In your life, from inception until now, lots of things have happened to you. You may or may not be aware of them. Until the age of four or five, the cortical brain is not fully matured and can't fully register and remember what happens. But your visceral brain registers everything without your active awareness. Don't make an effort to remember those experiences, for their specifics may not be stored. But the emotions that these experiences generated are registered. And those emotions are your visceral truths.
Emotions are simple and uncomplicated realities. They don't lie. They don't need validation by your mind. The mind is far from simple: it lies, distorts, and conceals. Therefore, in practical living don't ask, "How do I feel about that?" Just feel. Verbalizing the question brings your mind in and intrudes on the visceral experience and alters it.
But visceral truth may benefit from the distilled wisdom of previous godly generations or from the experience of other godly people. Validate visceral truth from the enlightenment of previous generations. In your adult years, sit at the feet of these collective spiritual experiences: they are your sacred teachers. The ultimate validation of what you feel is right and good comes from knowing whether it is on God's side. That, of course, requires your coming of age, reaching real adulthood and knowing God. This age is the age of your spiritually steeled mind-a mind graced by God.
