Is Prophecy And Prophesying Still Alive And Well?

This week’s topic was suggested by 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?“

There was a Christian music concert held recently in a park nearby. The leading performer was a young convert. She gave a short testimony on prophecy and how she felt her life was prophesized. If you ponder this, at first, you may feel that prophecy is something you tend to think of as a historical prophecy and has the connotation of being related to some form of religious belief or even God.

And yet, the idea of prophecy and things being prophesized 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?

Prophesy 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, there is a considerable list of prophets from the Bible, especially in the Old Testament books. Hundreds of people in the Bible’s biblical days prophesized things. Even a mule was known to speak prophecy in Numbers.

It’s interesting. Whereas in biblical times, it was called prophecy and accepted in contemporary times, a word you use to describe the same thing is precognition, or having a precognitive dream and not accepted as realistic.

In historical times, the people who prophesized were called prophets and prophetesses. There’s a tradition of this actually in all religions. Often, what’s written in the Bible is that these people had prophetic dreams. And you know from scientific research and studies that have been done in modern times that up to 98% of people have what would be called prophetic dreams, also known as precognitive dreams. So it’s widespread.

Types Of Prophets

Another interesting fact is that many prophets are written about in the Bible and other religious texts. Yet there are very few notations of prophetesses. And some of the prophetesses that were written about 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 all over 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 idea of the serpent. In turn, you can associate the name with Kundalini and its power to awaken the prophetic ability.

It’s a common belief that these priestesses were highly trained in the spiritual arts. They were seated on a tripod that used to be installed above an opening at the Oracle. This was a portal open below the earth’s crust where the fumes, probably noxious, would rise. The high priestesses would sit on the tripod, breathing the fumes, and subsequently go into a trance, channeling gods or goddesses. So, she was under the influence of certain chemicals.

It was also written that they didn’t live a terribly long time, probably because of that. So they were regularly bringing in new Pythoness 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 different 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, the difference is that a prophet is chosen by God. In contrast, ordinary people may call themselves prophets or prophetesses because they have activated 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.

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