As we come into this vibration, I, Albion, come so that we might share some thoughts from a bit of a different perspective than we have been doing thus far. It is innate with a human being, an inherent quality, if you will, from the earliest of humanity up until these modern times, to be “in touch” with and communicate with (which means to exchange energy with) the inhabitants of other kingdoms and other forms of life. Humans have always known, intuitively, that other worlds exist, and all of the earliest religious practices have had spirit communication of one form or another as their basis or foundation. Spirit communication connects the visible and the invisible, the physical and the non-physical. It is the human intuitive mind that has always known that there is something beyond what can be seen, touched, heard, tasted, or smelled.
We sought to make it clear in our last lesson that in order to have a fulfilling, complete spirit communication experience is not to enter into it with preconceived notions about what one will “hear” or receive. When we said, “what the experience will be like,” we are saying that in some way, each spirit communication will be different from any other. The Spirit one makes contact with may be different. The type or method of communication might be different. Methods can change and grow as one grows, you see. It may be the environment can be different, along with the circumstances and/or conditions. The way you approach such communication can change. However, in any case, one should never think that once you have had a successful communication with Spirit, you may think that it will occur the same way every time, though this is not true. We might also say that in terms of human consciousness, the “quality” of one’s consciousness can greatly influence the “quality” of the communication itself. Whether the communication one wishes to experience is successful or not, depends upon many factors. For example, there are those people who have a great deal of intellectual knowledge, but such knowledge does not in any way guarantee a successful, fulfilling experience with the invisible kingdoms or worlds. And it may, in fact, take away from or interfere with the success one seeks. It is the quality of one’s intuition and intuitively gained knowledge that makes the real difference. The more active the intuitive becomes, the more accurate what one receives will be. In other words, there are times when logic gets in one’s way!
We sought to make it clear in our last lesson that in order to have a fulfilling, complete spirit communication experience is not to enter into it with preconceived notions about what one will “hear” or receive. When we said, “what the experience will be like,” we are saying that in some way, each spirit communication will be different from any other. The Spirit one makes contact with may be different. The type or method of communication might be different. Methods can change and grow as one grows, you see. It may be the environment can be different, along with the circumstances and/or conditions. The way you approach such communication can change. However, in any case, one should never think that once you have had a successful communication with Spirit, you may think that it will occur the same way every time, though this is not true. We might also say that in terms of human consciousness, the “quality” of one’s consciousness can greatly influence the “quality” of the communication itself. Whether the communication one wishes to experience is successful or not, depends upon many factors. For example, there are those people who have a great deal of intellectual knowledge, but such knowledge does not in any way guarantee a successful, fulfilling experience with the invisible kingdoms or worlds. And it may, in fact, take away from or interfere with the success one seeks. It is the quality of one’s intuition and intuitively gained knowledge that makes the real difference. The more active the intuitive becomes, the more accurate what one receives will be. In other words, there are times when logic gets in one’s way!
Let us say that a person has had experiences of spirit communication under different circumstances and conditions. Perhaps you have found that most of the experiences were positive, and that you have contributed to the energy of the Spirit and vice versa. Sooner or later, you will likely come to the place where you have developed a code of personal ethics regarding the matter of communicating with Spirit. It is not at all common for a person to have a code of ethics that determines, for the individual, what is right and what is wrong. One’s ethics influences one’s behavior too. However, judging something to be right or wrong is still a personal judgment, and thus a subjective judgment. Even thought much of the time one’s personal judgment is correct, it is still a personal judgment that can and does differ from the ethics of another individual, another culture, another race, etc. And so, as one goes through life, no matter what one encounters, through experiences one develops a code of personal ethics. We could thus define ethics as what determines one’s behavior. All humans are born with inherent traits. As one goes through childhood and grows into adulthood, the inherent traits become one’s personality, which is the way one expresses one’s self in dealing with other people, and how one views life in general.
And then there are those ethics that are “taught” to a human being. These are aside from any inherent qualities or ethics that one is born with. As a rule, parents and/or teachers can teach these additional ethics. As a matter of fact, over the past 25 years or so, teachers have had a much greater, positive impact on their young students than have parents. This is true in both public and private schools. This has had an impact on discipline, on learning capability, and the value of learning in one’s life. There are of course exceptions to this. It simply says that teachers have had, and still do have a greater and better sense of influence than have most parents had upon their children. The bottom line is that other people play important roles in the development of one’s personal code of ethics that is gained by going through life.
Based on what we just said, it is interesting to note that there are individuals who are the only child in a family. These are not exposed to exchanges and interactions with siblings, and are usually the center of attention within the family unit. The parents focus on them and tend to treat them differently, sometimes positively and sometimes not, than the children born into larger families, you see. When the only child has ethics passed on to them, a person who plays the most important role in the child’s life will usually pass it on. For children born into larger families, the sheer numbers of people in the family will eliminate there being one person who passes the “family ethics” on to the children. We think of this as inheriting a “family ethical code.” Family ethics are usually based more on culture and religion than anything else. Even things like education and politics can and do play a role in what the family ethics are and what they are not. Family ethics state that the family unit stands for certain things…peace, honesty, integrity, and so forth. As surprising as it may be, it is unusual that a member of a group such as a family will not stray far from the group ethic unless something profound occurs in a person’s life that causes them to abandon the group ethic completely or, at the very least, refine those ethics to make them more personal and independent in nature. When we say a “profound event or experience” in one’s life, we are speaking specifically of a “soul experience,” a “spiritual awakening” if you will. It is quite common. People are born into a certain religious faith, and they believe in and practice that faith simply because that is what they have been taught, and thus know what to believe and put into practice in their daily lives. Most people, we would say the majority, will not look outside of the borderlines of the group ethics they have been born into. With this sort of person there is sort of satisfaction they possess in their “inherited” code of group ethics.
But then there are those who do not receive such satisfaction or glean any depth of satisfaction or contentment from the code of ethics that he or she has “inherited” or been “taught.” This oftentimes comes from one being born into a certain religion that adheres to a specific code of ethics. We would say that the so-called Golden Rule could identify any of the major world religions. There are also “rules” such as the Ten Commandments, both of which are rules of ethics. These and others like them represent ethical living that are assumed to be correct, and thus represent the lifestyle that one will follow. With the people who are satisfied with these oftentimes religious ethics, there is no reason to change them. But if there is that subtle doubt that sometimes gets planted by what one hears said by others, what one sees in a film, or what one reads in a book, because it identifies that sense of lack of fulfillment due to the shortcomings of the religion they were born into, it doesn't answer questions, and many times raises more questions than it answers. Thus a “seed” is planted in a person’s mind, and that seed gives birth, so to speak, to a Seeker. A Seeker is an archetype. It is the archetype of the Searcher. A Seeker is one who is not fulfilled in their personal, religious or spiritual, economical, sexual, romantic, or some major part of their life. If there is a lack of fulfillment (and a person) realizes and honors that lack is there, then Seeker archetype is born into activity. Of course, the archetype awakens into and becomes part of one’s consciousness. Sooner or later, usually sooner, it will begin to express itself and contribute to who and what one is.
The Seeker is an archetype that each one hearing or reading our words has had awakened at some point in your life. And we would say that the awakening was due primarily by your seeking answers that your belief system does not answer or fulfill. The Seeker is a powerful archetype that is born out of curiosity, oftentimes more so than being born out of a lack of fulfillment, though not always by any means. Curiosity is the primary fuel for the Seeker archetype. It motivates the archetype within. It motivates one to seek answers and experiences that will validate the answers being learned and invalidates, to a point, the religious beliefs that one was raised with. Then one becomes a spiritual seeker more than a religious seeker. Religious seeking is when one simply abandons one religion for another. Religion to many is confining and restricting. And so most of the time religious seekers do not find what they seek because they find that religions, though the restrictions may be expressed or explained in a different manner, or have a different effect. When one realizes this, one “graduates” into being a spiritual Seeker. A spiritual Seeker is not seeking religious truth or intellectual knowledge about religion for any reason. A spiritual Seeker is in search of spiritual experience. An example is seen that when one’s ethics involves the harm of another, one will apologize or take some sort of step to let the other person know that the harm was not intentional, that is was the result of gossip, a bad mood or negative frame of mind, even physical illness. The spiritual Seeker is seeking the experience of the truth, and only an experience can satisfy that person. One can be told that there is a God, but until one has experienced God within, one cannot make a valid statement about the existence of God.
We trust that you will give careful attention to what we have said. We also wish you to clearly understand that we are not saying that adherence to any religion or belief system is wrong. As long as it is fulfilling, it cannot be wrong. But when it activates the Seeker archetype, it is not a matter of whether what you believe is right or wrong, but is it fulfilling? If not, then the search is on!
Let us now take what we have said and apply it to the matter of spirit communication. We have said that ethics knows right from wrong. A person can know that murder is wrong, but yet they go and take someone’s life. A person may realize that thievery is wrong, but yet they steal. They know that lying is wrong, but yet they lie. These things, though wrong, are an integral part of human behavior. When we say that one knows the difference between right and wrong is one thing, but to see one living by this principle is not at all uncommon. If one truly believes that stealing or lying or killing is wrong, then one simply does not abandon that ethic for any reasonable reason. One’s ethic determines what one thinks is right or wrong, but also determines what one believes to be true. If one thinks that there is a Creator who is divine and eternal in nature, then this is one’s beliefs based upon the ethics that one has. The ethic comes first, followed by the experience that tells you if the ethic that is being or has already been adopted is valid or not. Belief follows because what one decides to believe comprises one’s own personal code of ethics.
One’s own code of ethics also determines the decisions one will make. If one, for example, is exposed to an opportunity that is not exactly honest but is a scheme, but yet one knows that he or she can make a lot of money from it, they will not engage in it IF his or her code of ethics is strong and in tact. Such a person will not entertain breaking his or her own code of ethics for personal gain. A person whose ethics changes with the wind will not only consider breaking an ethic, but is likely to do precisely that. Ethics do not change with the wind. They are changed only after a profound experience in life that changes who and what one is.
Spirit communication requires ethics in the following ways. First, one should never approach such communication if it only be to petition for self-satisfaction. What we mean by this is if one prays for their own prosperity, healing, and so forth, this is unethical. Spirit is likely to turn a deaf ear to this sort of selfish, repetitious prayer and person. It is not wrong to pray for what one wants or what one needs. What is wrong is if it always concerns only one person…you. If something concerns only you, and you get what you seek, someone – someone close or someone across the globe - will lose what you have gained. It is like a global check and balance system, you see. Remember, this kind of petition benefits only you.
Also, one should not pray or petition the Spirits in any way on behalf of another individual without one of two things occurring. One is that the other person may not have asked for your prayers. If they have, however, it is appropriate to go forward with the prayers. If a person has not requested prayer for whatever reason, then if you do so it literally becomes “black magic” to make a petition for another individual. This statement can be very difficult for people to accept. Sometimes this is because others do not understand how or why praying for another person is wrong. How can praying for someone’s health or prosperity be wrong? The reason is because the condition the person being prayed for is a karmic condition. Debts to be paid, benefits that have been earned are karmic, and when one prays on behalf of another, especially if it is done without the person’s permission, (it) can cause the praying one to link themselves to the person AND their karma. It is as if you have taken on part of the condition the person is experiencing.
When it comes to the ethics of spirit communication, it is absolutely unacceptable to do so blindly. If you do, then this indicates that you do not have sufficient knowledge of the nature and power of the Spirits in general, much less individual ones. In everyday affairs in human life, it is said that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law. Well, the same holds true when it comes to spirit communication. Ignorance of the Spirits or even one Spirit, which is the one you are addressing, is no excuse for you to engage in a novena or a ceremony or a meditation practice without having enough knowledge to do so in a harmless way. One would be foolish, for example, if one were given a Book of Shadows or Spirits and came across the name of a spirit named Samuel. You may like the name, so you decide go make prayers and call upon this Spirit without ever realizing that in the Christian religion this is but another name for Satan. Satan embodies the evil in the world and in humanity.
We said that curiosity gives rise to the Seeker. The first thing that should be sought is knowledge…to educate one’s self about whatever is involved. Maybe you have the desire to know more about spirit communication. Maybe you wish to communicate with your spirit guide. What if a psychic who your guide is, what he or she looks like, and so on have told you? If you trust the psychic who informed you of these things, then you seek a communication with this spirit guide. When one seeks such a communication and knows in their heart that the sought for connection has not been made because one does not feel exhilarated or fulfilled, as if one is waiting for the other shoe to fall, then it is an incomplete experience that is likely to show that you have either been misinformed by the psychic, or that there is some fear or doubt that is affecting the communication experience.
Names of Spirits mean nothing to the Spirits. Maybe you have a guide that looks a particular way to you, but this still does not matter to the Spirit involved. What is makes a difference to is that if your perception or sense of a Spirit is fulfilling, that a “message” is forthcoming, and it is one that provides guidance and useful information to you. Such communications should give you peace and comfort. When these feelings come, then it is highly likely that the reason for you seeking the communication in the first place is indeed valid.
It is not wrong that when one needs anything, then making prayers to get what is needed is absolutely appropriate…no exceptions. Need is valid. All too often, people do not know the difference between need and desire. In fact, with many people desire is a much more powerful than need. Knowing the difference between need and desire is an ethic. It is an ethic that will determine why you communicate with Spirit to begin with.
Is it wrong for one to pray, therefore, for what one wants? No. As long as you receive what is desired you will use it to bring benefit to others. An example is seen when one prays for money. When and if the moneyis received, then the receiver has a responsibility to honor the benefactor, whatever its source may be. If you learn something from an artist about how to paint, and you become a professional artist, then in the beginning of your earnings should return to the source of your prosperity…the teacher. This can be thought of as love, caring, tithing, or whatever you wish, but to us it is an ethical practice to do so.
Compensation does not always mean money, and can take the form of doing the source a simple favor. Ethics are contagious. When others see that you are living by your code of ethics, they too will often seek to do the same. You become a role model in this way.
When we come together again we will talk about how a group of people such as a club or class, can and often does attract a spirit that works with group consciousness. It is like an adviser. This spirit is different from any other spirit guide or Teacher you may have personally. We will speak about this in our next lesson. God bless yourselves.
Originally published April 10, 2007.
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