4-2-2 “Only a very small part of what you believe to be true is based on your own experience”
4-2-2 “Only a very small part of what you believe to be true is based on your own experience”
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>Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience. Yet experience is what you came here for—and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others.
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> You do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others as gospel (literally), and then, when you encounter the actual experience for the first time, you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter.
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If you did not do this, you might have a wholly different experience—one that might render your original teacher or source wrong. In most cases, you don’t want to make your parents, your schools, your religions, your traditions, your holy scriptures wrong—so you deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think.
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> (CWG 1:46)
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*Conversations with God* teaches that we are meant to grow through **our own lived experience**. Yet in everyday life, many people give more authority to the beliefs, fears, and interpretations of others than to what they themselves have truly felt. Traditions, religions, and social norms are all built from the experiences of past generations—valuable at times, but not a substitute for one’s own inner knowing.
We enter this world to encounter countless expressions of divinity, each person carrying a unique set of lessons and experiences through which their soul remembers who they are. When we allow the experiences of others to override our own, we diminish both our growth and the purpose of our journey.
This dynamic becomes especially clear in the realm of sexuality:
> Everyone knows that the sexual experience can be the single most loving, most exciting, most powerful, most exhilarating, most renewing, most energizing, most affirming, most intimate, most uniting, most re-creative physical experience of which humans are capable. Having discovered this experientially, you have chosen to accept instead the prior judgments, opinions, and ideas about sex promulgated by others—all of whom have a vested interest in how you think.
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> These opinions, judgments, and ideas have run directly contradictory to your own experience, yet because you are loathe to make your teachers wrong, you convince yourself it must be your experience that is wrong. The result is that you have betrayed your true truth about this subject—with devastating results.
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Even when their own experience tells them that sex is beautiful, some adopt the negative moral judgments of society or religion, convincing themselves that their experience must be wrong. In doing so, they abandon their own truth—with painful consequences.
The message is simple: **Your experience is sacred.**
It is the language through which your soul speaks.
Honor it, trust it, and allow it to shape your life more than the borrowed lessons of others.
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