There is a strange idea that to be able to get to a point where you are happy or “enlightened” (see note below) you must follow someone else, or listen to the words of a holy man or woman, or follow rules. Anything like that, unless it makes you completely happy, is not going to help really. If it is that you enjoy being a follower of such and such a guru because you like being associated with their charity work, do some of your own charity work and it will feel ten times better. If you honestly truly believe that they have the answer you are looking for, and that if you follow their ideas and teachings you will wake up one morning happier, more joyful, more ecstatic than you ever have been, then good luck with that. I hope you aren’t paying them any money.
Essentially, when you go looking for outside input on this topic, you are assuming that you know nothing about it, or at least that they know more about it than you. But think about it, you are there, they are there. They are telling you things, and you are understanding them, maybe even agreeing with them. Maybe you’re even thinking “this is what I have always thought”. ANd yet you continue to go back to them.
If they impinge upon your existence in any form, it is because they are a reflection of you. The human being cannot pick up anything that is not a part of them, or a part of their creative pool, shall we say. When they tell you something, and you agree with it, it is because you already knew it anyway. Any idea that you find a common ground with is an idea that you have already thought a thousand times, but not yet found a way to describe.
And so when you go looking for a teacher, what you find is someone that is a reflection of a part of you (because you cannot attract anything that is not on the same frequency as yourself) telling you things that you already know, and probably already understand.
A lot of people nowadays have forgotten a lot of what they already know, which is why it sounds and feels like new information. But notice, the next time you get that feeling, where that feeling is coming from. It does not come from the usual, thinking part of the brain, it comes from front of the head. It is a feeling of connection to knowledge. Oftentimes, by the time you have heard the bit you already knew, your conscious brain is onto the next thing and so you don’t have time to correctly process it. This is why connecting to the infinite knowledge that exists in the higher vibrations can be useful. It is a way to turn on the hose of knowledge without having to worry about the brain stepping in to veto and audit all the information.
You may notice that turning on and tuning into you intuition feels a bit like remembering. That is how it works. There is no time boundary on intuition. You can manouveur yourself up and down the time line. Going back on the time line is what is called by most people “memory”. Going forward into the future is “precognition”. But they are both aspects of intuition. The only issue rises when people are told that can’t possibly remember the future, because it hasn’t happened yet.
In reality, there is only the moment here and now. That is all. ANything that has happened previously is happening right now on a parallel line, as is anything that is about to happen. Anything that is going to happen to you is chooseable, based on how you feel, what you want, what you are vibrationally in tune with etc. From moment to moment you have a whole new opportunity to change everything around you. It is just a matter of deciding where you want to be and how you want to feel. To quote the movie Vanilla Sky “Every moment is a whole new chance to turn it all around”
So, choose wisely my friends. Most of all choose Joyfully. Let yourself be taught by your inner (higher) self. Bigme knows what s/he is doing. Trust that, and all else is yours for the taking.
Anton
(We don’t understand why people are still chasing enlightmenment. Enlightenment is the state that you are in constantly. It is just that you don’t realise that that is what enlightenment is. Everyone is constantly waiting for Enlightenment to start an explosion of light and a thousand angels singing from on high. Enlightenment is YOU! Already! Right Now! Stop looking for it.)

