Ancient Soul
The Spiritual Universe
Thank you for your response. I'm really trying to understand, learn and share something about spiritual matters. I was looking for forums to find any co-speakers. That's why I landed here at RF.
Some people show more maturity from birth. Possibly they are "old souls" with some milage. Despite the forgetting some things remain in unconscious mind. I think one lifetime is not enough to grow and mature spiritually. I agree life (incarnation) experience should be lived to the fullest but I don't think all growth is lost if you still have some lessons to learn at the end. Between incarnations is supposed to be a "judgment" (review or harvest) and also planning for the next life...
Yes, there are many "old souls" who have built up a good spiritual "foundation" over their many lifetimes that shines thru despite the "forgetting" between their lifetimes. Because that's who they are, like their personality inside of them. But my point was that anyone who has a lot of spiritual understanding and is always striving for ever MORE understanding, should try their hardest to complete the "spiritual evolution" and hopefully pass God's judgment THIS LIFETIME, because they might not have as good an opportunity on the next lifetime. Maybe even falter and lose ground.
Are you saying "passive meditation" works best for you?
Meditation with a prayer word is also supposed to still the mind. The word is repeated mentally as an anchor. If the mind starts wandering the attention is brought back to the word (and breathing). Other function of the word is an appellation for help.
Does "answers through my will" mean inspirations?
This is a perfect example of why I don't want to be a spiritual "leader", "teacher", or any other such thing. As I have no idea how to accurately articulate how many of my spiritual abilities work. Now I suppose there may be some words that could be used to describe the processes, but it would be too time consuming to search them out. Or maybe there just aren't any right words.
But I'll try my best anyway.
I think what most people call meditation would be the best way to start the process, as one's mind has to be silent. Mine almost always is. The only times I have "mind chatter" is when a crisis occurs that gets me stressed out and my mind won't stop trying to find some way(s) out of the crisis. But other than those times, I have no problem keeping my mind silent. I should also mention that I do always try to keep myself spiritually balanced by hiking outdoors almost every day.
I was mulling over your attempt at describing what you find works for you, and decided that instead of going back and forth trying to figure out what things like "spirit", "soul", "inner light", etc., means to each other, to just use a more generic approach.
To connect to your soul or whatever else you want to call it, after silencing your mind, the goal is to shift the greater part of your consciousness, thoughts, self-awareness, mind, or whatever else you want to call it, to the center of "you", your soul, core, inner self, inner light, spirit, or whatever else you want to call it. As the name doesn't matter, but that you can "feel" that your consciousness, thoughts, self-awareness, mind, is coming from the center of "you", your soul, core, inner self, inner light, spirit, etc. As THAT is where the soul's thinking comes from, the core of itself.
Then once "there" in the center of "you" ask God whatever spiritual question you are seeking answers to. I don't really know how to describe how I "ask" spiritual questions from God, as I just do what worked for me during my NDE/OBE. I don't use words, but more like thoughts of my will. Words really fail on how to describe how I do it, so you will have to experiment on your own. My best guess for others would be to ask the question and wait for an answer. And like with anything, it may take a lot of time before getting just the right method that will work for you.