Spiritual Direction through Silent Inner Knowing

 

Would you be willing to meet again the one who has loved you all your life?  Would you be willing to meet the one who knows you by heart? This is the one who is never separate from you and reveals to you the meaning and purpose of your being here.  This is the inner knowing within you that aligns you with your life purpose and your life’s passion. When this is known then you have your own authority and true spiritual direction.

 

This does not mean this silent inner knowing outlines a set of goals to be accomplished in some linear fashion.  It doesn’t mean that you will be advised what career path you need to follow in order to become what is termed successful.  This silent inner knowing invites you to expresses the way Creation has intended you to express in your unique way.  Neither does this mean that what you express in your unique way has never been expressed before.  Although, as you deepen your alignment with this knowing, you become more and more innovative.

 

Connecting with the silent inner knowing is true education.  This is not so much about acquiring more information but the living as revelation.  It is not so much being educated from a sense of lack but from the fullness of being and abundance.  The problem is that this kind of education doesn’t fit the system called our educational system.  You cannot examine the silent inner knowing.  It doesn’t follow a timetable.  It cannot be scheduled to appear in fifth grade.  It dances into your life rather than asks you to fit in.  Because it arrives in its own time it is not subject to the whim of the ego.  The ego does not like the silent inner knowing because it arises from dimensions beyond its control.

 

It takes a deep inner trust to find the silent inner knowing.  Its invitation goes against all that our go getting type A culture  tells us is the way in which life is to be lived.  This is the life focused on success as opposed to failure but it is not a life, nor is it an educational system, focused on meaning and alignment with the expansion of Creation as the movement of Love into form.  The inspired life begins with turning within and trusting in this inner power as a Lover of who you are and why you are.

 

This is the meeting of the true heart.  It is the meeting of the one who has loved you all your life and is the One who creates you for the eternal purpose of higher love making.  It brings you the revelation of a higher love.  This is the practice that is available from the invitation to redemption.  The word redemption, is for this writer and storyteller, a word filled with baggage.  It is a word that I used to hear a lot.  Each Sunday as a child and a young man I spent time sitting in church pews and on wooden benches in Sunday school.  Essentially I was told how worthless I was.  I, together with others, were advised that we could be redeemed only by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour.

 

The word redemption was thus connected, and was intended to be connected, to feelings of guilt.  When you are made to feel guilty then you can be controlled.  You wish to return to a sense of inner peace.  In order to return to this sense of inner peace you give away your authority to those who you think know about how to appease such guilt feelings.  These are the guilt feelings that they themselves have inculcated in innocent minds.  This is called religious education  but is not  spiritual education and it is certainly not inviting the inspiration of inner knowing.

 

The word redemption has nothing to do with inculcating feelings of guilt.  If guilt is the emotion that is invited then you have a teacher who controls rather than gives spiritual direction and inspired direction.  The word redemption is a spiritual guidance word.  It is a guide to the dance of knowing the true Self.  It is simply a direct instruction.  You can choose to do it as a spiritual practice or not.  There is no need to make this some kind of test of self worth.  The word redemption simply invites you to turn within.  It invites you to become available to the silent inner knowing within you.  It follows that other great spiritual instruction,

 

Be still and know I AM Love.

 

This is practical spiritual direction.  You are not being manipulated by clergy, priests, bishops, teachers or others who wish to control you in some way that is in agreement with some script or some cultural code of practice.  To feel a sense of redemption means to feel a sense of Oneness.    What is it that you are being redeemed from?  It is certainly not from any sense that you are in any way wrong.  You are not being asked to pay a price for the death of a man murdered on  a cross over two thousand ago.  You are being redeemed from a spell that you are under.  This is the idea, that because you live in a body in time and space and feel separate from other bodies and things, that this feeling of separation is your fundamental reality.  Being redeemed means feeling directly your connection to the Source of Creation and its movement as the feeling of Love in action.

 

How do you get redeemed?  You trust the Creation that created you to be the knowing it knows you to be.  Notice time and time again this invitation to trust the knowing of who you are.  There is no script here.  You don’t have to crawl in the desert on your knees.  You are not required in any way to feel guilty.  You are not in any way required to prove that you are worthy.  The hard part of this process is to stop trying to prove that there is something you have to do in order to prove you are loved.  There is nothing that you have to do to prove that you are loved except to be allowing of Creation as it moves through you.

 

You are required to do only one thing which is the meaning of the word redemption.  You are required to trust the process of Creation that knows you by heart.  God isn’t going to punish you.  The idea that God is a god of right and wrong is a projection of the human mind and is not the reality of the Oneness of Love.  The silent inner knowing brings you a sense of inner peace.  With a deepening trust in this inner knowing you build a faith that can move mountains.  This is not a faith that is decreed.  It is the process of being aligned with the unknown that paradoxically speaking is the fullness of the all knowing.  Knowing, as used here, does not mean knowledge.  Knowing means movement and means the movement of Love in action.  Knowing means you are living in the moment as the dance of the Beloved.  Knowing means you are your own authority because you, as one who has turned inward, authorises the power of Love to be your guide.

 

In allowing Love to become your guide to the direct experience of inner knowing you cannot be controlled by any religious hierarchy that is interested in maintaining its power rather than be the revelatory invitation it is intended to be.  Trust the inner knowing within.  Be still and know.  Make this your mantra but don’t take it as an instruction on my authority because I say so.  Learn how to listen to the promptings of your heart.  Trust this and trust this again.  This is true faith.  This is true education.  This is following true spiritual direction that will inspire you.  This is following the way the truth and the light but not as a dogma.  It is following the direct experience of Love living its way through you.

 

As the singer song writer Gerry Rafferty wrote:

 

Whatever’s written in your heart that’s all that matters,

you’ ll find a way to say it all some day,

Whatever’s written in your heart that’s all that matters,

Yeh.  Yeh.

 

 

Listen to the heart’s inner knowing and become the wild and precious one you are here to be and to gift and bless the world.  Give up any sense of guilt.  It does not in any way serve Love’s purpose and was never intended to be any part of the teachings of Jesus Christ who taught the Way of Love.  Most guilt is not about love.  It is about control.  If you are being made to feel guilty then you are being controlled.  To appease any sense of guilt I suggest you turn within and find the one who has loved you all your life.  I suggest you turn within and find the still inner knowing that loves you by heart.  This is real spiritual direction and does not make you feel guilty.   It gives you a still point centre from which to live a wild and precious life of true meaning and purpose.  It gives you real authority.  It gives you integrity and you will not be asked to do something against your conscience.

 

So, won’t you help me sing another song of freedom?  It’s all I ever wanted and want in a redemption song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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