Spiritual Signposts?

[E'sMommy]

Are there "spiritual signposts" along the way that help you see yourself honestly and show you where you need to grow? What are some examples of these signposts and their significance, from your own experience?

[Sym]

"The Celestine Prophesy" is a great book to help a person understand and be able to recognize signposts.
((I didn't know that was what they were called))
Apparently, if you know the direction(s) you want to take, there will be signs along the way telling you that you are either getting there, or going the wrong way.

I found this book quite interestingly, and in answering this post, I may also be inadvertantly another post about "How you know your on the right path"??
Something like that.

Anyway, I had just been introduced to a friends friend. I saw a book I thought interesting laying on the mantle in the front hallway. I wanted to ask to borrow the book, believing it had some interesting insight I needed to know about it inside. I was just very drawn to it - hard to describe), but I never asked b/c I figured I'd have to explain the need I was feeling to read it, and I didn't want to look like a cook on mt 1st introduction. So I dismissed the book.
I remembered only it was green and shiny...didn't catch the name either.
Anyway, a few days had passed, and lo and behold if one of the 1st conversations we all have together is about Karma and destiny. Kinda odd for the group to say the least.
I was then triggered to ask the man if I could borrow his green shiny book I had seen days before on the mantle. He looked at me like I was insane. After a better description of WHY I felt I NEEDED to read it, he brought me to his library, and showed me the book. It was burried beneath about 20 other books, ALL covered in dust. It wasn't on the mantle he said (and the dust lines supported that theory). He said It was karma? and I was destined to read it, so he gave iot to me, from the near bottom of the pile. He dusted it off, and sure enough it was green and shiny, just like I had seen it days before (or thought I had).

I had been having very bisarre happenings prior to this. Like...daily, and I couldn't explain them. Nor could I continue to try to explain to others why I had suddenly become so odd and...weird.
I took the book home, and read it cover to cover...about 7 times!
Totally explained my new path, my weird ways, my direction and how I knew it was right for me, and even why it was so hard for others to understand it.

It was life altering...well...life explaining anyway!-lol
Months later, my sister bought me the same book for Christmas. She said...I just saw it, and felt like I HAD to buy it for you, but didn't know why. Tell me what its about when your done reading it."

So...that book is kind of my...spiritual? path?, or at least, my confirmation in carving out my own path. It is also my answer to both posts. It was the beginning of many realizations about myself and the universe.

But for this post, I think it is VERY fitting!
It not only mentions signposts, but tells you how to spo them, how most people miss them, and how to use them to know if you are really heading in the right direction. ....Spiritually, or not. There is no real religion it it as well, so it is a fairly broad read for anyone.
I think it is about $15.
Speaking of Karma now....I am going to dig out that book and read it again just to brush up. I could use a few re-awakenings right about now

Sym

[E'sMommy]

Wow! Not only is that a signpost, that is a flashing light! I have heard of things like that happening but never really had it happen to me. At least not that drastic.

Years ago, I guess when I was in high school, I was reading this romance/based on history novel. In it, it talked about the main character going to a Catholic Church and had discriptions of the church and Mass and other things that really interested me. It is the first time I remember reading anything about the Catholic Church. Several years later, in college, I went to my first Mass with my best friend. I normally slept in on Sundays and never went to church. I had since grown away from the Methodist church because I just didn't feel that it was where I belonged. I felt so accepted in that first trip with her. A pull kind of. (Hard to explain). When I met my dh, and found out he was Catholic, there was never any more questions in my mind that I would convert. It was like the third thing that told me (albeit subtlely over time) that my religion was right in front of my face. I guess those are a couple of my signposts.

[Ames]

Sym, that book is FANTASTIC!

[technoidiot]

You guys seem so intuitive. I honestly feel quite lost at times. I don't feel like I have much of a 6th sense if at all. Well, rather I think that some ppl are much more gifted in this area than others and possibly some of it is simply taking the time to be more aware. I wish I had visions or heard something from someone about something. My biggest struggle is my IF and what is going to happen w/ that, will I ever be a mother. I shudder to think if that is not to be on my path, however, I feel like it will come to happen, but don't know if that is wishful thinking or a 6th sense of something, how do you know? In the other post where many of you have had experiences w/ spirits etc., I'm so envious, why won't anyone visit me and say, it's going to be ok, you're going to have a child, or "this is your path" or whatever?? I've had one dream/voice thing a few years ago at a time when I was sobbing my self to sleep over IF and I heard a voice that said I would have a son but to be patient. But, I am clueless as to know whether I created that thought or if it was from beyond. The only thing is that a friend of mine that does have a 6th sense and sees spirits etc., has told me that she sees a little boy, and I think some other psychic or someone has told me this too. (I can't remember who told me when, but 3 times since this experience someone somewhere has told me this, one time was my friend). I am holding on to that with such desperate hope, but scared that it's nothing and that it will never happen.
Also, does anyone get to feeling guilty from their religious upbringing that it is bad to try and find out the future or hear from spirits. I think it's so interesting and can't imagine that ppl have this gift and that it isn't God given, but then I get to feeling like I'm committing some sin by wanting to know? KWIM? I think I'm going to have to get the celestial prophecy book.

[Sym]

Techno...Sorry, I don't know your real name (if you use it here)

My religious upbringing was...well...not!-lol
I had some sunday school, and tried to find "God" a few times. Even thought I had succeeded a few times but then kapooey.((I am in a kapooey stage right now- for a long while)
But...I still think "God" might be, and I am just too P* off to bother to look deeper into it right now. I take a long time to heal emotionally, and "HE" thew me a pile last year to get over.

Way off topic- sorry.
Do I feel guilty for Wanting to know??
Well...mostly I do not WANT to know. I sometimes try to "see" stuff either for others, or to feel like I still "have it" if it has been missing a while, but rarely do these things work. I usually feel silly afterward if I am looking for something for me. Looking for it doesn't "bring it" for me.

I DO find though, that if I meditate and just let my mind release all the techno crap of life(no pun intended), that I feel stuff more clearly. Maybe not a "vision" for the future, but more of a clarity so that I CAN see/feel things when they come to me wether it be just a feeling of an unhappy person I should call to cheer up, or a person in the grocery store to freak out-lol
If I meditate even a few minutes a day maybe 3 times a week, I feel more clear in everything.
I think how you "get it" is just be clear, which makes your mind open to new possibilities. Like decluttering your closet, you see that you COULD fit in a new pair of shoes-lol
If my mind is just filled with daily routine crap, I feel I need a jump start.
I try to suck energy from the earth when I don't have enough of my own. I lay flat on a quiet piece of grass near a creek or a bird nesting area, wherever I can escape the daily grind, and palms up, I try to "inhale the positivity", and "Exhale the negativity"

God I wish I could have PMed this, but I think my membership lapsed last night-lol

Try to envision all the negativity leaving as you deeply exhale. Try to envision the positivity as you inhale as long as you can.
You should find you need to breathe less b/c you getting so much oxygen. When you notice that your breathing has slowed alot, you should feel fully relaxed. This is when your mind might wander to see or feel only small pasrts of things. Like a flash of a scene in your mind, or a piece of a picture that makes no sence at all by itself.
((This is kinda hard to explain-if anyone wants to help, please jump in-lol))

So, your at the quick flashes, or feelings.
Don't try to focus on these things at all!
Let them come and go. It kinda feels like your watching a slot maching spin and spin or a slideshow.
Your mind MIGHT stop for a few seconds longer on thing or another. These are little signposts for the beginner ((I think-lol))
Just continue to take them in.

After your done meditating (idealy when your mind is just done rather than a need to be somewhere else on time or make dinner etc), you will get up, breathe deep a few more times till your breathing returns to normal, then go on about your day/week/month.

I am SURE you will, in the coming days/weeks/months see some part of the scens (the ones that lasted longer than most), in everyday life. When you recognize the dejavu feeling, or feel a feeling you felt on one of these long pauses, take a good look around. Not just AT the bus in front of you, or AT the kids in the car (or whatever the scene was in your meditation), but look all around it. You should try to look at it all like a BIG picture rather than small parts of it (like we usually see things), and in the BIG picture, your eyes will narrow in on some part of it. THAT is where you want to look. if you feel compelled to go over to it and take a close look/feel, then do it.
You might not get anything. But you might get something.
Sometimes I find the BIG picture seems like a blur. That is a good sign. Or like there is chaos everywhere around it except in one specific place.
You might only see a little kid who lost their ball in the street and is about to run into traffic to get it. You might have seen this to get the ball for them to keep them from getting hit or killed. Sometimes you never know, but afterward, you FELL all eurphoric (like in meditation). Maybe you will know exactly the reasons/purpose you have stopped there, in which case, you can just do/say whatever comes to you as a strong will.
The "voice" is sometimes not a real sounding voice. Sometimes it even soulnds just like a thought of yours in your head.
The more you "hear/feel" it, the more you will realize faster which one it is. This is the part that made me initially feel like I was a psycho. I couldn't well go around saying...follow me Dh, I hear a voice calling me in the other direction"
KWIM??
So...maybe keep it private till you are sure what your feeling/hearing/seeing.


Did I mentioned that I wished I could have PMed this???
LOL
Funny, I knew when I saw this thread, that I if I had replied to it, I would be doing this. I didn't reply initially b/c of this.
I thought...Oh there is a straight jacket just waiting for me.

Its a little sign that I did right in replying so honestly/openly, b/c you are here looking for answers, and we are here (all of us) with a few of them.
So...I have the europhic "I did well-


feeling right now.

It is a weird "gift"?
Not really a gift b/c I think we can all be so much more intuitive, and not really a gift b/c there is the whole scarey feeling like your a lunatic sometimes, but a "gift" when you know you've done well by someone and helpped them in a small way.
That in itself is reason enough to look at the big picture. We don't need a voice to tell us someone is calling.
Sometimes we just have to listen.

Tell us how it goes after a few tries if you don't mind.

Sym
-Ready for my straight jacket -LOL