✝️ The Sacred Art of Thinking — Because Someone Told Me So

Reverend Gin Bishop
Nov 6
4 min read

The Age of Obedience

Once upon a time, they told you that thinking too much was dangerous.

That asking why was rebellion.

That doubt meant you’d lost your faith.

So you learned to nod instead of question.

You learned to trust the loudest voice, not the truest one.

And when the Spirit whispered, “Are you sure?”

you turned the volume up on someone else’s sermon.

But there’s a problem with outsourcing your awareness—you can’t discern Spirit through someone else’s filter.

You end up mistaking charisma for character, noise for knowing, certainty for truth.

And the world has plenty of that already.

The Soul’s Native Intelligence

Discernment is not cynicism—it’s reverence.

It’s the devotion that refuses to worship illusions.

It’s the willingness to love truth enough to follow it beyond comfort.

The mystics called it inner sight—the sacred intelligence that doesn’t come from intellect, but from integration.

It’s what happens when your body, heart, and consciousness agree on one vibration: authenticity.

Faith without awareness becomes fanaticism.

Love without clarity becomes codependence.

But when awareness and love fuse, they generate the light of liberation.

That fusion—Prema and Chaitanya entwined—is what we call Living Wire consciousness.

The False Prophets of Now

There are voices online selling salvation by the algorithm.

Coaches who promise awakening in three steps.

Preachers who trade repentance for profit.

And we—hungry for guidance—forget to check the ingredients.

The danger isn’t that they’re evil.

The danger is that we’ve forgotten how to discern energy beneath eloquence.

Every false prophet sounds familiar because they speak the language of our unhealed need.

They echo the ache for certainty, for belonging, for meaning.

They play symphonies in the key of our insecurity.

Discernment is how we tune our ear back to Source—how we remember the difference between being inspired and being influenced.

The Courage to Question

To question what you’ve been taught is not rebellion; it’s reverence.

Jesus questioned purity laws.

The Buddha questioned desire.

Socrates questioned justice.

Zarathustra questioned even the light he served.

None of them worshiped certainty.

They worshiped truth in motion.

Questions are the sacred tools that keep faith from fossilizing.

They stretch our perception until our love can hold complexity again.

They keep the current alive.

The unexamined belief is the real heresy.

When Devotion Becomes Dependence

Somewhere along the way, we mistook surrender for submission.

We believed that holiness meant helplessness.

But Spirit doesn’t demand obedience—it invites participation.

If a teaching drains your power instead of deepening it, it’s not Divine.

If following “truth” requires abandoning your intuition, it’s not truth.

God doesn’t need puppets. God breathes through partners.

Discernment is the muscle that keeps devotion from dissolving into dependency.

It’s what allows you to say, I can love you and still disagree.

It’s the quiet “no” that protects the sacred “yes.”

The Fire of Agni: Purification Through Insight

In the Fourfold Path of QFFC, Agni—the sacred fire—represents transformation through truth.

When you discern, you light a match in the dark.

When you question, you burn illusion.

When you choose awareness over comfort, you become the flame itself.

The Zoroastrians called fire “the witness of the Divine.”

Because flame doesn’t lie—it simply reveals.

Every question you ask is a small act of purification.

Every doubt you honor with curiosity instead of shame refines your soul a little more.

Agni doesn’t punish; it polishes.

And every spark of understanding you claim returns you to yourself.

The Work of the Modern Mystic

We are no longer in the age of blind faith; we are in the age of energetic literacy.

To be holy now means to be awake.

To see the emotional contracts hiding beneath the spiritual language.

To ask not just “Is it true?” but “Does it resonate in love?”

The modern mystic is both scientist and sage.

Testing, questioning, sensing, feeling.

The goal isn’t to dismantle belief—it’s to make belief conscious.

Because unconscious belief becomes control.

Conscious faith becomes communion.

The Practice of Holy Skepticism

Try this:

The next time someone claims “divine truth,” feel it in your body before you accept it in your mind.

Does it expand your chest or constrict it?

Does it invite you to love deeper or to fear louder?

Truth always liberates, even when it burns.

Lies always tighten, even when they sparkle.

The sacred art of thinking isn’t about doubting everything;

it’s about trusting your resonance enough to not follow static.

The Alchemy of Unlearning

Spiritual maturity is not adding more beliefs—it’s learning to live without needing so many.

It’s recognizing that holiness doesn’t hide in rules, but radiates through relationship.

That truth is not a possession, but a presence.

At some point, you stop trying to “find” God and start realizing you’ve been breathing Her this whole time.

Discernment just clears the airways.

Unlearning is not loss.

It’s decluttering the soul so the current can flow freely again.

Integration: Turning Insight Into Embodiment

So how do we practice this sacred art of thinking?

Pause before agreeing. Awareness begins in the beat before the “yes.”
Ask better questions. “Who benefits from this truth?” “What energy does it carry?”
Anchor in your body. Your spirit speaks somatically—learn its dialect.
Honor paradox. The presence of opposites doesn’t cancel truth—it completes it.