I am going to get a little long winded here so I hope you are comfortable. In fact, grab your coffee, pull up a chair and.....
You’re right, two questions.
Well, let’s see, I agree that energy can’t be destroyed, nor matter-for that matter. Matter changes but isn’t destroyed. But I think that we are ‘personalities’ on two levels. One is what you see at this conscious level, in this physical reality, but the other is the personality which exists on a super-concious level which is actually at the point of connection between the Creative Consciousness that is the source of the energy that makes up everything in the universe. I think that it’s at this point that we make the decision to go through these lives and place ourselves in what I’ve read one author refer to as a ‘learning lab’.
It’s in this learning lab that we go through the process of evolution of ‘spirit’ which is what this is all about sort of. What we, like nature, are seeking to do is to move or evolve to a place of less chaos. I think in scientific jargon, that’s referred to as lowering our entropy. When the world first started it was a high entropy environment, volcanoes, earth upheavals, floods, etc., but over time the volcanoes subsided, the waters parted, the land came forth and entropy(chaos) diminished. That is what Consciousness seeks to do. Lower it’s entropy and to that end it uses us. We are like sensors or monitors, the hand - inside the glove (the physical body). The hand which is that consciousness/energy residing inside what I delicately refer to as ‘the meat suit’.
As we evolve in our humanity, so too that Consciousness that has created this universe for the purpose of its own evolution, ‘re-absorbs’ our experiences and subsequently is changed by the ongoing accumulation of understandings and experiences. The ‘questions’ you referred to (in my opinion) aren’t an assignment so much as they are just the endless assortment of options that we each face day to day. Those options provide the impetus for our own intellectual/spiritual evolution as we exercise the free will that is necessary for the process to happen. And when we die, we return ‘home’ and then in todays technical language, our knowledge, understanding, etc., is downloaded to the Source. And then, we get to do it all again. (I just had a thought: in every NDE that I've read about, the individual refers to a 'life review' that is watched without fear or embarrassment and wherein they not only are aware of their own feelings of that moment, but also the feelings of those whom they have affected. This usually takes place quite early on after we've made the transition between 'life' and 'death'. I wonder if it is at that moment that all of our understanding and experiences are 'downloaded' to the Source?
And I hasten to add, it’s not just the experiences of you and me that are downloaded. It’s the experience of every sentient being and even non-sentient things who share in the process. So when your dog dies, it returns and the small bit of life experience it has enjoyed becomes part and parcel of the whole. Every cow, every clam, every cat, every crow……we all share in this amazing job. And yes, even as I say that I recognize that rocks and sticks don't have many options, they just are, but that Consciousness also created those things and as such, profits by their existence as they may be involved directly or indirectly in the choices we make.
I knew a woman whose daughter was bi-polar and the result there wasn’t an advantage in times of threat. More a case of sinking into despair for weeks on end to be replaced by weeks of ridiculously high highs that caused it’s own set of problems.
I’m sure enjoying this discussion metasegue because you have provided an ‘option’ for me, i.e. to formalize in my own mind how I think it all works or to avoid the discussion and merely exchange pleasantries. I'm opting for boosting my evolution so I'm happy to choose the 'formalizing'.
Hope your game turned out like you thought it might. Have a nice day.
