Aug 14
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What Jesus Is Teaching (Me) Today – 11
If Going Directly is the Answer, Why Advisors?
Does your spiritual advice come from outside or from within?
Increasingly I’m getting e-mail asking, in a variety of different phrasing, the question posed in the title of this chapter related to “my Board of Directors” or “Spiritual Advisors.”
One rather loyal reader, Eric, in Toronto …who gets his own direct revelation, asked essentially: “Or is this just fiction by Brad Cullen to make a point?”
Since Eric and a number of people with whom he is associated have read my only (to this date) novel –based on true events– Leapfrog, and agrees with the publisher that the book is foundational, as a means to understand the message Brad Cullen has been given to share, I put a double meaning on how he was using the word “fiction.”
Eric and his group have invited me to Toronto next month to share with them – a first such invite I have accepted in over 18 years and seems to be the door opening to many such sharing* with other small groups in the near future.
Where will you go without a leader?
One of several reasons for even considering accepting this invitation, initially, is that this group has no human leader. It is what attracted us to one another, their Leader is my Leader …the one I refer to as our (your and my) SPIRIT-PARENT.
*“Sharing” means exactly that …a group of individuals sharing what each of us is getting, at that moment, from the ONE LEADER …our SPIRIT-PARENT.
…I have been forewarned, by Eric, to expect to be challenged by several people in the group about my ten “spiritual advisors.”
It seems, therefore, quite timely, RIGHT NOW, to move into the mode of “pattern interrupt” and to quit thinking and ask “what now” to get a response that may help many who are wondering about “my advisors” – one fellow, in the western part of the U.S. has referred to my explanation related to my group of ten advisors in a rather positive manner as, “your committee approach.”
Is there a leader within you?
Since that comment came from a recognized and even famous, in some circles, author and teacher, who is well-connected to a well-known Christian (no less) institution …his reference to “my committee approach,” in a positive and appreciative vein was not only surprising, but certainly well-received …again, WHAT NOW?
“One response to the question that makes sense to all of us,” Jay said just now, “is that the reason for this particular group of ten is that we all acknowledge the very same Leader.”
Is it significant that Jay answered me just now and that I am seeing my “Board” sitting with me at the conference table?
“YES, LISTEN TO ALL MY SONS IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.”
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I feel the need to share that those words jolted me into standing up and pacing the floor for a moment and looking at group who are watching me carefully and obviously prepared to say some things. So I sat back down . . .
Some call this scene fiction: "literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people". Some call it truth.
Yogi said, in his usual gentle manner, “Your response to Eric was perfect …that is, ‘it isn’t fiction,’ was perfectly stated.”
I went, just now, to my sent file to remind me what it was exactly that I had said to Eric, the following are the exact words:
…My antidote (for me) that stops me from struggling with somebody’s thesis is two-fold — one is to go DIRECTLY to my closest friend and elder brother, and ask: “What now?” Meaning, how do I respond? In this case, I’m getting to tell you to treat whatever I am saying as an interesting point of view for the particular moment I wrote it — nothing more and nothing less – and to answer one question directly and that is, no, it isn’t fiction, for me; …that does NOT mean it has to be worrisome to anyone else (period). Note: To be precise, I did change the punctuation here and there so that it makes better sense here, in a slightly different context.
“What I’m getting to tell you, this moment,” Sid spoke authoritatively, “is that both you and Eric and every other individual who trusts our SPIRIT-PARENT, by whatever title they bestow” [upon HER/HIM/IT -Brad’s later insert, again, hopefully for clarity-], “intimate or no, enough to go directly for answers and waits expectantly to get those answers for her or him is a beloved child of God and needs no human being purporting to be a spiritual leader to act as a medium …”
“And that certainly goes for all of us sitting around at this table,” Mose interjected, and even more forcefully than what Sid had just spoken.
“Yes, and you mustn’t forget that even though our friend and brother Jay invited us all, we are nonetheless a product of your imagination,” Baba added.
“Okay,” I practically stammered, after being somewhat stunned by Baba’s response, “doesn’t that make the question of whether this is fiction a bit more pointed?”
Remember when your imagination was your best friend? Make it so again.
“You must not forget the thesis given you to share,” Baba continued, “that is, imagination makes for virtual reality which is better than what most people perceive as actual reality; this is the truth you must share.”
“I want to say here,” Zoe was looking thoughtful, “that it mustn’t be assumed that imagination devoid of getting input directly from God, and again, by whatever other title or name, is somehow ‘spiritual’ in the positive sense, otherwise every ridiculously lustful though or aggressively ambitious fantasy, on its own merits, could be considered spiritual.”
“…and that is pure poppycock,” was Moe’s contribution.
“Let’s all encourage our brother here that he is quite accurate when he refuses the label of fiction as the word relates to us,” Lahti, said.
“People have levied that accusation in my direction, and you have discovered that, almost by default, Brad, the same thing that thousands of others have discovered …I am very real,” Jere said pointedly for my benefit.
Who sits at your table? Whomever you invite.
“Well, Jere,” that may be true,” Jay, interrupted, but you have to admit that some of your appearances have not appeared to be human …and, from that point of view, fiction is not necessarily a negative label as it relates to you.” Jay jostled Jere playfully with a hand to his shoulder while saying this to him.
“Look who’s talking, and, in fact,” Jere responded, pausing to look around the table, couldn’t the same be said about all of us? – I don’t know why I get so defensive every time one of you guys throws that at me – hey, wait a minute, defensiveness is uniquely a human quality, wouldn’t you agree?”
“Good one, Jere,” Moo replied, “not one of us at his table can deny an avowed appearance, alleged by some ardent fan or another, whether in apparition form or otherwise”
We all laughed at this …and immediately we all became silent for several minutes.
So I asked them which one of them wanted to take on the chore of explaining why they were so important to anyone else when any individual can go directly to the SOURCE.
Did you have any imaginary friends? Have some again.
“You’re missing the point,” Sid spoke up almost immediately, “we are in your imagination – it is true that, based on what you want to accomplish in your life, Jay assembled us for you. We are your reality and because our values are your values and you have instructed the subconscious part of your mind to gather with us continually to stay on your primary purpose in life – which was our primary purpose in each of our manifesting in our human experience and still is in these appearances to you.
“Our SPIRIT-PARENT has directed you to share your experiences with all who have ears to hear and eyes to see. Even if somebody else sees and likes the makeup of this particular group of advisors, we wouldn’t appear to them in the same way,” Jay added.
Moo concluded with: “All you have to do to see this clearly is to consider that millions of Muslims and Christians, who think they are following Jay and me, have an individualized mental picture of what we not only look like, but our essence and meaning …and the same goes for each of us who appeared before the introduction of photography because there are hundreds, if not thousands, of artist’s renditions of what all of us look like.”
Those words from Jay and Moo seemed to have put the finishing touches on this meeting; …WHAT NOW?
“You will actually be sharing something next that you have been sharing for the past twenty-five years, but in a brand new way and for which I will transcribe the exact words and many will come into a deep understanding because of it.”
Who do you imagine they are praying to?
#12 is coming right up and what it will do for many of you is to show you how to DECIDE to break free of your limitations and be joined together again with the Creator of the universe and it is so simple yet so profound I want to rush right into it now – but I don’t have the words yet, just a general “knowing.”
I AM sitting here with all sorts of marvelous emotions, filled with gratitude, excitement, joy, anticipation and wonder – I am being nudged to close this segment with the following and suggest you may want to commit it to memory:
“I am in and of the will of God. YOUR presence and power are upon me. I have and want nothing else …and no other thought or feeling shall have a permanent place in me …I AM.” I’m also being instructed to say: At the same time I have the freedom to know that I want an ever-increasing awareness of Your presence and power – and You have given me the faith and belief that is what Your desire for each of us is as well.