Does a spirit know all the right answers?

Question

If a person looks to their personal spirit or soul for an answer, will it always be the right answer?

Answer 1

I believe the idea is for a person to transcend the personal ego and to BE their self as a Soul. In other words, we are to be Souls whom have persons, not persons whom have souls.

Answer 2

The answers are never the same for each individual but I would only hope that your spirit has the right ones for you.

Answer 3

I'd say it sepends on the person. Most people don't have a whole lot of practice with self-reflection.

Answer 4

"Always" is one of those absolute terms which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. My question is: the "right" answer for who?

Answer 5

yes, definitely

Answer 6

there is no soul

Answer 7

The answer depends on how one understands "spirit" and "soul."

There are many so-called definitions.

The Bible has a good explanation of "the spirit of a man:" a person may have a kindly spirit, a greedy spirit, etc. What these are, are tendencies operating at a more profound level than "soul," which properly is the "soul-initiative" ordained of God for a particular embodiment (of a particular lifestream, or developing "spirit-spark" of God, uniquely patterned and destined).

The soul or soulfield, including biofield aspects, is what one knows as one's inner child, one's inner sense, one's innocence. It is saved or fails to realize coherence, Soul-individuation. Properly speaking, there is One Soul--God--which creates miniature individings, which are "spirit-sparks" endowed in miniature with the full potential of the Godhead, and which, by heeding Mind, Truth, and other aspects of God, and correctly exercising the ability to make right or Principled choice, develop and become permanent, ever-increasing atoms of Being in the body of God. Mother Mary and Saint Joseph are high-end examples of such lifestreams' successful embodiment process on earth.

"My soul does magnify the Lord" is a phrase used by saintly King David to describe how Spirit successfully and properly works in, of, and through us. Mother Mary quoted this Psalm or Scripture in her praise-giving re the birth of Messias. Being One with the Presence of the Lord, one is resonating with infinite Love, goodness, Joy, and the like--Self-realizing, a "peak" experience a la Moses on the Mountain, the "Self-realization" level of Maslow, the "religious sphere" of Kierkegaard.

To the subtle degrees that childlike becomes unchampioned, neglected, even ab-used by so-called "ad-ult" (ad-Ultimate) wisdom...and becomes "childish," soulfield intuition is likewise compromised. This is the more current-embodiment parallel with the "spirit of a man," which is more a composite of past sowings and reapings.

In that general process and sense, Plotinus' One Mind Soul-individuation describes erring as energy-veiling, e-veiling, eviling. With every shading of Energy Truth, the "right answer" is both neither Transcendent, and yet also may be either relatively good or evil, i.e., either moving toward Truth (as the "lesser of e-veilings"), or veiling, entangling, even more soulfield energy. There is an impersonal Law of Energy which finds souls in some ways accountable for their acts, deeds, and thoughts.

The Truth of God arrives as Light of Soul (a phrase famously used by Patanjali), which is accurately discerned by true prophets. The Hebrew prophets were held by their community to an absolute "Truth/fail" standard...and before any could presume to speak for God's Light, they were expected to be commercially responsible householders for God in their community. I.e., daydreaming was not an option, rather, farming, herding, trading and marriage were expected as indicative prerequisites for a sound mind and sound body.

When Jesus states that there is only one Good--God--this is a statement of Unity of Mind. "Call no man on earth your father" is another Messianic statement which emphasizes the absolute Nature of the Holy Christ Self One with the One...the Holy Christ Mindedness of the Son or Daughter of God, which occurs inasmuch as "this Mind which was also in Christ Jesus" is "let abide."

Thus, in lieu of Spirit-based awareness, a type of Spirit-based resonance with Light-based Word as cup of Light has developed, particularly in the "people of the Book," i.e., Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus, and even Buddhists. At the far end of "trust vs. idolatry" in self and Scripture are Saint Paul and Gautama Buddha: "Prove all things, hold fast to that which is Good," and "Do not believe any teaching, including what I have taught, unless it conforms to your best perception of Truth," are approximate quotes of the two leaders.

Many spiritually-attuned people today essentially follow Saint Paul's and Gautama Buddha's advice, and seek to judge even Scripture based on "the Spirit." Few have the actual Spirit, although more believe they do.

The key to developing more accuracy is "letting this Mind be with you, which was also in Christ Jesus;" Saint Paul taught and demonstrated this Mindfulness to ordinary, interested citizens of a middle-sized Greek commercial city-state. When e.g. the "red letters" of Jesus, the Gospel of Saint John, the Psalms, begin to resonate as one reads or communes with them, e.g., Love and Mindful awareness of Truth, one is beginning to "let this Mind abide." At such a juncture it is well to seek refuge in the Sangha, e.g. a local religious lineage which promotes your resonance. This may be a delicate dance, but finding some Spirit-based anchorage is one of Lord Gautama's "three jewels," and for many a Good reason. There are some good, albeit also sectarian, teachings available on the radio. http://www.ligonier.org is one; http://www.family.org has a daily broadcast; both are Christian.

"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, is a cogent modern example of this ascent of "Mount Analogue" (to borrow a book-title), more properly known as "the path" or "the way." (Early Jewish followers of Yeshua were self-described as "the people of the Way." ("Christian" was a later, and at first pejorative, term.))

An advantage of modern, Spirit-based authority is that it speaks to conditions which are more familiar to and/or influencing moderns: e.g., mass media manipulation of mass consciousness, which latter may be a major detriment re spiritual awakening and even progress on the path; urban life which is no longer attuned to Natural rhythms; etc.

Other 20th-century authors who provide some Spirit-based insight: Ann Ree Colton's "Men in White Apparel," "Watch Your Dreams," and "Kundalini West," O. M. Aivanhov's "Looking into the Invisible" and "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," Dr. Eknath Easwaran's "Gandhi, the Man: The Story of His Transformation," http://www.easwaran.org and Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi," http://www.yogananda-srf.org

Answer 8

I don't think so.