Darkness and guidance

Wednesday May 18, 2022 ILC virtual meeting
Our weekly Zoom gathering features a five-minute drumming session in which all participants ask for information around a given question. I see that about a year and a half ago, we explored the question of whether there is a dark side to guidance. The answers we got were summarized here from Dirk’s notes, and mine, and notes I made on watching the recording

Drumming Question:
“Is there a dark side to guidance? If so, tell us about it. If not, tell us what we are misinterpreting.”

Jon:
Multiple levels involved. Lower levels may be less skillful, and when they put together a doing, it can have dark consequences. Acknowledge it and try to have one’s frequencies go with the lighter, higher side. Discernment.

Louisa:
What is darkness? Unknown, not completely seen. Interpretation carries the possibility of misunderstanding. Guidance is representative of our totality.

Paul:
Darkness comes from its misuse, misinterpretation by ego. Anything can be used badly. Purity of intention is key.

Nancy:
(Told the story of her engagement with energies that started telling her what to do, at which time she disengaged. Realized later that they had not given her a straight answer when she had asked if they were of the light.)

Dave:
The question assumes a Manichean world view. Everyone is on a spectrum between good and evil, and it is the same in non-3D. Test the spirits.

Jane:
If people hear a voice within, are they mentally ill? What if what they heard was really there? Did they misinterpret?

Martha:
What she got was like Jon, Dave, and Nancy, so she passed.

Dirk: [From the notes he put on the computer.]
No. To the extent that you see a dark side you either see aspects of your 3D selves and threads that are discordant or dishonored, or you see conflicts with belief systems and structures. These can be internal disagreements. They can as easily be conflicts between your threads or beliefs with the external world.

That in turn is most often with other people and their threads and beliefs. Or also often disagreements between your threads or beliefs, desires and wants and physical matter reality. Quite often the major confusion arises from conflicts between beliefs, wants and desires, and the information you receive from guidance. This in turn has many forms and levels.

Christine:
You don’t go through crime-ridden areas, but avoid them. Same here. It’s all experience. Choosing. The dark side must be pursued to experience it. [I take that to mean, it won’t happen by accident.]

Frank: [From my notes]
It is relative to your self-image, your consciousness of yourself. If you experience darkness outside, you experience darkness inside. Darkness has its rights and function, as does light.
However, think carefully about what you mean by darkness. Do you mean ignorance? Evil? Malice? Do you mean potential? Do you mean nurturing darkness? What you mean makes a difference.

Good to remember that just as 3D is not all love and light, but also fear and darkness, so in non-3D. The next question to ask is, What is my most productive relationship to darkness?