Big Truth I Learned TheFirst on My Journey

While I have always been interested in all things metaphysical, my true journey as a seeker of truth began in 1980, and I will get to what pushed me to move forward in just a moment.

From the time I was ten years old, I can recall not wanting to walk through this lifetime blind; I knew from a very young age that I wanted to learn the truth about who we are and why we’re here. And as I began and continued on my initial journey of more than forty years now, I read everything that Hans Holzer and Edgar Cayce wrote, and later I inhaled every word written by Ruth Montgomery, Shirley MacLaine, and Dolores Cannon, among many others. As part of my search for the truth, I learned to do automatic writing in 1987, and that led to four channeled books of information by my Guide Group, the “GG.”

When I was channeling my first book, Windows of Opportunity, the “GG” had this to say about those of us currently incarnated in human bodies…

“We will begin with a talk of inspiration. The human being is not what it seems. Humans have tremendous capacity, which many never aspire to utilize.

Why? Because, for the most part, humans are unaware of the Source from whence they come. Some human beings believe in God; some do not. Human beings believe in a myriad of things, but many never reach out or search for the truth, while some take up the quest.

Why is it this way? To begin with, through the centuries, human beings have rewritten or altered everything handed down to them. This was done to gain power, to make the information fit personal or political agendas, and to give certain individuals a hold over others and/or sway them to their own agenda.

It comes down to power. By manipulating and purposely reinterpreting religious documents, human beings find ways to accomplish their goals by removing those who oppose them.”

To hear from the GG that religious doctrine was altered for political purposes wasn’t really a surprise to me. I had read many books that described how Constantine of Rome copied pagan religious practices and incorporated them into early Christianity.

Constantine purposely absorbed pagan holidays and ideas into his new church to make it more palatable to the masses.

Next, he set out to obliterate the very pagan religious practices he had copied in a quest to unite Rome under one religion, Christianity, which he could then use to control his subjects.

If pushed for a label, I now identify as pagan, but I was brought up Catholic. When I was married to my first husband, Bruce, I started attending church services with his family at a Baptist

Church in Montgomery, NY. I didn’t feel like I was turning my back on Catholicism or on my family—my feeling has always been that there is one God, one Creator, and one Source, so what does it matter where you go to church on Sunday?

Switching churches turned out to be an important part of my spiritual development, though, because it was the moment in my personal history where I broke from formal religion and truly began my search for the truth.

One Sunday morning back in 1980, the Pastor preached that those who have statues of Christ or the Virgin Mary were practicing idolatry and would not be going to heaven.

My entire family is Catholic, and they wear crosses with Jesus on them, in addition to having crosses on the walls of their homes.

I was in such pure shock when I heard these words that I waited around after the service to ask the Pastor to go over this with me again; I really wanted to make sure I was getting this straight. I asked him point blank, “Are you saying that anyone who wears a cross with Jesus on it or has a statue of the Virgin Mary will go to hell?” I just could not wrap my head around the notion that I, or anyone in my family, would be forced to suffer eternal damnation because of jewelry or statuary choices.

Well, the Pastor stood by what he preached. That was one step out the door for me, but I continued to go to church. Step two out the door came just a couple of weeks later when the Pastor preached that believing in the theory of evolution was evil, Darwin was evil, and Satan planted those dinosaur bones to throw us off our spiritual path. The third and final step away from organized religion for me was when he preached that anyone who was gay or lesbian would be going to hell. https://www.facebook.com/SherriCortlandAuthor www.Sherri-Cortland.com

I remember thinking that if we were all children of God, why would God condemn individuals for being different? And what kind of God would send people to hell for having a statue or wearing the wrong cross around their necks? And I simply could not picture a Johnny-Appleseed Satan running around the earth planting pseudo-dinosaur bones to lead us down the path of eternal damnation. And that’s when I realized this big truth: When something doesn’t resonate with you on a soul level, it’s time to examine that information.

That was an important realization for me, and as simple as it looks written down here, it was a very big deal for me because I never thought that one could question folks in positions of authority. I thought priests, pastors, politicians, teachers, etc., were the be-all, end-all of factual information. Learning to question, research, and question some more has been life-changing for me.

I even question my Guide Group when something they channel seems way out there to me. And I guess that’s the point of this column: If something doesn’t resonate with you, no matter where the information is coming from, question it, including what I share in this column!

Happy truth-seeking and Namaste.

Sherri Cortland has been communicating with her Guide Group, the “GG,” since 1987 via automatic writing. Much of the information she has received is included in her four books, which were originally published by Ozark Mountain Publishing and are currently available on her website and on Amazon.

On Sherri’s website, you will find several free classes and meditations, along with more articles and workshops on video.