Muxel
Dagobah Resident
The Choice is a concept referred to by both Ra and the C's. It is the culmination of third density, and in the grandest scheme of all things, may even be seen to be the purpose of third density.
[quote author=The C's]First awareness of the choice comes. Then making the choice. Then enhancing the energy to graduate. The problem of 3rd density is identifying what to choose, since so much is veiled from you.[/quote]
I have noticed that our world is populated with many adults who are, variously: intelligent, experienced, accomplished, beautiful, even powerful. You would think, with such great people in existence, why then, is our world the way it is, with gross inequality, poverty, pain and suffering? Why do the present systems go unquestioned, as if there were no other alternative? As if the Moon would fall into the seas and the Sun would go supernova if one so much as gave his dollar to the poor, and stopped this present culture of competition and consumption?
As I read the writings of these illustrious people, or listen to them speak, I find that there is something missing. It seems as if all, or most, of them - as different and many-colored as they are - have the same blind spot. I will attempt to describe the missing element in a very general fashion, as: an appreciation of Nature and Existence, as it includes themselves and everyone else.
We have our scientifics, who observe and theorize, but fail to take into account that they are part of the very system that they are observing! As if they thought they stood outside Space and Time, to make observations and measurements of our reality, and assume them to be true -- without any consideration for the Observer.
We have men, possessed of sharpness and brilliance of intellect, who make assessments and conceptualizations of our political and humanistic affairs. They point out the errors of history and society and culture, the errors of individuals and groups of people, and denounce such behaviors as they find to be lacking in merit. However, the author hardly writes a word about himself. The author takes a moral stance, thinks himself the last bastion of goodness and right and in the world, omitting the fact that he himself is part of the very world he finds corrupt! However, this fact does not bother the author, and he never shows any sign of introspection. To take a leaf out of the movie Silence of the Lambs where the protagonist says to Hannibal, "You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself?"
Then there are the masses of people, who live their lives and follow their heart's desires, never thinking about why they are the way they are, why they do the things they do, and how it all came to be. Joe clocks in, works his shift, clocks out, goes home. Joe already has a full plate, why should he concern himself with the sufferings of his neighbor, or those in a faraway land? Indeed, there is no reason for him to bother. Yet the fact remains that there is suffering, that strange things happen, that greater forces are at work in Joe's world.
Now it is my thought that someone who, even as he is beaten by circumstance and misfortune, is able - even for a moment - to put his ego aside and capitulate to his knowledge and conception of Nature and his place in it, to see things not through his eyes but from a higher perspective of the systemic forces at play, would be of a different "flavor" than another who can see only where and how he has been wronged, and what is available in the world for his taking, and how his desires can best be fulfilled.
All this, more or less, is the meaning I found in the 6th Major Arcanum, The Lovers:
The man in the center is being coaxed in two directions. Which do we love?
And ultimately, what will be our Choice?
[quote author=The C's]First awareness of the choice comes. Then making the choice. Then enhancing the energy to graduate. The problem of 3rd density is identifying what to choose, since so much is veiled from you.[/quote]
I have noticed that our world is populated with many adults who are, variously: intelligent, experienced, accomplished, beautiful, even powerful. You would think, with such great people in existence, why then, is our world the way it is, with gross inequality, poverty, pain and suffering? Why do the present systems go unquestioned, as if there were no other alternative? As if the Moon would fall into the seas and the Sun would go supernova if one so much as gave his dollar to the poor, and stopped this present culture of competition and consumption?
As I read the writings of these illustrious people, or listen to them speak, I find that there is something missing. It seems as if all, or most, of them - as different and many-colored as they are - have the same blind spot. I will attempt to describe the missing element in a very general fashion, as: an appreciation of Nature and Existence, as it includes themselves and everyone else.
We have our scientifics, who observe and theorize, but fail to take into account that they are part of the very system that they are observing! As if they thought they stood outside Space and Time, to make observations and measurements of our reality, and assume them to be true -- without any consideration for the Observer.
We have men, possessed of sharpness and brilliance of intellect, who make assessments and conceptualizations of our political and humanistic affairs. They point out the errors of history and society and culture, the errors of individuals and groups of people, and denounce such behaviors as they find to be lacking in merit. However, the author hardly writes a word about himself. The author takes a moral stance, thinks himself the last bastion of goodness and right and in the world, omitting the fact that he himself is part of the very world he finds corrupt! However, this fact does not bother the author, and he never shows any sign of introspection. To take a leaf out of the movie Silence of the Lambs where the protagonist says to Hannibal, "You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself?"
Then there are the masses of people, who live their lives and follow their heart's desires, never thinking about why they are the way they are, why they do the things they do, and how it all came to be. Joe clocks in, works his shift, clocks out, goes home. Joe already has a full plate, why should he concern himself with the sufferings of his neighbor, or those in a faraway land? Indeed, there is no reason for him to bother. Yet the fact remains that there is suffering, that strange things happen, that greater forces are at work in Joe's world.
Now it is my thought that someone who, even as he is beaten by circumstance and misfortune, is able - even for a moment - to put his ego aside and capitulate to his knowledge and conception of Nature and his place in it, to see things not through his eyes but from a higher perspective of the systemic forces at play, would be of a different "flavor" than another who can see only where and how he has been wronged, and what is available in the world for his taking, and how his desires can best be fulfilled.
All this, more or less, is the meaning I found in the 6th Major Arcanum, The Lovers:
The man in the center is being coaxed in two directions. Which do we love?
And ultimately, what will be our Choice?
