Fenn would emphasize the importance of worship as a precursor to many (but not all) of his spiritual encounters. Saint Faustina similarly often encountered Jesus during worship or “adoration” and even Steiner talked about cultivating a “devotional mindset” as a helpful, if not utterly necessary, component and practice of attaining “spiritual vision” or “being in the spirit” as Fenn would describe it. What can Creator tell us about the necessity or helpfulness of worship, and whether it’s for Creator’s benefit, or the seekers? Many fundamentalist Christians sincerely believe that a period of worship is a necessary precursor to prayers that “get answered” and don’t regard it as “optional.” What is Creator’s perspective?

What this represents is a somewhat naïve but authentic mentoring of others about how many have been successful in receiving divine communication through certain religious practices that are thought of as devotion, lengthy prayer, and so on. The reason for this was sound but the understanding of the workings of the mind and of consciousness, in a larger sense, have been lacking throughout history. The reason that strong devotion figures in for the eventual emergence of a greater sensing of divinity and its presence is twofold. First, there must be a sufficient belief quotient, both in the divine and in the self. So if one has devoted themselves in earnest to a recognition and a passion for being one with God—heart, mind, body, and soul—that will cultivate greater belief, it will also reassure and comfort the worshiper that they are doing all that is humanly possible to be a good follower of the divine, and thus worthy of divine attention and an eventual outreach they are seeking to happen, and that is why it has been a prescription for success. The other component is that prayer, in particular, has been designed and described quite accurately as a way to quiet the conscious mind and allow the subconscious to emerge more into the foreground in a kind of meditative state. This favors the experiencing of phenomena through nonlocal consciousness, the intuitive reach. It is only through your intuition that the divine can truly speak to you. It is a very faint awareness that will seem like one's own thoughts and never a voice from on high unless augmented in some way by the mind itself chiming in to add emphasis in some fashion, because a part of the mind is wanting to prevail and push that agenda forward on your behalf, but that will not be the divine directly. The divine is always gentle and following your invitation, and never stepping out boldly in front to lead, but all this speaks to the need for preparation, for readiness, and a basic understanding of how to go about gaining control of your own consciousness to achieve the right state of awareness that will favor a divine communication being sensed. We will always hear your thoughts no matter what, that is not the issue, but it is the meditative state facilitated by prayer that gives you the greatest chance of getting some kind of message, if only a sense of inner peace or a good feeling of happiness, and a kind of relief from knowing God is with you in the moment and reassuring you everything will be fine, and that will be a real phenomenon, and this is why people believe it, because they feel it as a genuine actuality and not a figment of their imagination or wishful thinking. This is the wisdom in what people have been taught about prayer through the ages, to close the eyes, which reduces extraneous stimulation that prompts conscious thoughts encouraging the mind to drift and be distracted. That inner focus and doing so in a quiet setting, in silence, again removes auditory distractions. Clasping the hands together has a true physical consequence energetically, because it creates a kind of closure between the two palms coming together, and thus creates a kind of circuit, so your body and your arms provide a kind of antenna for the better receipt of consciousness by the body that might be perceived through conscious awareness under the right circumstances. So that practice taught as a kind of reverence, as humbling the self, as with bowing the head or prostrating oneself and touching the ground with one's forehead, do focus one's purpose to the task at hand of communing with the divine in closing off the outer world and its distractions. So all of that is not needed for our benefit, but for yours, to increase the ability to feel our presence intuitively, and, with sufficient belief on your end of things, we can oblige you, at least on occasion.