A year and a half ago I wanted to be disconnected from 'source' and reattached to a lifestream whose ethics I could respect, mainly for the reasons you just said. I was coming out of atheism at that time and going through the withdrawls of transferring from one of the simplest theodicies out there of which there's no sentience to blame for the world's underlying problems to the understanding that something that was sentient was not only allowing human suffering but keeping things checked in such a manner where we'd be left to flounder around for as long as possible without knowledge on how to actually solve our dilemmas.
Seems the usual response these kinds of ethical inquiries, should you get a 'supernatural' response, is getting hug-tackled by the divine and potentially an ecstatic experience (not too far from the feeling of MDMA) to forget about your trouble. Supposedly we're all in on the joke at other levels of our consciousness (and that ecstatic experience comes from our higher and outside portions) but at this level it's all in earnest. I used to think of that as the psychopathy of heaven. The Great Work seems like it's the only ethical answer to such a situation that holds any water, in that case the ecstatic responses of the divine would perhaps be it trying to separate itself out from our trouble as if trying to squarely place itself on our side but still strongly insinuate that this life, this world, is our puzzle to figure out and that its on us to do so with our own faculties. In that sense at least no pain or negative experience is for nothing and apparently it's all part of an alchemical process that keeps going until it's complete.
Anyone who says we come here because we think its a rush to pay taxes, get bent over by politicians, be broke half the time, deal with terminal diseases or have to grapple with the dead end attitudes of others, and even get roped into a mass genocide if we're lucky enough to be in the right time or place and that this is our amusement park for that kind of thing (there's quite a few of those out there) - IMHO that's almost sicker than the idea that people are going to an eternal hell on technicalities.
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28 May 2014, 7:30 pm
