Been thinking along similar lines. The Cs have mentioned "balance" again and again in various contexts. We are faced with all these paradoxes: "sitting back" vs. taking action; empathy for the oppressed vs. bigger spiritual picture; creating energy via movement in this realm vs. the traps and dead ends of 3D; not "shutting out" reality vs. transcending the "fleshly" reality, and so on.
All those contradictions we are faced with also "open up a space" between them, where one may find a sort of finer energy - tension produces all sorts of results, after all (like the bow shooting an arrow, a string generating music...). How this plays out in practical terms is somewhat different from person to person I suspect, but for example, when looking at the Palestine situation, part of "balancing" might simply mean to take breaks from staring at the situation and instead try to look beyond the daily carnage. Use that energy on doing something or learning something - which might ultimately honor the victims of those psychos in its own way. Our very discussion here is just such a thing. Looking into the history of Zionism to comprehend what's going on in a wider context might be another (it did help me, although it certainly can increase the anger too).
Another aspect to the idea of balance is that creation is vast, and there is a lot of beauty, insight, growth, compassion etc. in it as well. Allowing ourselves to be drawn to the dark aspects of reality exclusively or lopsidedly in a sense means "shutting out reality" too. And, again, there is a tension here that might actually produce a useful and "higher" energy. This, too, is part of the "show" - not only the suffering and cruelty. There was a LOT of suffering just over the last 5-10 years alone, and yet there has been an acceleration of the transformation of our world that is nothing short of breathtaking, and it is grand and necessary. Another one of those perspectives that can't exist on its own - only as a part of a wider picture, a picture we can only attain via skillful balancing and conscious work with all these paradoxes, as opposed to just being hammered back and forth by them.
I think it was McGilchrist that said something along the lines of 'you can't know a thing very well in a vacuum, you know it through it's relationships with other things.' That makes the study of paradoxes and the relationships between contradictory bits of information important I think.
The rest is said at the risk of victim blaming and I feel a bit ranty about some of the following because the victims are suffering so much, but I think that the Palestinians might bring something to the table that allows the situation to continue.
Kurt Gödel in his outline of his philisophical world view:
14: Religions are, for the most part, bad– but religion is not.
I played around on the World Population Review website to get an idea of the concentrations of different religions in different countries. Palestine, for example has 85% of the population practicing Islam, but if you narrow that down to Gaza , that concentration climbs to 99%. In fact it seems that any country that has a population concentration over 70 -75% of any religion has come to the predatory attention of the West at some point in time.
13 Sept 2009:
(Joe) There's that question that you wanted to ask for the people on the forum about soul smashing? (L) Oh, the soul smashing! Can you frame a question around it? Or you, you're the expert on that topic Keit. Make a question. (Keit) Well, basically is what I said was close...?
A: Pretty darn accurate. An example of "getting smarter!"
Q: (Joe) Does that mean Keit?
A: Yes
Q: (Joe) What was your theory? (L) She was talking about Illion's Darkness over Tibet and the descending spiral and that it's a choice and you have to...
A: We couldn't have explained it any better!
Q: (Scottie) Did you write about this on the forum? (Keit) Yeah. (Scottie) How did I miss that?? (A***) Yeah. (Keit) I have some more to say about this. (Joe) So that was about trying to smash all these souls back into primal matter, was that it?
A: Yes
Q: (Allen) Could you just explain it, because I didn't read it. (Keit) What I said is that... I brought this in quotes and quoted from Darkness Over Tibet. The author mentions that there are two possibilities in development: upward and downward. And there is a possibility of losing one's soul, but it should be a conscious decision, it's a choice. And it can't be taken by force. (L) But they can make you choose by wearing you out. (Keit) Exactly, and I gave my personal example where I felt that traumatic experiences in our lives kind of manipulates us into choosing the downward development. And we basically choose something that is against our own level of being. And it's so traumatic for the soul, that it twists the soul and puts it in a downward position. The eventual outcome of this event is basically smashing the soul, even if the final smashing event is relative small. And that's why there is so much suffering and pathology in the world, where they force and manipulate souls into choosing. (L) Against their own nature. (PL) And Illion said that the worse thing for a human being is the sin against their own soul. (Keit) And sinning against the soul is going against your own level or nature of being. So, like narcissistic tendencies and everything, that's why for our own sake we need to clean ourselves. (DD) Is this why they've injected so many drugs into the culture to just weaken people?
A: Yes and remember also transmarginal inhibition principles.
Q: (L) One of those principles is that even strong dogs that could not be broken in ordinary ways, if they subjected them to physical trauma like surgery, or illness, or something like that, that that would weaken them to the point where they could be turned. So torture is also part of this process.
A: Yes
Q: (L) And we live now in a culture of torture which is basically a soul-smashing culture.
A: Yes
Q: (L) So there are souls that are being twisted and deformed to the point where they will... I mean, a lot of these people think that they will be going to heaven because they're imposing their god's will on other people, and they think that whatever they have to do to bring in the rule of their distorted version of Jesus Christ on Earth or whatever - ya know, these fundies - that basically they themselves are putting themselves in the position of being soul smashed because they are completely going against not only the teachings of Christ, but also against their own natures. I think many of them really mean well, but they have been so gradually and so incrementally twisted by pathological individuals in positions of power and in high positions in churches, and pathological individuals that create doctrines and theologies that are twisted, that they are essentially agreeing to the sale of their own souls to the devil. (Joe) I wonder if it extends to people who aren't directly involved in it, but are just ordinary members of the population whose minds are so twisted that in their own minds they sanction it or they agree with it. Even when they're faced with the facts, they're not being lied to so much, but they realize the whole thing about torture and the CIA and torture camps...
A: Silence in the face of "evil" is equal to participation unless there is a good reason for the silence that serves a higher goal.
Q: (Joe) That's really interesting because it kind of explains the whole debate over torture, and how they've been trying to get people to accept torture. And more and more facts coming out about the reality of the CIA having tortured and trying to twist that around to get people to accept that as something that is conscionable.
A: Acceptance of torture is the "mark of the beast."
I can't say exactly what it is like being Islamic living in a country with such a high concentration of that religion. Imagine living and being raised in an area where the majority of the population follows the religion that you have been raised in. I think that even if a person living in those of circumstances of high population concentration of one religion felt the tug of truth and was entertaining questions about their religion, they'd possibly be much less likely to consider any degree of apostacy because they may not even have access to that notion that there is something different and where the moral authority is held by clerics who may consider the death penalty for such crimes at the worst and bringing shame and humiliation to their families at the least. Most of us have struggle enough overcoming our childhood programming where we see everything through the lens of that programming even when it's basically delusional. The Islamics in Palestine possibly have not had exposure to much of anything different than their religious programming to help them undo it.
I'm glad that Karen Mitchell has reinforced the word 'predator' in her work because if there's one thing I know about prey drive it's that a predator generally learns to be more energetically efficient with greater control over their predatory impulses over the course of time- exert the least amount of energy possible for the highest possible gain. A bad hunter burns up more caloric energy for a lower caloric gain - which could be a net loss. With that in mind, maybe the predatory class have learned that countries that have a high concentration of any particular religion are basically going to be pushovers, something that would make a predator smile, no doubt. Not only can they gain access to all the riches of that country, but they can do it by creating the maximum amount of suffering as loosh for their 4DSTs overlords without expecting too much by way of resistance.
If anything about this idea of religious concentration in a population is correct, cost of giving primacy to religious ideology over truth - jeez, they have watched their kids, families, homes and livelihoods being bombed, shot up and shredded for 75 years! Under these circumstances they refer to their dead as martyrs because they held onto their dodgy religious ideologies instead of learning to question them and their own minds until the end, fer cryin out loud! If that's not an acceptance of torture and a total resistance to learning what the hell to do differently to avoid it, I dunno what is. But for them their whole country is basically their monastery and they are surrounded by it no matter what they do and where they go. How much do they have to suffer until they do learn the simple and karmic? The knowledge that protects? When do they reach the level of suffering where they experience the transmarginal inhibition that undoes their religious conditioning? How do parents stand watching their kids shot and blown up without deciding to do what they have to get the hell out?
I don't know how many Palestinians would say, 'I want no part in this game, how do I get out?' instead of turning into terrorists themselves to seek revenge and becoming the monster that they fight. Maybe there are a few and perhaps it would be good to include them in prayer.
Ultimately, perhaps the situation in Palestine could only happen because Palestinians are Palestinians. Maybe overall they are more like gardeners in a war, instead of warriors in a garden like the Russians and Chinese who also have lower concentrations of any one religion in their countries. In this respect, and keeping the power of programs in mind, perhaps the Palestinians can't learn anything from the situation in the way that knowledge can protect them and their children. That is probably the most painful realisation when witnessing the atrocities, that the Palestinians are perhaps unlikely to be able to do or be anything different.
The only way any enjoyment could come out of that situation is if the Palestinians did learn something and could resolve the situation.
