WRITE IT DOWN: A FUNDAMENTAL OF SPIRITUALITY
I decided to shift some of my posts for a bit and focus on aspects of spirituality and spiritual development that I think are important building blocks to a person’s spiritual practice – regardless of tradition. This post is about something that seems so simple yet is often overlooked.
Because I am a professional reader and sometimes go through periods of doing a lot of readings, I always insist that clients coming to me also bring a pen and notebook and come prepared to write down notes on everything discussed. This is for several reasons. Foremost among them is I cannot remember everything discussed in a reading, either during the reading or after. Most diviners enter an altered spiritual state when they divine however they do it. We are present to the client, but we are also connected to a spirit (even if it is just our own) receiving a download of information. The information can come in words, images, feelings, or physical sensations, among other ways. This means a diviner is doing two things at the same time and talking to two people at the same time. Expecting us to have memory recall when in that altered state is unrealistic and a sure way to not get the information and guidance you need.
Another reason things need to be written down is because it is the client’s job to follow up and do what needs to be done based on the advice given. Yes, sometimes a diviner is also a worker who can assist or do the work for a client. But even if someone is doing the work for you, it is wise for you to keep your own records of your readings so you can track how things unfold in your life beyond the reading.
Related to what I just said is that writing your readings down is critically important to your development because you should be consistently going back and reviewing the notes to reassess whether you are on track with your issues that came up and resolving them. This is one of the few things that separates a for-real consultation from a random cold-reading style divination session at a psychic fair. The style of readings I do are much more in line with indigenous African systems. It is not just fortune telling. It is diagnosis and prescriptive. Prescriptions and spiritual medication are given. The point of these styles of reading are to improve a person’s life and spiritual development, not wow them. But more importantly, indigenous style readings are counter-cultural in that they force you to do your work on you. Even spirits will not do what you are supposed to do for yourself. I have had my spirits block me from assisting a client because that client does not take responsibility for their own life, and the spirits want to break their victim mentality by having them take responsibility. It can make for hard conversations. But the person ends up better than when they started.
Lastly, for now, I also want to know a little-discussed fact that sometimes readings will bring up things that do not make immediate sense to a client but come to be enormously important in their future. My spirits will usually indicate this during the reading. What tends to happen in this case is the client will circle back and let me know that the thing that was said has now come into play. They always do this because, when the thing happens, something triggers their memory to review their notes, and the forecast was said then (usually with a prescription of how to manage it). If things are not written down, an opportunity to get ahead of the issues gets lost.
If you want your spirituality to progress, writing things down is the only way to go.
