ALLOWING SPIRIT TO WORK THROUGH US

lion: How do we know when SPIRIT is working through us? What techniques do we use to facilitate the process? How do we differentiate between what WE do and what SPIRIT does through us? What do we believe about how spirit works? Here, we are looking for practical advice and techniques that really work. No, we don't expect these to be the same for each of us. However, the sharing of our experiences and perspectives may allow us to assist one another in doing whatever we do better thus facilitating the overall expression of SPIRIT in our lives, in our communities, and in our world.

lion: Namaste All! I'll be back at 7:00PM PST to discuss this with any who are interested.

lion: In the meantime, clicking on my name will bring you to the latest issue of The Search for Center newsletter. It came out on Friday.

lion: We'll, as promised, I returned. I see that no one has added anything, however. Hmm...

lion: Hmm... I guess spirit is attempting to tell me something. This is the either #11 or #12, and the weekly forums still aren't attracting many, if any, participants.

lion: Spirit primarily expresses via intuition to me. However, this does not occur in any set way. In fact, the variety of means that spirit employs to get her messages across is quite fascinating. She is very resourceful ... further, the language of symbols that she uses is quite dense and compact. Meaning can unveil for days ... sometimes weeks, from a single symbolic event or a specific symbol as simple as a 7 character alphanumeric string in a license plate.

lion: I have always favored inner knowing to reasoned knowing. It was as if rational conclusions were somehow suspect ... hanging out there on thin air without a sound basis regardless of how elaborate the reasoning.

lion: I've always had a sense that if it took a labored argument to show something or "prove" it, somehow one was missing the key point. Truth should be simple and obvious ... such labored reason somehow seemed the "dirty" way to arrive at what should be simple.

lion: Yes, I'm raving on to myself again. Don't worry, I'm quite accustomed to it by now. :)

lion: I'm aware that I have not yet encountered any others who do this. But, such has not stopped me from doing things before. Most of my life has been lived doing things and thinking about things in ways that others in my world have not done. I do it because I am moved to do it. I express in the ways that I do because I must. There really is no alternative as far as I can see. Hmm... Perhaps I'm not looking in the right direction.

lion: Then again, why should it matter. I trust that there is something that must be said through me. NO, I do not sense or experience that it is me that is saying it. Nor do I sense that it is another, as in a separate being. It comes from what I call "source", my connection to spirit through which all such information in my life has always come. It is connected to me, but it is more than me.

lion: Much of my life has been lived "alone". Though, I would not say that I have been "lonely" ... at least, not very much. I don't know WHY that is. I only know that such is my experience. I can be in the middle of a crowd and still feel very "alone", as if there are no real connections between me and most others.

lion: Interesting, "Lion" with an "e" on the end. Namaste!

lion: In a very real way, spirit has always been beside me ... not as a separate entity, but as an invisible guide. While, I never observed HER, the gifts that she left always had great impact on my life. They always entered subtly, usually involving intuition in some way ... but they were always there, whenever I truly needed anything. Interesting.

lion: How did I know it was not "me" doing the things? Because they always involved things that "me" could not have known ... things that I had not learned. Yes, they were things that I was ready for ... but there was no person in the world (not even "me") aware of whom I was and what I might need.

lion: Over the past 3.5 years, the intuition has been active virtually fulltime. Yet, still it encounters no others ... still there are no beings to whom it is connected or that it recognizes as separate and distinct. I find this curious. But, I trust my perception of what I experience. Yes, even though there is nothing to confirm it against. I've been looking for others with similar experience to see how their understanding of their experience might relate to my own, but none have been forthcoming.

lion: Namaste Alma!

Alma: Hello Lion

lion: My sense is that they may never will. Perhaps it will always be part of my path to live on the edge ... to have to deal firsthand with uncertainty and experience that is different from others. Right now, there is a deep sense of acceptance ... a knowingness that whatever will be will be, and that I will be able to deal with it appropriately. Such is the role of feedback in our lives. We do things, observe the results, then adjust our actions appropriately to incorporate the feedback in whatever manner is fitting.

lion: As you can see Alma ... I'm in a monologue again. Feel free to join in or ask questions if you'd like. :)

Alma: I am tring to read what you are saying. What is your interest?

lion: Clicking on my name takes you to The Search for Center Newsletter. BEYOND IMAGINATION can be reached from there as well. That's where the works that spirit does through me get captured and expressed.

lion: Building the infrastructures and foundations necessary for spirit to express more fully in flesh. Discovering the nature of the spiritual world, of reality, and reality creation ... just to name the BIG ones. :)

Alma: Don't go away. I am going to click your name now.

lion: OK, but it may take you awhile to get back. :)

Alma: When you speak of the spirt, do you mean God?

lion: Just as my lips have no awareness of the origination of the words that pass through them, so my mind has no awareness of the words that come from source that pass through it. Yes, it can observe, interpret, analyze, assign meaning, try to understand, and react to what comes through. But it is NOT the creator ... in much the same manner it does not create the ideas that it reads in books. The inner feeling is much the same. It is a knowingness that the words do not originate in the brain ... that the mind is but the observer, active though it might be.

lion: Hmm... I don't generally speak of "God". That term has a masculine association for me that I do not personally experience. SPIRIT is THE ONE, consciousness herself to me. I always experience her as Divine Feminine.

lion: Others seem to experience the "Father" or masculine God as Jesus himself spoke of. Still others sense the Divine as neutral ... as neither feminine nor masculine or as both in one.

lion: I do not relate to such a "Father". Nor do I relate to SPIRIT as "Mother". She is simply the ONE, SOURCE, and she has a feminine nature or feeling associated with all the interaction I experience with her. Interesting. There is no sense that she is my "Mother" or my creator. Rather, the knowingness is that we are ONE even though I am only presently aware of being a small piece of the ONE. Hmm... There seems to be nothing blocking my eventual full awareness of being the ONE except the blocks that I have placed there. Hmm...

lion: For spiritual matters, I have found it is best to speak of the experience itself, and to avoid labelling it with terms that have common usage though they have no clear definitions.

lion: Well, it has been a long day, and I have other matters to attend to before I conclude for the evening. This will be the last of the regular Monday evening forums conducted by The Search for Center (or, perhaps I should say moderated or guided by "lion" for The Search for Center).

lion: NAMASTE ALL! In Peace, Love and Light, Wayne