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Most people reading this have suffered from some form of guilt all their lives.

Guilt is a terrible emotion. Most often, it’s not called for. Countless good people flog themselves with guilt for minor offenses, imagined wrongs or failures, and unavoidable human frailties.

So, let me ask you, what is guilt? You know when you feel guilty, but do you know what guilt is? The dictionary defines guilt as:

a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. (Emphasis mine.) Also, being judged for an offense and found guilty.

Guilt, of course, has a direct association with “having a conscience”, our sense of “right” and “wrong” and how we respond to our inner Judge. Many folks have a merciless inner Judge and they use it to abuse themselves constantly over things they’ve done–or believe they’ve done–that they judge as wrong. Even worse, people feel guilt over things they’ve done that other people judge as wrong, or would judge as wrong if others knew about it. Thus shame, secrecy and repression have become part of the human psychological makeup and the lucrative, circuitous profession of “Freudian psychoanalysis” was born.

A principle belief of our Christian culture is that guilt is one of those things in life that is both justified and necessary. We have been told we are born guilty (in sin) and that we need to either be redeemed or get punished. This “blanket acceptance” of guilt seeps into all aspects of our psyche and has a direct impact on every area of our lives. As a society, we have grown increasingly enamored with punishment and we impose guilt on others based upon our own ideas of right and wrong. But for the purpose of healing ourselves of the sufferings of guilt, we must also realize how much we impose guilt upon ourselves, based upon other people’s ideas of right and wrong.

Most people “police” themselves based on consensus opinion and in particular, they worry far too much about what other people think, or might think, about them. This is a very dysfunctional substitute for conscience, because when we act a certain way for the approval of others, we are not using our inner compass about proper and improper behaviors. We are not in touch with the Spirit within us, which is the source of true, authentic conscience.

Other people do not have any divine prerogative to tell you what is right and what is wrong about the way you live your own life. They are free to share their ideas and to live by their own codes, but ultimately you are the one who must decide for yourself how to best live your own life. We are accustomed to judging ourselves by other people’s standards when our own hearts, our own intentions, our own spiritual beliefs, and our own reasoning may very well be leading us in another direction altogether.

Different societies and cultures have different morals or differing rules of right and wrong. Thus, actions in one society would not induce guilt whereas in another society, it would. For example, some collective groups believe having more than one wife is good, and that men are entitled to help themselves to sexual opportunity. Tell a typical, married American woman that and watch the blood in her veins start to boil. No punishment is too severe for such a crime, she tells herself, and she hopes he would feel guilty and miserable this very instant, for the rest of his useless life, and into the Great Beyond.

The Western world, at least, views guilt as a necessary payback: most people have been raised to pace themselves to the tune of that spiritual dirge. We hardly ever question whether this is a true spiritual principle, when in fact we do need to question our allegiance to judgment and guilt. After all, we have almost entirely forgotten a very necessary companion principle of Judgment, which is called Mercy.

Mercy, a Simple Word for a Powerful Principle

One of the great mistakes that human beings make is that they look to God for mercy but aren’t ready to bestow it upon themselves or each other. Mercy is defined as:

compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, compassion or benevolence: as in “Have mercy on the poor sinner.” The disposition to be compassionate; and something that gives evidence of blessing. (Emphasis mine.)

Clearly, the application of mercy forgoes the punishment of payback, as benevolence is a forgiving act that replaces a curse with a blessing. Far too many people punish themselves with guilt, when what they need the most is to bless themselves with forgiveness, when and if an offense has truly been committed. Most often the offense is perceived and contrived, based on skewed beliefs…and in that case, self-forgiveness is a matter of self-correcting the misperceptions. Too many wait for forgiveness from others before they will forgive themselves but, because we cannot control what others choose to do, and because we can only control ourselves, it really matters not whether others forgive you for a perceived wrong or actual wrong. What does matter is: will you forgive yourself?

How often I’ve heard people say, “I can’t” do something they need to do because they say, “I could never forgive myself.” These are often the people who are looking outside of themselves and gauging their actions on how other people would judge them or upon a distorted sense of obligation. They may need to get out of a wrong marriage, they may need to let go of a dysfunctional relationship pattern, they may be feeling the inner call to leave a particular religious affiliation…whatever the choice they need to make, they fear to do it not only for the outside impression of being found guilty of something, but for the inner guilt they feel they won’t be able to live with. So rather than suffer with guilt, they suffer from their choices to live against what their spirits long for…and suffer in silence, instead.

We are not taught to overcome guilt. We are not taught self-mercy and no wonder: when you look around at the world, mercy toward anyone is in critical short supply. Spirituality on this planet is in very shabby shape and its past time the human race began to equate the Divine with benevolence, love, and mercy instead of a hedonistic excess of judgment, punishment, and guilt. And if we can’t do that, it’s time to question our definitions of what it means to be Divine.

Do No Harm: The Motivation Behind the Action

A code of ethics or the basis for a determination of what is wrong and what is right does not need to be complicated. The Buddhists have boiled it down to a very simple guideline: “Do no harm.” To this I would add, “Place responsibility where it belongs.” In our self-assessment of whether we have done right or wrong, whether there is a reason for guilt or no reason for guilt, a clear knowledge of the motivations for our behavior should be the bedrock of our analysis.

With the ethic to do no harm, the motivation to either “do good” to ourselves (it is proper to do what is right for yourself!) and others, or to have a neutral impact on others, will be at the forefront of all our actions. Most injury to others, with its subsequent guilt, will not occur. With the ethic of placing responsibility where it belongs, we are standing accountable and sovereign and allowing others the same privilege. We are not obligated to save people from themselves; we are not obligated to carry a dysfunctional relationship or maintain an unbeneficial social obligation. We are not taking on the burdens and improper associations that cause us to carry loads of guilt for responsibilities toward others that do not belong to us, and have never belonged to us…even though we believed they did. The suffering caused by unnecessary guilt would be a thing of the past.

Three Steps to Heal Your Soul from Guilt

Obviously, a deeper discussion of this subject is beyond this article. Please watch for my upcoming e-book for more comprehensive ways to heal from guilt, but for now, here are three things you can do to ditch the guilt and get on with your life:

1. Decide that you don’t like to suffer and begin to challenge the beliefs that make you suffer. (Watch out! You are likely to feel guilty for challenging the beliefs that are causing the problem! Guilt in an incredibly tricky and addictive adversary; when it comes up, just say “No.”)

2. Understand. If it’s not good for you, it’s not good for someone else, either. (Example: If you are profoundly unhappy in a failed relationship but stay for the other person, you are not doing them a favor, you are hurting them by living a lie, while you are hurting yourself for no just reason.)

3. Let Go. Let live. Let it be. Don’t dwell on mistakes or injuries. Each day is a new day and a new opportunity. Don’t live in the past because it no longer exists. Be the best you can be, each day, and be in the moment.

May this short article bring you peace of mind, and may you know the freedom of self-love and mercy to all. Be blessed, my friends.

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This Post is a Continuation from Part One: On Telephones, UFO’s & Spirit Guides: Close Communication of the Spiritual Kind

How is communication with Spirit possible? Are there energetic portals that connect us to other-worldly beings? Are there portals to other times and even, to other dimensions? We just need to open our minds to either ancient metaphysical teachings or modern quantum physics to find some answers to these important questions.

Contrary to what you may have heard, the reality of spiritual communication is not a fringe topic for the “tin-foil hat” crowd. Spiritual communication is spiritual science. It’s also physics taken to the quantum level and beyond, to metaphysics. It is an energetic exchange between consciousnesses that does not require a physical body to communicate.

But before we can begin to understand and accept spiritual communication, we have to know about the existence of unseen energy: what it is and how it works. We also need to know why this information is not widely available and why it’s not open for serious discussion in the mainstream. Until we understand those two related subjects, we may not give serious credence to a black-listed topic that has long been the object of derision and ridicule by the majority of people who call themselves rational.

Once we know what obstacles we have to overcome when we want to find truth–and how we get in our own way by adopting the beliefs we’ve inherited from others–we can discover truth. In this case, you’re interested in the truth about spiritual guidance and contact with spiritual energies. So to discover this for yourself, you have to be an intellectual and spiritual rebel and not a cookie-cutter cut-out.

So, are you ready to be a rebel? Let’s find out then, what’s been standing in your way.

The Need for Heresy to Find Truth

Most great truth and powerful discovery had heretical beginnings. Sometimes it was just too fantastic and ahead of its time to believe, as with the discovery of wireless communication by Mahlon Loomis . His incredible discovery enabled long-distance communication between living people that changed the world.

Imagine what the knowledge about spiritual communication would do! It would create a world-wide revolution that would redefine reality as we now know it. Everything would change, because:

People would realize their inter-connectedness with other beings in the universe;
People would have awareness of their greater eternal existence;
The pervasive deceptions that hold us in bondage would no longer control us;
Our absorption in the acquisition of things and money and having power over others would come to an end;
War would cease;
Opportunistic exploits and oppression of the vulnerable would end;
Political domination would fall;
People would begin to govern themselves in harmony.

The human race would become truly free, spiritually healed, and joyfully united. It would be the beginning of an Age of Light, and an end to the Age of Darkness.

Who doesn’t want that? You do. I do. But there are those who have everything to lose if things change and so they don’t want people to know the truth about spiritual reality. These are the ones in power who profit from exploit. These are forces that have been in control of civilization for a long time; and through multiple mechanisms, from behind the scenes, they set the board and move the pieces.

Consider, just for a moment, that there is a cosmic game afoot designed to keep human beings ignorant of the truth that will set them free. It’s a game that those with big power love to play; it’s a most extreme sport, and they play it very hard.

They play it to win.

And when they win, humanity loses.

Just look around you. This is why the world is in chaos and despair, in spiritual poverty and deepening darkness. This is why “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” This is why we need the knowledge that saves. But it won’t be an easy transition because old ideas die slowly and they die hard.

Humanity is in need of unabashed heresy against the mass beliefs that have brought us to the edge of catastrophe. But don’t wait for the next person to lead the way, because heresy means big change and it takes a great deal of courage to go against powerful superstitions and prevailing beliefs. Heresy must start with each truth seeker, often standing alone for a time, willing to endure whatever ridicule or abuse that comes, knowing that truth will eventually prevail.This is how mass belief evolves: certain, special people must step up to oil the rusted gears of forward thought.

I ask you to recall what happened to Galileo, as I wrote in the last post, On Telephones, UFO’s & Spirit Guides: Close Communications of the Spiritual Kind, and remember how many generations passed before his discoveries were accepted and became widely known. Remember how the preeminent political/religious power

of his day, the Catholic Church, controlled what people were allowed to know, think, read, talk about, and believe. Today, almost 400 years later, the sociopolitical landscape has shifted, but the plan to control our philosophy continues and thus, our human bondage to group-think has not changed over time.

Slow to Change: Society’s Group-Think about the Nature of Reality and Spiritual Existence

Most people don’t understand the absolute reality of spiritual realms because they, their parents and grandparents grew up under the assumptions imposed by the 300 year-old Newtonian scientific model of physics, as discovered by Issac Newton. This model of reality said that things are made of matter and nothing but matter. For most people this continues to be a comforting view of reality because it teaches that everything in the universe works mechanically. It says that effect follows cause and that things follow a sequence, such as either/or; left side, right side; before or after; good or bad. It asserts that reality boils down to solids, to what is predictable and what is physical. It is a three-dimensional viewpoint in the strictest sense, where time is linear, where everything is matter and all must be explainable by the laws of mechanics in order to be real.

Old Newtonian physics is where our modern, “practical” assertions come from. From this limited understanding of reality, our “prove-it-to-me” attitudes and materialistic inclinations have taken their strongest defense. And since very few people can see the spiritual realms, those who cannot see, touch, taste or smell want solid proof of a reality that is not solid, not linear, and not bound by time or our bodily senses.

And because many people’s minds are programmed with old beliefs, the doubters out there don’t seek an education about the new findings of science or test it by conducting their own experiments. Had Mahlon Loomis been that way, instead of sending wireless signals to communicate with each other, we could still be sending notes delivered by horseback…or sending smoke signals…or flashing mirrors in the sunlight.

And while we have terabytes of computing power, we are still in the Stone age with our spirituality because most people are uninformed about the science (upon which all that computing power is based, by the way) that substantiates there is more to life than meets the eye. We are stuck between the old science that most modern people believe in, and the new science they don’t know about.

And why are people not openly educated about the cutting edge of science that has spiritual–not religious– implications? Because current power structures that manipulate common beliefs are not eager to acknowledge new truths which would make them irrelevant. Why? Because once again, new ideas threaten to bring down the old paradigms and threaten those who profit from a power establishment that was built on old and limiting ideas.

And it’s not just church and state that combines to blockade public awareness. It’s the ivory tower of science itself, with its internecine wars and corrupted motives, with its high priests in lab coats or those who lecture at the holy podium of scientific certainty. As we have learned from history, scientists who pioneer new discoveries often experience opposition and ridicule from their colleagues who have a lifetime invested in the inner sanctum of old science. Many scholars have careers invested in old science; they have diplomas based on old science; they get their income from old science, and so…new science be hanged.

The problem of being branded a heretic, as it turns out, is not limited to religion.

Disappointing, isn’t it? You count on science and education for objective facts when in fact, neither is as unbiased–nor as pure–as you’ve been led to believe.

Scientific advancement has not always been so contaminated by power and money. Remember Albert Einstein? Einstein’s discoveries went far beyond Newtonian physics and created a new model of reality for mankind to fathom.

This was many years ago, and still, relatively few human beings are open and willing to consider the possibilities of an expanded reality shown by Einstein’s findings. And that’s not all they’re missing: Einstein’s break-through has since been superseded by even greater discoveries that reveal a reality very different from Newton’s mechanical, clockwork universe, which is the reality most people have come to believe in.The world needs a grassroots breakthrough in its understanding of what Reality is and how it operates. That is why you are here on this page.

In the next post, we will take a look at what, exactly, new science shows us about the Greater Spiritual Reality that you cannot see with your physical eyes. This will help you know how “Close communication of the Spiritual Kind” happens to you all the time, if you’ll allow yourself to “hear” the call. Then you can free yourself to “phone” your Spiritual Guides…to call Heaven…to talk with Spirit…and to know the Divine, without “help” from any another human who puts on his (or her) pants the same way you do!

You won’t easily find this critical and accurate information elsewhere, so be sure to keep in close communication with MySpiritCare! Until our next post, may peace and a heart that hungers for truth be with you.