Letting the One Mind be your guide

The Science of Mind and other metaphysical teachings tell us that there is one Mind, that consciousness is not divided, except in our perception of it. Our individuality, which we have in complete freedom, is really a spiritual fiction, the reality being the Oneness of all things.

Many people have trouble accepting that they are truly one with the Greater Consciousness.

Too bad Jesus didn't make it even plainer for us (he made it plain enough) and say "You and the Father are one", and not just "I and the Father, etc." However, others around him had not yet achieved that awareness of Unity, and the Unity occurs when we are aware of it, as Holmes says.

People are caught up in their illusion of separation. People that manage to contact the One Mind are liable to invent an intermediary personality from which they then receive 'revelations'. These may be voices, or they may be complete visualizations. They are projections engendered by and through our own consciousness.

It may be Spirit Guides, it may be Angels, it may be voices (like Joan of Arc), or it may be a so-called 'channeled' personality in full bloom.

After all if the mentally ill can have multiple personalities, surely the mentally healthy can create them just as well?

There is no problem in any of this, except for the sad inability to acknowledge one's own achievement; connection with the One Mind.

I judge that it is a reluctance to accept one's own power of thought, or the level of one's own accomplishment.

We have Troward and Holmes to thank for showing us that we need not turn to imagined sources for our revealed wisdom.
Spirit is the only source, and while we may be more content with the thought that various personalities are communicating with us, they are either products of our need for false humility, or else they are ways of claiming a certain exclusivity, as in "Why should my guides talk to you; they speak only through me."

Much of this comes about because of the culturally embedded idea that only Jesus could be so favored, even if he told us otherwise.

None of this in any way invalidates the wisdom which is being imparted. But all 'channels' lead to a single source, no middleman required.

Some have accepted the teaching that they must go through a specially trained person to seek spiritual wisdom. This may have had greater validity in the days before public education, when illiteracy and true ignorance held sway. It is to be hoped that we are moving away from this.

If we do not use a visible priest or bishop as our channel for wisdom, why do we think we need an invisible intermediary?

There is an argument to be made that all revelation, large or small, is filtered through the individual consciousness. The judgments and biases of channelers, saints and shamans alike will color their ability to be clear about their intuitive messages. We are all channels of our higher selves, and the less opinion we bring to it, the clearer we we be guided.

Speaking of being guided - you can reach inward to your Higher Self for help with any issue:

In my book on creativity, MAXI-MIND, I provide a useful three or four stage process. Leave all logic and judgment aside while documenting a plethora of ideas, some useful, some nonsensical. Then examine each idea in turn, especially the ones that don't make sense - see if any of them can be turned around to be useful. These wild ones are the ones that let you think outside of the box. Discard any that can't be turned into valid ideas. Only then do you apply logic and judgment to each one remaining, rank them. and choose a workable option. This is how you can capture the innovativeness of your personal inspirations.