otherbrother
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All I know is that soon after my father-in-law died (whom I routinely had spiritual discussions with), I had a powerful dream with images symbolizing the baptism of Christ, followed by a male voice (not recognized as my father-in-law’s) woke me up saying “Matthew 3:17.” I immediately looked it up: “This is my son with whom I am well pleased.” It was an affirmation of my sonship that combined earthly and heavenly fathers. And it was one of my experiences that led me to think that we are all potential messengers and amenable to spiritual empowerment. Something or someone on (what appeared to me to be) the “other side” (which I think could well be the deep inside) encouraged and inspired me.Oh, indeed!
Well there's two things here ... and there's no evidence of direct causation.
Mindfulness and meditation is a process, and the brainwave results can be replicated, I'm told, by reading poetry, by listening to music, by simply observing nature ... they're all ways of engaging with the world.
A Zen master once observed that if you wanted to see true and authentic no-mind, then don't look at Zen masters, look at, say, a basket-weaver at work, how his hands move, how they make with almost complete detachment from what it is they're doing ...
But '"God" signals' are not part of the world, they're extraneous to it, although immanently there – in Him we live and move and have our being – but we cannot 'tap into' God like some deep-space signal source or some background quantum happening ... not God as I understand it, anyway ... there's no 'technique' which, if you get it right, obliges God to respond.
Had my focus on spirituality during my talks with my father-in-law made this mystical experience more likely? Had it “thinned my veil?” I tend to think so.
Do you think it was all God’s initiative?
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