest good, and still make mistakes. There are several reasons for this. Some of the information that comes through is filtered through the personality. Sometimes the teacher has not had a direct experience of a phenomenon you are referring to and therefore has no frame of reference for it. There are also cultural and other collective beliefs that sometimes inhibit pure truth from being received and transmitted to the asker.
There are also various levels of awakening. Someone may have healed their pain body, and purified their ego, but not yet opened their third eye. They may not have the vision to see world events clearly. There is a body energy component to awakening that usually takes time to develop and unfold. Another interesting phenomenon, that I have witnessed personally, is that teachers can drop in consciousness. There are several famous teachers who reached the pinnacle of enlightenment, and as they became popular sank in their level of awareness. It can be a challenge to maintain a high level of consciousness when surrounded by a population who are at much lower levels. This is why historically, so many teachers needed to retreat, and take periods of silence and isolation. I have seen many teachers drop and continue on with their teachings, not quite sure what happened. But as you hone your energetic senses you will be able to feel when this occurs in someone. It is another reason why you must always use your own discernment.
I feel incredibly blessed to have studied with the healers that became my teachers. As accurate and gifted as each of them were, I found that not a single one of them was 100% accurate. And, I found that even though they all had higher levels of consciousness than I did, that there were some experiences of mine that they simply were not able to understand because it wasn’t in their realm of experience. I learned early on to be open enough to be learn – after all, if I knew everything I would have no need for a teacher. But if my own intuition loudly spoke that something is off, I trusted that. It has served me well.
The way I see it, the age of the Guru – of endless devotion and obedience – is over. This was, for a long time, considered to be one of the fastest ways to move along the spiritual path. Today we are being guided back to our own Inner Authority, back to our own light and guidance. Let us meet there, and shine our individual lights together.
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“There are also various levels of awakening.”
I KNOW IT!!
😅I always get frustrated with other guru’s answers when it comes to the “soul maturity” level difference.
Ye i know we all one, but there really also various levels of awakening too!
(maybe i’m a bit ego)
there is more in the mystical worlds and more variety than any infinity can come close to comprehending. there is also completely stark differences in the SORTS of things that can manifest. anywhere from the highest to the most centered. self is not an illusion but a truth that is trying ti express and create its reality. oneness is just the nature of certain phenomenon and not the nature of reality itself. there isn’t one reality. there are many and beyond that. the human and the spiritual realms from the highest to the lowest are involved in great fragmentation, inner contradiction, illusion and manipulations. the human being is beign manipulated at every level, spiritual and mundane by a world which can change its very manifestation under the rule of higher powers and beings. all of which are the result of the fragmentation and mess that is in reality itself. not merely lower but the highest.
every being that seemingly ‘rises’ is met with greater and greater illusion, non wholeness, manipulation and attacks. not a SINGLE being on this earth whether alive or in non physical states is free from this. therefore there ARE no teachers whatsoever. only beings caught in various kinds of illusion. (nirvana is also such an illusion though worlds exist where that manifestation becomes reality).
the best that we can do is slowly but holistically activate our energy systems. (if we are already on the field of energetic uncovering, if not its best not to) while remembering that though corrupted, the self we have which exists most easily in ur solar plexus and heart, is the only doorway to truth that we posses. against ALL the prescriptions of all the popular spiritual schools. which are subtly or not so subtly dominated with powers trying to undermine, fragment and control humans.
And that truth inside us which is where whatever little truth is there in our self and knowing comes from, is our only true savior. and it isn’t to be found in Jesus, god or Buddha or a guru.
And that the obstacles we find are not tests by truth or the universe but ways to break us and now allow us to be whole in whatever empowerment or unfolding comes to us. they are attacks and nothing more. we have veiled them in idealistic devotion as masochistic ‘worshipers’ of things higher than us trying to guide us.
the best we can do is hold onto ourselves and the truths and parts of us. otherwise we may simply be controlled, our entire system to create more of the fragmentation in both higher and lower realms, between empathy and anger love and hate and every other false opposite that exists in this world.
Remember to trust yourself. and to know that what feels wrong is.
and that truth exists.
but it is not of this world.
but it exists in you.
don’t deny parts.
Hello, Is it common to feel a need to change one’s name at rebirth?