Why spiritual people cannot just believe everything we say to each other.

OK. The Young Soul* want to fit in, right? Therefore, they may easily start pretending like they remember past lives, see auras, can read Tarot, and use the pendulum when really, they can’t. They put out the same vibe and air as a child pretending to drive a car, talk on the phone, or “bake a cake,” looking for confirmation from mommy and daddy. In many ways, the Young Soul* can view spiritual practice as a form of make-believe, seek confirmation of their fantasies about it, and feel like they are being “shut out” or “not played with” when more experienced spiritual explorers seem hesitant to believe their experiences are actually real.

To the Young Soul*, nothing is really about finding the truth, but rather socializing. They can also be terrible as spirit guides, as they’ll show you stuff that seems good and cool and makes you fit in: “You’re the reincarnation of Jesus Christ” (Somebody has to be, but, you know… Probably not every spiritual male teacher alive?)

Let the visions and feelings come, critique them later.

As a spiritual explorer, lacking a better expression, you have to remain very critical of your own experiences and visions. You also shouldn’t encourage people to believe everything that happens to you without critique. Being a New Age spiritualist doesn’t mean you have to believe everything you hear, a lot of it is about remaining critical – trying to find THE TRUTH, not “the nice.”

Too much critique will block your flow. The way I do it, is that I allow myself to see and experience whatever comes. Then, when the situation passes, I’ll go back and analyze what it was and whether it was valid or not. Allow it to come, critique it later. (The same way I allow myself to be lied to. I don’t resist the lie at the gates of my ears; I allow it to come in, and then, as the BS collides with itself, it’s quite easy to say what’s a lie and what isn’t.)

Then, as you allow more experiences in, you’ll learn to critique it, to feel HOW and WHY that experience felt real, while that other didn’t.

New Age is not a religion; you are not “a believer”; you are “a scientist” with an actual open mind.

A New Age spiritualist isn’t “a believer”. It is not a religion. It’s a study of REALITY, without deciding before you go on your expedition what it is that you allow calling true or not. It’s not like you draw a map of the world before you go into the world, right? First, you go look. Then, you draw the map. And sometimes, you have to do a few runs before your map is even close to being a good one.

What I mean is that science makes an error in deciding before it has even explored the possibility that such things as spirit, soul, or God do not exist. Spiritualists make the error of believing that if a soul exists, therefore God does too, and that then leads to the assumption that God created the Universe and is, thus, the boss. No. A real student of the truth collects all the evidence before deciding what’s real and what isn’t. This includes a well-intentioned friend’s account of their past life that sounds like an eerie copy of a movie you saw a while back.

Reincarnations of historical figures should have some additional information, one would imagine, and they should be able to explain what made them do what they did and what transpired behind the scenes… Without INVENTING those events like a movie script writer. And for a lot of it, only you can be certain whether you’re inventing things or remembering them.

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