07-19-2017, 04:47 AM
(07-18-2017, 05:18 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: Yes, I think people tend to underestimate the basic confusion and availability of free will in our density. I don't at all believe that an ancient negative force is necessary to explain the presence of greed and negativity on a large scale on Earth. The basis for greed (along with compassion) was laid in second density. These behaviors and motivations can be linked to instincts present in most animals, especially mammals. Third density allows us to evaluate and grow these basic, primal ideas into more and more intricate expressions, especially through social systems. Both those positive and negative behaviors can be chosen and built upon.
To use your examples, sjel:
Why would religions exploit the emotion of guilt? Probably because they sought to control populations (both to maintain power but also to maintain peace and stability). Guilt was a natural way to make people behave in certain ways. An ancient negative force isn't needed to come to this conclusion. Along the way, someone made a choice, one of the choices that we're here to make, to try to control people. Basic negative human behavior, evolving over time, explains it easily.
Same with pharmaceuticals in general. Why is the pharmaceutical industry so prominent, so shady, so unethical? I don't doubt for a second that the primary motivation is not to "keep our vibrations down," but to make money. If the drugs were meant to just control us, they'd be giving them away for free and eating the cost. Instead they create schemes to build trust in the industry and dependence (illusory or literal) on the drugs so that people buy them, sometimes at great cost. It seems so clearly a money-making scheme to me. The "lower vibration" is likely a side-effect of creating that dependence. Again, someone made a choice to exploit people for power and money. They made the choice. No ancient evil necessary.
(None of this is to say that all individuals within the pharma industry, whether researcher, doctors, or whatever, are negative. I know for sure that a good many of them believe fully that they are helping people, and in a lot of cases, they are. A legitimate form of healing is hidden in a shadowy industry.)
Of course, we know that Orion has influenced, and continues to influence, our world. So does the Confederation. Maybe Orion significantly influences our population. My point is that they aren't responsible for the presence of negative polarity on our planet. It wasn't the Orion empire that offered humans the ability to be greedy, selfish, and controlling, just as it wasn't the Confederation that offered us the ability to be compassionate, loving, and accepting. Finding one of those paths is why we're here, and the presence of greed and control in the world seems logical to me.
Expanding on this, I think it's also important to remember that Earth was deliberately set up as a sort of playground where anything and everything is possible (within some physical constraints) simply for its own sake. And to see what would result from a situation where a people evolving and living on a planet are forced to rely almost solely on the planet and each other, rather than having much in the way of "outside" resources to draw upon.
Like greed? Imo, that derives directly from the simple fact of material scarcity in the world. Because any one of us could die within a few days without water, and a couple weeks -at most- without food, that creates a very strong impulse among most people to make sure they never, ever lack for the necessities of life. And because money in our current society is such a potent concentrated form of power, it becomes a means of ensuring that sort of freedom from want. Just about everyone wants enough money in the bank to ensure they can keep themselves and their family fed, clothed, and housed. Unfortunately, some take this too far and stockpile far more money than they could ever need, just because of the perceived power it brings them.
But I don't think we need ancient evils to explain this, just basic human psychology as honed by millennia of evolution on a particularly unforgiving planet.
Plus -in the larger scheme- this is basically what was intended to happen. Earth is so heavily veiled specifically so that it could be a sort of experimental sandbox. A situation where NEW ideas and concepts and ways of living could come about, either positive or negative, which would be impossible in other kinds of existence. That we have to take the proverbial good with the bad is just a consequence of that basic desire to discover novel new experiences for the Creator. And likewise, the various interference by both the Orions and the Confederacy in our development has ultimately been serving that larger overarching purpose.
Earth is here to be INTERESTING. But that which is interesting is not likely to be entirely positive.
Or at least, that's the framework of my understanding, and how I personally try to accept and love the Earth.