Hehe. You didn’t even read the whole post before spouting off? Wow. Dude, it’s not that long… why don’t you let us know when you finish reading the “article”. (And I recommend reading the comments too.)

God is all around you. In every moment you are able to act as a revelator to others around you and they are able to act as revelators to you. From such revelators I can tell when the sun is likely to shine, when a participant will fail to turn up for an experiment (I’m a research psychologist), when a talk will go badly, and even when someone is going to die. I have been reassured, I have prayed for help when I thought I was losing my mind (as I feared I was when these things started happening) and had people call me straight away saying ‘I just felt like I really had to ring you!’ Before all that happened I’d never met anyone who had had similar experiences, but suddenly when all these things had happened I met similar people, some who were able to reassure me, others who had failed to trust in what was happening, some who had consulted psychiatrists and been given antipsychotics.

I can ignore it, adn it stops, but it fascinates me and I crave it, so I will it to continue, and for the most part it does. I’ve seen truly amazing and miraculous things, to the extent that I believe that anything is possible.

You want ‘the Lord saith’? The first thought I had that was echoed back to me was ‘we are all Christ’… I opened a book ‘The Golden Bough’ and on the page at which I opened it was a description of the beliefs of heretical early Christian sects, i.e. that anyone can become Christ i.e. divine. That helped me a great deal, because it made me feel like the things that were happening to me were possible, or at least other people had believed them possible. As far as I am concerned what I was told, and have been told continuously, is that we are all Christ.

The question that I have dedicated my life to answering is how human beings become prophets… and the question that has been posted above… is it necessary or desirable that we do. I know that when I was going through my most acute phase of ‘connection’ it seemed absolutely imperative, nothing else was more important than that I helped other people achieve this.

But perhaps it would be too much for some? It is certainly difficult at times. And right now I often feel confused, and don’t understand, and if anyone else has been through similar things to myself and thinks they could help, I would very much appreciate any guidance, because as it is, I have never met anyone who has had as direct experience as myself.

As it is I have since realised that simply by being with other people I awake something in them, and I have watched the people close to me change in some cases dramatically. My best friend, in fact, who was diagnosed as bipolar when she was younger, went through a similar experience to myself, and was able to trust the things that were happening to her because I had already gone through them.

Does anyone know how to experience these things apart from through love? I believe that it was love coupled with a heightened inner sense that awoke these things in me. For me it was necessary to learn to trust my instincts, even if they are counterintuitive or just plain bizarre… just see where they take you.

How do you know a prophet is a prophet? Only when you are one. Only when you are actuated by the same Spirit. And that’s the way you prove the prophetic mantle and how it applies to you.

Said the Prophet Joseph Smith after one of the most revelatory meetings in his life, “There was nothing made known to these men [the Twelve] but what will be made known to all the Saints of the last days, so soon as they are prepared to receive” (Teachings, p. 237). This is the religion of every man. Not “Take my word for my experience,” but “Duplicate it in your own life.” How far do I go with this? All the way.

Let me then come to a close. I have hiked, with my wife and at night, all the way from the base of what is known as Mt. Sinai to the top. (Incidentally, with a very sore toe. Climbing hurts, and the more you climb, sometimes the more it hurts.) We went up to where the air is thinner and the veil thinner. There isn’t time to describe the feeling, but we were able to recollect that Moses, there, had face-to-face communion with God. He came back down and said to the children of Israel, in the name of the God whose name he knew, “Now, you are invited to go back up with me.”

And they said, “Thank you. No. That’s for prophets. That’s for people who are a bit fanatical. We will stay here and you go up, Moses.”

In his absence they built an idol. The power of religious impulses goes in many directions. They built an idol–a thing–and were denied the privileges of Moses (D&C 84:23­25). That is what our generation is now doing again. We are staying down below and then claiming superiority for our judgment in doing so.

– Devotional address given at Brigham Young University on 20 September 1994.