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Gary Zukav
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March 14, 2020
Emotions reflect intentions.
Evil is the absence of goodness. Darkness of the absence of light. Can you defeat an absence? You can defeat an evil person but can you defeat evil? You can rest a person can you arrest evil? You can just eat and evil army but can you defeat evil?
Only through emotion can you encounter the force field of your own soul. This is the human passage.
The soul does not fully incarnate into the personality. Rather it takes a different part of it’s self it wants to heal and incarnate sent me to the personality
Consider the United States, for example, as simply one unit of energy that is evolving with a particular consciousness. The individual souls that pass through this collective consciousness expand it, create actions, create thought forms, create causes and effects, and that is how it accumulates karma. The relationship of these souls to their nation is like that of cells to a body. Your consciousness affects every cell in your body, and every cell in your body affects your consciousness. There is a mutuality. Each individual in the collective consciousness that is called the United States can
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The karma of a nation like the United States
The next layer of your reality is your race. If you are black, you—your soul—has chosen to participate in the evolution of what it is to be a black human. Your experiences of exhilaration, anger, wisdom, or kindness help to shape this impersonal energy dynamic.
Interesting
As your soul learns the lessons that it must learn to balance its energy, those characteristics become unnecessary, and are replaced by others. This is how you grow.
How is a soul unbalanced?
What has been balanced, what has been learned, brings the soul ever closer to its healing, to its integration and wholeness.
I thought the soul was already whole and complete. Why does it need to heal?
The archetype of marriage is no longer functional. It is being replaced with a new archetype that is designed to assist spiritual growth. This is the archetype of spiritual, or sacred, partnership.
Interesting. "The archetype of marriage was designed for survival. A new archetype is being created for joy and for growth."
It is appropriate for spiritual partners to remain together only as long as they grow together.
Hmmm
Marriages will continue to exist, but marriages that succeed will only succeed with the consciousness
What you intend is what you become. If you intend to take as much from life and others as you can, if your thoughts are of taking instead of giving, you create a reality that reflects your intentions. You draw to yourself souls of like frequency, and together you create a taking reality. Your experiences then reflect your own orientation, and validate it. You see the people around you as personalities who take, rather than personalities who give. You do not trust them, and they do not trust you.
Our intentions created our reality
You cannot choose your intentions consciously until you become conscious of each of the different aspects of yourself.
Good
The personality is interested in itself. It likes thrills, so to speak.
The personality is confused with fallen/skewed nature here.
A personality that is conscious of its splinteredness, and struggles consciously to become whole, does not need to create negative karma in order to evolve, in order to learn to create responsibility, in order to acquire authentic power.
Struggles is not the right word
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
I would say that temptation is a combination of body sensations and thoughts that compels both action and simultaneous resistance to that action.
Temptations are not traps.
Sometimes the author goes too far in explaining concepts in ways that add unnecessary layers of complexity to concepts that should be simple and clear. Sometimes it seems, as in the example of temptation, that his explanation is stretching or reaching a bit.
Each time you are tempted to become angry, or jealous, or fearful, and you challenge that feeling, you empower yourself.
It is not that challenge a temptation, it is that you expand who you are beyond that temptation or emotion and are no longer ensnared by it's pull towards your actions.
I disagree. I say they are issues of love.
Underlying every crisis, emotional, spiritual, physical, and psychological, is the issue of power. Depending upon the lens that you wear to interpret your crisis, you will either step closer to your soul or closer to the Earth.
I believe it is actually the feeling of not being loved.
The personality resists acknowledging its addictions because that forces it to choose to leave a part of itself out of control, or to do something about it.
I would say it instead causes the personality to see itself in a way that it does not want, which it abhors since it wants to be right and look good.
I would add that ALL compulsion is an attempt to avoid feeling something.
That is why each human being who is sexually out of control actually has issues of power in which he or she is out of control with his or her own power. At heart, they are identical.
Well said.
Sex without reverence, like business without reverence, and politics without reverence, and any activity that is done without reverence, reflects the same thing: one soul preying upon another weaker soul. The way out of a sexual addiction, therefore, is to remind
Stunning!
Look closely at the dynamic in which you are involved, and you will see that when one soul seeks to prey upon a weaker soul, and a weaker soul responds, both souls are the weaker soul.
Yes, well put. In sexual addiction there is mutual powerlessness and mutual preying on one another
Is there truly a difference when two consciousnesses are trying to link into a dynamic that ultimately will lead to balance when both have identical missing pieces? What causes the need to dominate, for example, is the same that causes the need to be submissive. It is merely the choice of which role the soul wishes to play in working out the identical struggle.
Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.
Shifting through responsibility versus shifting through surrender and love. Consciousness level 2 vs 3
Move into how strong the power of your addiction is, into how deeply you feel its attraction, and ask yourself if the time is really right for you to release this form of learning. That is for you to ask and answer. You may hear the guidance of your nonphysical Teachers, and feel that it offers you a path of higher wisdom, but at the same moment realize that you are not ready to take that path. You might decide that this is not the right time, that you are not yet strong enough to live a certain way. You might indeed have to face that. Ultimately, you will take the higher path, but if you wish
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This is so powerful.
The archetype of spiritual partnership—partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth—is
I would say joy and expansion instead of joy.
Communities, nations, and cultures—all of our collective creations—are built upon the values and perceptions of the five-sensory personality, the values that are reflected by the archetype of marriage. They are designed to serve the physical survival of our species. They also reflect the decisions of our species to learn through fear and doubt. Our entire world is built upon the energy of the five-sensory personality that has chosen to learn through fear and doubt.
spiritual partnership and choose to express their bond through the convention of marriage infuse the energy of spiritual partnership into the archetype of marriage, and thereby create new values and behaviors within marriage, individuals that join in spiritual partnership at the level of organization, city, nation, race, and sex infuse the collective consciousnesses of these levels with the energy of spiritual partnership, and create new values and behaviors at these levels. The evolutionary process that occurs at the level of the individual is the same process that occurs at each level of
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You begin to see that what is necessary to the health of your partnership is identical with what is necessary to your own spiritual growth, that each of you holds the pieces that the other is missing. If you are jealous, for example, you will find that jealousy is what brings to the surface in your partner an aspect that needs to be healed, and that that aspect is mirrored in yourself.
The things that are the individual’s to learn in spiritual union with another individual are the group’s, the community’s, and the nation’s to learn in spiritual union with other groups, communities, and nations. The choice in each instance is between learning through fear and doubt or through wisdom, between the lower-frequency energy currents of the personality and the higher-frequency energy currents of the soul.
A soul’s center of activity refers to the degree of expansion of its karmic influence and energy influence. A soul needs to be more advanced to handle the possibilities that come from the expansion of its karmic energy influences.
Interesting
Great souls, such as the soul that was Gandhi, for example, run the risk of great contamination. At the level of soul contact, a great soul deals not only with its own fear, its personal fear, but it also takes on the evolution of the collective fear of the species.
To take on the collective consciousness of your species
The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole of its group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.
The soul process moves through degrees of awareness. Animals, for example, do not have individual souls. They have group souls. Each animal is a part of a group soul. Each horse is a part of the group soul of horse, each cat is a part of the group soul of cat, and so on. A group soul is not the same as an individual soul.
Interesting
It is possible that the human soul can be produced through the evolution of the animal kingdom as a collective energy from the animal soul.
Oh?
They do not, for example, have the splintered personality aspects that we have. They do not have shadow sides, so to speak. Does an Angel have a soul? An Angel is its soul, its full soul. That is the difference between that which is whole and in union and that which is growing into it. Duality only exists in certain levels, and not in others. Duality is a dynamic of learning. It is its own rhythm and tension and does not exist beyond another level of learning and development. You are existing in duality, and your nonphysical Teachers are not.
Interesting. Souls
Where do advanced human souls go? There are many forms of Life that exist as advancements of this one. There are literally millions of options. There is life in numerous galaxies. There are millions, indeed, billions of other life-filled planets. There is not one planet that lacks a level of active consciousness, some of which is akin to our human form, and some of which does not come close to our form, but remains consciousness as we understand the term.
Woooooah
do all human beings have equal potential? Yes and no. This question is complex. It cannot be answered simply because among souls that are on the same frequency band, such as those within the Earth school, there is a common quality of consciousness, yet there is a difference between their ranges of consciousness. An individual that is not quite as expanded in his or her awareness is not equal in the sense that we usually mean equal to someone of greater awareness. There is an inequality. Yet it is not an inequality that remains unequal. It is just a temporary level of momentum in the flow of
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Understanding the soul becomes paradoxical only if you apply a type of thinking that holds the notion of beginning. All that is can form itself into individual droplets of consciousness. Because you are part of All that is, you have literally always been, yet there was the instant when that individual energy current that is you was formed. Consider that the ocean is God. It has always been.
Ending of 2000, 12000 year cycles at the same time
2000, 25,000 and 125,000 year cycles are ending suns beginning now
be the task of raising a family, or communicating ideas through writing, or transforming the consciousness of a community, such as the business community. It may be the task of awakening the awareness of the power of love at the level of nations, or even contributing directly to the evolution of consciousness on a global level. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, whatever its contract with the Universe, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing. The personality that is engaged in the work of its soul is buoyant. It is not burdened with negativity. It does not fear. It experiences purposefulness and meaning. It delights in its work and in others. It is fulfilled and fulfilling.
When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. That is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.
In what way, therefore, does nonphysical guidance serve you? It is a partnership of challenging you to come to terms with the full width and breadth and depth of authentic power and responsible choice. It is not that you give permission to be mindlessly manipulated. It is that you give permission to be shown the fullest of your power and guided to its use.
The Universe cannot help you in the same way that it can if you are trusting of it, because
The final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing your own to a higher form of wisdom.
Wow
