The Way of Knowingness. Kim O'Neill
a child emotionally and teaching him to trust in his own feelings—or inner voice—emotionally constipated adults doggedly instruct their offspring to concentrate and rely on their mental thoughts and to embrace the analytical, humorless behavioral patterns of those older and “wiser” who have already unknowingly developed spiritual amnesia. To receive the positive reinforcement of acceptance, affection, and respect children so crave, they choose to sacrifice their spiritual connections in an effort to please people around them.
Eventually, after years of ignoring their inner voice, children lose touch with what the soul is trying to communicate, which causes them to forget where they came from, who they are, and the particulars of their spiritual destiny.
For example, adults who are more mental than emotional in their parenting styles often fail to consider a child’s feelings and may unthinkingly bark: “Why did you do that? You need to think—you need to use your head!” “How can you know what you want? You’re only a child!” “I don’t care about your feelings! You’ll do it my way! I’m the adult here!” “You want to start your own business (or be a brain surgeon, ballerina, Supreme Court justice, writer, pilot, US president, professional athlete, etc.) when you grow up? With your grades you’ll be lucky to make it through high school!” “Your feelings are hurt? So what? Stop that crying! I don’t want people to think you’re a sissy!” “Ignore her, son. You know how emotional girls are. Just leave her alone and she’ll get over it.” “Of course, I can’t see your guardian angels! They can’t talk to you! They live in heaven! And stop repeating what they say! It’s sacrilegious! Do you want to go to hell when you die?” “Grandma talked to you last night? She’s in heaven, so she can’t talk to anybody anymore! And if she could, why would she talk to you and not me? That’s crazy—go to your room!”
Of course, I don’t believe most adults deliberately set out to disable children spiritually or emotionally. Many analytical adults remain unaware that they are following the patterns they learned from their own parents, having long since forgotten how confusing and hurtful they found them when they were children.
On the earthly plane, children are forced to grow up at increasingly earlier ages, exposed to adult images and frightening levels of sexuality and violence found on computers or in video games, TV, films, friends, books, and magazines. Very young children must somehow understand and participate in a world gone mad with terrorism, drugs, gangs, prejudice, poverty, war, domestic violence, rampant sexuality, and frightening epidemics. If you look back into your own childhood, you’ll remember receiving the same number of negative messages, although they may have centered on different issues.
What a distant memory heaven becomes for a child who is bombarded with all of these negative images! Add an emotionally closed parent to the mix and it is the perfect catalyst for spiritual amnesia to begin to corrode a child’s memory of heaven, including the awareness of his talents and abilities, issues he is to resolve, or life’s work he was destined to perform. He becomes a ship without a compass, and that is exactly what makes life such a struggle. It’s difficult enough existing on the earthly plane if we know precisely where we are going and how we are going to get there. However, if we’ve developed spiritual amnesia, life consists of enormous, painful melodrama and the frustration that results from having to learn everything the hard way.
Does this difficulty sound like something that’s happened to you? If it does, you’re in good company! It happens to almost every one of us when we return to the earthly plane.
When we’re children, our inner voice is so loud and unmistakable that it is virtually impossible to ignore. But by the time we’re adults, we’ve become so practiced at dismissing what our soul is trying to convey that we can’t even hear or feel it anymore.
Despite the fact that you may have forgotten the existence of your soul’s memory bank, it has continued to record and store all of your experiences. When you restore the ability to listen to your inner voice, you’ll be able to access the information stored in your soul’s memory bank, which will greatly increase your self-awareness and enhance your confidence in decision making.
In my private sessions, an increasing number of people are searching for a better quality of life. They have become more proactive than ever in returning their focus to what they hear from within rather than blindly accepting other peoples’ dictates about how to live, whom to love, and what to feel. All of the answers we seek about building true happiness, greater spiritual awareness, and unlimited abundance are right inside our own soul just waiting to be retrieved.
You may further broaden your spiritual horizons by developing the ability to communicate with your guardian angels, which will significantly add to your existing levels of self-awareness and your quality of life. To do so, consider visiting a neighborhood bookstore and reviewing the numerous books that contain practical advice on how you can easily develop your own channeling ability. My book, How to Talk with Your Angels, offers a step-by-step technique that is simple and easy to follow. You might also consider finding a reputable psychic channel in your area who can give you one-on-one instruction, or you may want to seek out a community center that hosts lectures and seminars on spiritual topics where you can learn with others who are also on a spiritual journey.
As you access information from within your soul or from your angels, you may reach new levels of enlightenment that will enhance, build upon, or even replace childhood teachings of religious doctrine that may no longer be working or making sense for you. Some of my more religious clients have asked if it were possible to erase their paralyzing fear of death originally inspired by early religious teachings. Those early beliefs often create a confusing and sometimes alarming perception of the true nature of the universe.
I can easily understand their fear. When I first began my life’s work as a channel, I still clung to portions of the belief system of the Catholic religion that had been instilled in me as a child. However, over the last twenty-seven years, my spiritual faith has blossomed into what I consider a far greater awareness of the universe—inspired by angelic communication.
What most surprised and enlightened me during the thousands of private channeling sessions I have conducted was that guardian angels continually maintained that places such as hell, purgatory, or limbo simply do not exist.
The angels explain that when our physical bodies die, our souls return to heaven. Once back in heaven, we are then accountable—only to ourselves—for our behavior on the earthly plane.
Therefore, when you return to heaven, you will personally measure how much of your destiny you accomplished during the just-completed earthly lifetime. There are no judgments made by God or any guardian angels about how you decided to invest your energies on earth. It is your responsibility to take stock of your spiritual triumphs and failures, and this assessment will determine how you will make your decisions for future lifetimes on earth concerning your life’s work and issues to be addressed. Some issues may require a lengthy series of incarnations on earth to be successfully understood and resolved.
Rest assured that when your physical body expires, you will return to heaven along with all of the other souls on earth. You will not find yourself disgracefully banished to hell or to any other spiritual noman’s-land such as purgatory or limbo.
In channeling such a vast number of guardian angels and other spiritual beings who all confirm the same information, I have developed an unshakable faith that heaven—our true home—is waiting for each one of us upon the death of our physical body. The fear I grew up with that was fueled by my religious upbringing—about dying before I was somehow “good” enough to get into heaven—has blessedly vanished.
While I was relieved to learn that hell, purgatory, and limbo do not exist, I wondered about the fairness of everybody going to heaven. What about the people who deliberately commit violent crimes without any sense of guilt or remorse? What about murderers, abusers, rapists, and terrorists who have behaved shockingly during their earthly lifetimes?
That was indeed a worrisome reality. It didn’t seem fair that anybody could gain entry to such a special place.