Let's follow up on the question of inner guidance from our last talk.
OK, where shall we start?
You said guidance can come through many levels; psychic, spiritual and divine.
Right, and that one can be misled through the psychic and even the spiritual levels. That the psychic can include a spectrum from pendulums to spirit guides and that the divine, which would demand a true effacement of ego-mind's power, is the true guarantee of that process of effacement.
And what about what you're calling the spiritual level?
Of course this a kind of arbitrary division, since what we usually call spiritual may be so open-ended. But let's just say that spiritual experiences are still in the realm of the phenomenal, not the source of the phenomenal, even though they more and more approach that source. Yet it would still be a level where the false self can still run interference, can still insinuate itself in what we think is our intuition, can still pull the strings.
And there's the problem, one's feeding their own subconscious input into what they think is guidance to do this or that.
There's the potential problem. That's why the clearest approach for guidance isn't whether to do this or that.
What sort of guidance would that be?
The kind that automatically reduces our sense of a separate self so that whatever we do is done with the effort to serve something greater than ourselves, to be attentive to that something, to welcome but not require even its presence. Bottom line: the process of elimination of who we think we are finally results from the Beloved's grace, the ultimate guidance.
And how would we know it, recognize it to be guidance?
Actually our usual self would have no idea about the specifics of that action on us. It all comes down to one thing, that there can only be an intuitive recognition that claims nothing for itself.
