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Receiving Messages from God


Question:

Accessing information from the collective conscience can be very confusing and exhausting.  Do you believe a person in a "manic state" receiving messages from God is actually in a state of mind beyond the capabilities of what human beings are designed to deal with?  Have you ever experienced the fine line between sanity and God?  A bit of advice, don't cross the line.

Answer:

Rather than trying to access information from the collective consciousness, or even getting messages from God, I believe it is safer to access knowledge directly from your pure consciousness itself. This avoids the pitfalls of the aggrandizing ego. When you connect to your deepest core intelligence, you are tapping into the cosmic intelligence that governs all creation. This is what human beings are designed for.  This is a much   more reliable guidance than what the individual mind comes up with when it tries to access awareness outside of itself.

Finally, it is safer  psychologically and spiritually to remain integrated within ones awareness to gain knowledge, instead of letting your awareness become dominated by an external presence, no matter how benevolent you think it is. That disruption of one’s autonomy is why you feel confused and exhausted. Gaining knowledge is by nature an invigorating and exhilarating process because it reveals and integrates information. If it is real knowledge, then it is fun and energizing,  not confusing and exhausting.

Love,

Deepak

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Comments (31)
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
This is for me one of the most important points to take heed of... there is a subtle difference between your own ego, which most people term as ' inner ' and the (sorry ) oft delusional voice of that egoic self that masquerades in the holy cloak of spirituality than the ' God or Cosmic mind ' which has no locale - either inner or outer and which is everywhere and nowhere and is NO specific Thing but all things in potential . I use God and Cosmic Mind as a label but actually ' IT" cannot be named nor known other than by its individual manifestations, which is what we are, ( what IS ) and what we see ( all phenomena ) and what we experience ( Karma ) in our lives. The Universe is, as Dr Chopra says elsewhere, a reflection of IT's potential states and what we can experience and 'know' is only as much as our experience as individuals or as a species can conceptualize and give form to at this moment of time . This obviously leaves a tremendous field of potential and the unknown in this River of Mind.. Potential states ....and no form being all form. It is for me totally egoic to maintain that ' GOD ' says this and says that or whatever... really, one is limiting 'God mind ' to ones own level and tiny existence and the tiny peep hole of a personal existence.. better to stay in awe and let God mind speak for itself which it does all the time via the mirror of life.
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
Maybe I should also say that we are God Mind in manifestation, so God does speak through us ( please I use the term God also with much hesitation ) so let it just be ... whether we are being spiritual or criminals it is all God Mind reflecting itself and its potential for being conscious of ' itself' Really it is no different to what is happening to us on a much smaller almost microscopic level compared to its boundlessness. When we meditate we are entering the god mind meditation .. and when we leave that state we enter the god mind in action.. do not separate oneself from god mind because THAT is the illusion and the cause of problems.
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
' GOD" is all religions all philosophies, agnosticism. atheism and every label we know and labels we have no yet devised .. he is all yet none. It is easier to become aware of it in the non form state because here it is non dual . However to become aware of ' IT' is also a necessary objective concept . There is nothing wrong with objectivity and the dual state for me- its very useful for knowing learning There is not one concept that is higher or better than any other. Many thanks for listening or reading.. back to the dishes .. and the vacuum...
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
LOL I said He instead of IT.!!!
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Posted by Rafael Anschau
Since we are all divine sparks of light, anything that comes from our hearts comes(in my view) from God.
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Posted by Gyanama
All being is consciousness---True, but All being is not God Consciousness.....Man is the seed creation of God consciousness-----.... ...if you were created from an apple seed in the infinite consciousness, we would all have been appearing as apples in this universe along with it's specific principles for full fruition.....The principles for man's full fruition are all related to the qualities of love...How do we know God's thoughts and messages? Because we innately know how to love....We know at our core, not like an apple core, about love.... We are all God's perfect ideas and as we realize this, realize our true seeded divine nature in God, the false sense of sin, disease and death will disappear..... to try and claim Cosmic consciousness before fully understanding and demonstrating Divine Consciousness is like saying 1+1 =3..... The Anglo Saxon term for God is Good with a capitol G.....(so Kay say God all you want...) .WE loose all sense of evil in God consciousness and we don't suffer and we are not sick and poor in God Consciousness- God consciousness is immortal , harmonious and expresses all that is Good.......and it knows itself only to be good..... God's thoughts are not mortal thoughts.....We will know the messages of God as we awaken to our True nature in God consciousness.... Love Gyanama
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Posted by Rekha _
The mind or senses can only point to purity. They cannot express purity. All of our expressions, whether of ego or soul, it is filtered through these imperfect expressions. Our impure expressions are for us to be open to know, acknowledge, forgive and to find that which is pure in us and beyond expression by the mind and senses.
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Posted by Ed Croucher
Bit of further advice.....don't dwell on either side of the line, either ;)
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
LOL one is balanced ( centered ) between either side of that line minutely adjusting the balance of action in mindful awareness ... a move the right or left is always made in full mindfullness and always returns to the center in repose
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Posted by : Diablo
Walk a fine line...and draw a line in the sand....dare u!
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
to clarify : one is neither of the opposites - black and white, night and day, form or no form , right or left; good or bad,create or destroy, action as opposed to rest and the whole host of opposite definitions that we can mention. One is balanced between them being neither nor, but able to use either, or.. yes Ed one mustn't dwell on either side :) because that infers identification with one end of a polarity and leads to a complete loss of balance at every level of being . Awareness should be stable, centered,unbiased and most importantly unattached towards the dualities of phenomenal existence
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Posted by Dom* C(+)
My impression on God is this and this is an observation and my own opinion...you are alive and you are the experience of GOD you are dead and you are fertilizer for someone to become the experience of GOD all over again...my opinion..end of statement with one hand clapping....
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
Dom yes this is a fact isn't it - we become fertilizer for something else - but that would be like a statement made by a single cell dying when we are really trying to see the whole body. This is also pertaining to the physical forms only ?
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Posted by Dom* C(+)
(+)=>>>>>>>>
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
sorry don't understand (+)=>>>>>>> :)
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Posted by Ed Croucher
My line is potentially and actually generating a field. There is no left and right, only infinite all round choice......my choices groping to find coherence with all other orchestral choice.......said he, blowing his own trumpet ;) Beat that drum, Kay, m'fine lady. ed
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
dear Ed.. yes but I was speaking about action taken in this dual world of polarities ( creation as we know it )... of right and left - the choices etc. and not from the non form , non conceptual primal awareness state where duality is , to use the ' buzz ' word transcended . I have no interest in searching for choices, orchestras, generating fields or anything else for that matter .. just being pure awareness that doesn't get blown by desire is enough for me right now and is always ' choiceless ' :) It would seem to be much harder to find nothing than it is to find something, - we find something all the time and think that this is ' it' !!
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
When we speak in terms of the physical world then we can use concepts and ideas , intents and desires and they all are all subject to cosmic or universal laws, cause and effect and a certain sense or order and logic. BUT when we take away this form, then ordinary logic ceases to be of any use to us as do any physical laws. So it is impossible to speak of it or presume to know it in the same way that we know things in this material existence. Here it enters the quantum realm and really I don't think that the human brain can logically process it and write books about it. maybe I am wrong ..I am pretty sure that some part of my awareness is using it but I don't think that brain has much conscious knowledge of it.. or maybe a little glimpse every now and then with all the synchronicities that happen all the time.... That is basically as far as I have got presently on this earthly merry go round :) I suppose that the most I can say is that non form exists in potential state ..but not in fact and as complex matter... at this point my brain is almost sure that the is a sub atomic rather than cosmic although there is as far as I am concerned no difference between the two . I am not qualified to say on more on this level :) I have a sneaky suspicion that it is at the unconscious level of brain / mind that the subatomic and quantum field are weaving their ' magic' and which is why we have a problem knowing it or consciously manipulating it.
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Posted by Bob Ellal
Dr. Chopra, Thank you for your clear, to-the-point explanation. I always appreciate your cogent responses devoid of unnecessary abstractions. I also appreciate your continuous advice for people to adopt a disciplined meditation practice. For me, such a practice has been invaluable. As we all know, "messages" from God have been claimed by many and led to many horrific man-made tragedies: the Crusades, the Islamic incursions into Europe, the September 11th tragedy. An endless list. Are they messages from God? Or emanations from the ego, manifested to support self-interest or to make one feel special? Bob
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Posted by Ed Croucher
But, but, but, Kay....now you seem to be dwelling on 'sanity's' side. Okay, so maybe my mini representation was in sane enough to evoke that. I was hopeful you would share the dynamic.......action 'here' is either and or according to Kali! Oh God, now Bob's turned up..... his nose ;) ed
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Posted by Bob Ellal
Ed, You've got me all wrong; I didn't turn up my nose, I just blew it. Bob
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Posted by Ed Croucher
Hey Kay, off-thread, did you ever grace the halls of Michael Brown's Presence Process? Just a-wondrin'
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Posted by Ed Croucher
There's mud in my eye, Bob ;)
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Posted by Bob Ellal
Ed, then by all means, pluck it out--the eye, not the mud. We need more one-eyed people to lead the blind!
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
Nope Bob I have to google the chap - I tend not to read everyone's ideas - it gets confusing so I just sit here and watch and read my own drivel hehe
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
well I sure as hell am not the ' Insani Kamil hehe.. i am insanely sane most days or is that the other way ? if you take yourself out of the equation there are no lefts and rights or ups and downs anyway
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
@Bob LOL I know someone who uses those symbols more than I do.. the bloke on the trapeze that is... just googled this http://www.merliannews.com/Spirituality_44/The_Presence_Process_and_2012...
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
hehe now THAT must be a message from God.. good to see that its now the time of the dancers.. about time - any longer and I would be dead That article is really quite bizarre.. I don't mix with any cults groups institutions religions.. I am all alone here with my mind :) and google
mahabn's picture
Posted by Kay Hankinson
interestingly Credo Mutwa had meetings with Akyong Rinpoche some years back.. The latter was asking Credo if he had any idea about Padmasambhava being here in Africa as there was some Tibetan belief that this great Guru was here. Of course the Meru Mountain is up there by the Horn of Africa as are the Meroe people - I did start some research on it but left it for another time
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Posted by Kay Hankinson
i have a personal preference for trigrams 1 2 and 11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching_hexagram_11 I know this sounds naive but I always see trigram one as the bricks and then the hand chops through to give no 2- the force of god flows through to the earth.. but I am no I Ching expert - it is purely a personal marker that I made :) Almost as if the heavens were rent into two ( duality )