Show is better than tell

        As we progress on the spiritual path and have experiences that tell us things about the nature of the universe, the divine, etc. we of course want to tell others what we have seen or heard.  But it is far better to help others who are striving on their path to discover for themselves how to get further on the path than it is to tell them what picture we saw when we were there.  After all, as they travel the path and when they get to the goal they’ll discover what they are supposed to know.  Until they get there it will often just be more of someone else's experience.

        Generally, I do not recommend that you discuss your spiritual experiences with anyone who does not have a fair amount of spiritual momentum because others will tend to doubt your experience, intentional or not, consciously or otherwise.  That doubt will enter into you unaware and you will often begin to doubt your own experience.  Often those that you confide in are not prepared to approach your experience with open minds.  This is not something that they would do if they were aware and could avoid it.  If, in fact, you confide in a spiritual counselor who is more in tune with the law than with the spirit they will often respond to your revelation with their particular doctrinal point of view.

        Sometimes, when you have a new revelation, realization or idea or whatever, you get a build up of energy inside of you and it fills you with excitement.  Often when you get that surge of positive energy you just want to share the event, to tell someone else about it or in some other way relieve that energy.  You blow off some of the energy when you do.  You will often find, however, that in doing so you have just wasted or mis-qualified that energy.  It is somewhat akin to all of those other ways that we have of mis-qualifying energy some of which we have talked about.  Things like anger, gossip, resentment – all of those things that we do to blow off energy.   You blow this energy off when you could instead take it in and make it a reservoir for the fulfilling of the thought form that spawned it.

        Finally, there is a saying that I have heard from multiple sources on my journey that is as follows: "Those who tell don't know. Those who know don't tell." Now why would that be?