Inner-Knowing: Insight into the Big Picture

Previously, I had written in my blog about how essential it is to be in touch with one’s Inner-Knowing. There are many religions and philosophies that recommend this practice and the process is called by many names. It is not my goal to validate a specific religion or a philosophy because to me this information all comes from the same God/Creator source. What we glean from the energy in this knowledge reflects the cultural and societal filters we are exposed to. I always review my Knowing in an effort to eliminate cultural and societal biases.

I view Inner-Knowing to be the manifestation of the Soul as animated by the Spirit, which is the energized Love principal. Love is not simply a feeling reaction—Love is an energy so powerful it creates Life. This Love energy comes to us, from the Creator, down a silver cord to sustain our life and is sometimes referred to as the Holy Spirit. Since the energy is Pure Love energy, it does not judge, criticize, or give one-person power over another. Love energy is egalitarian just as the Creator is egalitarian about all of Creation. (There will be Hell to pay when the Creator asks, why did you poison the drinking water?)

I read an article that described the concept of Soul Competency. The term is very appealing and compelling as I am a person who is drawn to the Spiritual. I like being a trinity of Mind, Body and Spirit. I believe we should live life in a balanced manner evolving our Mind, Body and Spirit.

The essence of understanding Soul Competency is to accept that man is created in the image of the Creator. That man is endowed with an innate awareness and knowing of the Creator/Creation, and is by nature worshipful. Competency implies that the Soul of man is inherently competent, responsible, and ultimately accountable to the Creator and Creation. Man’s soul has the ability to contemplate the Creator and Creation and is capable of making moral judgments.

Love energy flows to us nonstop. When we choose to utilize Spiritual Love energy, it is our Soul Competency that reveals our Inner-Knowing. Inner-Knowing gives us insight into the Big Picture of Life. Choosing to access your Inner-Knowing may not yield answers that are compatible with worldly success. However, communing with Inner-Knowing brings balance, peace and harmony.

YES, IT IS A DISCIPLINED LISTENING BEHAVIOR. And the truth is attaining self-discipline does bring success in the worldly, every-day life.

The other day I was restless. I felt my self-esteem and self-worth eroding. My mind had no focused thought—it was like a black hole filled my mind and my heart. I could not even find words for the question that seemed to be weighing on my mind. It was time to meditate and seek out my Inner-Knowing. Some people call this process—going into your prayer closet. Since Inner-Knowing is inspired by God/Creator’s Love energy, I visualize myself talking to God through the Holy Spirit. (I find my religious bias comforting. It is highly possible that religious scholars would find my beliefs flawed. —I’m just saying)

Q. Hi God, there is a central question that resides in my heart—yet when I try to put it into words—it I like trying to hold onto dry sand. The more I try to examine it the more it mutates shape and finally escapes through my fingers. You know that at the core of my belief system is that you are faithful to your word. You tell us to call out to you and you will hear you and us will answer us. I know this is true.

I often struggle when I cannot hear your response. All kinds of doubts run through my mind. You are too busy to hear me. My needs are too trivial. I’ve displeased or angered you. You are disappointed that after all the time you have invested in me, I lack trust in you—that you are listening to me and caring for me. You’ve given me the gifts to fulfill all of my needs but I don’t trust myself to work it out. You view me as lazy and wasteful. You are upset with me that I do not appreciate how your plan for me works out in my life. I could have done more and a better job at living up to your expectations. Life in the world and circumstances are so dire—you are focusing your attention on more effective spiritual workers. I am too self-involved and you want selfless spiritual workers. I am dominated by my fears and insecurities—this corrupts my energy flow making it weak and useless. All of these thoughts, ideas and more keep me from hearing you.

But still after all of this, I know if I ask you to read the hidden question in my heart and give me an answer, you can and will do this because you love me. You created me and you do not give up on me. You are the perfect parent. So I am here for counsel. What is the answer to the hidden question that troubles my mind?

1. Daughter be at peace. Our acquaintance-ship is long and tumultuous. Your mind is like a ship in a rough sea—tossed about in the winds of change. You are wise in your willingness to accept the unseen and seek the truth that lies therein. Am I faithful to my creation? I Am—indeed without fail—millennia upon millennia. Can I answer your every need? I can and do. Wherein lies your confusion? It is in the shifting tide of your perception. Your thoughts are your life raft. You cling to them to save your soul. Your raft is often flimsy and ill conceived. Your thoughts are the thoughts of man. Be still and listen within. Do I send winds of change? The answer is yes. Those who see me as frozen in time neglect to see me in Nature—my true nature ever evolving. Do I impose my will upon your daily lives? I do not. I have not empowered anyone to do what I myself choose not to do. I give free will. I give choice. I give sunlight. I give air. I give the enlivening power of Love.

You want me to speak to the hidden question in your heart. It is I who put the question in your heart. It is you I created to find the answer. The answer is the evolving path of your life to your inner knowing. I would only add judge not by the mind of man. All of your doubts and questions lie in the man-mind. All of your answers lie in the Spirit Mind. Your man-mind is a flimsy raft on the storm tossed ocean of emotion. Your Spirit Mind has the potential to walk on water, as my Son did not so long ago.

As I have told you Daughter, when you—when anyone calls put to me I send forth a Love energy. This energy is an inspiration. This Love energy energizes that which is yourself and the answers to your needs are co created. I send the same Love energy to the person standing next to you—the same energy and as much. No one receives less and no receives more. How you use the energy is free will. It is not up to you to judge—rightness, wrongness, goodness, badness. The Spirit’s duty is to discern my Love empowering each living thing and to honor the fact that I live in each living thing. To diminish the value of any other living being or living aspect of my creation is to devalue Me—I AM. Nothing is made but that it was made from Me.

One final thought---learning to listen to you inner guidance is time well spent. If your logical mind starts trying to edit grammar, or questions vocabulary, or begins to actively judge---take a deep breath, let it out slowly and refocus on just listening. Remember the Knowing you receive is primarily for your own growth. I believe this process to be egalitarian--for everyone. Soul Competency is self-responsibility--respect others' free will.

HAPPY MEDITATING!