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Why All the Secrets?
You’re not alone in living out this part of your life in a secret fashion, but it can sometimes be a mystery as to why it feels like this experience needs a secret safe space to evolve and bloom. There are various reasons why that may be. When you are beginning a new project, some people believe that you shouldn’t share about it, but instead should wait at least until you’ve developed it into something more substantial. Otherwise, in sharing, you divide up the energy and may end up expending what otherwise would have been put to use in creating. Sometimes when we overshare and talk about things too early on, we find that the initial spark of inspiration dwindles and fades. When we hold our inspiration close, letting it warm us from within, we feed that flame until it’s a roaring fire that can then sustain its energy to warm others as well. Right now, your secret psychic experience may be that inner spark that you need to keep for yourself. At a later point you’ll begin to sense if and when the time is right to share your inner world with others. Another key reason why you probably feel the need to keep things secret is because you don’t want others to think there is something mentally wrong with you. If you start telling people you’re hearing voices or seeing visions, it’s easy for others who don’t get it to assume that you’re just hallucinating. They may suspect that you have a psychological or neurological issue, like schizophrenia. For some people this is in fact the case, but in instances of hearing or seeing via our intuitive senses, that’s not what’s going on. It’s not a disorder; it’s a healthy and natural experience of the subtle senses. Throughout time and all around the world, people have shared their subtle skills and were even celebrated for them, playing important roles in society in ways that made use of their gifts. Even in the Bible there’s mention of such skills. For example, in the book of Daniel, the king of Babylon called on people with these skills to interpret his dreams. In one instance, the king was unwilling to give out the details of the dream he’d had. But even without any details, a man named Daniel still had the ability to interpret the dream for the king after receiving the information and meaning from Spirit.
