Many a glorious spiritual seeker has been told that he's going to Hell
Protect Yourself From
Religious Zealots
by Rose Rosetree
How
best can you protect yourself from zealots who insist on making your
religious life their business? Many a glorious spiritual seeker has been
told that he's going to Hell. Bossy! Remember, nobody at Earth School
has the right to interfere in the life of anyone else. (Exceptions are
raising a child to maturity or if you find somebody breaking the law.)
When someone you know is making what seems like a mistake, it's fine to
speak your opinion directly, once. Advice turns coercive when repeated,
whether to a person's face or behind his back or, even worse, as a
so-called "prayer."
Never let religious bullies
victimize you. Here are some practical ways to use your own spiritual
awareness for self-protection. Ask God to transform subconscious
patterns that weaken you. For instance, what if you've been made to fear
that you're bad, stupid or crazy? Ask God to take negative programming
away, then fill you with the opposite (usually some form of believing in
yourself).
Next, ask God to alert you to
anyone sending you coercive messages, whether an individual or a group.
Have a conversation, if you can, where you tell that person in no
uncertain terms, "Stop bossing me around." Negative patterns can also be
healed from your cellular memory. Ask God to remove the debris stuck in
your cells, working out any karmic debts in the mildest possible way,
like your dreams. Ask to learn the details consciously only if
necessary.
You can also ask a Divine
Being to help you release "The Big One." Commonly, a person
subconsciously carries one major vulnerability pattern, like "If I'm not
good enough, nobody will love me," or "Worrying means that I'm
responsible." Subconscious perfectionism is exhausting to strive for,
and when a person feels discouraged temporarily, other people's bullying
messages can sneak in... by the truckload. So question inside until you
find your vulnerability pattern. Acknowledge yourself for caring that
much. Then ask God's help to throw off the inappropriate load, once and
for all, and then fill you with light. No bully deserves to intrude on
the big sacred space that you share with God.
More Secrets of Self-Protection
"Psychic coercion" is the
technical term for what happens to an aura when people try to play God.
It's the most prevalent form of subconscious debris on the planet.
Ironically, the worst offenders are clueless that they have hurt anyone.
More likely, they think they're helping. Coercers dictate how you should
dress. Or they've figured out how you should earn your money, also
exactly how to spend it. What about your food, your hobbies, your sex
life? Hey, nothing in your life is too personal for a coercer to try and
"fix." Supposedly, this person has brilliant insights about everything
that you should be doing.
That funny word "should" often
gives it away. However, you won't necessarily hear any words at all.
Most coercion isn't spoken directly to your face. The nagging happens
behind your back or it's given the sanctimonious gloss of prayer. Right
now, somewhere, someone is "praying" by asking God to inflict on others
something that the coercer thinks would be good...even invading free
will areas as intimate as religion, sexual orientation and political
choice. Even the nicest-sounding requests can mess up people's auras. If
you're on the sending end, stop. If on the receiving end, here's how to
clear that garbage out of your aura: For this method to be effective,
speak words like these out loud: "God, surround me with light. Give me a
shield of protection so that, from now on, only energies of the highest
vibrations may enter my aura and my home. Next, please bring in a violet
flame to transmute all stale or negative energy."
Now comes the flashy part.
Think the name of a Divine Being like Archangel Michael, St. Germain or
Kwan Yin. Ask him or her to remove all psychic coercion from your
subconscious mind, flinging the unwanted stuff out of your aura and into
the violet flame.
"Imagine" means that you may
not necessarily see. You may feel it, hear thoughts or otherwise sense
what's happening. Any of this works just fine. When the garbage removal
is complete, you'll know it.
To finish, ask the Divine
Being to fill you with light. How vividly must you experience all this
in order for the healing to work? Not vividly at all! Clearer
experiences will come as you develop deeper perception. Ironically,
garbage like psychic coercion may be what's blocking that perception. To
break out of this cycle, just do the healing.
Of course you can know what
you think, what you feel, what you desire! Pay attention. And if, in
future, you hear the word "Should".... Well, I won't order you. But I do
invite you to question what's going on. Almighty God doesn't "should"
us. Why let mere mortals?
Copyright (c) by Rose Rosetree
2006. This article is adapted from Rose Rosetree's new book,
Let Today
Be a Holiday: 365 Ways to Co-Create with God. It's available at her
website,
www.rose-rosetree.com. There you'll find more of Rose Rosetree's
books, plus articles, FAQs and The Portal to Deeper Perception. If you
like, you can also subscribe to her free monthly zine, with face and
aura readings of people in the news. America's leading expert at deeper
perception, Rosetree's work has been praised in newspapers as different
as The Washington Post, the Washington Times, the LA Times, and The
Catholic Standard. She teaches regularly on three continents.
