We're all part of God and  He's you too, so how could you hide something He/you already knows ???
L,L&Serenity.
Claudio

ROFLMAO  Brendan, you crack me up.  Of course you're never alone and are ALWAYS observed. You have guide and higher beings around you all the time. However, they are not interested in your sexual activities. They're interested in your spiritual progression.

Now you probably know from being on this board awhile that those souls who are addicted to things such as alcohol, drugs, etc., usually have 'stuck' souls hanging around them trying to get that 'high' again. I'm sure it's the same with sexual perverts. There are probably/could be many 'stuck' souls who are pulled to you to try to get that 'sexual high' again too.  Just my thoughts. 

Love, Mairlyn

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First off, you may wish to further explore your concept of a Creator-God, and your relationship with Him/Her. What exactly is your relationship to such, that is to say, how you *choose* to relate to such, is *determined* entirely by your free will, not by what someone else (eg. a pastor) says.

Secondly, it is not invasion of privacy of your sexual perversions that is the problem, it is your own fear of being judged by others (eg. extraphysicals or 'spirits', or even 'God') that is your problem. And it is not even being judged by others that is your problem, it is you judging yourself, that is the problem.

Thirdly, as to the sexual 'perversions' you perceive you have, first drop the negative emotional associations with the idea of 'perversion' as something 'bad'. It will only get in your way of understanding what this issue really is, and how you can benefit from it. So don't regard them as 'perversions' or something to be ashamed of. They're not. There's never anything to be ashamed of.

Next, understand that by the nature of the intense emotional energies associated with such sexual ideas ('perversions'), it is more than likely that there are intruders involved, that feed on, encourage, suggest more ('perverted' ideas), and (in effect) exacerbate the 'perversion' issue.

But exercising self-responsibility, you understand that intrusion by other (extraphysical) beings, can never be used as an 'excuse' for one issues (if it is, then you are only 'excusing' your own opportunities for learning, for evolution), because intrusion/attachment/possession can only occur when the seeds of the issue are already present (by your free will, your choice, your intentions, your thoughts and emotions) within yourself, and *these* attract the extraphysical intruders.

This is the 'higher purpose' for intrusion/attachment.
http://infinity.hispeed.com/Heart.Of.God/Hilarion/HilarionDiet.html#Intrusion


But most importantly, what can you do now to help yourself? The first step, is to realize that your problem is NOT that of privacy (that is merely a concept, one that is now giving you suffering).

One of your issues is your understanding or concept of God. You will have to explore this for yourself, including a redefinition of 'God' that is meaningful, helpful and (thus) correct for you.

But you have many other issues (issues = opportunities for learning; so the more the merrier, assuming you are *willing* to teach *yourself* and learn from *yourself*, on these issues), such as associated with self-judgement, 'privacy', sexual 'perversions', self-love, sexuality (what all of these mean to *yourself*), etc.

And so, it is not feasible to address each of these separately, and in fact, only *you* can correctly address these for yourself. But only if you can first begin to see these clearly. Clarification, is the key to the begin solving all your (and verily, *everyone's*) issues. If you can't correctly identify what's happening, you can't begin to work on them.

To that end, the perusal of Bryon Katie's work is recommended.

"Loving What Is"
http://infinity.hispeed.com/Heart.Of.God/main.htm#ByronKatie

My post on Byron Katie's "Inquiry Process - a Tool for Clarification" :
http://infinity.hispeed.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1117041145


Take care,
Kyo

A couple more points I wanted to make in this thread....

First, about the privacy issue.  I think it's true that we are being watched all the time, but I don't worry a whole lot about it, because I have done a lot of self-analysis and realize what my own strengths and weaknesses are, and have gotten to a point where I feel I have little to hide.  If God or angels or spirit guides know my worst, dirtiest, darkest secrets... oh well.  I figure that's just life.  There's nothing we can do about it anyway.  One product of my belief in no-true-privacy is that it makes me value honesty more in life, realizing that lying does no good, since nobody in the spirit world believes your lies.  Therefore, since even the living people you're lying to are going to find out the truth when they die, there's really no point at all in lying about anything.

Second, on the demon possession issue.  I wanted to mention that in my own life, I was raised by atheist parents with no religion, and was taught that one's thoughts are private and that it's only the actions that matter.  Therefore, when I hit puberty and began having perverted sexual fantasies, I didn't try to repress my fantasizing because I had no idea that thoughts are important.  I figured that I could think whatever I wanted, and as long as I didn't act on perverted fantasies, it was fine.  How wrong I was!  I became religious when I grew up, and in the past few years of deepening my spirituality I have learned that corrupt thoughts can attract corrupt beings such as demons, earthbound spirits, etc.  At least that's what most religions, NDEs, and others reputable spiritual sources teach.  So, probably when I was younger and I indulged in perverted thoughts, I may have attracted evil beings to myself, without having any idea of what was going on.  I was not raised to believe in such things, but to consider those ideas as foolish superstition.  So, I think God takes such ignorance in consideration when judging a soul.  Since I have deepened my spiritual knowledge, I no longer indulge in perverted fantasies; rather I strive to repress them.  I have noticed that these involuntary thoughts and urges have tended to diminish as I have stopped deliberately thinking about them.  Then again, maybe it's just that I'm not a teenager anymore with the raging hormones and constant boner... who knows. 

Freebird

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How did your imagination get twisted, and why do many other people *not* have a twisted imagination?  Brendan, are you actually saying you sat down one day and said to yourself, "I am going to choose to have such-and-such twisted thought or impulse"?  If not, and the thought or impulse just somehow randomly arrived in your head... guess what -- it has nothing to do with free will.

I can tell you that I personally have had many thoughts and impulses that I did not choose to have.  Of that I am absolutely certain.  They just randomly appeared in my mind, sometimes repeatedly and very strongly, and in many cases were things I really didn't want in my consciousness at all.  The challenge -- and this is where free will and moral responsibility gets involved -- is to resist the bad thoughts and impulses and nurture the good ones, and to only act on the good ones.

If we really are held responsible in the afterlife for every thought that has ever crossed our mind, or every desire or emotion we ever felt... then that's just "New Age Calvinism."  It would mean that some souls are predestined to be judged for personality traits, likes, dislikes, feelings, etc. they didn't voluntarily choose.

I don't believe that for a second.  It would be absurd.  And I definitely am a believer that souls are held accountable for freely chosen thoughts and actions.  The fact is, some things are freely chosen and other things are not.  It's just like the way some people are born gay -- they didn't choose to be attracted to the same gender, it just happened to them.  But if a person goes out and has gay sex, that is an action and that is freely chosen.  See the difference?

Freebird

Freebird, I strongly suspect these perversions
were a result of various ideas, memories, and
other things from my experiences as a child
which coelesced into rather unusual fantasies
during my puberty and teenage years. Add that
to the fact that I've been social garbage since pre-
school, so I was left alone with my thoughts, so
to speak.
So... demon possession, ya think? (And SERIOUSLY,
Freebird? What century are you living in, the 14th?
You make me think of some ignorant, wild-eyed, finger-pointing, louse-infested medieval Inquisitor with your little theory...)

B-man

...don't you see?... the being you call 'god' wants you to be a pervert... he/she/it wants to express creativity and curiosity in Great Unknown through consciousness like you... he/she/it is a pervert too... hahaha... the thing is: you have to have an open mind about things and not to exclude anything after you die... if there is nothing, then there is nothing... and if there IS an afterlife, you will not be lost (if you listen to stories from Bruce Moen, Robert Monroe and others)... (((Q)))