(04-30-2014, 04:03 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: What if you are fooled by negative entities that speak through intuition? Say you do something bad, and you sort of know it's bad. You could call it mental illness. But if you were truly under the mental illness, would you have no fear in acting out in that manner. Say it was to attack one you loved. Because the entity speaking to you pretended it was someone important. It could be God, it could be your higher self. In either case, you're fooled by a negative being.
How appropriate is it for you to act, even knowing in the back of your mind that it is somehow wrong to attack another? Even trying to kill them, because you think it somehow will save the Universe. And you carry the attempt through, despite some reservations? Does a true mental illness have no reservations about doing something?
I can only speak for myself, but at an early age (teenage years), when I was exposed to the supposed Biblical story of some guy sacrificing his son because God demanded it, I thought that was f'ed up and I would never blindly follow anyone, not even God/higher self/anything. But I've always been a rebellious type.
However, I'm sure I could have definitely been fooled into doing something I regret, but it would have to be through another distortion rather than obedience to a superior being.
In conclusion GW, I don't have the answer (or even the beginnings of an answer) to your question at this time.