Mystic Boldness, Courageous Pymp, OF3 journal

[Shannon]

Consider an alternate point of view about life. You may not have the same experiences that lead you to this conclusion, but consider it anyway. It may make a difference for you to see tings from an alternate optional point of view, or be aware of that option at least.

In the beginning, you are created through the will and desire of something bigger than yourself. From there on, you are making your own choices. Your goal is to learn, about the universe, yourself, others and What Is. There are multiple ways to do this; one of them is to incarnate on a physical world like Earth. Doing so, instead of something else you could choose to do, or somewhere else you could choose to incarnate, is a choice you make.

If you choose to incarnate on a physical world to learn about What Is, and you choose Earth, then you also choose what your major life lesson and your minor lessons for that life will be. Once that is decided, you have a set of options to choose from as to which body you use to experience this and learn through. Picking a body, by default, picks a set of parents and circumstances. All of it is something you chose.

Then you are born, and you start living the life you chose in the body you chose, but you don't know all of what will happen in this life. After all, if you did, there wouldn't be much opportunity to learn. Part of not knowing the answers is to forget that you chose this life and these parents and this body and the particular circumstances. Some cultures embrace the belief in one life; others embrace the belief in multiple lives. You grow up learning from your family and culture a basic framework for "what is" that you then use to try to make sense of the rest of what you experience and "what is".

During this life, you are given experiences that will force you to act to avoid them or deal with them. Some of them can be chosen by your own desire; some can be altered by your choices, but not avoided; some cannot be avoided or altered. Everything you experience, and everything you do in response, is a result of a choice you made, before or after you were born, whether or not you remember making that choice. All of it is designed to result in growth.

There are multiple ways you can choose to grow. You can grow the hard way, which is what most people choose by default, which is learning through pain and fear. You can choose to learn by focusing on learning as much as possible from each experience, and thus minimize the pain and fear through conscious effort to advance yourself. And you can choose to learn by simply observing the lives, choices, actions and consequences others face. Usually a life will be heavily weighted in one of these, but also involve the other two as well.

Your point of view regarding yourself, your life, the other people you encounter and the world shapes your understanding of these things and your responses. Your beliefs and responses shape your experience, which adjust your beliefs, which adjust your responses, which adjust your experience of what we call "reality", Most people get stuck in a rut early n, never questioning their beliefs, the resulting point of view, the resulting choices and actions, or the outward results that these create. They live their lives asleep, on autopilot, running through this program they accepted from their early lives, formed by their choice of parents and family, body and circumstances. They believe "this is the way it is" and never question the option for anything else to be real. They thus imprison themselves within their beliefs, the point of view that results, the choices that result, the actions that result, and the "reality" that also results.

Some people do question. Some question a little; some question a lot. Questioning is scary for a lot of people because it means they have to face the possibility (probability) that what they initially accepted as true is either not true or not set in stone, as they believed. That means they have to re-assess everything they believe, sometimes multiple times in their lives as they come to understand more and more, and be aware of more and more. Most will only question a little, and then get scared and run back to the "comfortable safety" of their previously accepted beliefs. Some will question, and seek the truth to the best of their ability, and follow the evidence. These people will indeed face challenges because they may find that their precious, safe and accepted beliefs do not hold up to scrutiny, and must be "accepted on faith" or change to suit the evidence.

But those who change to fit the evidence will grow much faster than those who seek the comfort of a set of beliefs that do not and cannot stand up to scrutiny and the evidence against those beliefs.

The whole point of me writing this is to present you with an alternate possible point of view to consider. I'm not saying it's right, or that your current point of view is wrong. I am saying that it is often useful to have options to consider that are different than what we come up with on our own. This helps us expand our point of view and our options for how to understand and interpret the things we encounter and experience. The more options you have to consider, the more likely you are to find something that seems to make sense for you and explain what you cannot currently explain. Hopefully this option will give you some interesting and useful options and contrast, compared to your current point of view that life is just a game.