[GtmFeqJJ]

the thread on et mentorship was beginning to get off course with my latest post, so i wanted to begin another thread where the concepts could be hashed out in greater detail without detracting from the other thread.


posted by bobfitz

sorry, but i don't buy it.
ignorance is passed down generation after generation and ruthlessly enforced until it is a foregone conclusion that the status quo is accepted.

don't tell me a child born into 15th generation poverty is to blame for being poor. and please spare me the claim that we should all naturally reject every norm of our upbringing. it's a galactic cop out.

we turn our heads from kids starving in india just like our "advanced brothers" let us twist for 13,000 years while they debated whether we were worth all the trouble. blame the victim? really? i guess we're not all that different from advanced races after all.

it's an extremely hard and harsh pill to swallow, that in the end we are personally responsible for the suffering and anguish in the world. none the less, that's a truth.

first lets take a look at the idea that the universe is a fractal universe. what does that mean? it means that even the smallest part is a reflection of the whole. as it's been stated before if you take a holigram and break it up, the smaller pieces still have the image in it's entirety, even down to the smallest fleck.

what you see in the world, the evil and the injustice are just reflections of our inner selves. we are to blame for sending out the frequencies that were required to be reflected back at us.

how am i responsible for a starving child in a third world country? well on several different levels i am responsible. for one, i support a government that does not enforce fair trade for the corporations that exist within it's boundaries. companies buy from the cheapest they can find, which is often those third world countries where food can be manufactured for pennies a day due to the fact that families are working for a fraction of that just to make ends meet. i don't always buy fair trade goods myself, they are more expensive and so there i am responsible as well. third, i turn a blind eye to their plight. knowing there are starving children somewhere and knowing i can make a difference, i am too wrapped up in my own problems to offer that help. and those are just ways i'm responsible on a physical dimension.

energetically, i radiate fear about lack of abundance. why can't i afford fair trade goods? cause i can only see money coming in from the sources i know and trust.. job, obligations, etc. i have not yet broken myself out of that paradigm of fear of lack, though i am working on it. every time i stress and fear about not having enough money to cover my bills, i send out a vibration that the starving child is a reflection of. the starving child would not exist if we did not need it to exist for us to see something in ourselves.

every time you get cut off in traffic and feel rage and hatred, every time you feel jealous of some one at work or in your social circle, every time you feel you must control or manipulate some one for their own good, the world reflects that back at you. negative emotions come from fear. every time you fear you send out that vibration and the world gives you exactly what you want. we fear we have no power, so we give it to some one else. we fear there is not enough so the ones in power enforce a system where there are finite resources we must compete over. we fear death so there is a system in place that reflects that in the actions of the illuminati plotting to destroy us. the universe is fair and unbiased. it gives you what you ask for time and time again. if you fear, it reinforces that fear for you, if you love then you begin to receive loving vibrations instead.

in the end, we are responsible. we are waking up to this fact which is why things are changing but we still have a ways to go.

[Z2sc8gEz]

thank you for moving this dialog to a new thread. ;-)

i don't disagree with anything you are saying. but, i don't think you addressed my question from the other post.

i understand how we are responsible for creating negative aspects to our existence and how our negativity can do harm to others. lord knows, we exercise our freedom to turn away from the ugliness of exploitation everyday.

here's the part i question:
are you saying that a starving child accepted an "offer of enslavement" the day he was born? or, that a human (who is not taught the way the universe works) has asked to be enslaved by a being who possesses knowledge and chooses to exploit the uninformed?

in my opinion, if a person is acting with complete or partial information and chooses to be subservient, that's one thing. if a person has no information (or even the slightest inkling that such information exists) and is victimized as a result, the situation is hardly an exercise in free will. blaming the victim in the second scenario is the part i don't buy into.

i suppose it's possible that we make a choice to be exploited before we incarnate because we want to experience the harsh lessons. if so, the beings that exploit us are simply fulfilling our requests. however, it's equally possible that our choices are being interfered with by some unsavory characters who don't have the right or permission.

maybe given our track record on this planet, we're getting all the "help" we deserve. maybe given the track record of others on this planet, we can use a little 3rd party information and guidance to help us along the path.

[Cogebrego]

hi ewhaz,

firstly, i applaud your post, you put your points across both spiritually and eloquently and i thank you for this.

what you see in the world, the evil and the injustice are just reflections of our inner selves. we are to blame for sending out the frequencies that were required to be reflected back at us. so true and may i add that much of the time, we do this on a subconscious level. we constantly send out signals, good or bad, either one creating some type of manifestation,

looking through the rest of your post, i feel like commenting on each segment because of the quality of what you have said, particularly due to the fact that it just resonates well with me. this moment i have decided not to, mainly because i would not want to spoil your words!

whether we like it or not, we are all responsible for the way our life here has been manipulated and controlled. without going off thread, (well i will try!) lets say an et came into our living room now. if that et asked "well you saw these terrible injustices happen, what did you do?" you, i and most other people would have to say, nothing. you speak your truth when you say you do not always buy fair trade goods (good on you for being honest) and the very fact you state in all honesty you turn a blind eye as you are too wrapped up in your own problems, which ultimately adds to the plight of these children who are starving.

in my opinion my friend, you have managed to echo something which is in all of us. you have (and i do hope i have not mis-understood your post in any way) laid bare, by your own admission, your own feelings on some very sensative issues. i do not know whether you spent a long time in writing your post or perhaps the words came out easily; what i can say is this - every now and again i come across a post which speaks to me on a very deep soul level. yours did that.

i thank you again for it and i hope many people will read it and see a reflection of themselves in your words. i know i did.

one final thing to say on this - with knowledge comes great responsibilty, knowing that our thoughts and intentions can change the world. they can change the world for better or for worse. a simple choice to make really, for better or for worse. its simply a matter of choice. we all have the power of thought, just use it wisely.

love, light and peace to you all,

matt

[GtmFeqJJ]

thank you all for your responses!

bobfitz
i understand where your coming from. it's hard to think that some how a person who is hurt is some how responsible for it on some level. it's easy to accept the laws of attraction when some one has good luck or good prosperity, but when some one is hurt or killed we stand up and say 'that's not fair!' . unlike us, the universe is fair, it gives us exactly what we want and need at the time.

it is the illusion of duality that creates our disparaging opinion when we see some one hurt or harmed in some way. through the law of one we realize that these things are neither good nor bad, they just are. our bodies are tangible but temporary. our soul is what exists and is beyond any ability to harm.

so when we see some child sitting in a grotto, bones exposed, crying without tears and sick and nearly dying, it is our ego that jumps into our throats and declares that some thing must be done. it is that same ego that looks for the culprit, who was responsible, who created the system were a child is allowed to suffer and die?

but if we take a step back into the soul, this is just another one of many beautiful experiences by which we learn and grow. in one life time that child may have been a prince who's every wish and desire hand been fulfilled a thousand times over. his every whim fulfilled and now he seeks to round out his experience by using yet another extreme. we can't see the whole picture, so again when we see the seeming injustice we feel that something must be done and that the child couldn't have possibly wanted or allowed it to happen.

it's hard to accept that we are personally responsible for our own situations when something horrible happens. it is our ego that decides weather one situation is better than another. our ego looks at some one winning the lottery and declares 'oh how lucky they are!' and looks at the bum begging for money on the side of the street and goes 'how pitiful' and yet, i have met some happy people in my time and some of them lived off the streets and the good will of others. we are only seeing one side of the story while down here. there are levels within levels. ask yourself, who would you serve if every there were no longer any poor sick or hungry? we who are service to others are indebted to those who require help because they give us the opportunity to experience our path and grow by it. they also help us by reflecting our inner selves back at us, our fears and the dark parts of our souls. so, as you can possibly see, they are not simply victims but part of a greater picture where we are all one soul experiencing the illusion of being separate.

one last idea to help explain this. let's say god stood up one day and out of curiosity he decided to split himself in two. one was god, the other the devil. the devil spat and slapped god in the face, sneered and ridiculed him. god stood there shocked for a moment and then smiled as both merged once again into a single being. "hmm, that was interesting" he said to himself as he walked off into the distance.

now i ask you, who sinned against god? himself? who has sinned against you yourself (who is also god)? is it the illuminati (who is also god)who wishes and has tried to enslave and harm us?

matthew

i still remember the feeling i got when it really clicked that i was responsible for all the wickedness, evil and sorrow in the world. i felt overwhelmed. its hard to come to that conclusion in the midst of 3rd density and not feel overwhelmed.

i would get caught into a loop of thought "life sucks.." then come back with "yea, but i'm the one who put me here." it can be depressing if your not quite ready for it.

so i do what i can and forgive myself when i can't. i forgive myself for not trying hard enough, or being enlightened enough to have the abundance to save those less fortunate or being able to increase my vibration to the point all hatred and malice is washed away from the world in a loving pulse of light. i'm doing the best i can and that's all any one can ever hope to do.

[prearpaccew]

we choose our situation prior to incarnation.

the lessons learned by being poor or impoverished are the lessons required for catalytic activation of particular understandings sought by the particular entity.

we choose to experience that which we require so that we might continue moving forward in our soul evolution. whether those lessons are learned or not is a matter of free will, placing ourselves into a situation where we could experience such things was a matter of free will, choosing to stay in the situation or move beyond it is matter of free will.

i was born into a poor family with many brothers and sisters, i lived a life on both sides of the razor. for a time in my life i had more money than i knew what to do with, for a time in my life i was homeless and begging on the streets.

each of these experiences provided needed catalyst in order to solidify particular understandings. once the lesson was learned then the situation no longer offered any unpotentiated energy for me to grow upon, thus i moved into a new situation with a new set of trials.

many great people came from less than ideal circumstances. the only interference is that which you allow into your life. regardless of types of physical interference, there is no way to interfere with the soul that is directed and empowered.

these are my thoughts.

[Thifiadardivy]

:dear enkidu,

you wrote the words of wisdom, "in the end it is all very simple. just let it go".

we have a free will, thus we are responsible of our own choices,

we have chosen certain events, experiences in our lives prior to our incarnations, and during our incarnation,
the "stars and planets" give us guidelines, possibilities, inclinations,
there is the faith and destiny,
but the are certain currents in our lives, and our world and galaxy,
that are not within our powers,
or in our capacity to understand.

no matter how desperate is the situation, we still have our free will.
we can walk away.

like you enkidu " for a time i have had some money, and even friends, but for a few times i have been homeless without any money or power." and why ?, maybe ,as you wrote

" each of these experiences provided needed catalyst in order to solidify particular understandings. once the lesson was learned then the situation no longer offered any unpotentiated energy for me to grow upon, thus i moved into a new situation with a new set of trials. "

or " regardless of types of physical interference, there is no way to interfere with the soul that is directed and empowered."

thank you,
anne cat

[Thifiadardivy]

dear ewhaz,

you are a great intellectual man, thoughtful, and wise,
but your words may well be taken as intellectual arrogance.

why do we need to talk about " child sitting in a grotto, bones exposed, crying without tears and sick and nearly dying", or is the life, lives next door so dull, boring and useless,
that we do not even notice it? or is it too close, so close that we might even feel guilty of not doing anything? not acting responsible and spiritual way?

you wrote " in one life time that child may have been a prince who's every wish and desire had been fulfilled a thousand times over. his every whim fulfilled and now he seeks to round out his experience by using yet another extreme."

so, using the same law,
if you are in this life "enlightened soul", "wise, intellectual, gentle",you will seek in your next incarnation in order " to round your experience" to be born in poor, brutal, aggressive family in retarded body in warzone ?

and you asked
" who would you serve if every there were no longer any poor sick or hungry? "

my answer is none. i do not serve myself and i do not serve anyone else.
there is just life.
there is no need to use others as "stepping- stones" in one's enlightenment.

anne (cat)

[Thifiadardivy]

[quote=ewhaz;


what you see in the world, the evil and the injustice are just reflections of our inner selves. we are to blame for sending out the frequencies that were required to be reflected back at us.]

i do not buy that.
there is no way that you can make me believe that i have created all that i see.
i do not believe in "original sin".

(or if i have created all that "evil", so being "the evil" i should kill myself, and the all evil is gone ? right ? (please,do not try that home!)

~
let me give an example of my own life, what happened the past week.

one and half years ago i moved to this neighbourhood. the lady next door was a single mom with two children like me. they had two cats that they neglected, if negligence is taken as leaving the cats for days outdoors without shelter, food etc. not taking the cats to the vet when needed, putting makeup on cats, treating them as "toys" etc.

during the first week, the lady next door said, that the people who lived in our house before us used to feed their other cat. so, we took it us a hint to do the same.

so, we fed both their cats every day for one and half years, they slept on our beds, there was always a window open for them to come in 24hours, and when the lady next door did not want to waste her little money on vet, when one of her cats hurt its leg, i volunteered to pay the vet feed and took the cat to the vet.

then came the day that they had to move out. my children heartbroken, when they took the first cat. the other cat was good at hiding, until last sunday she came out of our house, and they managed to get him from his tail.

i asked them nicely and politely to take good care of the cats, feed them as we had done for past 18 months, and not to leave them out in the rain for days.

so, was it my inner "evil self" that was reflected back to me,
when the very next day i was twice attacked by my ex neighbour calling me
"evil woman, sly and thief " ?

what was my crime ? thought of planning to keep the cats?

i did not say even one word, and i did not even look back when she ran after me calling all those names, shouting to the world my "evil self". (in the end i had to talk to the policeofficer.)

~
ewhaz, i do honestly believe that at times we can act as mirrors to others.

i hold the mirror to my neighbour, she saw herself, and in fear of her own image, she attacked me, not being responsible...it is part of cleansing process, life.

anne (cat)

[lierro]

you live in a world where one can easily live a life of luxury and lavishness in this country. this is a direct effect of the exploitation of the starving children, men and women, in the third world, that represent 1/5th of out population. we live in a world where if one of these countries refuse to play along with these corporations game plan's, their leaders are assassinated by the cia. all of this culminates so that a few wealthy men can control the world, and you can shop at walmart, sip lattes at starbucks. own a car a house multiple t.v.'s and just about any form of material pleasure you can think of. don't you think it's possible that your higher self chose this life as a catalyst for foregoing you egoic desires, looking past the world directly infront of your eyes and gazing at the picture. then to make the decision to fulfill your deepest desire and serve others.

[Longwow]

boy! and wow!

some real different takes on spiritual life being expressed in this thread!

i can only offer a couple of little nibbles around the edges.

first, according to the loo, this third dimension is not one of understanding.
in fact it is pointed out that understanding this limiting feature of the third is absolutely essential for one's graduation to a higher density.

we are advised not to unilaterally judge the life of others -- or even ourselves -- as we are not in a position to fully understand what is taking place in spiritual levels outside/beyond the conscious mind. of course this does not mean that we are to blandly ignore obvious injustices.

evil -- as negative polarity vs positive -- is a necessary catalytic component added to this particular spot in the 3rd density cosmos. (the idea of an original sin as presented in the christian theology does not apply) note: evil is not synonymous with the concept of sin... evil is disorder, sin is rebellion against god. (since all is one, god cannot logically rebel against itself)

free will...a much misleading/misunderstood term! ( search the archives for some in-depth discussion of what it is -- and what it is not) a more accurate term is that of self-determinism. the point of distinction is that one remains self-determined even if deprived of physical freedom.

our job description ... to explore all potentialities. the cosmic plan is to gain wisdom through information gained by the experience of diversity within unity. (you, me, diversity; humankind, unity)

end result: all is finally reconciled ...the all cannot throw any of its parts away. ( there is no trash can in creator/creation.)

getting help from et's: this world is a do-it-yourself-project. we do get limited mentoring through such as the ra material. the idea of sitting down with et entities and picking their brains ad librium seems eventually counterproductive to what i pick up from the ra. if one has his/her yellow brick roadwork gratuitously done by another it doesn't last. one has to come back later to put the needed bricks in place a second time. and this would also hold true for civilizations and planetary socio-memory complexes also. (look what went wrong following the help provided in the ancient past by the ra. seems a cosmic law that "no good deed goes unpunished")

ok. that is my two yen-bits contribution to the thread. please keep in mind that even though i serve as a moderator (jr. class) my thinking is often flawed and sometimes in need of moderation itself, so to speak... just throw away what doesn't resonate ....best, bbb :d

[GtmFeqJJ]

annecat

first let me say that no one is required to believe as i do. if anything i say does not resonate with you, then feel free to disagree and be happy with your own point of view! i would not want to in any way influence your free will by requiring that you accept and believe the same as i do. that is not my intention. as i post, i explore my own position on the subject and entertaining the possibilities.it is as much an intellectual excessive as it is a statement of my personal beliefs.

that being said, i cannot tell you what to think about the situation with your neighbor. i can however explore the option by putting myself in your shoes and explaining it from my own perspective.

as the neighbor ignored the cats, i might wonder at myself "what have i ignored? what is it that i've often said to myself 'leave it for some one else' when i knew i had the power to do something and make a difference?"

i would also think to myself, what opportunities are being offered here? one of my mantra's is 'there are no obstacles, only opportunities' or as the law of one put it, these are catalysts for growth. so, i could use this lady to help expand my understanding of patience and how we are all part of the whole. i would try to look at the necessity of feeding the felines as a opportunity for service.

as the neighbor went away and took their cats with them, i would wonder why they are no longer needed in my own life. where one door closes, another opens. perhaps a greater chance of service some where down the line, or perhaps it is a chance to sit back and reflect and grow from the experience, a time of needed rest.

as the woman would call me names and accuse me of some irrational sin, i would wonder to myself 'who have i falsely accused in the past? has there been judgment in my thoughts of other people. who can i see myself calling evil, sly and a thief? often these thoughts come without knowing it, we pass them along thought forms as we go through the day. some one cuts us off in traffic, or says something unkind and we respond, not in external words but internal ones. have i called myself a thief, evil, sly? where is the judgment coming from? when the woman took the cats and dogs, did i think the same thing, that she was evil, sly and a thief of my good will and effort? maybe she stole the time i took to care for the cat, maybe i thought her sly by claiming ownership only after it was all said and done, maybe i thought her evil because she did those things when obviously the cat would be better in my own care and took it because of selfish reasons.

i would use this as an opportunity to learn and forgive myself, even if i don't understand it fully how she is a reflection of my own inner self. as bbb put it, this dimension isn't about understanding, we don't even get to get that until the 5th dimension and we are barely going into the 4th of unconditional love. in the end, these are just experiences. it's when we give them emotional weight that we try to resolve them by trying to find who is to blame. i remember when i point my finger at any one, the old adage is that there are always four pointed back at myself.

bbb

thank you for reminding me of that little fact. that we are not required to understand our circumstances just yet, but rather simply accept and love ourselves in stead. the third density is one of society, learning and growing together and yet separately. the forth density into which we are going is one of unconditional love, so all we are required to do is to learn to accept and love ourselves where that will be refined in the experiences of the coming years in fourth density. only until 5th density will we begin to understand the lesons we gleaned from this lifetime, and by that time it will be a social memory complex that we glean our lessons from. so, hypothetically speaking, since we still see ourselves as individuals and not as single social entity, there would simply be no way to comprehend all the issue surrounding this personal experience. all we can do is love.

[prearpaccew]

ahh billybob,

looks as though you have been working quite a bit with the loo since i last heard from you. it is pleasant to see. you have a very keen understanding of the work, in as far as "understanding" can take place of course. ; )

the concept that we cannot understand what is actually taking place on a spiritual level, based on the physical events in the lives of others (i.e. starving children ) poses an interesting quandary for one to approach.

if this lifeplan (physical trauma) was to be used as an important tool with which to evolve and educate on a soul level, then "ending hunger" would be detrimental to the spiritual growth of a number of entities.

unless, of course, it was part of another individuals spiritual growth, and an agreed upon contract./contact, for them to intervene in the lives of the starving thus, altering their situations, thus teaching a different but also sought after lesson.

to know when it is/is not ones place to "interfere" in the life and lesson of another is a difficult concept and one that is not easily (or at all) understood from within this physical manifestation.

so many unanswered questions. the depth of which can actually make my brain fall out of my head from time to time...

in the end, as you mentioned:

questioner: i am assuming that it is not necessary for an individual to
understand the law of one to go from the third to the fourth density. is
this correct?

ra: i am ra. it is absolutely necessary that an entity consciously realize it
does not understand in order for it to be harvestable. understanding is not
of this density.

the law of one, book i, session 16, pg 164

keep it up my friend.

[Thifiadardivy]

thank you "ewhaz" for replying.

intellectual discussion is always most refreshing.

i do agree with you that what ever happens to you can offer a needed
"catalysts for growth."

trust me that i have done a lot of soul searching asking myself, "am i evil" "am i sly",
" am i thief" ?.

i could become " a thief" if i would go and " steal " the cats back, as we know where they moved...
i might be " sly" and "evil", as i have learned in this country, wales uk, to bite my sharp tongue, hide my thoughts, and not be that brutally honest that i have been, and all that is eating me inside, making me to avoid contact with other people.
so, as i have that weakness of being most responsible people, i cannot stand weak, lousy, shallow, ignorant people, who act stupid way, and raise another generation of "loosers".

yes, i had many inner judgement against my neigbour, her way of living, using people, having double face, raising her children. i kept her on the other side of the fence. (as my children begged me never to invide her or her children in our house, as then we would not get rid of them. my children know me too well. i care too much, i take other people 's problems my own, the healer in me.)

but, i am happy that she attacked me in the end, as i am sure that she saw her own "irresponsibility", and she was ashamed of her own behaviour.

so, i have that funny way, that whatever happens in my inner world, has its counterpart in the physical world. this time there were "a blockage" in the bathroom. when the neighbour finally left, i had to be the plumber and clean the blockage in our bathroom, and now the water is running...(when i divorced ten years ago, and we were fighting, speaking our minds out, our both toilets were flooding because of the blockages, all the time!)

you wrote: ". where one door closes, another opens. perhaps a greater chance of service some where down the line,"

yes, last sunday evening 9pm, three days ago, there was a knock on our front door.
there was a man with a kitten, our ex neigbour had told him that we love cats, and that night his girlfriend, partner had left him, leaving him alone with a baby and nine week old kitten, and he was going to throw the kitten out on her own.
so, now we have a kitten, and i am not happy about that, but i let my children to keep her/the kitten as my daughter is going to have her birthday in two week...

anne cat

[gugqgbyzlp]

i am sorry but i skipped the threads, i only respond to the first post.

i truly agree that we are responsible. we've created this, so we can know ourselfes as the one infinite creator. this universe is the one infinite creator.

when you truly work - you make progress towards - equal rights for all. that includes helping the poor people being born poor.

the paradoxal thing about us and our higher selfes and other et's (inside and outside) is that we all co-exist. and as david says, we're part of the grand plan of the universe. that is to make us into a universe. for me the last call is to end the life for all who won't change from egoism to love. they are cancer, and we must remove thoose part. for an analogy compare to over indulging in food. or drinking to much water, that will result in death. anything can kill you. even the idea that we're all separate. that is the endgame for the most negative and it will become a source of inspiration instead. not real but still real. that's what i would like to call fantasy.

if we take a look at the mathematics we can see that our creation is based on harmony and what is harmony if not love. we are god and we are the devil.

we need balance between egoism and love. i do my best to seek ways of helping other people. my main goal is getting a new idea about money into peoples minds, and its spreading.

i know about 2012 and what will happen. but i still live in the now and do what i feel is best right now. and right now we're seeing worldwide financial crashes. thoose crashes are opportunitys to reform the economic system.

david wilcock is doing what he needs to do, but we all have the same influence as him. annyone who reads this is here to help. cause we're all responsible for our lifes. don't mind what people think of the future, mind what they think of the now. help people see the positivity in the moment.

the positivte side for me is that its so obvious that governments can create money out of air like the banks do, and help the people. todays money is created when someone is indebted. if money instead was made to represent work, then it would be a whole other game.

its that simple, contemplate it and your mind will expand.

lots of love!
- enivid

[Dumpishchaism]

spreading the word of self suffiecent energy is a great idea, i brought up the idea to a few people and it is interesting the response you get. they don't believe its even possible. but it is and gave them a link on youtube of a self running generator that runs on 900 watts that could run a house. they are still in disblief, but the question that ponders the mind is why are we ruining this planet when there is so much better ways to save the planet. it is such a waste and its all based on greed. this whole economy was built to fail, because of greed and hoarding. people who only think of themselves are bound to fail in the end.

also would like to ad that i may not have the right words all the time for many of you guys to not understand, but that doesn't matter i don't think. but this still ain't going to stop posting if thats ok. :d

love and light

[GtmFeqJJ]

i had been continuing the idea of responsibility.

in my own life, i've spoken of the issue i had of feeling responsible and thus feeling bad because i had contributed to the wrongs in the world through my own negative feelings/thoughts/actions etc.

however, that i figured out is guilt. guilt is feeling as if you've done wrong and thus are going to be punished for it. guilt and regret both lead to feeling powerless in life and we cannot move if we feel guilty. it also leads to us wanting to appease the wronged party, to pay for the wrongdoing through some act of punishment or penance. however, guilt and punishment do not address the issue at hand. they do not fix what's wrong, they only supposedly pay for the wrong doing.. and in actuality it doesn't really pay to the wronged party does it?

a man robs a house. he gets caught and goes to jail. the insurance pays for the broken doors and windows and anything that goes missing or damaged. the owner of the house pays insurance in order to protect is property and goods from losses. now who's paying the man for his losses? do you see the thread? its only him who pays! after the insurance covers his losses, he gets a bump in his rates. the insurance company comes out the winner despite having to pay out a small sum in order to replace the damaged goods.

the local crime rate goes up so any new insuree's end up in a quandary, they end up paying higher rates too. the insurance company seems to profit from crime rather than to prevent it. what if the criminal was held responsible for the damage that he's done? now, due to the law of one we cannot force him to do it, but what if we gave him the option? now instead of being punished, he's able to choose to be put through a system that helps repair the damage that he's done. maybe he helps the owner by telling him what he can do to prevent further thefts.. or maybe help the neighborhood improve by cleaning/rebuilding. what if the insurance company only got paid if they helped prevent crime instead of paying for it. responsibility is about being proactive instead of reactive.

guilt and punishment never solve the problem, they simply create a system where we feel we must pay to some higher power for the wrongs we've done to the people when in fact if we take responsibility instead, we correct the problem where it starts.

think of the healing that could take place if a murderer helped a family heal from their loss. what would he learn by seeing the grief he's caused and taking responsibility for it. now instead of the punishment taking him away from the problem and simply being removed from society, he's instead put in a position where he can nolonger hurt any one but must face his own demons and help fix the problem.

obviously there are issues with this idea, but i think everyone can get the jist of what i mean. we need to stop feeling guilty and start being responsible. if you break something, fix it. if you hurt some one, help heal them. don't go overboard and say swear yourself to serve them for the rest of their lives, no.. that's guilt speaking, that's punishment for wrong doing. its about taking responsibility rather than being guilty and heaping shame and judgment upon yourself.

just my two cents.

[GtmFeqJJ]

i had an interesting thing happen to me this morning and i figured it might be worthy to share.

recently i relocated from arizona to california in order to be closer to my wife's part of the family. my father in law was gracious enough to let us stay in his old home rent free for the time being as he relocated with his new wife in her home.

with me, i brought my cat and my wife's cat. the house itself already had 3 other cats there as well bringing the total to 5 in the house. they are not restricted and can roam freely, but they do come inside for food and comfort.

my cat was a gentle cat and very peaceable, misbehaving only in small but predictable ways.

recently after moving in, i caught her 'marking' or spraying in my office. this wasn't a squat and diddle, it was a tail raised 'this is my territory' activity. she has also taken to chasing the other cats out of the house on occasion. now keep in mind that she never did this before, even with 2 other cats in the house in our previous location.

i was flustered and angry, the heavy scent was polluting my room and i worked diligently to keep it clean of any offensive odors. on one level i was angry at my cat, on another i began thinking about what this was reflecting back at me.

i read a lot about the new world agenda and try to stay abreast of their plans. my patriotic side was trying to wake up and demand that i do something, anything to stop 'them'. i was becoming angry and fearful, feeding into the energy paradigm that brought them about in the first place. it was very much a 'me vs them' situation.

getting back to my feline, the same situation was going on, she felt threatened by the other cats in the house and felt she had to 'step it up' in order to protect her comfort zone. she tried to mark her territory in order to protect herself from feeling crowded by these other cats.

so i began to work on my 'me vs them' situation, telling myself 'there is nothing to fight against'. truly there isn't. all the external drama is part of our internal disharmony, so in order to change the world, be the change you wish to see, change your mind.

my cat had been improving and i hadn't seen any evidence of marking or the offensive odor any more. i was happy and began to allow my feline back into my office, even watching her co exist with other felines in the room at the same time.

everything was fine until this morning. on face book there are applications/games you can be a part of. unfortunately a few of them encourage fighting amongst your friends and strangers, the whole survival of the fittest and mob mentality. i chose to play a few dealing with vampire themes. good fun and all and it gave me an avenue to explore my desire to fight back, get revenge and protect myself. this morning, i logged on to check my messages only to find that some one had attacked me not once, not three or five times but some 20 times over the last couple days. every time they attack you, they take a portion of your 'money' with them. it occurred to me that i was being 'farmed' for money and this angered me. where as i had been letting multiple attacks go without reciprocating, this was above and over the top so i instantly wandered over to the hit list and put them up for the maximum amount allowed. there, that'll learn'em!

a few minuets later, my cat promptly walks in, turns tail and sprays my book case and runs out. some lessons are hard to learn i guess. where as i was angry with her before, i am now grateful for helping me to see the truth behind it all.

[alexbookhyip]

ewhaz

letting go of conflict and my desire to see justice done has been a challenge for me, but i feel i am making progress in this regard. there are three methods that are very helpful to me.

first is incorporating intentional, directed love into my meditation. this was introduced to me as metta meditation, though i've since seen the concept incorporated into different kinds of practices. simply put: love thy enemy. for example, focus on love in your heart and then apply it directly a specific person who angers you. this is very cleansing and liberating for me.

second, i was introduced to the turn around technique. take a statement: "this person is trying to hurt me." then turn it around: "this person is trying to help me." then feel with your heart which feels true and truer. go further and apply the statements to yourself: "i am trying to hurt myself." and "i am trying to help myself." reflect on all the statements and feel which are true and truer. i feel constriction in my heart ease when i exercise this technique.

finally, when faced with deep conflict, i focus on the light alternative instead of the dark aspect of the current situation. for example, when i think about financial control and our government, i used to focus my energy on what was being covered up and lied about. then, i focused on proactive investigation of the fed. eventually, i moved my focus to how much better life will be when we finally live in a society without money. i learned this technique by listening to bucky fuller. he said (i'm paraphrasing), "if you want to replace a system, don't engage with the old one. instead, focus on the new one that makes the old obsolete."

this is where i am now. i'm learning to let go of the dark, focus on the light, and move into new being. i still have a lot of work to do to connect what i believe and know with what i actually do.

from here, i progress.