Posted by Carmody
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Much to our individual horror, we discover a few things.
1: Life, intelligence, consciousness, can only exist in a realm of differential. Self awareness requires differential.
2:that the greater the differential, the greater the potential for existence and subtly and complexity of being, existing,learning and knowing.
3: that the highest levels of living and learning are lives that have extreme polarities and no comforts. The more you, as an energetic form, in a body, are stressed to the point of breaking and beyond, the more you grow, the more you learn, the bigger you get, the more you are.
4:The more comfortable you are, the weaker you are -the more dead you are, the more nothing you are.
5:Conclusion: the more you spend life after life being horrifically beaten to death, torn to pieces, on the edge of utter destruction from over-stressing...... the greater you become.
This, because you come from a place that does not have these things. A place of consciousness as the material form of dominance. And where consciousness is the dominant form, disagreement and differential can be more difficult to come by, but differential must be maintained as the stillness of total agreement is a motion toward dormancy and death, a universe of all being the same. Which would be a nothing space.
In other words.... you come here for the differences, you come here for the learning, you come here for the beatings, you come here for the stressing.
The trick.... is to not go too far.
We are on the verge of going too far.