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Well, let me think. A number of thoughts and hypotheses that have circulated in my head for some time, the connection between which befuddles me.
originally posted by: Hellas
a reply to: introspectionist
I do not believe in reincarnaton but what makes you think that Souls are reincarnated when a Civilization rises or falls?
I mean why not randomly or if there is some sort of pattern, in different time periods / dimensions?
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
originally posted by: introspectionist
I have been wondering if there is a connection between the rise and fall of civilizations and reincarnation of souls.
Maybe a soul that comes into the physical plane, hell, enters it and begins the correction of sin. At first only slowly, to a low degree, and then more and more as time progresses and as the soul keeps reincarnating back to the same physical plane. Maybe a soul enters the world in a civilization that is being born, then in later incarnations it's in the same civilization as it's rising. And when a civilization is declining it is the phase where the souls that are finished with the correction are separated from souls that will come back. Maybe a soul that does come back after the civilization has fallen comes back in another civilization that rises.
I have been thinking about autism. To me autism does not seem to be either/or, either you have it or you don't. Rather it's a spectrum that everybody is on. It might even be the exact same thing as the size of the ego, or emotional intelligence inverted. It seems to me that the least evolved nations are the most emotionally intelligent and vice versa. And this appears to go hand in hand with crony capitalism to some degree. The least evolved nations have free market capitalism. The most evolved the most pronounced crony capitalism. Israel seems to be synonymous with crony capitalism. And Israel also appears to have the same traits that an autistic has relative to the surrounding Gentile "neurotypical" nations.
The politicians that push things like feminism are not only subverting societies and making a civilization fall, they are also creating autistic citizens. Or rather, some of the citizens turn out that way. Some become infuriated and want to fight instead.
Maybe a similar divide happened in the fall of every civilization? One part was infuriated and fought, one part cooperated happily with the subverting forces, and a third part got more or less autistic.
Since history is written by the victors, it's not likely that much traces will be found of the autistic people, who aren't fighter types. Especially not if the mighty victors considered their thoughts inappropriate to be kept in public memory or for public display.
What I'm saying is that maybe the losers are the real winners, and the winners are the losers.
I have some other thoughts about the connection between crony capitalism and evolution that I might post some time. But what do you think about the possible connection between reincarnation and the rise and fall of civilizations? Is there a connection? And what does it mean for the souls and their reincarnations that the world appears to be moving gradually from many civilizations to fewer and ultimately to one? Is this a sign that we are ascending? Maybe from one single soul up into a collective soul and closer to God?
source: www.mindreality.com...
Learn from Darkness to Shine Your Brightest Light
We may regard those who hurt us as our adversaries, yet they are also our friends, because they force us to grow wiser. Our adversaries are the impetus or impelling force that helps us evolve. These adversaries bring awareness to our deepest fears and unconscious beliefs. When we can bring awareness to these hidden parts of ourselves, the things which we avoid can become our gateway to growth and healing. Our antagonizer is our helper.
The people who you struggle with will only be forcing you to dig deeper into your inner wellspring of lightness, love, and inner peace. The gems you find inside yourself will bring an even higher awareness, allowing others to respond from a more empowered loving space. When you start recognizing the divine within yourself and in everyone, then everyone you meet becomes a divine teacher showing you exactly what you need to learn next on your life journey.
What had happened in die great age of Greece happened again in Renaissance Italy: traditional moral restraints disappeared, because they were seen to be associated with superstition; the liberation from fetters made individuals energetic and creative, producing a rare florescence of genius ; but the anarchy and treachery which inevitably resulted from the decay of morals made Italians collectively impotent, and they fell, like the Greeks, under the domination of nations less civilized than themselves but not so destitute of social cohesion.
In this life, there are three kinds of men, just as there are three sorts of people who come to the Olympic Games. The lowest class is made up of those who come to buy and sell, the next above them are those who compete. Best of all, however, are those who come simply to look on. The greatest purification of all is, therefore, disinterested science, and it is the man who devotes himself to that, the true philosopher, who has most effectually released himself from the 'wheel of birth.'
To be honest I really do not know, but when I think about how crappy the world is, this thought helps me accept the way the world is, and kind helps my depression about it a bit.
originally posted by: DrunkYogi
a reply to: cavrac
To be honest I really do not know, but when I think about how crappy the world is, this thought helps me accept the way the world is, and kind helps my depression about it a bit.
It certainly does do that cavrac. To me also it is a deep inner feeling that this is the truth of the matter and not just because i would like that to be the truth. It's not superficial.
originally posted by: DrunkYogi
a reply to: introspectionist
It looks to me like the end of the age intro, the Kali Yuga where the Devil is let loose to play for a while. It separates the wheat from the chaff. Some will rise and some will fall, but the one's that fall may very well rise next time and so on. For those that rise to a higher spiritual existence there may well another form of the cycle to reach to even higher planes and then to their final destination. Whatever that may be.
Nice article here........
THE KALI YUGA
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source: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'
www.gnostics.com...
A distinguishing feature of Gnosticism is an illusive, symbolic interpretation of reality, including history.
A number of social and political movements, including Marxism and Lenin’s Bolshevism, have been linked to Gnosticism, which flourished in the early centuries of the Christian era. The political scientists A. Besancon and L. Pellicani argue the intellectual roots of Russian Bolshevism are a structural repetition of the ancient Gnostic paradigm.
INSANITY:
Mental disease. Among the Jews the proportion of insane has been observed to be very large.
Zen Gardner: "Oh, you don't like Jewish people. Jewish people aren't equal to us. Don't you know how tortured they were for so long?" Well lady, you know what, if you knew why they were chased out of country by country maybe you'd have a different attitude. Why they were kicked out of every country they went into because they were trying to screw it.
Henrik: The analogy of the man that seeks different partners in life and his marriages keep breaking up. And he's like "that woman wasn't that great. She had some issues, psychological issues. And then something was wrong with the next one, physicality wise, or I wasn't attracted to her, whatever." It's like, marriage after marriage fails. After 20, 30, 40 wives, 50, 60, 100 wives, at what point are you gonna begin to question the man in the relationship and say maybe there's something there that's wrong. Maybe he has an issue. Maybe it's not all these women that have an issue.
Zen Gardner: Exactly. There's a famous story of a guy. It's probably a different scenario but, this guy drives into a little small town and he stops at the gas station. He's looking for a town to move to. He asked the attendant "What are the people like here like?" And the attendant says "Well, what were they like where you came from?" He says "Ah, they were all smarmy, stinky, ugly, stupid, you know, they were awful." And the guy says to him "You know, they're gonna be the same way here for you."