that's EXACTLY the one i had in mind! lol

Oh, yes, I pay close attention to the instructions, but it is not all the time about instructions, but lessons, warnings [like Richard said about health], etc.

For an example, in my third experience I saw that I was being rude with many people that I knew and that I needed to put a stop to it, and it was very confusing to me. I couldn’t see further than “be kind”, because my life was a swirl of emotions, anger. Years later I could fully understand the instruction, to be kind but to don’t be stupid. Just to create a new dynamic in my relations. This teaching was fully present all the way; I just didn’t have enough perspective to see it all.

I guess that with time we flush all our inequities that blur our understanding and we start seeing the real thing, but it comes with the continuity of the ceremonies, the improvements in life and some real intent to get real. That’s how I face the instructions that I receive. But I guess it varies from person to person. Some people could get this lesson of mine right the way, although in other aspects they could linger like I did.

And elder of the Santo Daime said once, “There is a spiritual stage [in the Daime] that, from here [he gesticulates] on to that point, truth goes mixed with lies; they go on interlacing themselves. When it develops beyond that wall, then there is only truth.”

Blessings,

Depends also on who's offering the instructions. If your just hearing a voice in your head and can't connect it to a being, or if it's just a feeling you got, a general sense of something, or an impulse, that's one thing. If you get specific instructions from a being your in relationship with and recognize from previous experience that's another. All the information is useful, some is more forcefully imparted, and some is direct communication from a being connected to you personally as an ally or helper or teacher or guide.

In some mediumship traditions that use sacred medicines, you don't share space with a being who doesn't introduce itself by name and agree to work within the context of your faith or intentions.

With ayahuasca it's also possible to request a clear introduction from the being interested in interacting with you. Who are you, what is your intention and so forth. Relationships, built up over time and experience and the instructions that come from them can be followed specifically.

It's like getting to know someone in a arena where you really need to be focused and aware. You probably thought long and hard about who you were going into ceremony with, asked questions and gauged their intent. You probably decided, even if meeting them for the first time, you trusted their vibe from all the environmental and physical clues. Until you have a relationship based in past experience with a particular being, ask questions and request introductions and firm statements of intent, before you go off on a goose chase just because you heard it in ceremony.

Just my thoughts about it, sorry if it sounds a little like instructions, but when you land on a new and distant shore, be sure your dealing with friends before you follow them into the woods. :)

Me too. Even if the outcome seemed less stellar than what I expected I am encouraged to appreciate the journey rather than the end point in my path and remember that I learn more from the rocky parts than the easily navigated stretches. Its all going exactly as it should be.

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