RESPONSIBLE METAPHYSICIANSHIP - Estelle Nora Harwit Amrani

The recent mass suicides in California by cult members presents us with important issues regarding spirituality and metaphysicianship, as well as how to we determine what is responsible metaphysicianship. What happened in the cult brings me to address the importance of not simply combining all spirituality, practicing channels, metaphysicians, etc., into one group and over-simplifying or generalizing. There are similarities and there are differences.
Similarities include the desire to connect more with a source, whatever you call it (God, Goddess, All That Is), expand one's knowingness, feel more love, communicate with entities for a variety of reasons (either for helping humans or helping the entities), and to discover more of who we all are. How each person goes about doing that is unique, however many choose to join groups for support, education, experience.

The differences occur in how one is educated and trained as a metaphysician. There are different schools of thought and practice, but, (as you know the saying) the proof is in the pudding. How can one remain connected to God (which is within each person - not separate or outside), communicate with entities, discover more of who they are and yet be responsible and use the knowledge causing harm to none?

How do you know if you are being a responsible metaphysician? First let's discuss the term "responsibility" - the ability to respond. Self-responsibility is the ability to respond to the self, which means respecting your own essence, your passion, creativity, intelligence, having compassion, trust and being more conscious of your Self, how and why you create. Self-responsibility means you're not playing victim, that you're not in denial of who you are and what you feel, think, say, do. Self-responsibility means knowing that you are in charge of your own life.

TWELVE QUESTIONS TO HELP CLARIFY RESPONSIBLE METAPHYSICIANSHIP:

I herein offer you some important questions for your own evaluation that can help you clarify where you are in your own metaphysicianship:

1. Are you connecting with the source within you and gaining more self-empowerment, self-responsibility, clarity, love and compassion?

2. Are you discerning about the information you receive or the entities you allow yourself to connect with, and have these sources been consistently accurate?

3. Are you looking at what you receive objectively and seeing if and how the information can/may work for you?

4. Are you trusting in your inner knowingness rather than giving your power away to others, no matter who they may be - and being open to all points of view -ex., "deities", extraterrestrials, authority figures, etc?

5. Are you still connected and experiencing your humanness - receiving all you can, using all you are and have (your body, your mind, your creativity) without denying them or your personal human experience?

6 . Can you use your 'spiritual knowledge' in a practical way?

7. Are you able to maintain, or change, create relationships by your own free will with people, family, society without isolating yourself?

8. As a result of your spirituality do you feel freer, happier, and more grounded and centered, with less fear and less need to control others?

9. Do you live with the knowledge that all beings are equal - no one is superior?

10. Do you realize that your spirituality, your life, is your own creation and that you have choices to change what doesn't serve you?

11. Are you able to look at different parts of yourself, acknowledge and integrate these parts and work with them instead of avoiding or denying them?

12. And are you maintaining your individuality and living autonomously?

If you found that you answered yes to all of these, or even most of these, you are working on being a responsible metaphysician and can even add more to the above list. As is clearly seen by reviewing this list of questions, responsible spirituality is individual but can be shared - not controlled, not forced, not manipulated, is not co-dependent or dictated solely by outside forces. You know are the master of your own life. The tools you use and the knowledge and wisdom you hopefully gain through your spirituality only builds more autonomy and joy.

Through self-evaluation, perhaps with the help of the above list, metaphysicians can be even clearer as to their own practices and society can gain a better understanding of what happened with the cult versus true responsible spirituality based on self-empowerment, autonomy, knowing the power is within oneself and never denying your divine human condition because it is what you came here to experience.

© Copyright 1997, 2002, Estelle Nora Harwit Amrani

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