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a) Docility to the Spirit and listening to
God's Word
b) Surrender to the divine will and to Providence with an attitude of blessed detachment
or indifference"
c) Habitual checking of persistent inner movements of the soul in order to embrace only
those coming from God's Spirit
d) An almost innate distrust of one's own activities, choices, and preferences
e) Complete openness
of heart towards his spiritual director
f) The constant seeking of confirmation from the authorities, and unconditional obedience
to them
g) Realistic analysis of the situation
h) Observation of
the signs of the times and of any relevant events during the discernment process
i) Acceptance, even welcome, of adversities and crosses as confirmation of authentic
discipleship of Christ
j) Filial trust in Mary
k) Fasting, mortification, retreats, unceasing personal prayer, and requests to others for
prayers in order to discern God's ways and Wisdom.
l) Abundant blessings in the apostolate seen as signs of correct discernment
m) Peace and freedom of heart as confirmation of right discernment
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a) Pride and triumph
of the self and contempt for Holy Scripture
b) Seeking to control reality through prognostication/detachment is unhealthy -
dissociation and ego inflation
c) Assuming the universe is benevolent and trusting natural instincts, guidance from
spirits and oracles
d) Preoccupation with one's own activities, choices and preferences. Primacy of self
before all others
e) Psychological dependency on psychologist, guru, astrologer, psychic healer
f) Constant confirmation needed from oracles, oracular spirits (guides) and psychics
g) Analysis of all events as subjective creations of the self/ Filtering all motives,
events through Freud, Jung, Enneagram, Meyers-Briggs, astrology etc.
h) Crediting external events to inner power, false judgements during prognostication,
channeling, guidance
i) Denial of the cross as self-inflicted, masochistic. The perfectibility of
humanity through self-realization
j) Mary viewed as manifestation of the mother
goddess
k) Fasting for health or to attain altered states of consciousness, no mortification,
frequent weekend retreats, meditation and mind control techniques, frequent reliance on
others for guidance
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