What Is The Gift Of Prophecy And The Spiritual Perspective Of Prophets UYT388

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Is Prophecy And Prophesying Still Alive And Well?

This week’s topic came from a listener, Anderini. “What is the gift of prophecy? What is the spiritual perspective of prophets of different religions? What kind of psychic ability does a prophet possess? Are these abilities religious, cultural (human), or spiritual?“

The quick answer: “prophecy is the gift of receiving a message to prophesy or predict a future event.”

A Christian music concert was held recently in a nearby park. A young convert was the lead performer. She gave a brief testimony about prophecy and how she felt her life had been prophesied. If you ponder this at first, you may feel that prophecy is something you think of as a historical idea and that it carries the connotation of being related to some form of religious belief or even God.

And yet, the idea of prophecy and things being prophesied is still a thing that’s alive and well in Christianity and other religions. Does that make you curious?

What Is The Gift Of Prophecy And The Spiritual Perspective Of Prophets?

Prophecy And Divination

Sometimes, when people are very deeply into what you could consider to be a literal interpretation of religious beliefs, they don’t like the idea of psychics or psychic abilities. The word itself is not approved of. And yet, there’s this massive thing about prophecy.

Historically, the Bible includes a considerable number of prophets, especially in the Old Testament. Hundreds of people in biblical times prophesied. Even a mule was known to speak prophecy in Numbers.

It’s important to distinguish between prophecy and divination. While both involve seeking information beyond ordinary perception, prophecy is understood as receiving a message directly from God or the divine — inspired revelation delivered through the prophet, as described in the Bible. Divination, by contrast, refers to humans using techniques or tools — such as casting lots, reading omens, or consulting oracles — to try to extract knowledge or predict the future themselves. In other words, prophecy is seen as initiated by the divine toward a willing messenger, whereas divination is initiated by the person, which is why prophecy is generally upheld as a sacred gift while certain forms of divination were discouraged in biblical tradition.

It’s interesting. In biblical times, it was called prophecy and accepted; today, you might call the same thing precognition, or a precognitive dream, and it’s not accepted as real.

In historical times, the people who prophesied were called prophets and prophetesses. This tradition exists in all religions. Often, the Bible says these people had prophetic dreams. And you know from scientific research and studies conducted in modern times that up to 98% of people have what are called prophetic, or precognitive, dreams. So it’s widespread.

Types Of Prophets

Another interesting fact is that the Bible and other religious texts mention many prophets. Yet there are very few notations of prophetesses. And some of the prophetesses mentioned were considered evil, wicked women, or witches.

But, in studying the pre-Christian era and 1000s of years before, the people prophesying were predominantly women. They were the prophetesses and the priestesses at the Oracles in the ancient world. There were oracles throughout ancient Greece. One of the most famous ones was the Oracle at Delphi. People would come from afar to consult the prophetesses and listen to their utterances.

Pythoness was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She expressly served as its prophetess and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Delphi used to be called Pytho, which relates to the serpent. In turn, you can associate the name with Kundalini and its power to awaken the prophetic ability.

It’s commonly believed that these priestesses were highly trained in the spiritual arts. They sat on a tripod installed above an opening at the Oracle. This was a portal open beneath the earth’s crust through which the fumes, probably noxious, would rise. The high priestesses would sit on the tripod, inhale the fumes, and subsequently enter a trance, channeling gods or goddesses. So, she was under the influence of certain chemicals.

It was also written that they didn’t live very long, probably because of that. So they were regularly bringing in new Pythonesses and prophetesses.

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What Is The Word Of Prophecy

Prophecy is the gift or the message to prophesy or predict a future event. To be forewarned of something that will supposedly come to be. In the ancient world, the places where prophecy occurred were called Oracles. So the Oracle at Delphi previously mentioned was one of many locations, just the best-known.

So how is the word of prophecy given by these Oracles different from those of the different religious prophets? Maybe the question to be examined is, “How are prophets chosen?”

And so, you think that what a religious person might say is that the difference is that a prophet is chosen by God. In contrast, ordinary people may call themselves prophets or prophetesses after activating their psychic abilities. And they are accused of anything from witchcraft to dabbling or meddling in something that perhaps they shouldn’t.

The answer is that both statements are factual in a sense. Both types of individuals are receiving messages from a higher power. You are multi-dimensional spiritual beings. Your consciousness exists throughout time and space, even though you experience yourselves as individuated humans embedded in time and space. But all of you can connect with the larger realm of all that is. And in doing so, you can connect with all of the different ranges of possibilities, timelines, choices, and outcomes of those choices.

So when you’re having what is called a prophetic dream, a precognitive dream, when you are asleep, your consciousness moves beyond the physical realm. It moves beyond the limits of time-space reality, and you can traverse past, present, and future alternative realities and alternate timelines.

And so what a prophetic dream is is you bringing into your conscious, your waking consciousness, a memory of that experience of an alternate reality you have had. Bringing it forward into your consciousness; in fact, you may even make it more likely to occur because you’re already starting to manifest that idea into physical reality. So sometimes what you do in your sleep is play around with different ideas, possibilities, or probabilities. Then you bring some of that into manifestation. But you can’t bring all of it into manifestation because there’s a limit to your time-space reality.

A prophecy is not set in stone. It is not always about predicting the absolute future. It can be to let a person or group know to stop doing or behaving in a specific way, or else some disaster will befall you. But if you behave this way, you are more likely to have a wonderful life.

Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, used to say that a prophet is not someone who tells you what will happen. He is someone giving you a message to tell you what will happen if you continue on the same course. And they tell you their message is an opportunity for you to change course.

That’s precisely it. And really, Edgar Cayce meant that, as a psychic reader, you truthfully don’t prophesy. You don’t tell people’s futures. But what you do is read their energy in the present. And if they’re looking for personal direction, you can look at what they’re doing now, energy-wise, and how that will propel them forward. Where will that take them? You know, what’s the likely outcome of that? And how might you change your energy in the present to manifest the reality that you prefer?

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What Is The Gift Of Prophecy?

It used to be called prophesying, but now you call it precognition. Now, you call it tapping into the quantum field of the multi-dimensional reality.

Another way to call it is reading the Akashic Record. When you name something with a different word, people tend to misinterpret it. People like full disclosure to understand and feel comfortable. What’s the difference in that? Because it’s a different word, it may have a different meaning to you or others. But you use so many words to say the same thing.

So prophecy is prophecy, prediction, precognition, looking into the future-time Akashic Record, tuning into the quantum field, and observing different potentials, possibilities, or probable realities. It is a different language describing the same thing. The idea that you are more than meets the eye.

You are embedded in this time-space reality, but you exist beyond that. And you can tap into that energy field beyond that. So, as for the gift of prophecy, you have it too.

Prophetic Messages And Psychic Abilities

You have intuitive gifts and psychic abilities. And precognition is a psychic ability. You don’t just have it. You can purposefully direct your gifts to deliberately look into future potentials. It’s a combination of clairvoyance and claircognizance.

The modern idea of being a psychic has led many people to expect that it means predicting and telling the future. But you create your own reality. You create your own reality by the vibration you are, the thoughts you think, the emotions you’re feeling, and the energies you are carrying. That is what you are broadcasting out to the universe. And this universe is run by the Law Of Attraction.

So whatever you put out is what comes back to you. So, rather than predicting your future, you would be better off focusing on what you want to manifest. Then, consider creating yourself as a match for that. Because if you are, the likelihood of it showing up in your reality is much higher than if you are not.

So it’s the same thing whether you are a modern-day psychic reader, clairvoyant fortune teller, or an ancient-style prophet or prophetess. Reading a person’s energy, the energy of a situation, or the energy of a nation is all the same. Through the energy, the vibration that’s going out, whatever is the most likely potential outcome of that energy will show up. When you can change the energy or take steps to help change it, it will benefit everyone involved.

How To Connect With Your Higher Self, Your Inner Prophet

The most straightforward route to change your energy is to practice a daily meditation. Meditation changes your state from strictly human to getting in touch with your Spirit, your higher self. All meditation is good, but some are better. A meditation focused on grounding and centering can focus your energy and strengthen your connection, increasing your level of consciousness. Below is a link to a guided meditation to help you along the way.

Free Guided Meditation To Help You Ground As You Use Gifts Such As Prophecy

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Questions and comments from listeners during the broadcast of What Is The Gift Of Prophecy And The Spiritual Perspective Of Prophets :

• Brian – Yes, it is a double standard. It used to be okay to have prophets and seers, like in the Bible, but apparently there’s a cutoff date; it was once okay, but no longer!
• CK – How do you know the message given to you by a so-called prophet is the truth?
• Limitless Creators – Can we ignore probability and just create heaven on earth?
• Heidi – Wow, I never thought of that last part… I’ve always felt energy but not necessarily read it to see an outcome.
• BC – For some people, knowing the future as it’s read can be a form of self-sabotage. For instance, a person afraid of a close relationship is told someone is coming into their life. Subconsciously, they could alter that because of that embedded fear or belief, and it doesn’t come to pass then.
• Andarini – So, is religion created by a higher guide? Historically, from Abraham to Moses’ time to Christianity, then Islam – they are related and just being revised or adjusted.
• Cole – I’ve had some experiences with teachers/leaders who weren’t coming from that place of authentic connection. My level of awareness immediately made me feel that something was off. It didn’t seem right. It’s comparable to when people tell me something that resonates. It’s readily accepted, not necessarily as a conceptual understanding but as a more profound feeling/knowing.
• Brian – True. But remember, many books and scrolls are missing from the Bible. It seems to be a pieced-together story with a purpose.
• Lorraine – Can we help raise others’ energy?
• Lorraine – Thank you. I agree entirely. A healing and giving love with no strings.
• Brian – Dr. Lesley, it seems the structure of many systems- money, politics, and religion- is being broken down to its core essence. Is that what you see happening? It’s like all the extra stuff.
• Cabanaroulette – It’s got to come up to come out. It is very easy to get sucked into old belief systems or indoctrinations. Any advice on daily practices or other exercises to incorporate? Added to them over the years, including the corruption, is being distilled down to regain that balance?

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