Elaborating on the “Myth of Enlightenment” consideration here :
As powerful and immortal spiritual beings, we have infinite choices for experience in the vast playground of the multiverse. Some of us may enter into human bodies and fuse with them for the lifespan of the bio-vehicle in order to experience human life and all its challenges, as a way to test ourselves and gather experiences that we can then take back to our soul group, or family, and thus increase the “data base” of the whole.
Each family has a particular character, or vocation, so to speak. For example, some groups are directed towards science, some towards healing, some towards political matters, and some towards arts and creative expression, just to name a few. There are innumerable groups. Each one of us is like a cell in the body of our group, and each group in turn is like a cell in a larger spiritual body. These immense bodies are cells within an even vaster mystical body, and this goes on beyond the comprehension of the human mind in a perfection and harmonious pattern that is too marvelous for words!
We are progressing into light and even more light. However, true “enlightenment” is far beyond our ken while we are temporarily immersed in the heavier densities of this human “amnesia”. In this human form, we are greatly limited by the parameters of this realm, its frequency and vibration. Each individual cell returns again and again to incarnations in challenging realms such as this one here, refining their illumination over and again until their light outshines the veils of delusion, and there is no longer any need to appear on these humble stages for oneself, but only for the group’s elevation, insuring that not one family member is left behind.
The more experienced among us choose the most difficult lives (knowing that they are not actually “real”) because we seek increasingly more demanding challenges. We all participated in the design of our present lives while we were in-between incarnational adventures. We are fascinated to discover how we will react to all the various experiences that come with being human, in the same way that those who play video games enter into difficult situations in order to test their ability to take on various challenges and increase their gaming skills.
It is all a play of light. Light is literally the essence and constituent matter of our being, and as we attune to the vibration of the higher adaptations, so too the substance of our being expands, becoming less dense and reflecting more light. We express our own light. The light dwells within all of us as who we are, and all of us are known by our light. The greater the selflessness and illumination of our own being-ness, and the more positive our response to the higher frequencies of vibration, the purer and brighter is the light transmitted by us. The purer and stronger the light from each member of the family, or soul group, the greater the advancement of the group soul itself towards the ultimate bliss of Union with Source, the unspeakable Clear Light of Reality Itself!
The process of incarnating into these human forms creates a uniquely challenging circumstance in which we are faced with living with a dual nature. Unifying and illuminating this dual nature is rare, because it requires absolute humility, which few seem capable of in these times, coupled with a penetrating insight into the nature of the “bigger picture”, which is not quite as rare, but still rare enough.
This realm is indeed a virtual school, and a rather elementary one, in the scheme of the totality of universal manifestation. Mostly, we assume our roles on this current stage in order to learn how to behave in various situations. This involves developing a rudimentary form of integrity, achieved by inspecting and seeing through all human motives based on greed, envy, hatred, and judgmentalism, for starters. When we have attained sufficient mastery of these basics, we become capable of love, real love, without conditions or self-interest, and this capacity demonstrates our fitness to move on to more advanced curriculums. In Buddhism, such an attainment might correspond to the rank of “Anagami”, or “non-returner”.
The human possibility is indeed a challenge — more so than most potential incarnational circumstances — and so provides an excellent classroom for our continuing edification. It attracts us because it is so different than what we truly are, and so beckons as a fascinating opportunity to see what we are really made of.
Humans are selfish, violent animals, driven by emotions, cunning, and instinct. They use violence to protect themselves from real and imagined potential threats to their ability to get what they want, to amass wealth in its many forms, and to manipulate and exercise dominance over others. Each of us can allow human emotions and instincts to characterize our human experience, or strive to bring love into the equation, and thus magnify the light of our original and true nature. We have the innate power to remember what and who we really are, and then compassionately control our human host’s actions, which requires a discipline that does not come naturally to humans.
Consequently, we must not only re-awaken to our true nature, but also learn how to embody that realization in our behavior and relationships. If we sit back and yield to the human instinct, there will be an inevitable result, and we will be perpetually drawn back for more and more tests, until we learn to do the right thing in each situation with which we are presented. That involves the direct and living recognition that love is all that matters. Having demonstrated our adaptation to and stabilization in the capacity to freely give and receive love (even in the midst of any and all circumstances), we are fit to “graduate”, but not until then.
The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama
See also:
http://theconsciousprocess.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/the-game/
