Good thoughts and
best wishes.
A: With human eyes and physical senses it
does appear to be a chance accident that brought nothing but horror to
an entire region of the world, yet with spiritual eyes and inner
senses this “tragedy” can be seen very differently.
First of all, on the plane
of manifestation there’s only one way anything can happen: thought.
And just as an individual’s thoughts will craft their immediate
environment, so do mass thoughts craft the environment of those
sharing it. Every soul affected by what happened that day, whether
they were washed away, narrowly escaped, or watched it on CNN from the
comfort of their western home, was a participant/co-creator of what
happened, and all chose their vantage point given their options as
created by earlier choices (thoughts) that led up to that moment in
time. This was a mass event, caused by mass, cumulative thoughts that
expressed in an agreed upon NOW.
“But,”
you might ask, “why would anyone choose to create such a horrific
event?” There
are as many different reasons as there were people aware of, and
affected by, what happened. However to uncover some of their possible
rationales we should first get rid of the “horrific” judgment.
Only our limited view of reality, from within time and space, makes it
nearly impossible to see anything like this in a positive light. But
when you realize that death is just the closing of one door so that
another can swing open; that those who “perished” are now as
aware, cognitive, individualistic, and “themselves”, as they were
when “alive” here; that the exact time, circumstances, and drama
surrounding each individual “death” was handled and calculated
with absolute precision by their “higher” selves under grace, in
divine ways, and that each life only “transitioned” because at a
soul-level of awareness they deemed the time and circumstances ideal,
then suddenly it becomes almost absurd to call such an event
“horrific”.
“But,”
you may continue, “you mean to say that every single death,
dismemberment, and crippling, was deliberate? That everyone along the
affected Pacific Rim and African coasts that day was there by their
own design? That over 600,000 people drowned, not because they were in
the way of a tidal wave, but because it was “their time”, and lo,
coincidentally, they all lived by the coast, and were within reach of
the tide, at exactly the right time?”
Yes, except the
coincidence part. While every single person’s experience that day
was private, and their participation in the event was first and
foremost for their own reasons, each was also either willing, or
intent, on being part of this mass event.
“How
could you possibly think that all these deaths were not
"coincidental," and why
would anyone care about participating in such a mass event?”
Again, there’d be as many
reasons as there were people involved. In some cases, like famine,
participation in a mass event might be like a mass protest, made to
the rest of the world at the horrible living conditions they exist
under (this idea from a Seth Book*). Or in
the case of aids, it could be either a protest to the rest of the
world for not accepting their choices, or perhaps as
a self-punishment if they themselves thought they deserved
punishment (or, of course, it could be neither). For others disasters,
it could just be a matter of convenience, that each life “taken”
knew before their life began that such “opportunities” to
“check-out” would exists at varying intervals, perhaps based on
necessary geological changes that the earth would be experiencing, and
so they timed their birth to coincide with such likely intervals
(knowing full well that they, or even the mass consciousness, could
change their minds later – no one is ever at the mercy of early
decisions, or so called, “contracts”). Lastly, such mass
“disturbances”, as opposed to lone, individual dramas, can serve
as powerful “wake-up calls”, to those who are left behind (which,
in part, was the case with the holocaust), at the need to reexamine
values, morals, priorities, etc. (which also demonstrates how even
spectators are participants of such events, with this being just one
example of why they might partake). But again, generally individual
motivations and intents would come before mass concerns and
priorities.
There is also another
tack
that might be used to explain the “coincidence phenomena” (which
is even more mind-boggling when, say, an airplane crashes with
hundreds of people on board, all from
different countries, who all seemingly, randomly, happened to choose
that flight from among many, whereas actually, every single one of
them, toddlers to the aged, were co-creators of the disaster), and
that is to explain how events really happen: Simultaneously. That just
because we perceive everything happening in consecutive moments,
doesn’t mean they do. They all exist simultaneously; it’s only our
selective awareness that moves. But with such a tack,
words aren’t too helpful, and the normal presumptions of our time
can get in the way.
Nevertheless, let me share with you an insight I
had after a very violent 2 car accident I was in almost 20 years ago.
Sitting on the curb dazed and confused (while bodies lay crumpled in
the other car) my mind was reeling at the “perfection” of what had
just happened. If anything in my entire day, or in the day of the
others involved with the accident, or in the day of the countless
people we had come in contact with that day apart from the accident,
had changed by even a second or two – it was quite plausible that
the accident would not have happened at all.
Yet at this point in my
life it was already obvious to me that nothing in life was ever
accidental, which meant that this accident (a mini mass event), had
been formulated at many levels until its final culmination, and that
that culmination would have to be beyond exacting. I then remembered
as a child using my grandmother’s movie camera to record carefully
staged events, but playing them backwards and not telling our
audience, making the event appear mostly ordinary, with some
supernatural events.
For example
even a golf club hitting a golf ball, played backwards (assuming the
film speed was super fast), would make it look as if the golfer,
actually “caught” a soaring golf ball and in a fraction of a
second, and with a speedy flick of their wrist, rested their catch
upon a stationary wooden tee! Well, it dawned on me that that is
exactly the kind of “impossible” timing that would have had to
exist to make my 2 car accident turn out exactly as it did –
IMPOSSIBLE!
Impossible, that is, if you assume everything is happening
in a consecutive time line! My conclusion, and it’s an easy one, is
that life (and you’ve heard this before!), is not what it appears to
be. The tsunami, like any and every event of our lives, did not happen
on a linear time line. Instead, it’s as if, the desired effect, for
every single soul involved, happened first, and then all the
circumstances and events necessary to produce it were then woven
around the disaster (this is why when you visualize you “should”
start with the end result in mind and not mess with the cursed how’s
– so that the Universe can “back into” the circumstances to get
you there, which is how things really work!!!!!)
Still, to interpret
time-space events we use our physical senses, which now/still
interpret the physical world along linear time lines (and this is
actually quite handy, essential, even, for the infant-like
consciousnesses we possess, so that we might more clearly “see”
how our thoughts form reality, with our thoughts coming “first”!
Once we grasp this, once we finally see ourselves as the source of all
our experiences, with dominion over all things, it
will “then” be “safer” for us to frolic in other
realities where we can indeed experience our thought forms as
instantaneous manifestations – without the delay caused by our
present interpretations of time.)
“And
what of those who didn’t die, but who now suffer physically and
emotionally – why?”
Of course it’s not only our
deaths that are exquisitely timed and orchestrated in harmony by our
greater selves, but no second of any day is any less important. Every
stubbed toe, every cancer, and every good, or wonderful, or boring, or
unpleasant occurrence that ever happens to us are all similarly
“blessed”, and by inference, is what we “wanted” to happen.
“But
why would someone “want” anything unpleasant to happen to
themselves?”
Actually, of the event itself,
virtually NO ONE, however of the experience that would come from the
event, EVERYONE who would choose it. For instance, I’ve met
countless cancer survivors and without exception they all view the
experience as the greatest “gift” of their life. The experience
yielded "things" they wanted, like enhanced life perspectives, an
awakening to their spirituality, a bonding between certain family
members or friends, a belief in their power, etc. (the list is
endless). So before the cancer struck, even consciously, but perhaps
not (although such knowledge is always consciously available), they
keenly wanted such results as I’ve just enumerated, and through the
ingenuity, craftiness and sublime creativity of them working in
concert with their greater selves, cancer was the solution.
“And
what of the cancer survivors you haven’t met with, some of whom
actually succumbed to the disease, who would likely NOT view the
experience as a gift?”
Again, each would have a different
story. Some, perhaps, at a soul-level, were ready to transition, their
“time” had arrived but they opted to “check-out” slowly
(instead of quickly like through a car accident, a stroke, heart
attack, etc.). Maybe because they wanted time to say their goodbyes,
prepare their will, etc. Or perhaps because they thought they deserved
to “die” slowly for something they did that they judged to be
awful. Or perhaps they thought a slow, painful death would elicit
sympathy from someone they felt no longer loved them. Or perhaps they
watched enough TV announcements that told them they would die slowly
of cancer if they didn’t quit smoking, and they “bought” into
it.
“So,
we needn’t feel sympathy for those traumatically affected by natural
disasters? They created them, they needed them, let them have their
lesson?” Hardly!
Remember that if you are even aware of their plight, of the disaster,
it means that to a degree, however miniscule, you also had a role in
its creation. Why? Well maybe, knowing that such a probable event was
brewing, you chose to use it to remind yourself of life’s fragility,
sacredness, splendor and wonder (yes, even though illusory, it is all
of those things, too. Maybe by witnessing families swept apart, it
would help draw you closer to yours. Maybe the jolt it might serve to
your awareness might give you an impetus to serve others, rearrange
priorities, focus more on spiritual things rather than material things
(not because you “should”, there are no “shoulds”, but perhaps
you had long felt you wanted to change, for whatever reason, or
perhaps you had unnecessarily been feeling guilty, and so by becoming
aware of this event you realized you could use it as a stimulus.)
And
not only might you want to be aware of such an event so that you might
be thrown into a place where you could make a difference to those
“suffering”, but just as likely, part of the reason that some of
those chose to suffer, in addition to their private reasons, was so
that you, and others like you, could have someone else to care about
and look after! In other words, sometimes the “victim” might
choose to be the “victim”, in part, in order to create
opportunities for good Samaritans to learn of their own power through
intervening and giving comfort or donations. Samaritans who would
otherwise not have gotten involved in smaller affairs, and thus not
experienced the difference they could make.
Still, just as
you would comfort a child who was lost, or sick, even though
their predicament was of their own creation,
perhaps due to ignoring parental advise, so,
too, is there abundant reason and cause to
offer comfort and support to adults who find themselves in need of
help.
“But,”
you might ask, “what of the children? The ones who died? The ones
who became orphans?”
Same answers as all the above,
namely, it was part of their own “plans and intents”. Often, the
mistaken view of children is that they are all new souls, here by
“accident”, with no say on the circumstances of their life. Not
true. We are all far older in soul terms than we are new. Every child,
like every one of us, knew and chose the times they’d be born into.
The parents they’d have. Their nationality. Their color. Their
leanings and inclinations. These choices are all based on the kind of
adventures they’re partial to, where, what and when their friends
are choosing, and the kind of things they wanted to learn and
experience. No, they didn’t choose to be born so that at the age of
3 years, 2 month and 4 days they could drown in a tidal wave. Life is
not pre-ordained, and all “destinies” are malleable, based on our
changing individual and mass thoughts. But they did fully understand
that they were choosing to be born into primitive times, when warning
systems and technologies may not prevent them from being in harm’s
way, and where the mass consciousness may find it useful (for a
million and one reasons) to be pummeled by Mother Nature. And once
born, as their young life unfolded and immediate, future, mass
probabilities became more and more focused, together working with
their parents/guardians, and all their greater selves, everyone was in
EXACTLY the right place at the right time, during the “unexpected”
flooding.
I might also point out that
just because a life may end, seemingly before it has begun, perhaps at
3 years of age, does not mean that it would not be an experience worth
having, for that child, and for those who loved that child.
“But
why would someone choose to be born into a poor country, or to have
ignorant parents....” There are
again, infinite reasons, all easier to accept when you realize that
you can choose to live as many lives as you want, wherever, and as
whoever you want, and knowing this, combined with the fact that life
in time and space is “just a dream” from which we will all awaken
unscathed, unharmed, and as “more” than who we were before it
began, it should then make perfectly good sense that we would choose a
variety of lives, with a variety of challenges and opportunities,
rather than just being born, time and again, gorgeous, talented, rich,
spoiled, and pampered – YUCK, how dreadfully boring it would
that be
after just several lifetimes? Besides, after awhile, between
luxurious and simple lives, you’d likely become enchanted and
transfixed by those whose lives were
enriched by challenge, adversity, heart aches, dreams to aspire to and
goals to achieve that you’d insist on a turn or two, and
might even prefer such lives.
“OK,
if I agreed with all that other stuff, I could see how diversity would
be a boon. But to be raped as a toddler, to starve to death, to drown
as an infant... how can you explain the truly “miserable life”?
Millions of reasons, and you can
even keep the “miserable” label. But I’ll just go over one
hypothetical, worst case: What if there was a particular soul you
loved more than words could say, together with whom you’d
adventured, and rampaged, and loved throughout countless millenniums,
yet there came a time when your dearly beloved began journeys down
paths you were unfamiliar with. Journeys during which they became so
utterly lost in rage, fury, and anger that violence became their sole
means of dealing with life.
Further, they had become so confused that
between these crazy and lost lifetimes, they even forgot who you were,
though you remained as in love with them as you had ever been. And so
it was shown to you that if you could cross paths with your beloved,
again in the physical, born as his daughter in an “upcoming life”
(even between lives time is a relative and useful benchmark), even in
his altered state, in the instance he’d first lay his eyes upon you,
as a young and crying babe, he’d be gripped by love, and though
he’d know not what, he’d begin to remember. But let’s also say
that you were also shown that in this same incarnation, even as much
as he would love you, he would still be prone to uncontrollable fits
of anger and violence, and that it would very likely be directed at
you in vile and traumatic ways. Yet with every such trespass and
violation, he would, for the first time in
all of his “misguided” lifetimes without you,
begin to understand the destructive nature of his violent ways. That
only when directed at you, his beloved daughter, would he be sure to
see this... at which point his greatest healings would begin. Would you choose to help him? Would you choose to risk
your young life, even though in grander terms you’d have nothing to
lose? I think you would.
American Red Cross
The Humane
Society
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If
you'd like to learn more about the philosophies
Mike shares, you might enjoy, risk free:
Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living
Your Dreams
*“The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events” (A Seth
Book), by Jane Roberts. Available at most major
bookstores, including amazon.com.
