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Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers

(Value Questions assume that consciousness exists everywhere and in everything, that consciousness, energy, and matter are just different states of the same thing.)

In desperate situations, many of us spontaneously seek help from "God" or a source of consciousness higher than ourselves, mankind, or the animal kingdom. By asking Value Questions, questions concerning things we really want to know, and listening for Intuitive Answers, we take this process one step further by acknowledging two things. First, we acknowledge that we have intuitive abilities, and second, we acknowledge that there are higher levels of consciousness than our own. This forms a bridge for communication that enables us to ask Value Questions and receive Intuitive Answers from higher levels of consciousness.

To clarify this process, imagine you have an important question about banking activity. What do you do? You pick up the phone and call your bank to speak with someone who can answer your question. Asking Value Questions and receiving Intuitive Answers operates the same way. First, you develop a question in a way that gives you the exact results you want (see example questions below). Then you dial up, or focus on the entity you think can best answer your question. Take the first question below: Inner Self, how can I do that which has the greatest meaning in my life and have more fun doing it than I can possibly imagine? In this case, I’ve put the question to my own Inner Self, the intuitive part of my own consciousness that operates behind the scenes and gives life to my thoughts. This contact was easy but some offer a greater challenge. For example, when I asked the Consciousness of All That Is a question it took me several minutes to wrap my mind around the concept. But, when I did, I received some startling and challenging answers. Once my question is formulated, I go into a relaxed state and direct it to the source I think can best answer it, like calling a banker to ask a bank related question.

The most important part of this process is our level of belief in energized consciousness (or awareized energy, however you want to look at it) as the basic source of all being. Once we understand this, it becomes appropriate for us to ask questions of subtler, inner sources of knowledge and information, like Earth Consciousness, Human Consciousness (the collective consciousness of all human beings) God, Allah, or All That Is. Keep in mind that these names are labels meant to identify a certain aspect of consciousness, like Tom and Jane are names used to identify people. By using labels as identifiers, we can direct our questions to whomever we please and get answers from them in the form of telepathic or symbolic (experiential) messages. Because of my many years of experience with meditation and studying dreams, most of my answers came telepathically as soon as I asked them. In some cases, they became evident over the course of several days as complete thoughts just popped into my head. Sometimes, they were triggered by experiences I had in waking reality. There are many ways spiritual entities communicate with us when we’re open to receive information from these valuable sources. I say “valuable” because for every valuable inner source of information there are many less evolved entities happy to lead us astray. Often, we receive information from inner sources and simply don’t know it.

(Note: In a lucid dream called The Ball of Light, A Dream About the Nature of Consciousness and Being, I used a highly advanced computer to create lives in other times and places. In one case, I felt the need to inject thoughts into the mind of a depressed young girl suffering from cultural limitations. Circumstances in her life were oppressive and she needed insight and encouragement to overcome them. With thoughts in the forms of ideas and questions, I was able to nudge her in new directions that offered her hope and excitement. In doing so, I couldn’t help but wonder how many of my thoughts had come from inner sources hoping to nudge me in new directions at difficult times in my life.)

Several answers I received in response to my Value Questions actually made me cry as I wrote them down. Unlike many contemporary social values, they contained values I would joyfully live up to. In other words, they expressed love and made great sense! Other answers were difficult to understand forcing me to ponder their meaning and ask more questions*. When I did, I was rewarded with new understanding and new meaning that helped me move beyond old beliefs and limitations. To me, the answers represent the kind of higher understanding and wisdom, the kind of guidance and direction, I have longed for my whole life.

My Value Questions and Intuitive Answers

Inner Self, how can I do that which has the greatest meaning in my life and have more fun doing it than I can possibly imagine?

1) Love yourself unconditionally and appreciate yourself for the magic and wonder that you are!

2) Remove all limiting and conflicting beliefs that impede the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous* self in All That Is!

3) Be the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self right now and always!

4) Begin to materialize the most important and stimulating project ideas that arise out of the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self, right now!

* Spontaneity: the natural and unimpeded expression of consciousness and energy (awareness and action).

Inner Self, how can I continue to operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance for the rest of my life?

1) Continue to live your life with joy, eat well, and exercise regularly for the rest of your life!

2) Trust all that you are to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance!

3) Love yourself unconditionally, and know that your being is right within the world and All That Is!

4) Continue to work with your beliefs to create even greater clarity, personal power, health and vitality.

Inner self, how can I help the members of my family achieve optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance?

1) Love the members of your family unconditionally!

2) Acknowledge the power and worth in every member of your family!

3) Trust every member of your family to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance!

World, how can I help you change for the better?

1) Change yourself for the better by continuing to improve your belief system!

2) Develop a meaningful plan of action and work on actualizing it every day!

3) Believe in yourself and your own unique abilities. No one can do a better job of creating your reality than you!

4) Live by value fulfillment and practice idealism. In other words, determine the qualities of life and being you value most, your ideals*, and actualize them to the best of your ability!

* Everything we do must be worthy of our ideals or they become something else, something less than ideal.

All That Is, how can I best serve you as a human being here on earth and as an eternal soul in All That Is?

1) Love both the Oneness and the individuality of All That Is. In other words, love All That Is unconditionally!

2) Be who you love to be and do what you love to do to maximize your enthusiasm, joy, and success in life. In other words, be yourself to the best of your ability!

3) Be absolutely joyful about living your life, expanding your awareness, and consciously creating your reality from moment to moment!

4) Learn and teach a loving, playful, and empowering form of reality creation!

Human Consciousness, how can I experience more love and joy in our relationship than I can possibly imagine?

1) Be yourself to the best of your ability!

2) Love us and accept us as we are – as living, loving, growing, and changing aspects of consciousness!

3) Stop putting conditions and limitations on our being!

4) In other words, love us unconditionally!

"Be the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self...', ' Love yourself unconditionally, and know that your being is right within the world...','Trust All That You Are to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance.', 'Continue to work with your beliefs to create even greater clarity, personal power, health, and vitality.', 'Change yourself for the better by continuing to improve your belief system.', 'Acknowledge the power and worth in (yourself and) others...', 'Believe in yourself and your own unique abilities. No one can do a better job of creating your reality than you!', 'Live by value fulfillment and practice idealism.', 'Be who you love to be and do what you love to do to maximize your enthusiasm, joy, and success in life.', 'Be absolutely joyful about living your life...', ''Be yourself to the best of your ability!', and, 'Stop putting conditions and limitations on our Being!"

Wow, what a radical departure from the "official" values of this world, and what a profound affirmation of basic goodness! How many of us receive love, trust, and encouragement like this from one another, society, or its institutions? (See: Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love) Much of what we get from one another and our institutions is the need to distrust ourselves, the need to put conditions and limitations on our being because we are basically bad (See: My Recurring Superman Nightmare and What I Learned in Catholic School). It's not that any of the Intuitive Answers above are new or unheard of; it's that they are clearly emphasized over the more negative contemporary values of the waking world. They are consistent and loving, and encourage the development of personal power, self-awareness, and individual responsibility.

* The Intuitive Answer I found most challenging came from All That Is. It was “Love both the Oneness and the individuality of All That Is. In other words, love All That Is unconditionally!” My first reaction was, “You’ve got to be kidding me! How can I love the person who just rudely cut me off in traffic or someone who, in their pursuit of personal wealth and power, is responsible for the death and maiming of innocent people?” As a matter of fact, there were countless examples of behavior I felt I could not, or should not, forgive or love people for. As I considered these many seemingly good reasons for not loving everyone, I began to recall other thoughts and experiences that addressed another point of view.

One such experience concerned my parents. During a meditation in the mid 1980s, I found myself thinking about them and the volatile relationship we had until I left Cumberland, Maine at age seventeen to join the Air Force. As I thought about them and our relationship at that time, I began to see them differently. Instead of looking at life through my own eyes, I began to look at it through theirs. As I did so, I began to appreciate how challenging life was for them. And I began to think about what they did do for my brothers and I, not what they didn’t do. For example, they kept a roof over our heads. They kept food on the table. We had race horses, a dog, cats, goats, rabbits, and a garden every year. When I turned twelve, we sold the horses and bought an old thirty-foot boat that had been used as a Rum Runner between Cuba and the United States during prohibition. We kept it in Casco Bay off Falmouth Foreside and spent many summers boating, picnicking on Basket Island, swimming, fishing, and even water skiing when the bay was calm.

As I thought about these things in meditation, I began to cry and spiritually embraced my parents. Surrounded by love, I forgave them for their shortcomings and apologized for mine. Oddly, once I finished the process of forgiveness, I realized there was nothing any of us had to forgive because, given the core beliefs and experiences that shaped our lives, we were all doing the best we could . Isn’t that true for all of us? Aren’t we all trying to do the best we can with what we have to work with?

This doesn’t mean we can’t do better. What it does mean is that we need to spend less time being lost in life’s drama so we can give ourselves more time to figure out what will make us better and life better for all of us.

After challenging the Intuitive Answers you get in response to your Value Questions determine which ones, if any, you like/agree with and turn them into personalized affirmations. In my case, I liked all the Intuitive Answers I received and turned them all into affirmations, which I continued to refine for many years. See: Pete's Affirmations.

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