Charles, I think that so much of our spiritual development is the result of our life experience and interaction with others. You say that you feel that you are being led, and no doubt you are, especially when you consider “external events that eerily correspond with internal thoughts and feelings”. Being inducted into new patterns of desire is so much about the recognition of the other. So is God communicating with you through these external events and even perhaps through persons with whom there is little affinity?
