"Spiritual Correctness"

[APeacefulWarrior]

this thread has been on my mind for some time now, and it's been percolating for a while.

I used the term "spiritual correctness" in the same way that we have the term "political correctness".  In that, there may be a set of beliefs or patterns which are considered "spiritually correct", and going beyond those is somehow inappropriate or too upsetting.

I think what this boils down to is that a lot of people are fundamentally insecure in their beliefs.  There's a lot people who don't have enough philosophical handle on the "Big Questions" to feel secure in their own low-level beliefs about how the world works, especially among those who simply received their beliefs secondhand.  (A child raised in the church without ever feeling the holy spirit, for example.)  Lacking the ability to really think about philosophy in-depth, they get upset if presented with arguments that contradict their own assumed worldview.

For that matter, we see this same basic thing in pretty much EVERY philosophy around the world, to varying degrees.  There's always going to be some group declaring their own version of a philosophy to be the most true\pure\righteous and refusing to accept any compromise.  Some are merely content to turn their noses up and be snobby about it, while others can become actively violent.  

Plus, we can't disregard the Negative influence in this.  Since one of the hallmarks of negative polarization in our densities is a refusal\inability to really respect free will in other entities, philosophical systems -especially religious ones- give them a very easy line of attack when seeking to dominate the thoughts of others.  A lot of these sorts of folks, I'm sure, are simply negatively-polarized entities behaving exactly as is natural to them.  They only see their own POV as valid, so they try to compel others to share it.

But the other thing is...  

Well, one of the key concepts in the Law of One (or any other cosmology in which God is deliberately experiencing himself from the inside) is that the universe is SUPPOSED to have wrong ideas about itself. That's the entire point of "distortions" but it's incredibly hard for a lot of folks to wrap their minds around.  We are deliberately and intentionally giving ourselves wrong notions pretty much for the sole sake of seeing what happens if we do so.  Doing everything "right" -in a theoretically objective sense- is actually doing everything wrong, because we're supposed to be getting things wrong.  But that's amazingly counter-intuitive and hard to grasp.

I think Ra's anecdote in 77 about the society which was set up without free will and pre-set to be STO sums this up, in terms of why Logoi didn't continue making such peoples:

Those Logoi whose creations have been set up without free will have not, in the feeling of those Logoi, given the Creator the quality and variety of experience of Itself as have those Logoi which have incorporated free will as paramount. Thusly you find those Logoi moving through the timeless states at what you would see as a later space/time to choose the free will character when elucidating the foundations of each Logos.

That "quality and variety of experience" is arguably the single most important goal of this entire setup, and it absolutely REQUIRES free will allowing us to be totally and completely wrong, just because that makes interesting stuff happen.  The prefab STO guys were boring, more or less, and didn't add much to the Creator's self-understanding. Drifting around for aeons doing nothing but enjoying Timeless Love is pretty much exactly what the Creator is trying to NOT do, because it's presumably all that the Creator was doing before starting up this whole project.

But someone who is fixated on finding "the right path" or the "optimal route" or such won't be able to see this.  As you say, it's an understanding that they just aren't ready for yet.