I’ve already got a massive project to finish before my baby arrives, but a book is definitely in my future plans.

Current project? oh nevermind, I’ll just make that a new blog post…

I would put it this way. We’re empowered, AND we have the power to choose to surrender to a higher power. But surrender’s not at all the same thing as powerlessness. Surrender is a choice, whereas powerlessness suggests we have no say at all.

In fact, I find the most effective way to manifest anything is to select how I want to feel and let the universe figure out where that is exactly, and how to get there.

Metaphorically, I always see myself at the wheel, I just have higher powers as my GPS. Sometimes, I have no frickin’ clue where I’m going! But I trust the directions I’m getting, so I breathe through my fears and step on the gas pedal.

Here’s another way to look at it. I’m sure you know from your own experience that trying to help someone who doesn’t want to be helped doesn’t work. It’s a waste of your energy, and can actually strain your relationship with that person as you push for positive change and they push for status quo.

God (or whatever you wanna call it/him/her/them) understands that too. Moreover, God respects our freedom of choice, and recognizes how important it is for us to be left to make mistakes. Without the power to screw up our own lives, we’d never learn to live life well.

So, getting back to “Jesus taking the wheel.” Higher powers won’t just grab the wheel from us. They’re more likely to wince and shake their heads as we careen blindly into trees! But if we *choose to ask them for help,* then metaphorically, yes of course they can drive for a bit! (I still prefer to see myself at the wheel and higher powers as my GPS, but don’t let my silly metaphor stand in the way. It’s just semantics.)

When we surrender to a higher power, we empower ourselves even more by calling in as much support as possible. It’s isolation, or any other refusal of support, that’s dis-empowering.

Ah, now I’ve just raised another question. This also will address your remark about the “great I AM.”

We’ve all known times in our own lives (or perhaps in lives of people we know), where we’ve been on a path to self-destruction and some kind of external event (let’s call it divine intervention) seems to knock us back on course. There’s even a tarot card for this! The Tower. So does that mean something outside of ourselves does grab the wheel on occasion?

Nah, not really. At least, nothing’s intervenes without us asking for intervention. What’s happened is our own higher has self intervened on our behalf at a sub-conscious level. So our ego-self can make all the stupid decisions it likes but if the wiser part of us takes charge, asks for help and rallies the forces, something/someone still saves our sorry arse.

When this occurs, it can be a painful process because our ego is resisting the whole way; kicking, screaming, and resisting all changes. We’re so stubbornly attached to our self-destructive direction, our life’s gotta be completely derailed in order to get us back onto the right track. That’s why the Tower card looks dark and ominous. (It shows a stone tower being struck by lightning. Fire flares from the windows and people tumble down from the top of the tower. Yeah… the traditional imagery’s a bit medieval.) The pain can be reduced, if not averted entirely, by opening up to dramatic change and surrendering to higher powers.

okay, well that was a longer response than I thought it’d be! lol. I really enjoyed your comment, Christine. Very thought provoking.

I totally agree that I am accountable. But I also love the song “Jesus take the wheel”. ie. God/Universe/Presence take the wheel of my life. So if I am accountable, then really the great I AM is accountable/at the wheel.

What do you think?

Do you mean I am both empowered and powerless at the same time? Is this a same/same, non-dual thing?

PS – I think you could turn these 8 ideas into a book.

Most people are familiar with the term clairvoyance. Clairvoyance means you get information in a visual form. Clairaudience is when you receive info in an auditory form (eg. sounds/music/words/etc. ). People also pick up smells or tastes but there’s no word for that. Anyway, I could go on at length about ways to perceive info, but I’ll save that for later posts.

Reading body language, or picking up any complex patterns at a subconscious level, ties so well into the psychic process that I don’t personally see much point in separating it. Yes of course there’s a physical difference between drawing information from someone’s gestures and drawing info from their energy, but in all likelihood, you’re drawing clues from their body language AND their energy, and then seamlessly integrating that information at a subconscious level. I wouldn’t split hairs over where to draw the line. (Indeed, reading body language can arguably be considered a divination technique). What matters is that you’re using your whole body to perceive information, and using your subconscious to synthesize it. You’re not doing what some people do, and blocking out all thoughts but the easily justified, logical observations. These people are limiting themselves to a tiny chunk of their brains. You’re obviously not, so that’s wonderful!!

I notice you offer assistance in increasing peoples’ psychic potential. I have often had people around me seem unusually surprised when I make accurate assessments of how they are feeling or what they are thinking. I have always thought I did this mostly through watching their body language and other details, but sometimes I am eerily correct.

What kind of psychic ability do you think this might be?