As a writer on divine purpose I am interested to see and read what others are writing on this beautiful invitation.  I have to say that what I read is, metaphorically speaking, old wine in new wine skins.  As one who was once one who was an earnest wine drinker, seriously in love with ‘the women with the dimple in her bottom’, I can say that in my opinion it is not even very good old wine.

So I am writing this article to give you some guidance on who to recognise a true invitation to the revelation of the beauty you create and what can be called Divine Purpose.

1. The Issue of Time

Does the teacher ground you in the issue of your relationship to time and your relationship to the timeless? Or is it simply more goal setting techniques that offer you the ability to live in the prison of time a little more or a lot more comfortably.  Get comfortable in the Timeless.  It is the only comfort that lasts.  Get comfortable in time and you will be ‘doing time’ rather than having the time of your life.

2. Are they inviting you to serve?

Does the teacher continually live the invitation of service to the Divine or are they living their ‘divine purpose’ as invitations of self-interest.  Service is understood by all true teachers of Divine Purpose to be at the heart of what it is to live in form as a revelation of the formless.  This is fundamental to the process of divine purpose unfolding.

3.Are they creating clear boundaries?

Does the teacher offer you a license to say what you think or feel just because this happens to be what’s on your mind? This might sound silly to you but there are those teachers of divine purpose promoting a ‘tell it like it is’ approach. They proudly wear the badge of unbridled self-expression.  While this might be understandable in small children, divine purpose requires that you actually create clear boundaries with precepts. The boundless that is your Divine Purpose is not revealed to those engaged in narcisstic self-absorption or self -expression.

4. How do they deal with conflict?

This may be difficult to know until a conflict arises!  Anyone intent on the unfolding of divine purpose within and through them will meet resistance from within and without.  You are not going to transform lead into gold – the spiritual alchemical process of Divine Purpose – by living a life of pure self-interest and comfort.  Conflict is inevitable. It is not its absence that makes you grow, but how you alchemise it. This is not done through unbridled self-expression. If takes humility to be the authentic expression of the Self.

5. What language are they using?

Does the teacher hold himself or herself up as an example? Do they give you a sense that they are broadcasting an “I did it My Way” wavelength? Do they use paradox, metaphor, or poetry to invite you into the river of presence?  Divine Purpose is a presence that embraces those willing to surrender.  The more you are invited to do your purpose the more you are likely to get in the do-do.  You might end up doing all you ever wanted to do but never know who ‘you’ are.  If your divine purpose teacher is not asking, “Who are you?” then go and seek again. Be open to other invitations. Knock on a few different doors. Anyone that is intent only on making the prison house of being separate from Love a more comfortable prison truly has your divine purpose at heart. As all the mystics will tell you that way can only end in tears.

So whom can you trust? You can trust any of the following teachers of divine purpose. This does not mean you can trust those who profess to be their followers.

You can trust Rumi. You can trust Hafiz. You can trust Christ. You can trust invitations from the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Chang Tao.

Modern teachers you can trust with the invitation to Divine Purpose include Eckhart Tolle, Guy Finley, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Joseph Campbell, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, John O’Donohue and Gangaji.

So be very discerning.  The invitation to Divine Purpose was not popular two thousand years ago.  It still is not popular.  When it is then Heaven will be on earth because the consciousness of duality will be transcended and sacred unity know to be the true purpose of living in form.  Anything less on offer is what this storyteller calls the invitation from the Dreamstealers.

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