The Things We Do for A Higher Purpose

There was an author of notable fame some decades ago who wrote several books in the self-help genre. The books were intelligent, easy to read for most seekers of self-knowledge, and balanced in their instruction. I bought two of the books myself. At the height of the author’s fame, I happened to watch an interview of him and was surprised to see that he came across visually as nutty as a pecan orchard. Doctor McCoy from Star Trek would probably say that he didn’t appear to be “operating on all thrusters." Why, I wondered, would such a learned person be so believable in print but not in a person to person interview? Much later I would come to understand why. He was talking about things of a spiritual and universal nature. This kind of information can be very difficult to translate verbally sometimes. It is much easier to convey these things in printed form than it is in spoken words.

There was, many years ago, another author who wrote about astrology and was very good at explaining it well enough for anyone to learn the basic tenets. This author wrote several very well received books on the subject, but in the last few books that the author published there were things that did not make a lot of sense unless you are capable of knowing how the input from spirit is received. As someone who does know, it was easier for me to recognize that some of the information being told there was of a “need to know” nature. The author needed to know it, but that doesn’t equal that everyone else would understand it’s meaning. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish what information can be passed on to others and what should not be when dealing with the higher realms. It doesn’t always come with a warning label and it is up to the receiver to consider it rather like a prescription drug. It is of benefit to you but it could be harmful to someone that it was not prescribed for.

There are some people who are entrusted with higher knowledge who reach a point in their evolution where they have mentally processed too much. Some have difficulty conveying what they know easily and some will find themselves in spiritual crisis until they have time to sort it out. If they are in severe crisis, it may be visible to others. This can be especially true if they have come to a point where they can no longer socialize with people who have not evolved to the same level. When they have moved beyond “small talk” conversations they become irritated and distracted when it is necessary to “come back” from their “level” and focus upon everyday topics that seem irrelevant to them now because they are apt to feel that many surface level subjects solve no problems and may be subjects that only create more problems. This is hard, very hard, to deal with and I believe that the authors that I have written about here had come to that point. There is also the possibility that they were truly losing their marbles. There is a limit to how much storage capacity there is in the human mind. People used to say that we only use about 10% of our brain’s capacity but I do not believe that theory as far as memory is concerned.

There is, in the Harry Potter wizarding world, something called a “Pensieve” where one can store memories or information that is not needed on a daily basis, rather like an external hard drive. You can access and retrieve the information whenever you need to, but only if you are a wizard. Spiritual cognizance is rather like that. Years of universal information has been given to you. To have ready access to all of it all of the time would be a very heavy burden to carry and it would likely rob you of your ability to function well in daily living. To access information that has been placed in “storage” you have to “go within” to retrieve it. Think of how you used to be able to remember telephone numbers with ease when that was something that was helpful to you every day, but with the invention of smart phones the calculation is done for you and you may not even remember the phone numbers of those closest to you now because it isn’t something that is required of you daily. If your brain could retain all of that plus what you know now then I might subscribe to the 10% theory and assume that we just aren’t trying very hard to use what we are capable of. Marbles can be lost. But learning to retrieve them is also possible with a “Pensieve” if you are a wizard, or an ability to access the storage facility of the spirit if you have that connection.

The longer that you live a spiritual existence the more you will find yourself needing to experience things that tend to be very much “outside the box.” If you have a mentor on your journey these things are a little easier to manage. You have someone who has “been there” as far as having to comprehend what seems impossible on the face of it, but the day always comes when there is no mentor and it is just you and your connection to the higher mind. Many, many times the higher mind is very cryptic in what it is telling you. There are also times when you receive information or a warning that comes so far advanced in its lesson that it cannot be verified for years. Then there is the information that comes, seemingly, with a higher price or a sacrifice that you are unwilling to accept. When that happens, mercifully sometimes, it does not come so quickly that you don’t have the time to balance yourself with it or evolve to a point where it isn’t so dreadful as it seems. Until you reach that point you may fight with it day and night. If you are lucky, you can “role play” through the possibilities of what is to come. Think Dungeons & Dragons, except spirit is the dungeon master and you are on the mental quest to see how you will react to the events to come. Initially, you will play out the scenario the way you believe is all that you can manage. Spirit will then show you how you will fall off a cliff trying to play it in your own way. Sometimes the quest is just more than you want to deal with and may throw you off balance in a way that you just cannot stomach. I would say here that “resistance is futile” because whatever spirit is trying to lead you to is not likely to change just because you don’t want to do it. So, you may keep role playing and not believing for quite a while before you get to the point that it feels more manageable.

I hope you get to that point easily but if it takes a long time to get there you may find that others think you have gone nuts if your spiritual role playing trial spills over into your behavior. It does happen. When it does, people usually will jump to the easiest conclusion that they can make. You come across like a weirdo and that is what you get labeled. You can’t blame them, really. They don’t have a clue what is going on in your head, and how many times have you seen movies where someone has schizophrenia, or dementia that is undiagnosed? It is easy for others to think that they already know what is going on, but the higher levels in spirituality do not work like an average day in the life. So, if you are lucky, the people around you are not constant critics of the out of the ordinary but when they are, doing a balancing act is all that you have until your role playing reveals the reality in a way that you have practiced on for god knows how long to manage your next journey. Try to think of it like Noah’s ark in the Bible. Everyone thought he was nuts until the day that the flood came.

That is actually a tricky situation to be in because everything in spirituality is interpretation, and your explanations for your behavior likely won’t hold water for many people, especially when you are likely to be evolving as you go along, and you might not feel like explaining anything. You may not have full knowledge of an outcome. Before we knew about the Coronavirus I was told that there was a very real possibility that we could get severe pneumonia and we would need to stop going to places where there would be lots of people and not go places where items might be touched by many others such as a thrift shop or an antique store. It would also be dangerous to be in a school or a place of employment with a lot of employees. The next month this prediction would be horribly true, but few things will slap you with a right now total truth in what you perceive as this did. An impending accident can be perceived quickly but other warnings can come over time and what you initially are told may seem cut and dry but when it actually manifests it could come to fruition in a mind-blowingly different form from what you have been seeing and when that happens you will be incredibly glad if you didn’t share your impressions with anyone too early because talking about an ongoing spiritual event can well and truly make you look like you have lost your mind. Many things are not a dire situation like Covid was but because what you do is not well understood by the average citizen you cannot afford to risk your credibility early on. It can be tough to know when to open your mouth and when not to but a spiritual life isn’t for everyone. You just will be making judgement calls that are beyond an everyday life. If you couldn’t do it, you wouldn’t have it, but that doesn’t mean it is going to be a breeze.

In the 1957 film The Delicate Delinquent, actor Jerry Lewis has a neighbor named Mr. Crow. (see the video below) Mr. Crow looks like an eccentric scientist of the harmless sort, but who would believe that he has actually invented a frog ship that will be a future necessity? No one. Even I would have trouble believing it unless the earth was actually about to be destroyed and spirit said, “save the frogs!” Highly unlikely, maybe, but I didn’t expect to see humanity go off the deep end, or climate change to wreak the havoc that it is for our planet right now, or to watch our government officials do their damnedest to destroy everyone who isn’t a Christian white male in this country. So, as impossible as a spiritual prediction might look on the face of it, you really cannot discount them even if the possibility seems remote. It is up to you to save your knowledge for a time because few people are going to be as accommodating and philosophical as Jerry Lewis was in the movie.

If you are given more than you believe that you can handle in this life from trying to live in a truly spiritual way, I hope that you find yourself in an environment as kind as Mr. Crow did or the two authors that I spoke about here. They may come across as weird or bizarre until we can see exactly where they are coming from. People went to their death during the height of the pandemic still denying that there was such a thing. They might have been saved if they had just allowed for the possibility that the danger could be real. Know that most people will see things the wrong way from the get go, but when the time comes that we can see things clearly, there may be room for a frog ship in there somewhere, however remote that might seem at first.