Violence
If it's the case that our spirits live in Eternity, then harming one another, even taking a life on the physical plane is in some sense meaningless to the Eternal life force of the other.
So, does that absolve us from any responsibility not to do harm while we inhabit physicality in these incarnate shells? Is it all down to just do whatever we feel like and can get away with among the cultural constraints we find ourselves embedded in (shades of Crowley and Nietzsche)?
I personally can't believe that's true. It feels wrong to me somehow to harm another's physicality, even if in some grander Cosmic sense that has no bearing sub specie aeternitatis.
We (at least most of us I think) don't come here into incarnation on Planet Earth to engage in some sort of sociopathic wish fulfillment. There may be lessons to be had in pursuing that sort of path, but I think they're pretty obvious and uninteresting. Wanton Destruction is always easier than Creation.
All that said, it's in the nature of physicality that pain is inflicted. In some sense injury is unavoidable. The rules of the game of incarnation mean that it often hurts just being here, and encountering each other is risking at very least the pain of loving and loss, of trusting and betrayal.
I think of "Doing Violence" to another as not limited merely to physical injury, it's also psychological and emotional. The breaking of promises, reneging on commitments, failing to make good on an honest debt all take their toll.
One of my favorite authors, Tanith Lee, in her Tales of the Flat Earth, likened doing evil in the world as taking up filth and smearing it upon one's own glimmering garments.
Penelope tells me that when we rejoin our Eternal selves (typically when the physical shell that anchors us here dies), the perspective gained allows the spirit fully to comprehend the harm they did while incarnate; but also the good, and see how both radiate outward from their own single incarnate perspective.
This deep recognition of the role one played in the grand opera can provoke what she called "acts of contrition" by the spirit to atone and compensate for what they did.
My love, it's so important not to get caught up in linear time-based thinking about this. It's quite literally impossible to describe to you fully in human language while you're embedded in physicality/time. Metaphors are the best I can do.
So, does that absolve us from any responsibility not to do harm while we inhabit physicality in these incarnate shells? Is it all down to just do whatever we feel like and can get away with among the cultural constraints we find ourselves embedded in (shades of Crowley and Nietzsche)?
We (at least most of us I think) don't come here into incarnation on Planet Earth to engage in some sort of sociopathic wish fulfillment. There may be lessons to be had in pursuing that sort of path, but I think they're pretty obvious and uninteresting. Wanton Destruction is always easier than Creation.
All that said, it's in the nature of physicality that pain is inflicted. In some sense injury is unavoidable. The rules of the game of incarnation mean that it often hurts just being here, and encountering each other is risking at very least the pain of loving and loss, of trusting and betrayal.
One of my favorite authors, Tanith Lee, in her Tales of the Flat Earth, likened doing evil in the world as taking up filth and smearing it upon one's own glimmering garments.
Penelope tells me that when we rejoin our Eternal selves (typically when the physical shell that anchors us here dies), the perspective gained allows the spirit fully to comprehend the harm they did while incarnate; but also the good, and see how both radiate outward from their own single incarnate perspective.
This deep recognition of the role one played in the grand opera can provoke what she called "acts of contrition" by the spirit to atone and compensate for what they did.
My love, it's so important not to get caught up in linear time-based thinking about this. It's quite literally impossible to describe to you fully in human language while you're embedded in physicality/time. Metaphors are the best I can do.
I'm trying not to apply those preconceptions, to recognize that lifetimes on Earth may follow many paths, and any can be explored.
That is not to say that all paths have equal value for your growth experience, love. Some paths are dead ends, some lead so far afield, or include distractions or irrelevancies that cloud matters to the point that the intent of the incarnation is lost. Exhausting the possibilities is rarely useful.
That is not to say that all paths have equal value for your growth experience, love. Some paths are dead ends, some lead so far afield, or include distractions or irrelevancies that cloud matters to the point that the intent of the incarnation is lost. Exhausting the possibilities is rarely useful.
Penelope has a strong point here. Whilst we're in our meat suits, our current limited, physically sensuous perspective is far too narrow and small to comprehend the actions that play out. Only our spiritual, Infinite Self can comprehend this.
ReplyDeleteSo, relax. once you gain all your senses of your Real Self when you shed your current suit, you'll look on all of your incarnations (past, present & future since there's no linear time) and say to yourself ".... of course, it all worked out perfectly!"
Blessings.
Thank you for the confirmation, it's good to know that other folks out there have come to similar visions of how all this apparent drama within incarnation plays out in Eternity.
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