WHAT IF?
By: Sanderson Sims
One of life’s great pursuits is speculating on the unknowable. Spirituality and religion offer their best attempts at explaining how we got here, and the nature of the divine, but absolute proof is elusive. So, if you really think about it, we each believe the best story going for ourselves.
Here is the one I go for:
Just suppose, as some have, that the Divine, or all that is, decided that it wanted to explore the whole idea of forgetfulness. To do so it would fragment itself into the “human species.” That is every individual would be a god who had fallen asleep to their true identity and capability. They would be able to wield power only by dent of unconsciously having desires, intent, taking action, and noticing what happened.
They could assume there was no divine power, or believe there was a divine creator who had created the universe and the creatures and elements. Some might believe in the divine but still think of it as separate from its’ creations and possibly pleased or annoyed with what its’ creations did, or did not do.
Along with forgetfulness is the idea that these creators would have freedom and free will, to express themselves in all ways imaginable and unimaginable, while still not knowing who they were. Through observation and experience each person would formulate ideas on how existence works, through trial and error.
The one certainty would be that in time, and this could be aeons, the intense desire to find out the nature of the divine would be the key to slowly waking up and thus manifesting an increasing awareness of one’s true identity. Ultimately all would wake up and this particular experiment would come to an end.
In the meantime, all manner of consciousness expressions would be available yielding varying degrees of pain and pleasure. The idea would be that souls would garner all of the experiences available before returning to unity consciousness. As various souls awakened they would point the way to return. As simple as that might sound, the gathering of all experiences could take aeons.
So continuing with our journey of forgetfulness and remembrance it might mean that various worlds and planes of existence, almost infinite, would all contribute. The earth, for example, would offer all that we can imagine from the illusion of power expressed in war and peace, from poverty to wealth, from kindness to bestiality-you get the picture. And to gain all the experiences of the earth plane numerous reincarnations coupled with adequate rest in between would be just the ticket.
One school of thought might be that to do this humanity might be clustered or gathered into groups referred to as root races. Each root race would go through the hundreds of incarnations necessary to gain all of the earth’s experiences, and for that matter, experiences in other dimensions and realms in between reincarnations.
Now just suppose for talking purposes, let’s say the advanced party of a root race arrived before the stragglers from the current root race had departed. The overlap would always find those with virtually all the experiences mingling with those arriving who would have had virtually no experience.
The last to leave would be seen as wise old souls, masters of this reality. The “newbies” would seem ignorant and unaware because they would be. As a result, for example, the enticement of power, control, material obsession etc. would always be present because there would always be souls who had not experienced these, and thus yearned to do so, not aware of the price these experiences would extract for the experience.
The world, in this scenario, would accommodate this continuous learning dynamic. However, what would exist would be an ongoing dynamic tension between souls with differing degrees of awareness. Therefore, there would most likely always be those craving physical violence and dominance, to cope with fear and lack, at their end of the awareness spectrum.
Furthermore, the achievement of awareness would be hard won. Why? Because such experiences as despair, poverty, inferiority, grief, jealousy, physical pain, to name a few, would be for most necessary to comprehend their opposites.
What does this lead to?
At the most dangerous macro level the earth could become uninhabitable with technology pushing climate conditions or nuclear armaments bringing us to the brink. For those further along this awareness continuum, the idea would be to not become discouraged because world peace is faltering or there is suffering to an abominable level, but to use their consciousness to envision a new world, a reality that works for everyone.
Using one’s powers of manifestation would focus on bringing about heaven on earth for all, beauty, health, well-being, abundance, and purpose that does not occur at the expense of others. Still, the world will be able to continuously provide the full range of experience to all souls.
Does this sound familiar or resonate with you?
There are many mystical, occult and channeled sources which allude to this idea in some or all aspects — that this world is a school, and that we operate in a dreamworld in which we are all waking up. Free will allows us to express whatever level our consciousness is at.
This does at some level provide a rationality for the world we live in and, most importantly a way to personally navigate no matter how chaotic the environment becomes. Meditation, intuition, recognizing synchronicities, and visionary states are all tools which help guide us.
As I said in the beginning this is the best story that resonates with me. I have always been a sudent of the idea that as creators in this scenario, our lives are determined by the questions we ask. We ask and demand and eventually the universe answers. With this information we act and continue to ask and so it goes.
What questions are you asking?
