From William Wildblood.
As the collective world of human groups is corrupted, and over many generations, so the "collective unconscious" becomes increasingly corrupted. And this means that "going within" is increasingly hazardous.
If we just descend into the inner depths, in a passive state and with the attitude of absorbing whatever is encountered; then it is ever more likely that we will be deceived and manipulated by evil entities that desire to exploit us.
This seems to be the fate of many sixties counter-cultural types and their New Age descendants; whether they took the route of hallucinogenic drugs, induced trance states, or of some Western variant of meditative Hinduism, Buddhism or Sufism.
It may also be a factor in the general unhelpfulness (and sheer tedium) of most dreams for most people; and the subjectively aversive nature of the experiences of psychotic illnesses (including dementia - nowadays by far the commonest cause of psychosis).
In other words; nowadays, taking the advice of Jung, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary or their modern successors; may indeed lead to a degree of "participation" - that is of reconnection with The World of other beings - yet this participation will likely be of an unpleasant and/or spiritual harmful nature.
The main thing, as Wildblood says, is for each of us to forge our own link with God - perhaps best conceptualized as an active relationship with the Holy Ghost.
But God does not want Men to be continually subordinating their freedom to the divine - we are here to learn, after all; not merely to do as we are told. Help is there when needed and asked for; but we are meant to do as much as possible for ourselves.
Furthermore, this relationship with the divine is insufficient on its own to compensate for the loss of this-worldly society. Most people will need, and benefit from, a variety of inner "companions".
This implies looking within for spiritual friends, comforters, advisers of many kinds - and fortunately there are indeed many such among the resurrected dead.
Some are deceased ancestors, family and friends; others are those who are concerned by us and we with them, perhaps due to some shared love and commitment.
I think it is important to consider this in terms of relationships with specific spiritual persons. I do not think it wise to seek spiritual relationships with generic categories of beings - as when people advocate contacts with (for instance) angels, fairies, elementals, Masters and the like.
In almost any category, some individuals will be malign (demons instead of good-angels, bad fairies instead of good etc); and most will be indifferent to us - and we to them.
(After all, Christian love is personal and specific.)
In this, as in so many things, we need to reject the abstracting spirit of our age, and keep things personal. The needful spiritual companions are likely to be personal to each of us, and the relationship would need to develop in the same kind of unique and reciprocal way that relationship do in mortal earthly life.
Furthermore, in recent generations, it was normal to seek the group guidance from a spiritual being; as when there was an attempt to make a contact and form a link with (for instance) the spirit of a nation or organization; with the intent that this being shall then instruct that group what to do.
But in this time and place, the groups are mostly spiritually feeble, and all are significantly corrupted.
So this seeking of group guidance seems to be increasingly ineffectual or even malign with every passing decade - from what I can perceive.
In sum: I think we need to take on-board that our spiritual life needs to be mainly an inner life; but it should not necessarily thereby be a solitary life. As well as the comfort and overall guidance of the Holy Ghost; we might consider seeking personal contacts and relationship of a specific, discerning, and perhaps unique, nature.
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