HOW TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD
Table of Contents
Preface: Who or What Is God?
Part I: Discovering Your
Own Wisdom
Chapter 1: God Can
Talk to You
Chapter 2: How I Learned to Hear the Voice of God
Chapter 3: The Answer to Everything
Part II: Experiencing Your
Breakthrough
Chapter 4: The Four
Signposts of Spirit
Chapter 5: The Do-Nothing Way to Meditate
Part III: Practicing Safe
Spirituality
Chapter 6: All That
Glitters Is Not God
Chapter 7: Clearing the Pathway to God
Chapter 8: Ten Tests of Spiritual Discernment
Chapter 9: Testing the Message
Part IV: Inner Space Adventures
Chapter 10: Misadventures
in Psychic Delusion
Chapter 11: Trusting Inner Guidance
Chapter 12: Living in the Heart of God
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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HOW TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD
by Dr.
Susan Shumsky
Chapter
1: God Can Talk to You
"Out of heaven he made
thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee."-Deuteronomy 4:36.
It is a rare gift to be called
to hear the voice of God. By reading this book, you demonstrate
faith in the prospect that two-way communication with God is
feasible. This is indeed atypical. The fact that you even consider
this possibility places you in a unique category of uncommon
individuals. For example, were you raised in a family, religion,
or educational institution where you learned that God could speak
to you directly? Few people reading these words can answer "yes."
Many people believe that God
exists. Yet few believe that God hears their prayers or answers
them. Fewer believe that God is accessible and can talk to them.
Exceptional people are willing to allow God to speak to them
directly. But only rare, extraordinary individuals act on what
God guides them to do. Do you want to be one of these people?
If so, you are in the right place.
We are taught from an early
age that when we talk to God it is called "prayer,"
but when God talks to us, it is called"schizophrenia."
If you were to enter a psychiatric office today and report that
God speaks to you, what would be the reaction? You would be diagnosed
with mental illness and walk out with a prescription for psychotropic
drugs.
We often read about murderers-even
mothers who slaughter their own babies-who claim that voices
in their heads told them to commit murder. We hear of cult leaders
who believe that God demands that their followers commit suicide.
No wonder the widespread belief is that people who claim to hear
God's voice are insane.
We are conditioned to believe
that the only people sanctioned to have authentic conversations
with God are great prophets, saints, holy men (I emphasize the
word "men"), and other holy beings that lived at least
two thousand years ago in some faraway land. These holy men wrote
one book-a book literally written in stone. After that book was
written, apparently, God has gone mute-and has not spoken to
anyone since.
Right? Wrong.
I believe these holy men have
not signed an exclusive contract with God. They have no special
combination to a padlocked, hallowed safe with elite access.
Some religious institutions would have you believe that they
own the secret passkey and, without their sanction, no one can
walk through the doorway to heaven.
Billions of people are resigned
to the idea that they cannot experience God directly-certainly
not while they are still breathing. Sadly, such people eagerly
await death, when they will enter the glorious gates of paradise
and finally catch a glimpse of God's presence. They never conceive
that they could directly experience God in this body during this
lifetime.
The widespread belief is that
God's blessing and grace are inaccessible without a middleman,
such as a pastor, minister, priest, cleric, rabbi, guru, master,
shaman, psychic, channeler, counselor, or priestess. Most of
these go-betweens have the best of intentions. But, regrettably,
either intentionally or unwittingly, some of them become hucksters
swathed in a veneer of spirituality, hawking their products to
the masses.
Such salespeople have no incentive
to help people hear God's voice directly. To use an analogy from
the world of sales, if their customers were to have such experiences,
then these retailers would soon be out of business. For their
clients would "cut out the middleman" and "go
direct."
However, it is my experience,
and the experience of tens of thousands of people who have used
the methods taught in my books or classes, that anyone can hear
the voice of God directly.
The Pearl of Great Price
At the risk of giving away
the "pearl of great price"-the most precious secret
of the ages-on Page 3 of the first chapter of this book, I will
tell you right now how you can hear the voice of God. This gift
comes with no strings attached. You will not be required to convert
to a religion, join a cult, venerate a guru, empty your bank
account, or sacrifice your firstborn child. I will tell you right
now how to "go direct." So here goes-a simple way to
listen to the "still small voice" of God, right here
and now, absolutely FREE:
Just sit down in a chair, close
your eyes, take a few deep breaths, get quiet, still, centered,
and balanced within yourself, and then simply-ASK. That is the
entire secret. ASK. Ask a question, ask for guidance, ask for
inspiration or healing. Then take another deep breath and do
what I call the "Do-Nothing Program." That means, do
nothing, nothing, and less than nothing. Then the "still
small voice" will speak to you in your heart. You will learn
this do-nothing method, called Divine Revelation®, in this
book.
So the key to hearing God's
voice is to ASK. The trouble is that we forget to ask. Or we
think we cannot ask. Or we think God is too busy for us. Is God
too busy for you? Could God be too busy for anyone? If you believe
God is too busy to pay attention to you, then you have a very
limited idea of what God is.
God could never be too busy.
God is not bound by time, space, or circumstances. Therefore,
God cannot get tired or overworked. God does not only pay attention
to "important" people and things. Everyone and everything
is important to God. God does not play favorites. God is not
available to only a select few so-called "holy" people.
God is everywhere present and always available to anyone who
asks.
The entire premise of this
book is "Ask, and it shall be given you."1 How to attain
the requisite state of awareness, how to ask, and how to receive
the message clearly is what you will learn by reading this book.
Many people have one ten-minute
spiritual experience, and then spend the rest of their life talking
about it. Dozens of best-selling authors have built their entire
career upon that one time when a divine being appeared or spoke
to them. However, Divine Revelation is about experiencing God
whenever you want-at will. After you have learned how to hear
the divine voice, you will receive spiritual experiences as often
as you desire. You can call upon God and ask a question, ask
for guidance, or ask to experience God, and then receive the
answer or experience immediately, whenever you want-day or night.
Just ASK.
Diane Wright, a dentist from
Tampa, Florida, describes: "Divine Revelation has confirmed
my knowing that I can reach my Christ self whenever I want. Just
being aware and knowing has increased my consciousness."
Problems Solved by This
Book
Throughout 40 years of teaching
meditation and intuition techniques, I have often heard the following
complaints from my students, to which this book provides practical
solutions:
1. "I have never meditated.
Do I have to meditate in order to hear the voice of God?"
With this book and
in the accompanying CD, you can learn how to meditate and also
how to hear the voice of God, whether inside or outside of meditation.
2. "Nothing happens
when I try to hear the voice of God. Maybe it works for other
people, but not for me. I'm just a brick wall."
In this book you will
learn ways to break down the seeming brick wall that has stopped
you from hearing God's voice.
3. "How do I know whether
it's really God speaking to me, or some other voice?"
In this book you will
learn how to distinguish between God's voice and other voices
in your mind, such as your ego or wishful thinking.
4. "Isn't it dangerous
to listen to inner voices? What if they lead me down the wrong
path? Can't I be deceived?"
This book will help
you attain spiritual discernment so you can avoid the pitfalls
of psychic delusion.
5. "My negative thought-patterns,
habits, and conditioning prevent me from hearing God's voice."
In this book you will
find specific healing affirmations and prayers that help you
overcome negative patterns.
6. "Making the right
life decisions is difficult and confusing for me."
In this book you will
learn how to ask and receive guidance from the "still small
voice" of God within. That divine voice will help you make
wise choices.
7. "I am offended by
rules and regulations, cults, and coercive organizations."
The universal techniques
in this book impose no restrictions and are compatible with other
religious philosophies, lifestyles, and personal beliefs.
8. "I don't want to
work at difficult, strict, hard-to-follow disciplines."
This book is easy to
understand, logical, and practical, with simple-to-learn methods
requiring no previous experience, background, training, or knowledge.
Some Benefits You Can Expect
Here are a few of the many
benefits you can receive by practicing the methods in this book.
Included are experiences of people who have used these techniques
to transform their lives:
1. Trusting and following
inner guidance.
Linda De Narde, a property
manager from San Leandro, California, says: "I feel it
is a good idea to use the voice of God as a guide. One day, I
was driving in a hurry and not paying attention. I heard this
sweet angel voice say, 'Linda look up,' and I did. I was heading
right into a parked car on a rounded curve. I quickly swerved
and could hear the minor nick as I passed the car, like a click.
If I had not looked up, I would have hit the car dead center.
I knew I was given grace that day."
2. Making wise and purposeful
choices with peaceful confidence.
Dan Ecklund, a
physician from Foley, Alabama, says: "Even though I find
that dowsing or AK (muscle testing) can be useful confirmatory
tests, I find that Divine Revelation works easiest and best for
me. I have been asking questions and getting intuitive answers
for 27 years, and now I can finally trust my answers! Hallelujah!"
3. Discovering and following
your true pathway, true desires and divine purpose, in alignment
with your authentic self.
Anita Foster, a
massage therapist from Centerville, Ohio, says, "The
major outcome for me was a clear call to me from Divine Guidance
that it is time for me to acknowledge that the reason I am here
on earth this time around is to live my oneness with God."
4. Enjoying a sense of
inner happiness and peace in everyday life.
Marsha Campbell,
a Unity church administrator from Atlanta, Georgia, says: "Divine
Revelation filled me with such a feeling of peace. When I first
came across it, I felt tears in my eyes. Then, as I got more
into it, what came over me was immense gratitude, more tears,
from so much joy of feeling 'that connection.' It was an answer
to prayer.
I'm not sure if I am conveying the intensity of my appreciation."
5. Being more self-reliant
and less dependent on others by finding answers within.
Victor Cox, from
Dallas, Texas, says: "I would like to say that since
reading Dr. Shumsky's books and using her teachings, I have received
many answers to questions from Divine Spirit regarding my life
and my job. These answers have come in the form of visions, inner
voices, and signs, just as she says in her books!"
6. Achieving greater
self-love, self-acceptance, and inner power.
Libby Maxey, an
author from Mount Juliet, Tennesse, says: "God-Self-Universe-every
particle of everything spoke thundering through me, to me, as
me, in me, around me, resonating vibrating "I AM Thou,"
and I am not separate, cannot ever be separate, from God-Self
or you, or me, or the earth, or the stars, or anything again.
It is so utterly simple and so extremely subtle. I can say this
and mean it with my whole being: I love God, I love my neighbors,
and I love my Self. I Am Thou."
7. Attaining the true
freedom that comes from direct contact with God.
Rosemarie Sanchez,
from Portland Oregon, writes, "This realm of understanding
is new for me and is exactly what I have wanted. After many years
of the mainstream way of thinking, this is amazingly freeing.
My word of inspiration right now is 'freedom' and even the thought
of it provides the feeling of a butterfly in flight. God's love
truly puts me on top of the world knowing I can create any possibility
for my life I choose."
8. Dwelling in the joyous,
comforting, loving presence of God.
Michelle Engel,
a schoolteacher from Ashland, Oregon, reports: "Truly,
the biggest and best miracle I've experienced is the realization
of Divinity within. I feel wealthy in Spirit and am completely
fulfilled from within."
9. Putting your life
on track and in order.
Timothy Smith,
a minister from Boynton Beach, Florida says, "Your teaching
has made such a huge difference in my life on so many levels.
It was like a light bulb experience. All my studies of religion
in my BA degree, Master and on personal levels now made sense
with the inner Christ, inner Spirit and inner Being. Suddenly
the Christ that I invited into my heart so many years ago was
revealed to me. The inner Christ was there all along, I could
finally see/know it as a part of me. It seems so simple yet so
complex."
10. Discovering life's meaning
in spiritual enlightenment.
Albert Marsh, a retired
architect from Los Angeles says, "I experienced being
100% egoless. I was led into a blissful emptiness, a total silence,
a total state of non-action and Oneness, and a total intense
experience of the present moment. There was no emotion, no desire,
no need to do anything, only a great peace. I felt like 'Albert'
had gone away and I was empty of everything, impersonal. I felt
like my ego had been sent down a garbage disposal. Usually when
I have a deep experience like this, I have tears of humility
and love and joy, but there just wasn't any 'me' left to do anything,
there was only pure, peaceful beingness."
10. Knowing God and attaining
God realization.
Mark Lebowitz,
a physician from Dallas, Texas says, "I recently recalled
that when I was 15 years old, my fondest wish was to know God.
I just realized that I don't wish for that anymore. Because now,
I think I do know Him. I am sure that I will grow to know Her
more as I progress, but I have achieved my life-long wish. Thank
you, Susan."
My Life in the Ashram
I have practiced meditation
and other spiritual disciplines since 1967. From 1970 to 1989,
I lived in various ashrams (residential retreat facilities
where a student studies meditation and yoga) under the guidance
of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru of the Beatles and of Deepak
Chopra, and I served on Maharishi's personal international staff
for seven of those years.
When I lived in the ashram,
I meditated from five to 20 hours per day. I sometimes cloistered
myself in my room and did not appear for up to eight weeks at
a time. The food was brought to my door. I often fasted for up
to two months at a time. I observed silence and did not utter
a sound for up to four months at a time. I observed total celibacy.
I was an introvert-and that is definitely an understatement.
After spending 20 years with
my eyes closed, I woke up one day and realized that I was not
a spiritual person. How does a young woman meditate her brains
out for 20 years and not be spiritual? Somehow, I managed to
do it. You might expect a spiritual person to be kind, loving,
generous, gentle, giving, caring, considerate, and patient. Yet
I was not any of these things. In fact, I was a "b"
with an "itch." Or an "itch" with a "b"-whichever
way you want to put it.
In the ashram, every meditation
afforded me the glorious experience of satchitananda (absolute
bliss consciousness), in the state of samadhi (evenness
of mind and stillness of body). The experience of samadhi is
one of deep relaxation, profound inner peace, unbounded awareness,
and transcendental consciousness.
Yet, daily experience of divine
union in samadhi did not make me a kinder, gentler Susan. I was
not displaying what I would call "spiritual qualities"
in everyday life. Long hours of meditation did not transform
my personality. What was missing was the experience of God's
beloved presence and God's "still small voice."
My guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
observed silence at the beginning of every year. He would enter
his room and not appear until seven days later. Those of us on
his personal staff also went into deep meditation and took silence
with him. When Maharishi emerged from silence, he often mentioned
something like, "I just spoke with Mother Divine, and she
said" Maharishi would then describe what the Goddess had
told him.
Now you have to understand
that, as a disciple of Maharishi, I worshipped him as God. I
believed he was on the highest level of consciousness and had
all the answers. So when he said that Mother Divine spoke to
him, I thought, "Oh, Maharishi is so great and so high.
I could never hear the Goddess speaking to me."
Like the vast majority of people,
I did not believe ordinary people could ever hear God's voice.
I assumed that only people like Maharishi, Moses, or Jesus could
talk with God. God was certainly too busy and important to speak
to common people like me. But I was wrong. My vision was very
limited. Now I know better, because I have experienced the voice
of God firsthand. And so can you.
I have taught thousands of
people how to listen to the "still small voice" of
God. If an ordinary person with no special abilities can learn
to hear that voice, then you can, too. This book will show you
how.
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