To remain in line with our rules on religion, I elect to answer this posting here.
The misconception of reincarnation and karma continues, unsurprisingly. Karma is not a "punishment" device. It is a device for achieving balance where actions have been taken that are other than the path to the ultimate goal of the soul, or the lessons chosen for one particular lifetime. For instance, if I shoot a man in the head, and doing so is not a balancing of a previous action, then I have incurred karmic debt to that effect which must be cleared through wisdom. Wisdom is most commonly gained through like experience received. That is not, however, to say that a karmic choice is limited to re-balancing the scales of something experienced or done in a past life.
It is entirely possible, and happens regularly, that a soul may elect to incur a karmic debt before birth, to force itself to focus on a specific lesson or lessons in a given lifetime, especially if there is a great difficulty in that lesson for that soul. You might choose, for instance, to have no arms in order to experience what that is like proactively instead of reactively (chopping off someone else's arms, and having that experience to repay as a debt). You might choose to be born poor and downtrodden to focus on learning humility. And so forth.
Choosing a body born at a specific time, according to astrological theory, is to choose a body that is somehow tied to or attuned to and reverberates with the energy of the moment if was drawing its first breath. That act has with it many complex connotations, which I could write several books upon the philosophical, theological and theoretical "finer points" concerning. To put it shortly, then, being born when the Sun appeared to be "in Scorpio" from the Earth based perspective is not only overly simplistic (as the entire solar system must be accounted for to describe a personality as accurately as possible), but does not assume any particular action or previous karmic debt therefrom.
As to the collective unconscious, it is my belief, based on experiments and experience, that consciousness exists in a complex presence which is most easily (although not very accurately) understood as perhaps we could say "layers". The lowest layer is the simplest, and that would be the individuation layer, in which one awareness does not seem to be connected to another.
The next "higher" level of consciousness, for lack of a better word, would be the complex structures that comprise the subconscious awareness. This level is individual still, but has access to the layer above it, the "collective awareness", which is where all of the apparently individual awarenesses on the planet converge into one. This is controversial, as there are three major points of view on this:
The specifics are unimportant on this. My experience has at least strongly suggested that there indeed is some sort of collective awareness, or if not that, some sort of way of accessing information about all the awarenesses present on the planet.
My belief is that the "Perfect Lover" type manifestation subliminals do indeed cause the subconscious to use the "superconscious" (planetary conglomerated awareness) in order to know what, who, where and when as is necessary to achieve the desired goal.
The next higher awareness would seem to be the Universal Awareness, that which is suggested as the awareness of All That Is.
Hope this helps clear up some things.
(11-29-2012, 07:07 PM)K-Train Wrote: Great stuff Shannon! I saw the product description in the old store and was curious about the program after reading it. I'm sure you've heard of the "collective unconscious", the premise that our minds are perhaps connected to either a.) a collective pool of thoughts shared by all (from what I hear, this is how the perfect lover programs operate) or b.) are the memories from our ancestors.
About 2-3 years ago, you suggested that when a soul is in the body of a Scorp, it does so because it has a difficult lesson to learn (this is assuming the person believes in some sort of reincarnation) so I thought to myself "well jeez, I wonder what the heck I was doing in my past life that warranted me being in this body". On top of that, I thought it would be cool to know how I lived in the past just to put everything in perspective. Perhaps I was a rich snob who didn't learn to appreciate things so I'm stuck in this body in order to learn about gratitude.
The misconception of reincarnation and karma continues, unsurprisingly. Karma is not a "punishment" device. It is a device for achieving balance where actions have been taken that are other than the path to the ultimate goal of the soul, or the lessons chosen for one particular lifetime. For instance, if I shoot a man in the head, and doing so is not a balancing of a previous action, then I have incurred karmic debt to that effect which must be cleared through wisdom. Wisdom is most commonly gained through like experience received. That is not, however, to say that a karmic choice is limited to re-balancing the scales of something experienced or done in a past life.
It is entirely possible, and happens regularly, that a soul may elect to incur a karmic debt before birth, to force itself to focus on a specific lesson or lessons in a given lifetime, especially if there is a great difficulty in that lesson for that soul. You might choose, for instance, to have no arms in order to experience what that is like proactively instead of reactively (chopping off someone else's arms, and having that experience to repay as a debt). You might choose to be born poor and downtrodden to focus on learning humility. And so forth.
Choosing a body born at a specific time, according to astrological theory, is to choose a body that is somehow tied to or attuned to and reverberates with the energy of the moment if was drawing its first breath. That act has with it many complex connotations, which I could write several books upon the philosophical, theological and theoretical "finer points" concerning. To put it shortly, then, being born when the Sun appeared to be "in Scorpio" from the Earth based perspective is not only overly simplistic (as the entire solar system must be accounted for to describe a personality as accurately as possible), but does not assume any particular action or previous karmic debt therefrom.
As to the collective unconscious, it is my belief, based on experiments and experience, that consciousness exists in a complex presence which is most easily (although not very accurately) understood as perhaps we could say "layers". The lowest layer is the simplest, and that would be the individuation layer, in which one awareness does not seem to be connected to another.
The next "higher" level of consciousness, for lack of a better word, would be the complex structures that comprise the subconscious awareness. This level is individual still, but has access to the layer above it, the "collective awareness", which is where all of the apparently individual awarenesses on the planet converge into one. This is controversial, as there are three major points of view on this:
- It does not exist.
- It exists as two separate sub-layers, being the "soul group" layer and the "collective planetary" layer.
- It exists only as the collective planetary awareness conglomeration of the minds present on that planet.
The specifics are unimportant on this. My experience has at least strongly suggested that there indeed is some sort of collective awareness, or if not that, some sort of way of accessing information about all the awarenesses present on the planet.
My belief is that the "Perfect Lover" type manifestation subliminals do indeed cause the subconscious to use the "superconscious" (planetary conglomerated awareness) in order to know what, who, where and when as is necessary to achieve the desired goal.
The next higher awareness would seem to be the Universal Awareness, that which is suggested as the awareness of All That Is.
Hope this helps clear up some things.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
