Be selective. Attempt to discern the Spirit that you sense communicating with you. Check your levels carefully to see if you can detect where that communication is coming from. Out of past programming by your parents or your school? Out of the basic self attempting to complete some past pattern? Out of a level of fear not wanting to face reality? There are a lot of possibilities.
– John-Roger (From: The Way Out Book, p. 185)
Sometimes people hear a direction during meditation.Then they take that and amplify it, dramatize it and build on it until it becomes a tremendous “project” they feel they were directed to do. That project may only be an interpretation of the original message, and it may be such a distorted interpretation that it has no relationship to the original. The person who heard the message may be working hard, thinking it’s a God-given process of enlightenment — but it may be “false doctrine.” People have killed because they thought God directed them to do that. And yet most can look rationally at that action and say, “No way. God would never direct anyone to go out and murder another.” But the killer may have thought it was a great idea. I’m sure Hitler thought he had a great idea. Mussolini probably thought he had a great idea, as did Machiavelli. Those are gross examples. But the process can happen in very subtle ways as well as the more obvious ways.
Test the Spirit. Check it out. Look down the road at the consequences and the result of any action you decide to take. Hindsight is often twenty-twenty vision. Look down the road and see if you can activate hindsight prior to the action. Use your common sense. Use the spiritual guidelines that say, “Take care of yourself and take care of others. Don’t hurt yourself and don’t hurt others.” Those are two spiritual guidelines upon which to base your life, two guidelines that will never get you in trouble. Those teachings are of Spirit. Anything telling you to go against those teachings is not of Spirit.
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