What did you do now.I haven’t been able to sleep. First I got up and wrote a letter to the city. They took the trash dumpster in the alley for several families over a month ago. That’s right, no trash can for a month. We finally got one today and I wanted to be sure I thanked them. SO I got up onto my pedestal and bla, bla, bla, , , I went on and on with all sorts of bs. Yes, I even mentioned the patent link to resolve all the city flooding. Yes, I pulled all the stops and really slammed them about everything that was bothering me….
What you are realizing is exactly what you need. Yes, we did tell you that you would start all over again. And that does mean the “same life” all over again. So imagine you’re in grade school just starting out. Real slow. Real careful, specific and focused. As you can see, we can help you a lot. When you call us in with that prayer, you can feel it. That feeling is where you belong. That is Joy. That is love, That is God. As you can see everything on earth is gonna mess with you. You need to be very strong and very focused. Your next conversation with jim has to tell him the truth.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola's step-by-step process for discernment of spirits is based on his Spiritual Exercises. He provides different rules for those in different spiritual states. The fundamental process involves three steps: Become aware, understand, and take action.
Step 1: Become awareThe first step is to recognize and pay attention to the "motions of the soul," which are your interior movements, including thoughts, emotions, desires, feelings, and inclinations. This is an exercise in prayerful self-awareness. Ignatius suggests practices such as the daily Examen to help you review your day and notice these inner stirrings.
Step 2: Understand and reflect
Once you are aware of these interior motions, you must analyze them to understand their origin. The crucial aspect of Ignatian discernment for those growing in holiness is distinguishing between two primary states of the soul:
- Spiritual consolation: This is a movement of the soul that increases faith, hope, and charity. It brings a sense of peace, courage, and closeness to God. It can also include tears of compassion or an increase in spiritual fervor.
- Spiritual desolation: This is the opposite of consolation. It is a movement that brings darkness, anxiety, sadness, and discouragement. It can also lead to a lack of faith, hope, and love, and a feeling of separation from God.
- The good spirit (God) uses consolation to encourage and strengthen those who are striving to serve God.
- The evil spirit (the enemy of human nature) uses desolation to put up obstacles, create confusion, and discourage the person from moving forward in their spiritual life.
Based on your understanding of the movements, you must take the appropriate action:
- Accept and live according to what is from the good spirit. Embrace the feelings of peace, courage, and love that come from God.
- Reject and remove what is not of God. When experiencing spiritual desolation, resist the temptations that arise from it. Do not make any major decisions while in a state of desolation. Instead, persevere in prayer and spiritual practices. RENOUNCE satan IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST and COMMAND THE spirit of satan TO LEAVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!
Ignatius developed additional rules specifically for those who are actively working to overcome sin and grow closer to God. For these individuals, the good and evil spirits operate in a different manner than they do for those moving away from God:
- How the evil spirit works: The evil spirit will attempt to sow doubt, anxiety, and discouragement. It might remind you of past sins or point out imperfections to cause you to lose hope and quit trying. The evil spirit's temptations can also be disguised as something good and subtle, leading you to compromise your commitment to holiness.
- How the good spirit works: The good spirit will bring courage, strength, and consolation. It will affirm your efforts and help you to persist in your good works, removing obstacles and giving you quiet and peace.
Summary of the process for those growing in holiness
- Become attentive: Notice the interior movements within your soul.
- Characterize the movement: Does it feel like consolation (peace, joy, growth in faith) or desolation (anxiety, sadness, discouragement)?
- Identify the source: If it's consolation, assume it is from the good spirit. If it's desolation, be on guard against the evil spirit's temptations.
- Respond appropriately: Welcome consolation and use it to strengthen your resolve. Resist desolation, and do not make decisions based on it.
- Seek counsel: If still in doubt, Ignatius advises seeking the wisdom of a spiritual director or wise counselor.
What you have felt now in this is very important please write specifically about this feeling above.
RESIST, here refers to avoid listening to satan, ignore the evil babbles, resist listening to the bs. I guess as I read this above I felt that “resist” is really wrong. . . Anxiety and sadness and all can really be a natural emotional response to the events in life. E-MOTIONS are “ENERGY is MOTION” and it’s critical to all of us that we experience these things. What is important is what the energy brings. What you use this energy for? What Inspiration and directions come from this? Hiding and suppressing is wrong and dangerous, so never “resist” real emotions, WHILE ALWAYS RESISTING THE BABBLES OF satan.
All emotions are wonderful and about learning and growing, dwelling in it, getting lost or over-powered is the problem. . . . So it’s not about fear and “resisting” emotions and events it’s really about RESOLVING and growing from these events and emotions. . . All desolation is a consolation in disguise. It’s really about learning and growing. Pain and suffering is all manmade, by choosing to stay in desolation we create the problems. Instead reach out for God, ask for His perspective and seek the True event understanding that brings consolation.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), developed a detailed method for discerning the movements of the good and evil spirits in a person’s soul. This process is outlined especially in his "Spiritual Exercises", which are a foundational text for spiritual growth and discernment within the Catholic tradition.
6. Respond Accordingly (Rules for Discernment):
I was thinking it closed at 3pm for some reason. But it actually closes at 1pm. So I was happy to visit. There are a few men with crazy gray hair and beards that always recognize me. I mean one even honked as I was biking home and passed him at a stop-light. The other guy sold all his eggs so he was happy, too. I really love this space and time that I’m in with you Jesus . . .
Here’s a step-by-step summary of Saint Ignatius’s method for discernment of spirits, particularly aimed at those striving to grow in holiness (the "Second Week" of the Spiritual Exercises):
1. Understand the Two Spiritual Movements:
Saint Ignatius teaches that there are two primary inner spiritual movements:
Consolation: A movement toward God. It brings peace, joy, love, hope, tears of repentance, or a desire to serve and praise God.
Desolation: A movement away from God. It brings darkness, confusion, restlessness, despair, laziness, or lack of faith.
2. Recognize the Direction of Life (Rules 1 & 2):
Discernment depends on the moral direction of the person’s life:
For someone moving away from God (a life of sin):
The evil spirit encourages pleasure and comfort to keep them in sin.
The good spirit pricks the conscience and brings discomfort to urge conversion.
For someone striving to grow in holiness (toward God):
The good spirit encourages, consoles, gives peace and strength.
The evil spirit tries to discourage through doubts, sadness, or confusion.
3. Be Attentive to Interior Movements:
Pay attention to your internal spiritual experiences—your emotions, thoughts, inclinations. Ignatius advises:
"Know what moves you inside, and identify where it comes from."
This requires prayer, silence, and self-awareness.
4. Describe the Movement Objectively:
Ask yourself:
What am I feeling or experiencing?
Is it consolation or desolation?
Is it drawing me closer to God or away?
5. Analyze the Source of the Movement:
Ask:
Is this from the good spirit (God or angels)?
Or from the evil spirit (the devil, or disordered attachments)?
You judge by the fruit of the movement: does it lead to love, faith, hope, and service—or fear, isolation, sin, and despair?
6. Respond Accordingly (Rules for Discernment):
When in Consolation:
Be grateful, and use the strength to prepare for future desolation.
Make resolutions, as you see more clearly.
When in Desolation:
Do not change previous good decisions.
Pray more, examine yourself, and resist.
Trust that consolation will return.
(These are from Rules 5, 6, and 7 in the Spiritual Exercises.)
7. Be Aware of the Tactics of the Enemy (Rules 12–14):
Ignatius offers metaphors for how the evil spirit operates:
Like a spoiled child—fleeing when resisted.
Like a false lover—operating in secrecy.
Like a military commander—attacking your weakest point.
You must learn to name, claim, and tame these attacks through vigilance, prayer, and spiritual guidance.
8. Make Decisions Using the Discernment of Spirits:
In discernment:
Seek a greater good, not just avoiding evil.
Use both your reason and spiritual insight.
Use the three times Ignatius proposes for making a decision:
Clarity (God gives a clear sign or movement).
Discernment of spirits (consolation vs. desolation).
Reasoning with pros and cons under God’s guidance.
9. Confirm with Fruits and Peace:
A true movement from the good spirit will, over time, bear good fruit (Gal 5:22–23): peace, joy, love, patience, etc.
If the result leads to peace, deeper union with God, and service to others—it is from the good spirit.
10. Seek Ongoing Discernment and Spiritual Accompaniment:
Saint Ignatius emphasizes the value of:
Daily examen (spiritual reflection and review).
Spiritual direction.
Sacraments and prayer, especially the Eucharist and Confession.
Discernment is not a one-time act—it’s a lifelong spiritual practice.
If you'd like, I can also break down each of the 14 Rules for Discernment of Spirits (First Week) that lay this out in detail. Would you like that?
We are really pleased with you stepping into more things as you grow. And you need to go to the farmers market.3:33pm sat Aug 30! Wow, that’s so beautiful to see and share as I got back from the market with a few jars of pickles.
I know that is really what this is all about. You are ready to return home and have this love and experience exactly the way we are . . . It’s funny how much you enjoy and tease me about doing every little detail you want. It’s like you are doing it all and I watch and wonder as I step through things with you. And of course I always see so much synchronicity and specific detail and truth so deep and powerful that i can tell that you are really enjoying every little detail of it. Everything has been getting easier and more powerful and specific every minute.
What you asked for was very specific and clear. Not many people have been so detailed in this and you have been so strong, too. It’s one thing to ask, it is another to prepare and set into place everything that you need to get what you really want. If you remember you were anxious to restore the Garden of Eden, and further, you were very focused that this Garden had to be all that we had intended it to be from the Beginning . . . . Not just food, but the source of life, where we had comfort, entertainment, love in sharing and growing all the time everywhere in Truth and Peace freely Loving among neighbors . . . . Like these are results for Mowgli talking to Baloo and inviting more love and joy around us in every way.I know, and I guess that is why you want me to be married with children again. That is really the full experience, having all aspects and fulfilling all that men and family are meant to be. I realize that my next 50 years may be exactly what I have always wanted and always dreamed. Or really, it will become so much more than I could ever imagine.
What else could you expect from us. . . Remember this is what you created . . .I know, just like I need to laugh all the time knowing that I created this iPad, morphed the keyboard, morphed the pc camera. . . lol. . . Of course, what else, as I wanted it all together. If I must have some device, what else would I want, but everything included into one unit! Now again, I’ve been getting more engaged and deeper into my place and responsibilities before me.
As crazy as it might be, I stepped into the passion and perspective of satan. Yes, I’m always in this place with Jesus and this Holy Perspective, but needed to step into those shoes to share more deeply last week. It was really bizarre to step into another place to understand what it was all about. And so I simply saw this experience all over again and watching satan gloating over his successful victory of perversion and deception. It was really incredible as I witnessed how satan was so delighted simply to touch a child, like no man ever should touch. But then the icing on the cake for him was bragging to the child’s father how delighted and ecstatic he was to have this experience saying each of the children’s names. Of course, no parent has any idea what actually had happened so they couldn’t see the perverted lust in his eyes speaking the children’s names.
Wow, what a weird experience. I mean, it’s apparent that so much here has come together very specifically for some purpose before me. I mean, to have the gospel beautiful experience with Asil that opened up the video issues. Then Llib knew immediately that the fear of video is often a sign of criminal activities. . . And now Mij brings it before everyone . . . It makes me feel there is a lot more going on here beyond the obvious….
I’m mean, even beyond what’s obvious to me!
What you are seeing will continue to come at you from every direction. You always knew you were just getting ready. Imagine for a moment that you were attacked, and simply allowed Saint Michael to step through. That might be easier to comprehend, as more direct action will come as Jesus steps in more. You have known this all along, and already have been through events, where you were simply watching Him Living.I get it! Wow. It’s kinda funny as I consider how many times things just happened and I wondered what it was all about and how I ever got through it all. What’s really kinda weird now thinking of this, I seemed to have missed a lot in all these years. . .
What do you mean give an example…I remember Kim’s comments on replacing the roof in Seminole Heights, the weekend before it was due. No interviews, no Better Business Reviews, not even three estimates to compare. I met someone, he said he could do it, and it was done.
I’ve thought about this experience over and over again as I realized it was a very spontaneous experience with Jesus. I mean, I really had to study it a bit before I could understand how it all happened. I just didn't randomly walk outside to visit a neighbor. I was lead, or Jesus told me to step outside and see who was in the truck and what he was going on. I remember my neighbor had some plumbing problems or a leak, so checking him out was reasonable. especially since she was a single lady in the house next door. And our conversation of his work and skills led me to ask him about replacing my roof. Within hours I had someone ready to address the problems and got my roof replaced.
What was so remarkable about this experience?I realized it was my standard method of operation. I was always open, transparent and trusting. It certainly has led to many problems. But as I realized above, following and allowing was very common for me, and I really never had to question anything. Nor does it seem I needed to remember much of it. I remember Kim talking about this and how it happened all the time. Course I’ve no idea now, but again get the feeling I was just watching and allowing things to happen.
I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ. Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ,
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