26 March 2025

Moving Past The Past.

All of us carry psychological baggage from our pasts. What we’ve experienced often distorts our judgement and thoughts in ways that are unhealthy and don’t lead to happiness. Yet, moving past our pasts can be very difficult. The spiritual damage we do to ourselves through negative thinking, whether self-directed or otherwise, is not necessarily something we are aware of or can readily assess. There are a number of examples described in the Padgett Messages of those who thought they had led tolerably good lives on earth, only to find they wake up in considerable darkness when they pass over to the spirit world.

If we’re spiritually inclined, we may feel we’re morally ‘better’ than most others we know and therefore don’t have to worry unduly about our day-to-day behaviour and what conditions may await us after death. It’s easy to avoid looking at who we’ve become. It takes great courage to be truthful with ourselves and fight against our lack of self-awareness.

To combat any complacency and ensure our true happiness, we should consider honestly how God wants us to be. Since God is all loving, then we should try to follow this example literally and become all loving in our attitudes. Praying sincerely for divine love to fill our souls is the single most important thing we can do to progress towards God. Over time, this love will purify and heal us and eradicate much that blights our beings. The second most important thing we can do is to police our minds and avoid habitually indulging in harmful thoughts. God won’t change our thoughts – that’s our responsibility. Rather than reacting instinctively to situations and events as they transpire, it helps to consider for a moment how a great spiritual figure would react in our place. Being angry and wanting instant karma for those who act in ways that we disapprove of, for example, isn’t God’s way. We need to have faith that all of God’s laws are perfect. This makes it easier to detach ourselves from events in our own lives and the wider world. It doesn’t mean we don’t care what happens, just that we acknowledge that reacting instinctively and emotionally may be counterproductive.

Being loving at all times is hard. However, expressing negativity harms us as individuals and fans the negative waves of energy in the world that true spiritual seekers want to neutralise.