This is a confusing paradox. On the one hand we need to accept what is--even the bad stuff--and look for the deeper meaning. In that way we learn and grow. Our souls learn and grow and move closer toward awakening. But on the other hand, we have to recognize that “what is” is arbitrary. God is not setting tests for us or asking us to jump through hoops. God simply IS, and is his ISNESS, he knows that we simply ARE also, so he’s not worried. He doesn’t bother with what seems to be going on here because it’s not relevant to WHAT IS; it has already happened, in fact. It’s over. (When I capitalize WHAT IS, I’m referring to the true nature of existence, not the manifest reality of form which we seem to be living in.)
God is not setting us these challenges, we are.
Huh?
Not WE the One Soul. But we the collected individuations of that One Soul, splintered and set adrift (for what reason it does not matter) not unlike the individuals in a pod of sperm on their life journey through the vagina toward enlightenment. Though each sperm is unique, they have all been created by the same One Thought, and though each sperm is unique in appearance (personality), they each share the same goal (purpose) so that when any one of them makes it, they all make it.
Do you see it? On some level we feel this connection with each other, we know we all want the same thing; our higher selves--though still separate--have an inkling we are asleep and dreaming this dream of separation, and so they choose these different life paths--full of little tests--with the intention of learning enough to eventually awaken the individuated consciousness to the truth of its being: Oneness. And, since this is all happening in an instant, the soul can see what is and isn’t working and choose accordingly. Like choosing a character in a video game. We choose the character--based on our previous experience in the game--that we believe will have the best chance of succeeding (learning the lessons it will need to learn in order to win).
So then why all the different paths? Why the different tests, the unexpected turns of fate? Why is everyone’s path unique?
Although each soul is an individuated aspect of the whole and as such is made up of the same stuff, each soul is not identical. Try dividing a chicken into equal parts; dark meat, light meat, gizzards, skins, feathers, beak, waddles, fingers, claws, etc. They’re all parts of the chicken and so, in that way, they are all the same--equally of source--but they have their own taste, their own predilections, their own personality if you will. And it is these distributed aspects of being which we see and recognize as archetypes. (I think there are 144, but that’s just a guess.)
It explains why one soul manifest bravado in every character it chooses, while another manifests meekness, and still another manifests sloth, or cruelty, or vigor, etc.
Left alone playing the game, it might take a very long time for a soul to pick a character and make the proper decisions along that character’s timeline (life) for it to win (awaken). Sure, it would happen eventually. But because of this soul’s predilection for bravado, let’s say, it might imbue even the shyest character too full of the stuff for it to realize the need to choose again (in the game), to choose differently and so come to the crucial moment of awakening before dying and having to go through it all again.
But the soul is not left alone. Although God does not interfere with our apparent suffering here in the world of form, he does send his messenger, his Spirit: the Holy Spirit in fact.
The Holy Spirit steps in and offers a helping hand. “You’re doing fine, my son, but would you mind if I made a suggestion?” And maybe the soul turns away the first fifty-thousand times, but then on one reiteration the soul accepts. And the Holy Spirit offers, “Was you to play the character of the avant-garde composer with a floundering career in the twenty-first century, I think you might learn the final truth.” And the soul is like: “Okay. Whatever.” And boom. You find yourself here, writing a blog, running an avant-garde music business, raising some kids, and slowly awakening to the heaven that is all around you.
But that’s just the start. Your soul has finally chosen a life path that is well suited to your awakening. Now it’s up to you to recognize that each of your decisions is modifying that path every moment of every day. You had been living in a nightmare reality where the only things certain were death and taxes. You’ve decided there must be more to life than that. You’ve started to search. You have found which ever path suits you best. Now you just have to believe in that path! It’s not about talking the talk, it’s about walking the walk.
The game is really simple once you know the rules. It’s like a maze. You just have to keep making decisions based on Love rather than fear.
Always.
Truly do that and you will awaken in this lifetime.
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