Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers

Roger A. “Pete” Peterson

(Value Questions assume that consciousness exists everywhere and in everything, that consciousness, energy and matter are different states of the same thing.)

In desperate moments, many of us seek help from “God” or a source of consciousness outside our own. By asking Value Questions, questions concerning things we really want to know, and listening for Intuitive Answers, we take this process one step further by acknowledging two things. First, we acknowledge we have intuitive abilities, and second, we acknowledge there is consciousness outside the reality we know. This action forms a bridge that enables us to receive answers to important questions from other areas or levels of consciousness. To activate this ability, open your heart and your mind. Believe, be patient and practice.

To illustrate this process, imagine you have an unforeseen charge on your bank account. What do you do? You call your bank to ask someone why you’ve been charged extra and how you can avoid extra charges in the future. Asking Value Questions and listening for Intuitive Answers operates the same way. First, formulate a question that reflects exactly what you want to know. Decide who (which entity or consciousness) can best answer your question and then call up or focus on this entity until you feel a strong connection. Ask your question and listen for the answer(s). It’s a simple process but you may need to practice letting go of the outer world to tune into the inner world. The level of your belief that this is possible is also important.

I directed the first question below: Inner Self, how can I do that which has the greatest meaning in my life and have more fun doing it than I can possibly imagine?, to my Higher Self, the larger, intuitive part of my being that operates below physical  perception or behind the scenes. This contact was easy but some offer a greater challenge. For example, when I asked All That Is a question it took me several minutes to work my mind around the concept. Once I established a strong connection though, I received some startling and challenging answers.

Once your question is formulated, it’s important to put yourself into a relaxed state of consciousness before directing it to the source of your choice. Imagine you’re talking to a friend. You would expect your friend to answer your question if they could, wouldn’t you?

When we understand that the interaction of consciousness and energy (awareness and action) is the spark behind all creation, everything becomes possible, which includes  asking questions of subtler, Inner Sources of knowledge and information, like Earth Consciousness, Human Consciousness (the collective consciousness of all human beings), God, Allah, or All That Is. Even though names are only word labels they serve as meaningful identifiers. They help you focus on or call up different aspects of consciousness. When I think “Tom” and “Jane”,  I think about  my brother and his wife, even though there are many Toms and Jane’s in the world. By using labels as identifiers, we can direct questions to any aspect of consciousness we choose and get answers from them in the form of telepathic or symbolic (experiential) messages. We are only limited by what we choose to believe.

Those of you who strongly believe that consciousness and energy interact to form everything, that meditate or study dreams, will get answers telepathically as soon as you ask a question. In some cases, answers will come to you in the morning when you wake up or over the course of several days as complete thoughts, which just “pop” into your head at odd moments. Some answers are triggered by experiences in waking reality. There are many ways spiritual energy communicates with us when we’re open to receive information from these valuable sources.

I say “valuable” because for every valuable inner source of information there are many less evolved entities happy to lead us astray. It is important for us to be clear about who we want answers from and the quality of the answers we will accept. Not only is it important for us to seek out the best sources of knowledge we can find, it is important for us to challenge the answers we get to make sure they create the kind of experience we want. The reason some people have bad experiences with the Ouija board is because they don’t set standards ahead of time. They simply open themselves up to whatever comes. In some cases, they even expect weird or “bad” things to happen. It’s the same with any endeavor. If you don’t decide ahead of time what’s acceptable and what’s not, you open yourself up to any outcome.

(Note regarding Inner Sources: What are thoughts? Where do they  come from and where do they go? In a lucid dream called The Ball of Light, A Dream About the Nature of Consciousness and Being, I used a highly advanced computer as a psychological prop to create lives in other times and places. In one instance, I felt the need to inject thoughts into the mind of a depressed young girl suffering from cultural limitations. The people and institutions in her life were oppressive and she needed insight and encouragement to overcome their negative impact. Planting seed thoughts in her mind in the form of suggestions and questions, I was able to nudge her in new directions that offered her a sense of hope and excitement. In doing so, I couldn’t help but wonder how many of my own thoughts have come from invisible, inner sources hoping to nudge me in new directions at challenging times in my life. Can you think of any examples of this in your life?)

Several answers I received actually made me cry as I wrote them down. Unlike many contemporary social values, they contained values I wanted to live up to. They not only expressed love, they made sense! Other answers were difficult to understand, forcing me to ponder their meaning and ask more questions. When I did, I was rewarded with new understanding and new meaning that helped me move beyond my old beliefs and limitations. The answers I received represent the kind of higher understanding and wisdom, the kind of guidance and direction, I’ve longed for my whole life. You can  do the same by asking your own Value Questions and listening for your own Intuitive Answers.

PETE’S VALUE QUESTIONS AND INTUITIVE ANSWERS

Inner Self, how can I do that which has the greatest meaning in my life and have more fun doing it than I can possibly imagine?

1) Love yourself unconditionally and appreciate yourself for the magic and wonder that you are!

2) Remove all limiting and conflicting beliefs that impede the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous* self in All That Is!

3) Be the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self right now and always!

4) Begin to materialize the most important and stimulating project ideas that arise out of the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self, right now!

* Spontaneity: the natural and unimpeded expression of consciousness and energy (awareness and action). To allow spontaneity in ourselves, we need to know that we’re basically good, not bad. (See: What I Learned in Catholic School)

Inner Self, how can I continue to operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance for the rest of my life?

1) Continue to live your life with joy, eat responsibly, and exercise regularly for the rest of your life!

2) Trust all that you are to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance!

3) Love yourself unconditionally, and know that your being is right within the world.

4) Continue to work with your beliefs to create even greater clarity, personal power, health and vitality.

Inner self, how can I help the members of my family achieve optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance?

1) Love the members of your family unconditionally!

2) Acknowledge the power and worth in every member of your family!

3) Trust every member of your family to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance!

World, how can I help you change for the better?

1) Change yourself for the better by continuing to improve your belief system!

2) Develop a meaningful plan of action and work on actualizing it every day!

3) Believe in yourself and your own unique abilities. No one can do a better job of creating your reality than you!

4) Live by value fulfillment and practice idealism. In other words, determine the qualities of life and being you value most, your ideals*, and actualize them to the best of your ability!

* Ideals are thought forms that represent who we want to be and what we want to do most. (Everything you do must be worthy of your ideals or they become something else, something less than ideal. – Seth)

All That Is, how can I best serve you as a human being here on earth and as an eternal soul in All That Is?

1) Love both the Oneness and the individuality of All That Is. In other words, love All That Is unconditionally! (See: Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love)

2) Be who you love to be and do what you love to do to maximize your enthusiasm, joy, and success in life. In other words, be yourself to the best of your ability!

3) Be absolutely joyful about living your life, expanding your awareness, and consciously creating your reality from moment to moment!

4) Learn and teach a loving, playful, and empowering form of reality creation!

Human Consciousness, how can I experience more love, truth and joy in our relationship than I can possibly imagine?

1) Be yourself to the best of your ability!

2) Love us and accept us as we are – as living, loving, growing, and changing aspects of consciousness!

3) Stop putting conditions and limitations on our being!

4) In other words, love us unconditionally!

“Be the full and joyful expression of your spontaneous self…’, ‘ Love yourself unconditionally, and know that your being is right within the world…’,'Trust All That You Are to naturally operate at optimum levels of health, vitality, and performance.’, ‘Continue to work with your beliefs to create even greater clarity, personal power, health, and vitality.’, ‘Change yourself for the better by continuing to improve your belief system.’, ‘Acknowledge the power and worth in others (and yourself)…’, ‘Believe in yourself and your own unique abilities. No one can do a better job of creating your reality than you!’, ‘Live by value fulfillment and practice idealism.’, ‘Be who you love to be and do what you love to do to maximize your enthusiasm, joy, and success in life.’, ‘Be absolutely joyful about living your life…’, ”Be yourself to the best of your ability!’, and, ‘Stop putting conditions and limitations on our Being!”

Wow, what a radical departure from the “official” values of this world, and what a profound affirmation of our basic goodness! How many of us receive love, trust and encouragement like this from one another, society or its institutions? Much of what we get from one another, and our institutions, is the need to distrust ourselves, the need to put conditions and limitations on our being because “we’re basically bad and we can’t trust ourselves.” It’s not that any of the Intuitive Answers above are new or unheard of; it’s that they clearly emphasize love, personal power, self acceptance and spontaneity over the “official” waking world values of fear, distrust, limitation, competition and survival of the fittest.

The Intuitive Answer I found most challenging came from All That Is. It was, “Love both the Oneness and the individuality of All That Is. In other words, love All That Is unconditionally!” My first reaction was, Are you kidding me?! How can I love that person who just rudely cut me off in traffic, or someone who, in their pursuit of personal wealth and power, is responsible for the death, poisoning or maiming of innocent people? As a matter of fact, I could think of countless examples of human behavior that should not be forgiven. As I considered these many, seemingly, good reasons for not loving someone, I recalled an experience that looked at this situation from another viewpoint.

That experience concerned my parents. During one meditation in the mid 1980s (I was in my early to mid forties), I found myself thinking about them and the angry relationship we had as I grew up in Maine. At seventeen I couldn’t wait to join the Air Force to get away from home and school.

As I thought about my parents and our unhappy times together, I began to see them in a different light (See: The Healing Power of Forgiveness). Instead of looking at life through my own eyes, I began to see it through theirs. As a result, I began to appreciate how challenging life was for them. I began to think about what they did for my brothers and me, not what they didn’t do. For example, they kept a roof over our heads. They kept food on the table. We had race horses, a dog, cats, goats, rabbits, and a garden every year. When I turned twelve, we sold the race horses and bought an old thirty-foot boat that had been used as a Rum Runner between Cuba and the United States during prohibition. We kept it in Casco Bay off Falmouth Foreside, a beautiful spot, and spent many summers boating, swimming, fishing, picnicking on Basket Island and even water skiing when the bay was calm. Though it’s true, I didn’t receive much personal attention, moral support or affection from my parents, I did experience a rich life with them.

As I thought about these things in meditation, I began to cry and spiritually embraced my parents. Surrounded by love, I forgave them for their shortcomings and apologized for mine. Oddly, once I finished the process of forgiveness, I realized there was nothing for any of us to forgive because, given the core beliefs and experiences that shaped our lives, we were all doing the best we could with what we knew. This doesn’t excuse anyone from doing better – it simply means we could spend less time losing ourselves in life’s everyday dramas  and more time figuring out how to make life better for others and ourselves.

You can ask simple questions too! For example, one day: (In a moment of utter frustration, I threw my arms up in the air and asked the universe, what do I want more than anything else in All That Is?

In response, a clear male voice, about six inches in front of my forehead, said, “LOVE!”

That’s it, I shouted! More than anything else in All That Is, I want love – I want to give love and I want to receive love, unconditional love! In a flash of insight, I realized everything I had ever done in life was for love. I was either responding to love or the promise of it, or reacting to a lack of it. When I felt or acted badly, it was because I felt unloved and unappreciated for who I was and what I was doing.) From: Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love.

Have you heard the new song from Adam Lambert? It’s called, What do you want from me? He wrote it after angry fans rebuked him for simulating sexual behavior with a man and a woman onstage during one of his performances. Was he stung by the public outrage? Probably. In any event, he had the wisdom to ask the question and write the song, What do you want from me? It was an act of healing for him and his fans.

It’s a great question we can all ask others and ourselves. Recently, I imagined some people I know and asked them that question. Their “imagined” answer was – “ Love me unconditionally – I’m being the best I can with what I know.” I take this to be true on faith and I realize that besides being loved and appreciated for who we are, we want to be given room and encouragement to be better. When all is said and done, don’t we all want to be loved and valued? Don’t we all want to love and value ourselves?

Challenge the Intuitive Answers you get no matter what their source. Use your heart AND mind to know what works best for you and what doesn’t, what makes you happy and what doesn’t. Just because a beloved parent or teacher tells us their truth when we are children does not mean it should automatically become our truth because it comes from them. If ideas do not serve us well, or make us happy, they should be discarded and replaced with ideas that do. The buck stops with each one of us when it comes to accepting ideas as bedrock reality. We owe it to ourselves and All That Is to evaluate every idea that seeks to define who we are and what “reality” is because it impacts our being, which in turn, impacts the world and beyond.

In response to your own Value Questions, determine which ones, if any, you like or agree with and turn them into personalized affirmations or beliefs. In my case, I liked all the Intuitive Answers I received and turned them all into affirmations or beliefs, which I continue to refine and work with to this day.

Pete,  http://realtalkworld.com

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves and the world around us.

How we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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