On Being Open-Minded
What is Required?
I’d like to think I’m pretty open-minded. When you channel the Archangels, I guess you’d better be! There’s so much division between people right now and so little open-mindedness in some sectors, it can be discouraging. I’m sure we’ve all seen examples of people who are not open-minded, and hopefully, they serve as examples of how we don’t want to be, but being open-minded isn’t always easy, and it requires certain things that often involve courage.
The Courage to Believe that Anything is Possible
This can be tricky, especially for people who think linearly and logically. If you’re someone who needs proof in order to believe something or, especially, to change your mind about something, being open-minded will be challenging. It’s not that logical thinking is a bad thing; quite the contrary. Thinking logically can be very valuable in many cases. It usually requires a cool head unclouded by emotion. It’s a way of learning.
Like anything, too much of a good thing can be bad. If everyone acted strictly on logic, a lot of inventions would never have been made. When we push the boundaries of logic, we allow ourselves to picture things differently, to form hypotheses, to question the known and proven. When imagination and logic work together, all kinds of wonderful things can happen. You begin with a “what if” and go from there. But when someone refuses to believe that anything is possible without proof showing that it could be, progress slows. Sometimes you have to start with a new concept, then figure out how to make it work. If people didn’t believe in possibilities, not much would ever change or improve.
The Courage to Believe that Truth is not Absolute
I’ve written an article about truth being relative, that it can differ from person to person. Two people can read the same text and understand it completely differently based on their own past and experiences. Some things can be true for some people while being untrue for others. Sometimes, that’s because of a lack of open-mindedness, and other times it’s simply that many factors can affect truth. Things are rarely black and white, despite us trying to make them so.
Many of the messages I channel are similar to other channeled messages. There are also channeled messages that are the opposite of what I’ve channeled. I’ve never accused someone of lying, because I think in many cases, they’re telling their truth, as I’m telling mine. I may challenge something they say or question it, and I may disagree with it based on what I know and feel. When I come across something I disagree with, I’m open-minded enough to admit that I don’t have any more proof that I’m right than they do. We all have minds of our own, and if we allow for it, we all have intuition. Figure out what feels true to you.
The Courage to Admit that You Don’t Know Everything, and You Never Will in this Lifetime
Nobody knows everything. Even if you learn things every day, you’re never going to learn all there is to know. In fact, a lot of what you’ve learned is incorrect in one way or another, so not only do you have to learn new stuff all the time, you have to unlearn things sometime. Knowledge can become obsolete.
When we come to Earth as a human being, we relinquish the universal knowledge we have as souls. We regain it once we cross back over, but we don’t have access to it while being human. I’ve learned so many things from channeling the Archangels, and I’ve shared a lot of it with others, but even being able to ask the Angels about virtually anything, I don’t have all the answers and never will.
A lot of times, I don’t even know what questions to ask. When you don’t know something, you don’t know what questions to ask about it. When I’m lucky, I ask a question that leads to other questions that teach me something I didn’t know before. I believe what I learn from the Angels, but I’m not so sure of my own interpretation that I think I’m right and everyone else is wrong. It’s always so comforting to read other channeled messages that confirm what I’ve received. Whereas the Angels may be infallible, I’m certainly not. The more I learn, the more I realize what I know is the tip of the iceberg.
The Courage to Admit that You Could Be Wrong
For some people, this is nearly impossible, and that’s unfortunate, because they’re not likely to grow. It’s okay to be wrong. Everyone is wrong at times. It’s part of being human. For some people, being wrong about something makes them feel as though they lost something, that someone else defeated them. This is sad, because when you learn you’re wrong about something, that should be cause for celebration. You learn when you’re wrong, just like you learn when you’re right. Don’t you want to know when you make a mistake? You should, so you can avoid making the same mistake again.
Being wrong doesn’t mean you lost anything. It means you gained knowledge. You learn with your mind, not your ego. Take the ego out of the equation, and you’re likely to learn a lot more. Some people are simply not ready for the truth, and that’s okay, but without admitting that there is a possibility that they could be wrong, they’ll never be ready for, much less learn the truth.
They’ll still be wrong, though, whether they believe it or not.
Final Thoughts
To be open-minded is to value knowledge and truth more than being right and knowing everything. No one is right all the time, and no one knows everything, so if you stand by those ideas, you’re destined for failure. When you’re confident in your beliefs, you shouldn’t feel the need to defend them to someone who thinks you’re wrong. If the person questioning is open-minded enough to listen, you can explain your views, but you can’t necessarily prove them.
I know what I know, but I’m never so arrogant as to believe there’s no error possible. In spiritual matters, there is no amount of proof that is likely to satisfy a skeptic, and that’s okay, too. I don’t feel the need to prove anything to anyone. If what I write about resonates with you, that’s wonderful. If it comforts you and opens your mind to new possibilities, even better. If it doesn’t, dismiss it, but if you do, I hope there’s a tiny part of you that considers the possibility that there may be more truth out there than what you already or erroneously know.
Blessings to you!
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