Freed Fox
22nd October 2013, 02:45
A thought occurred to me the other night; a potential model for incarnation/reincarnation, and something which might serve to explain why some of us feel so out of place, or otherwise seeing no apparent purpose in our lives.
Like many others around here, I see life as a method and means for spiritual, emotional development; lessons and experiences which have much greater impact when you have been dropped into a dense state without any recollection of the greater truths and the deeper realities. Even forgetting divinity, immortality, and the nature of your true self is itself a lesson. It might just be the only way to experience true fear, doubt, and uncertainty. It is a hard lesson, which has generated many a 'dark night of the soul', and in turn gives more weight to all of the other lessons and experiences to be had in realms such as here on Earth.
Now, imagine you are a new soul, freshly derived from The Source of All Things. You are blissfully unaware and have many, many experiences ahead of you and lessons to learn... but you are faced with Infinity. Where to start?
Well, I am also of the belief that between this universe and others (as well as other dimensions of existence), potentiality is truly infinite. Now, this in itself is deceptively simple, because although 'infinity' is a familiar concept, I don't believe we have the capacity to fully grasp what true infinity is like (at least not in our current state). We can certainly try though, as I will briefly (and probably futilely) attempt here.
Imagine that everything here on Earth - plants, animals, cultures, climates, geology, technology, EVERYTHING - is but a minuscule fraction of a percent of what all is out there, elsewhere in the cosmos. Every facet of human experience, history, and even the things we are capable of imagining are something like 0.000000001% of reality (and actually, regarding -true- infinity, it would probably be much less than that, if not in fact incalculably small by virtue of the very concept itself).
That is a whole heck of a lot to consider, even for a divine little splinter with its origins still in mind. Staggering even. Actually, I believe it would be impossible to sort out; both because of the immense magnitude of the available options and possibilities, as well as the totally inexperienced nature of the 'new soul'.
Thus, in addition to the lessons we learn and experiences we gain, we are each possibly in the process of calibration, to ultimately find our own ideal existence. We come to know ourselves more and more intimately, by both the search within and the trials and tribulations without. We come to understand the nature of physicality and the contents and qualities of our own hearts, as we seek all the while to refine them. An extensive and ongoing process which quite possibly spans many lifetimes.
We may have come here thinking it was the right fit, or because we needed certain lessons under our belts which we thought might be best learned here, or perhaps some of us didn't even have the slightest clue about this place and ended up here purely by chance. Rolling a great set of cosmic 987,749,824,332,849-sided dice would be as good a method as any for choosing a single option from out of an endless pool.
The thing to take from this, for me at least, is that there are no real mistakes in this grand process. We could have an utterly awful time here for the duration, but nothing would be lost... only gained. Indeed, those who have a harder go of things here probably take away more in the end. It's all about learning, and calibrating. I think Source knows that what we really are cannot be truly harmed, and thus allows us to make our own way through the infinite expression; to learn what we value, to discover what we enjoy, and, perhaps, to ultimately discover where we belong.
Like many others around here, I see life as a method and means for spiritual, emotional development; lessons and experiences which have much greater impact when you have been dropped into a dense state without any recollection of the greater truths and the deeper realities. Even forgetting divinity, immortality, and the nature of your true self is itself a lesson. It might just be the only way to experience true fear, doubt, and uncertainty. It is a hard lesson, which has generated many a 'dark night of the soul', and in turn gives more weight to all of the other lessons and experiences to be had in realms such as here on Earth.
Now, imagine you are a new soul, freshly derived from The Source of All Things. You are blissfully unaware and have many, many experiences ahead of you and lessons to learn... but you are faced with Infinity. Where to start?
Well, I am also of the belief that between this universe and others (as well as other dimensions of existence), potentiality is truly infinite. Now, this in itself is deceptively simple, because although 'infinity' is a familiar concept, I don't believe we have the capacity to fully grasp what true infinity is like (at least not in our current state). We can certainly try though, as I will briefly (and probably futilely) attempt here.
Imagine that everything here on Earth - plants, animals, cultures, climates, geology, technology, EVERYTHING - is but a minuscule fraction of a percent of what all is out there, elsewhere in the cosmos. Every facet of human experience, history, and even the things we are capable of imagining are something like 0.000000001% of reality (and actually, regarding -true- infinity, it would probably be much less than that, if not in fact incalculably small by virtue of the very concept itself).
That is a whole heck of a lot to consider, even for a divine little splinter with its origins still in mind. Staggering even. Actually, I believe it would be impossible to sort out; both because of the immense magnitude of the available options and possibilities, as well as the totally inexperienced nature of the 'new soul'.
Thus, in addition to the lessons we learn and experiences we gain, we are each possibly in the process of calibration, to ultimately find our own ideal existence. We come to know ourselves more and more intimately, by both the search within and the trials and tribulations without. We come to understand the nature of physicality and the contents and qualities of our own hearts, as we seek all the while to refine them. An extensive and ongoing process which quite possibly spans many lifetimes.
We may have come here thinking it was the right fit, or because we needed certain lessons under our belts which we thought might be best learned here, or perhaps some of us didn't even have the slightest clue about this place and ended up here purely by chance. Rolling a great set of cosmic 987,749,824,332,849-sided dice would be as good a method as any for choosing a single option from out of an endless pool.
The thing to take from this, for me at least, is that there are no real mistakes in this grand process. We could have an utterly awful time here for the duration, but nothing would be lost... only gained. Indeed, those who have a harder go of things here probably take away more in the end. It's all about learning, and calibrating. I think Source knows that what we really are cannot be truly harmed, and thus allows us to make our own way through the infinite expression; to learn what we value, to discover what we enjoy, and, perhaps, to ultimately discover where we belong.