Just recently, a young man sought spiritual counselling from me. He said that everything had gone wrong in his life all at the same time. He had fallen out with his immediate family, had lost his job, had financial worries and his relationship with his partner had fallen apart. He felt it was ‘game over’ and that he had ‘lost the plot’. I congratulated him for being so brave and honest and told him that actually, it was the total opposite of what he believed and that he had already arrived at a point of true and total surrender. He was able to realise on a deeper level that he must start a ‘new game’ and follow a ‘new plot’.
He said that he didn’t really know why he was speaking to me and seeking my help because he didn’t believe he had a Soul; he didn’t believe in the Spirit World, Angels, or Jesus and all that stuff. I asked him what his perception of God was. He said he thought he’d made it perfectly clear that he didn’t believe in God. I asked him “so you don’t believe in yourself or your own Spirit then?” He replied angrily “I didn’t say that.” “Anyway if there is a God, surely he must be responsible for all the terrible things that happen to me and to other people.” “I’m fed up with everything going wrong, world wars, and hatred and all that junk.” I replied that “God wasn’t responsible for anything.” I volunteered the opinion that “God wasn’t a man on a cloud somewhere up high sitting in judgement of us, but that God is the Divine, and is the Universal Life Force within us and every living thing. Therefore we hold that Divine light within us so we are in judgement of ourselves and we are responsible for all our actions and the consequences thereof whether it be good, bad, right or wrong.”
He said “I don’t believe in people, or relationships, or love, or being happy.” I said that “The most important relationship you will ever have with anyone is the one with yourself. So we have to love, understand and forgive ourselves first.”
I told him that I believed life on Earth to be a precious gift, even though planet Earth is the toughest training ground of all for the evolution of our Souls, but for some reason we are still destined to be born into it.
He said he didn’t know what the answer could be. I said to him that he might look at things from a different angle or perspective, and stop overanalysing everything. Do away with the confusion because: