Mystictourist's Blog

In my recent post, Divine Assistance, I wrote of spirit guides. In that piece the spirits I mentioned were the spirits that animate us. These, in my view, are the most important spirits. If our spirit is angry, resentful, depressed then our spirit is dark and it attracts other dark spirits. We create a place, like a harbor, to keep, nurture and develop, a durable presence. Other dangerous spirits are those of self-importance or selfishness. These spirits can create a great deal of worldly success and even the illusion of happiness and true value. They are as a fire that keeps the darkness, and the dark spirits, at bay. The fire is caused by a friction that consumes and leaves us in the company of those dark spirits.

The harbor I wrote of is a false harbor as its value is, naught.

We can, of course, animate our self with other spirits, spirits of light, or enlightenment. I mentioned them, or at least some of them in ‘Divine Assistance’. These spirits behave a little differently. They do not build a false harbor, they dismantle it. As we free our self from our false constraint we can begin to recognize spirits, other than our spirit. Spirits who are free. Spirits who guide and protect us. While our dark spirits attract other dark spirits to us, spirits of light attract us to them.

I am sure that we all see these spirits. We certainly see the spirits that we allow to animate our selves. We corrupt our creative authority with ignorance. When we choose ignorance it always creates denial and we pretend not to see where we are, who we are and who is here with us.

Michael, The Mystic Tourist

As is common, I discovered that it was time for me to add a blog post. I sat for some time wondering what in the world I might write about, I only knew it was what I was going to do. ‘Divine’ finally revealed itself, I pondered, Divine what… Assistance. OK. What is that? Let me find out.

Actually I am well-practiced at divination and the above process is an example of it. I seek divine assistance in everything I do. My life is that of a singular devotion, to God. I also place all of my confidence in God and nothing else. I have no other idea as to how else to live. You see to me devotion to, and confidence in, only God, encompasses everything I might have to do. What could I be given to do that will not be realized in this way? Is there some commitment, some relationship that goes without when God is the singular devotion, the well for my confidence?

God is to be realized by Gods own presence, I make no determination to say, ‘this’ is God, or, ‘that’ is what God said. I do not look for God in text thinking that I must rely on someone else’s experience to walk with God. God is realized by God’s own being and no other way. What if God does not exist? It makes no difference, then that would be God. How could that possibly change anything?

I think the existence of God is obvious, however, whatever God is or if God is naught.

How do I measure my walk with God, my place on the path of providence? I look for spirit guides. There are many spirits but it is helpful to consider the spirits that we allow to animate our self. When I consider that which is absolute or what can be considered of an absolute nature I consider what does animate those qualities in my life. That which is, is absolute, and confidence is a spirit that animates that in my life. Compassion, can only exist in a single measure, a measure that is enough for all. It is absolute and love is the spirit that animates it in my life. Understanding, nothing can organize itself well enough to exist without it, it is absolute, and acceptance, is a spirit that animates it in my life. Truth, is absolute, things can not be except as they are. The spirit of truth is grace and it animates truth in my life.

How do we find these and make them a part of our life? We must choose the path to the narrow gate. That gate is forgiveness. Forgiveness allows for these to find a place in our life, but who should we forgive? There is only one, when we have it for this one we have it for everyone. The only person we are asked to forgive is our self. You see if we have forgiveness there, it exists, and all who find us find it.

Who is God? Where is God? What is God? Ask God, and trust only God, not what is said about God, not some doctrine. Trust God if you would Know God.

Michael, The Mystic Tourist

Another way I consider the ego is like a chalkboard. We make all manner of grand designs on it and it comes to be the expression we make of our self. Many consider it as a monster or devil. Something we must defeat, kill, if we are to find our spiritual value. I think the ego is to be cared for.

When we look to our chalkboard and see what we have created it is intended we would learn a lesson. We can erase something here add something there, clean it up. When we clean it up, erase enough of it, we begin to see a transparency. It is the transparent nature of ego that lends a place for divine living and there is no divine life without it.

This is how the ego is our teacher. We must learn to love our ego. To care for it and present it properly. Doing this we discover empathy, compassion and love, as you can not clean the ego up without these. In applying these qualities as cleaning agents, or eraser, of our ego, transparency is achieved and what we used to clean it with remains.

The ego is like a child . As we grow, mature, we are given the opportunity to nurture our ego and heal it. It does not always happen. Sometimes we carry the ego as a disease.

Perhaps a better way to consider the ego is as a garden. As we grow, mature, we come to see that we can choose what does or does not grow there. We can shape the garden to appear or look a certain way. This is the purpose of the ego and it is a good purpose. Too often the ego shapes us and we consider it poorly, even if in our mind we think we hold it in good regard.

It is intended that we hold our ego in good regard and take care to present it in the best way. It is not to be maligned but to be nurtured and cared for. In the same way we would nurture and care for others. When we take proper care of our ego it is as a gift to our community and our self.

I first posted this as a reply to a blog post on Learning Tree.