I've witnessed it in action, too, with one teacher in particular. Impressive, but I truly didn't understand what I was seeing all those many years ago until recently, and then only barely. In the real world I can tune a radio, but I have had much trouble tuning my own inner radio transceiver.
I hate to think what that honestly says about my soul and its progression, but it is what it is. Free will in the hands of the untrained and unsuspecting, doncha know.
Your sharing your experiences have added to my understanding.
(As an aside, I've read somewhere that a prophet is never welcome in his hometown, but have had trouble with that concept, too. Thanks for the demo.)
“Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.”—Colossians 2
“Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.”—Titus 1:13-14
“Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.”—2 John 1:9-11
Prophets without honor...or False prophets without the Truth (or just enough to mimic)? Note Paul’s lambasting of false humility. Note, too, the “Apostle of Love”’s rather mean instructions for dealing with false teachers. What do you wanna bet they had a persecution complex, too?
“In the real world I can tune a radio, but I have had much trouble tuning my own inner radio transceiver.”
Just knowing that you have the ability to do so is a big step in the process. Prayer is the best way to learn the process. Do it not just daily, but always in everything that you do. Prayer leads to meditation where you begin to hear God’s answers to you. When the feeling of Love totally fills your being, time will collapse and you will see the world through a different lens.
When you do pray from your heart and tune your transceiver to a higher level, you become one with the Holy spirit and your conscious awareness expands to the point that you realize that “We seeds of Our Father on earth” are all one.” It does not take years of work, as even the vineyard workers who arrive during the last hour receive the same wages.