From {{Jon’s}} blog, Jon’s new Age Wanderings:

“the underlying question of course is “on what basis do you make your answer?” For christians, the appeal is to the bible of course. But New Agers don’t have a bible, so who says which answer is right? How do we decide? How do we know?”

It is a matter of Authority and Responsibility. Most notably, not surrendering it to ANY outside authority, for that act itself, is an act of Self Denial. And Responsibility, for doing our own thinking and deciding. We have been given the Gift of Will and we are accountable for how we use it. When we do not claim this accountability, it is the same as saying to Spirit that Life is too much of a responsibility and we don’t want to experience it anymore.

It is essential to realize that Justice is not a matter of “right and wrong”. It is a function of cause and effect. Any and all acts of Self Denial are acts of negating our own lives, of demeaning them. If we plant these seeds, we will reap a harvest of having our desires denied us.

“Knowing” comes from our hearts. There is a whole ‘nother post on knowing:

http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/knowing/

Most of us don’t even know who we are, especially ‘christians’, for beliefs in ’sin’ are effective tools of emotional manipulation. Who am I/who are you, freed of all fears of Acceptance? You’d be surprised how many things we choose simply due to fears of not being accepted or tolerated, how many things we choose because we’re looking for validation.

The major transition is to a altogether different value system.

The ‘christian’ religions as taught us to be leeches and ticks, for our reality is based of getting other people to believe likewise. It is a relationship of dependency, being dependent upon other people’s choices. This gives rise to controlling behavior, trying to limit choices. Judgments of ‘wrongness’ and ‘condemnation’. These are acts of emotional extortion.

While it may not be complimentary for us to realize what we’ve been doing, ie, negating other people’s lives in order to feed our own reality like a bunch of ticks and leeches, it is necessary if we are to cease our DisRespectful behavior.

A sense of Worth based on other people’s choices and actions is not a GENUINE sense of self worth at all. It is not secure, for it is a relationship of dependency. ONLY a sense of Worth based on ACTUAL substance of character is Real.

This attitude and elected value system brings our focus back to our own self, instead of upon others. We start endeavoring to clean up our own backyards, instead of having to control what other people’s yards look like. We change from preacher to teacher, for we gladly share how we got our yard clean, to those who ask, yet are unconcerned with those that don’t. Since we are no longer dependent, we can allow other people the FREEDOM and LIBERTY to be their own person. There is no longer any contest of wills, any conflict, for we are not trying to overpower and control.

In short, we claim the responsibility for being our own Father and being our own Mother. For making own own decisions and for being self nurturing.

Many ‘christians’ may not like it but I do often ask the question: Too lazy to do our own thinking, huh?

It boils down to choice. For each and every choice, there is a consequence. What I can share after decades of practical experience in associating cause and effect, is to say that when we base our decisions on a gut centered emotion, like fear or doubt, then the consequences will be something unpleasant. When we base our choices from the perspective of being a puny human, the consequences will be something unpleasant. When we base our choices on being ‘a son of man’ the consequences will be something unpleasant. When we base our choices on conditional love the consequences will be something unpleasant. When we base our choices on being needy the consequences will be something unpleasant.

Choose based on the perspective of being a ’son of god’ and for *knowing*, listen to the Voice in our own Hearts. For our paths are varied and different. What is a loving choice for one person may not be for another.

To Our OWN Hearts be True.

(not our guts)