Since my entry pertaining to the total fraud I encountered within my spiritual practices (related – of course – to other people) I’ve been spending more time meditating, more time dedicated to reconnecting myself to Spirit and grounding myself in my personal relationship w/Him/Her. And, in my meditations and other readings, I started getting more and more intense premonitions and spot-on symbolism in my other means of communion.
(At first it really freaked me out – like, sleep-with-the-lights-on freaked out -, which I was embarrassed about. I mean, I’m running around proclaiming to believe in this sort of thing and then when it actually starts to happen and become tangible, I get scared? That doesn’t make sense. And then I realized that a lot of people are like that. A few months ago I was talking to Greg about Catholic miracles in which those taking the manmade tincture felt it change into flesh in their mouths and pulled bleeding, warm muscle matter off their tongues to show to the rest of the congregation. When I asked why they didn’t just continue eating it because that is, after all, what Catholics specifically believe – that the bread and wine physically is Jesus Christ and not just a symbol – he didn’t really have a decent answer except that there was shock and awe involved. I think that’s exactly what I’m experiencing as of late.)
And then I figured out what was going on. Four days before I went to this faux minister, I had a really intense session with my group in which I was tapped more accurately into my friends’ energies than ever before and was receiving strong validation for my readings. It was incredible. Then, after the reading from the minister set me back, the readings kept coming in strong and I realized that the whole thing must’ve been a test.
Through my life, every time people have gotten in the way of my spirituality, I’ve thrown in the towel and walked away from all of it, including my relationship with Spirit/God/whatever I called her at the time. This has happened in two separate major events, once when I was 18 and then again when I was 21-22-ish. This time, however, instead of running away when people pissed me off, I went back to the source and focused my energy on bypassing outside, human influence and that was new for me. I think God was testing me, saying “Alright, I’ve got some big stuff set up for you, but I’ve gotta know you’re on board with me this time.” And the minute I came back, I started getting even stronger feedback and staggering evidence that God was excited and proud of me and ready to get to work.
Again, it was sort of terrifying to see tangible evidence of the Spirit energy sitting dead (or alive…) in front of my face, but it was also incredibly rewarding to know that, finally, I chose the right adventure. Hooray!
So, in brief, things are incredible right now. On a number of levels, although this is the one that feels the best. Easily.
As someone who was raised without religion of any kind, this kind of stuff makes me raise an eyebrow….and then I realize that…”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
So, part of me also goes “cooooool, I wish I believed in stuff like that.” I mean, I do read Tarot cards and things, but I sort of explain it away with quantum physics and the whole “energy we don’t yet understand” thing. Ack.
Not sure where I’m going with that, but…I’m glad you’re happy and doing good things for yourself!
See, I believe that the Tarot thing is a lot like what you described, except I assign the “energies we don’t yet understand” to the vast category that is “Spirit” or “The Great Understanding” or “ALL”. It’s all one and the same to me, I just assign it a gender and a personality whereas you just believe in energies outside ourselves and not one booming I Am ruling over all of it… I think I got that right. Right?
Well, yeah…. and by “energy” I basically just mean the stuff that’s all around us and we’re made up of, protons and neutrons and quarks and all those teensy-ass little things we can’t see except with electron microscopes.
I have absolutely no idea how any of it might work, no real theories…the whole thing about positive thoughts/energy in our brains helping us heal/creating better things for us, vs negative thought patterns/illness…all that! No idea! But it’s cool. I guess some people might assign that to a god/spirit, but that’s not how I was raised, and I’m fine with not having any handy explanation for it except Science We Don’t Understand.
So yes, in short. Ha.