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That's cool, Mark. I just had a revelation while reading your posts and while pondering Bill's question:

"So how do you/I descern (sp) which we are listening to, the ego or the Guidance we have asked for?"

I am so surprised by what I'm thinking. But what if there aren't two things to listen to, but rather only one? I've never thought of it this way before, but I'm thinking that there is Guidance only, all the time, only. That's the only voice "speaking." There can't be anything else. How could there be? This goes back to the idea that there are not two forces at play: good and evil, God and something that is not-God. This is part of the illusion, thinking that there is true Guidance and then something else, another voice, that we can also listen to. There aren't two options to listen to - there is only one...true Guidance, being broadcast constantly, so to speak.

Therefore, it's not that there are two broadcasts - ego and Guidance. There's only one broadcast, one channel. The difference, then, isn't with who is doing the broadcasting, where it's coming from, but rather, it's with who is doing the receiving! One clear channel coming in, always, yet it's our receptors that aren't clear...which make it seem like there are two confusing channels coming in. Wow, it's just so wild how we can keep putting the responsibility of clear listening "out there." I never before realized this.

Just more and more, I'm realizing that the ego is simply a state of mind; one of being offline, of being disconnected, of ignoring God, of looking through the microscope and insisting that is all there is. The difference, I think, comes down to our states of mind while we're doing the listening, while we're doing the being, the living. The state of mind is what causes the distortion of One single broadcast into what looks like two, or more.

It's like Stairway to Heaven is playing loud on my stereo. That's the only thing coming through. If I'm close to the speakers I can hear Jimmy Page's guitar solo with crystal clarity. But if I walk into the other room to do something else, I won't hear it as well. It will start sounding distorted. And because it sounds distorted, it won't seems as interesting, and so I might start humming a tune I heard yesterday and get involved with that, thinking about what I was doing when I heard the tune, what I was wearing, who I was with, etc. Suddenly, I can't even hear the music anymore, though Led Zeppelin is the only thing playing. I'm off in my mind about something else and mind-blowing Stairway to Heaven becomes background noise.

All I have to do, if I want to hear Jimmy, is walk back into the stereo room and sit down and listen and give it my full-immersion attention.

Not sure where this is going, sorry. But I'm thinking it's not that there are two things to listen to. There is only one thing speaking, broadcasting, communication to us, through us. It's the state of mind while we're listening that yields the quality of what we hear. Stay agitated and mentally busy and we'll hear Guidance with a lot of distortion. Stay calm and smooth, fully gently attentive and we'll hear Guidance with more clarity.

Thanks, Mark. I'll check it out.