The impulse to protect and polarization (Guns)

[Plenum]

Great post Plenum.
Thank you.

np

Brought on a minor epiphany for me.
If "I" didn't plan on getting involved in some sort of action here/now, (pre incarnation) the chances of it happening seem to be very much reduced.
duh

I guess the eternal question, for a 3d entity, is how much of catalyst is preplanned, and how much of it can be considered 'random', or subject to the Wheel of Fortune effect.

True fatalists would say that life is like a rollercoaster ride, and everything is just a result of karmic return, and you choosing how to respond to the experiences on the rollercoaster.  At the end of the day, you are strapped into your ride ('your life journey'), and most of the markers and signposts are firmly in place.  You really don't have much choice in where things go, and are just there to 'interpret'.

People who believe the opposite strand tend to favor a 'you create your own reality' approach, and that anything and everything can be determined by the incarnate personality.  I do like the self-empowerment of this type of message, but I also acknowledge that there are certain parameters in place for any life incarnation, so that it stays on track with the goals set for that life.  3d just has too much variety and too many activities to scatter one's attention to the winds.  I think of FDR's self-triggered polio when he started getting too involved in orange ray pleasures to the detriment of excluding his heart-based polarization.  His life plan saw fit enough to cripple him, so that he would learn what he came here to learn.  He chose that for himself before coming down - it wasn't a punishment.  If he understood well enough later on in life, would the polio have suddenly reverted, and he would have had a miracle recovery?  Or did the deeper self not see that as an issue for a human being to be so handicapped for the rest of their natural life?

there is a certain harshness and bluntness when we talk about the enforced limitations of incarnation; for eg, someone willingly and knowingly being born into a body that was blind, or a baby that has fetal-alchohol syndrome.  It somehow doesn't seem 'fair'; and yet the parameters of each life are chosen specifically (and tailored) for the learning goals in that incarnation.  Perhaps we suffer from acute short sightedness in trying to see perfection in each life; without seeing them as a sequence of a strand of lovely pearls, each life with it's own unique overlays and harmonies, the whole of which forms the final structure which leads to the perfect balance of the Higher Self.

Red ray, huh?
Shadows of the past?
Or the future?

fears, especially of survival, are based on past traumatic incidents.  They then project into the future as scenarios in which one is being threatened, intimidated, or physically coerced.  One then gets paralyzed by those fears, and closes off potential new experiences.

No-one really wishes the destruction of their physical vehicle.  But if one is self-convinced by depression/suicidal tendences that future experienes will only bring more pain and suffering, then the only viable option in such a person's mind is ending the possibility of any more future experiences.  Ie, a total closing of red ray, and the attempt to nullify consciousness either through the deliberate act of physical self ending, or the numbing of consciousness into nothingness using things like alchohol.  The actual physical acts are the way of enforcing a state of consciousness so that it becomes 'reality' for that person.  The acts are secondary to the state of mind thinking those thoughts.