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Date Posted: 19:23:44 03/12/06 Sun
Author: amadaun
Subject: Re: Evolution of Consciousness
In reply to: Iymlad 's message, "Evolution of Consciousness" on 07:46:08 03/09/06 Thu

Checked out Stacey Wolf, seems a bit cheesy- maybe its just that photo!

Iymlad, what do you think of Rational Spirituality? Here are the precepts.
http://www.rsmovement.org/
1. The physical world is partly an illusion. Our experience of it is governed by our perceptions, which tend not to take account of the fundamentally multidimensional and nonphysical nature of true reality.

2. Everything has soul energy. Everything in the universe, both animate and apparently inanimate, has a soul energy or consciousness of varying complexity that exists independent of its physical form. This is because every form in every realm or dimension originated from the Ultimate Source.

3. The human soul is unique. The human soul is more advanced and individualised than any other on earth. However, there are other inhabited planets throughout the universe that play host to lifeforms both more and less complex than our own.

4. Souls reincarnate to advance karmically. We return repeatedly to the physical realm until we have gained sufficient experience and balance to break free from the reincarnatory cycle. However, the ethereal realms contain an infinite variety of other environments in which further karmic development must occur before we can get anywhere near to reunification with the Ultimate Source.

5. The ethereal realms are governed by perception. We perceive what we expect or want to perceive in the ethereal realms, and imbue our surroundings with greater or lesser degrees of quasi-physical form depending on our level of advancement. Because of this, if we collectively or individually imbue constructs such as hell or demons with sufficient psychic force, they may take on a certain albeit superficial and impermanent reality.

6. We review our past lives and plan our next one. In the interlife between incarnations, unlimited support and guidance is available to allow us to review and replay past lives, and learn where we succeeded and failed. The same assistance is available to help us to choose and plan our next incarnation, often in conjunction with other souls who will be closely involved.

7. All karma involves learning. More advanced souls often deliberately choose adverse life circumstances to help them to learn important lessons and progress their karmic balance and experience. These do not represent punishments for past misdemeanours. Less advanced souls may not make the best use of the guidance available to them in the interlife, and their lives may tend to exhibit somewhat repetitive patterns. But this merely presents them with further opportunities to learn the lessons that have escaped them in the past, rather than resulting from a mechanistic karmic process of 'action and reaction' or 'reaping what we sow'.

8. There is no judgment from on high. We are never judged by higher beings in the interlife. Any tendency towards judgement comes, if at all, from ourselves.

9. Balance, forgiveness, faith and patience are paramount. We all need to learn to apply some simple rules of engagement to physical life, whatever our stage of karmic advancement. We need to balance and moderate our reactions and emotions, whether that be to pleasant or unpleasant circumstances, or to success or failure, because strong unresolved emotions always store up a huge karmic charge. When unpleasant events occur we need to forgive others or, often even more importantly, ourselves. And we need to use our intuition to attempt to remain on our chosen life path, and to have patient faith in fulfilling our plan, without fear. All these ensure that we maintain a progressive rather than repetitive karmic impetus.

10. We all have karmic free will. Nothing happens to us by chance, and nor does a vengeful or inconsistent god determine our fate. We plan the major aspects of our lives in advance, but we have free will to choose other paths. The future is not predetermined, it merely exists as a series of major probabilities and lesser possibilities. We are, both individually and collectively, the masters of our own destiny.

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[> Re: Evolution of Consciousness -- Iymlad, 13:52:43 03/14/06 Tue [1]

1. agree
2. agree (mostly due to teachings from others more than experience)
3. my teachings also support this view
4. sentences 1 + 2 = agree. I have not heard of the concept in sentence 3 but it makes sense.
5. I agree with the concept in general, but not so much the wording of the example.
6. agree based on teaching as well as experience.
7. completely agree
8. agree with the concept but again, not so much the wording or the example.
9. not worded in a way I like in some places, but in general agree.
10. I wish I knew where I stood on this one. I struggle with this. But, I do like this view and I will think some more on it.

Thanks for the post!!! :)

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