Why is knowledge dangerous? Well, for one thing, we have all of our knowing in our
core/heart space so anytime we are “learning” anything, we’re just teaching our
ego. We then have the
responsibility to use that knowledge wisely. What you don’t know can’t hurt you while knowing and not using
the information to the best of your ability is worse than not having the
knowledge at all. Not only that,
this is how the ego “learns” what love looks and sounds like so it can deceive
the person into thinking that he/she is in the heart when, really, it’s not
true. Information is one way the
ego can deceive us into thinking we’ve “gotten somewhere” when we haven’t or
that we really know what we know when we don’t. We think we know, so we stop there and close our mind to
anything else. Let's just say, this is most but not all people thank goodness!
As I walk my own path of awakening, I am learning that to go
within and ask there is the best way to go about getting accurate
information. Who is it that we are
asking? I believe it’s our Higher
Self. The best time to ask within
is during meditation as that’s when we are more likely to connect with that
part of ourselves. Isn’t that what
we’ve been told by so many gurus and spiritual teachers over so many years is
to go within? It really is
true! Otherwise, if we are relying
on outside information for our answers, we are then responsible for making sure
the information is accurate and too many people don’t do enough of their own
questioning/investigating to make sure of that. There is a way and that is to use your FEELINGS to determine
if what you have been told is true or not. It’s my opinion that most people don’t do this. We have largely become complacent and
dependent on sources outside of ourselves for information and we have (mostly)
relied on this information to be true when it sometimes isn’t. Also, not everyone but a large portion
of our population is disconnected from their feelings for one reason or another
to even use their feelings to determine if what they “know” is true or
not. I am also finding that as I
awaken, information that I need comes to me effortlessly and sometimes WITHOUT
me having to ask for it. I’m just
ready for it. I don’t feel the
need to study anything or go looking for information. All I have to do is ask for what I want to know and it shows
up in a dream or in meditation or my own intuition. If it comes to me through an email, a book, a thread on
facebook etc, I do use my feelings to determine if what has come to me is truth
or not if it comes to me through these sources. Sometimes I am guided to find a book or I’ll run into the
person who has the information I need and I trust my guidance so I trust these
sources also.
I think there will be a time in the very near future where
we will be completely shaken up as we find out that the history we have been
told about ourselves is not even close to being true as well as some of the
“teachings” that have been around for centuries are also inaccurate. I think it’s important that we just
keep our minds open to other possibilities of truth that may conflict with what
we have been taught so far. It’s a
wild ride already, yes? It’s only
going to get wilder!
