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Beware The Spiritual Guru…

A Rant At Disempowerment

Having trod the path of highly spiritual, way out there and the like, I now find myself a little closer to earth in my belief systems and realities.  This is not because I doubt the path or work I did, it’s just that I’m a practical person at heart and I like to be able to put to use the things I learn, I like them to have practical application and empowering effects.

To explain this a bit better, I was learning about energies, chakras etc, yet not quite the basics, this was hardcore, kick arse “out there” material; Which planet I came from was always a hot topic.  What was my divine purpose? Would I suddenly “discover” it while meditating on some far off mountain or temple?  What level was I at spiritually and what colour was my aura?   I was doing activations of all kinds of spiritual bodies within myself, rainbow bridges to other galaxies, channelled messages etc etc, you get the picture.

If your not familiar with that world, there is plenty of it to look into.  It definitely had a place in my life and I learnt a lot, but how much could I practically apply?  While I certainly transformed throughout that period, and I encourage for others to seek that if that’s what they’re called to do, after a while I found I wasn’t getting any closer to the life I wanted.  Or that was, I wasn’t getting there fast enough.

I went on quite a few spiritual courses, had healings, did attunements in Egyptian pyramids, at Uluru (Aires Rock), the south of France, (home of the Da Vinci Code), Hawaii, Mt Shata and spent a lot of time in those places.  Some of the course leaders were fantastic, but as I went down the path of “spiritual / new age devotee”, I found more and more of the Guru’s out there were exactly that, trying to be Guru’s and therefore disempowering others.  Often people believed so much in these workshop leaders, who were (or not) psychic, that they would place their entire destiny in their hands.

I was on one mastership training in Hawaii, it was the final meeting of a year long course that had been done via the internet.  We all came to Hawaii from locations all over ther world.  The final retreat was a completion of the course and the course leader was going to channel our divine purpose for all of us, including myself.  Everyone was so excited that they were finally going to receive their divine purpose, their reason for coming to Earth, the thing that was going to make them happy at last, what they’d been waiting for.  Finally they had found someone that could dictate Gods plan for us all. (Please!).  I went into my session, we went in in groups of 3, he  spoke to us all beforehand asking us what we loved to do and did at home already.  He then proceeded to “channel” what we had all said back to us.  It was funny but, no one realised this but me, they had such faith in his abilities and psychic skills the thought never crossed their mind.  I think a few of them were disappointed with what they had been given as their “life purpose”, kind of an anticlimax, but no one wanted to say anything, as you know, psychologically, we will be biased towards someone we see as an expert or someone we favour, blindly at times.  If you want to know the validity of what he said to me, then when I tell you he also told me during a meditation that one of my hands was a dove and the other a turtle, you’ll probably get the picture!!  Afterward, he also advised me during one of his many channelling’s to sing “like the little bird instead of the Lion”, errr, if he didn’t like my voice then so what, it wasn’t X Factor!  And I paid about £4,500 for the compliment.

How much bullcrap can someone spout, and to disempower people enough to believe that they “need” someone else, someone, more enlightened, more spiritual, more psychic, to tell them what they want to know.  Talk about disempowering.  I thoroughly believe that if anyone tells you they can inform you of your role here on this little planet, then tell them to sod off.  I think a lot of them don’t realise what they are doing, including this one leader.  I think a lot of people out there have good intentions with what they are teaching, but don’t realise that this is the age of self empowerment rather than Guru worship, as that would be just another religion in a can really.

You are a beautiful, unique individual, that is perfectly capable of discovering what it is that YOU want to do with your life.  No one can tell you what is inherent inside of you.  As Neil Donald Walsch talks about in “The Secret”, there is no blackboard in the sky telling you what to do. I believed that for ages, that “God” had some mission for me that I had to carry out, and I was waiting to find out what is was, all the while missing my precious life.

I still have friends that believe this, and they also believe that when they have done “enough” work on themselves, that they will be rewarded financially, with a happy relationship and good friends.  And it’s sad that I see them make decisions on what they are “supposed” to do for the planet / divine purpose or listen to psychics rather than base their decisions on what they WANT to do for themselves.  Even if you reason that what you do is destined by God / Higher Self (What ever this is for you), if your placing that destiny outside yourself then your disempowering your own life. You need to make your life one of your own creation through confidence in your passions and self awareness.

Empowerment is:

Following your life path based on your own desires and wants

Tuning into your heart to see what decisions you should make

Believing in yourself and that you have a direct connection to a higher power without having to go through another person

Taking into account others peoples advice or guidance but only following it if it feels right

Empowerment is not:

Going to psychics

Thinking someone else can know whats best for you more than your own self

Believing one hand is a Dove and the other one a Turtle……….  need I say more

Would love to hear your comments or your own experiences below!