Automatic Writing -- More Perversion

Taking advice from Carl Jung, Bill W. engaged in a pernicious exercise called "automatic writing."

In this practice, an individual sits down and writes all the thoughts, the trains of thought which come through for an individual.

My mother used this practice many times in order to get ideas on what she needed to do in tough situations. This suggestion is one of the stupidest things that I ever got out of AA.

The counsel of the ungodly is a serious matter. Other than the wisdom of God in His Word, any other set of ideas invites more distortion, dysfunction and confusing into our lives.

Yet the question remains for many believers: how do we receive guidance? The Holy Spirit provides us with all knowledge (John 16: 13)  when we believe that we have been made righteousness by the blood of Jesus:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people" (Hebrews 8: 10)

This inner guidance will is written on the minds and the heart of every believer because:

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 12) With the Holy Spirit, we receive righteousness, peace, and joy (Romans 14: 17), and this peace acts like an umpire, ruling good or bad for every decision that we face in our lives (Colossians 3: 15). He works within us both to will and to do for His good pleasure (Philippians 2: 12-13), and He is ever-working in us even now (Colossians 1: 29)

We must not look to ourselves, for we were dead in our trespasses before Jesus came into our lives (Ephesians 2:1). The last thing that anyone should do when seeking wisdom is to look into ourselves.
Christ is made wisdom for every believer (1 Corinthians 1: 30), and the more that we know Him, the more grace that we receive from Him, the greater our knowledge and guidance in doing what He wills withing us to do.

I hope that whoever reads this post will receive grace and peace in the knowledge that we need no longer run around like little children tossed with every wrong doctrine (Ephesians 4: 14). We do not find our leadings in ourselves, per se, but through Christ in us, who by His Holy Spirit gives us righteousness, peace, and joy, then motivates us to do all things wonderful.