Real Time Spiritual Discernment Tools via Robert Falconer

Good old Bob suggests the following when dealing with spiritual entities:

1.  How does the entity respond to your fear? If the entity senses your fear and pokes at it and makes it worse and worse, not a good sign.  The good entities almost always wait for an invitation, they respect you, you have to invite them.

2. Does having this spirit in you make you feel better than other people.  In a lot of spiritual groups, they get together and start feeling better than anyone on the planet.  If you start feeling special or better than other people when interacting with the spirit, its not a good sign.

3. There is a continuum, between gratitude and resentment and bitterness.  What impact does the entity have on moving you about this spectrum?   Obviously, gratitude/joy is good.  Resentment, not so good. 

Some of these entities are clever.  They make good lawyers and politicians.  

Me--I'm looking forward to the new books

Sacred Lessons, side view

From: Kellee Plascencia 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 11:07 AM
To: Michael T. Kokal 
Cc: Mona Loring 
Subject: Re: End of the Road Podcast - Mike de la Rocha’s new Simon & Schuster book ‘Sacred Lessons’ Redefines Manhood

 

Thank you! Would it be possible to use THIS photo instead? Credit: Wade Brands

Response:  

Ok, I made the change.  But I don’t like it.  lol     

Our society is obsessed by images of our faces.   I have to laugh when Buddhists or other spiritual people talk about “no self” or non-duality or ego dissolution—but sure enough---they promote themselves with their picture.    I know I’m probably pissing in the wind here, but I take no self seriously.  We don’t exist in the way we think we do.  And pictures of faces are vestiges of colonialism that took away animism and collectivist culture so we can sell shit.  Don’t get me wrong, I really like Mike, but his book is not about him.  Its not about his face.  Its about something much bigger.  And that picture I found of him on Instagram is great because it suggests that is he part of something bigger.  And his pose of looking back is symbolic of  honoring his ancestors and what they have done. 

Sorry for the tirade…lol  I’ll stop now.  Love you Mona…lol 

 

    

The Self as the Tendency to Contract

 Perhaps what we experience as a "self" is our tendency to contract in the face of the overwhelming experience of reality.  

We are social creatures, we want to connect with everything, to find safety in connection.  To find a home.  We personify everything.  We see gods everywhere that are like humans, only more powerful.  Or we see one God who looks out for us and protects us like an omnipotent father or mother or both.  Nature or reality becomes just another community that is like us and acts like us.  Plays by our rules.

Unfortunately, nature or reality doesn't always cooperate.  And its difficult to face the sheer immensity and overwhelming lack of coherence of reality.  We can't handle the truth.  And when God shows Job the Leviathan, Job contracts.  His sense of self curls into a little ball of self protection.  He circles the wagons so to speak.  And we do this always and everywhere.  This tendency toward circling the wagons is the sense of self.  In some people it is strong and rigid.  In others, it is more loosey goosey and "non-dual" and the boundaries between the self and the other dissolve.  The tendency toward enlightenment then becomes the opposite motion of circling the wagons.  

My First Precognitive Dream--sort of

 So at about 3 am last night I had a dream I was in Taylorville Illinois for work and other stuff. The dream town was larger than the actual town.  There were high rise buildings like the one I live in.  I was concerned for them for some reason.  Then I was in a building doing something else.  And the building dropped at least a foot.  It was a seismic shock and I felt than something had seriously energetically shiftted.  I woke up then and was still feeling it. I remember feeling very anxious, as if my whole world had energetically shifted.  Not necessarily for the bad, but the shock of it was palpable.  I tried to connect into it, channel it.  Be it.

When I woke up later at 530 am I checked to see if there were any earthquakes.  None were reported.  However, I did get a news flash later than an earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile and there was a tsunami warning.  

Then I thought of what connection Chile would have with Taylorville.  Taylorville is famous for its annual Chili Cookoff, the 39th annual which will occur this fall.  And my friend Tom Taylor from high school (who I think might have passed away) whose family owned Taylor's Chili.  I always thought there was a connection between Tom and Taylorville and Chili for some reason.

So there is a cosmic trickster involved after all.   And I should pay more attention to my dreams.