What is going on, here on Earth?

[Namaste]

Is it really a fair choice though if it is coming from a place of confusion, misunderstanding and ignorance?  Wouldn't the loving thing to do be to educate and provide knowledge and clarity and then ask which choice wants to be made, like we do with our children?  I don't know, I've just never really been able to get behind the idea that everything someone experiences in their life is a result of their own choice, regardless of how well informed or not that choice was.  It just seems unfair and doesn't sit well with me, but maybe that is my problem and lack of acceptance.

I'll let Ra answer that, better than I ever could :¬)

50.7 Questioner: Thank you. Can you expand on the concept which is this: that it is necessary for an entity to, during incarnation in the physical as we call it, become polarized or interact properly with other entities and why this isn’t possible in between incarnations when he is aware of what he wants to do, but why must he come into an incarnation and lose memory, conscious memory of what he wants to do and then act in a way that he hopes to act? Could you expand on that please?

Ra: I am Ra. Let us give the example of the man who sees all the poker hands. He then knows the game. It is but child’s play to gamble, for it is no risk. The other hands are known. The possibilities are known and the hand will be played correctly but with no interest.

In time/space and in the true-color green density, the hands of all are open to the eye. The thoughts, the feelings, the troubles, all these may be seen. There is no deception and no desire for deception. Thus much may be accomplished in harmony but the mind/body/spirit gains little polarity from this interaction.

Let us re-examine this metaphor and multiply it into the longest poker game you can imagine, a lifetime. The cards are love, dislike, limitation, unhappiness, pleasure, etc. They are dealt and re-dealt and re-dealt continuously. You may, during this incarnation begin — and we stress begin — to know your own cards. You may begin to find the love within you. You may begin to balance your pleasure, your limitations, etc. However, your only indication of other-selves’ cards is to look into the eyes.

You cannot remember your hand, their hands, perhaps even the rules of this game. This game can only be won by those who lose their cards in the melting influence of love; can only be won by those who lay their pleasures, their limitations, their all upon the table face up and say inwardly: “All, all of you players, each other-self, whatever your hand, I love you.” This is the game: to know, to accept, to forgive, to balance, and to open the self in love. This cannot be done without the forgetting, for it would carry no weight in the life of the mind/body/spirit beingness totality.

A wonderful analogue of our experience.

I would say yes I am experiencing war because I am my brother's keeper and we are one and those in Iraq and Afghanistan who are suffering in war are my family, and part of me.

I say that as I sit meditating in my backyard , which is heaven on earth.  I am sitting under a beautiful pergola , in a lovely flower garden next to a fish pond with blooming water lilies that remind me of the auspicious lotus.

I can't separate myself from them because we are one, we are connected, and this one planetary home is ours to care for.  Wherever there is discord and disharmony, and war, it impacts the whole planetary sphere.

Though I am blessed to live in peace and beauty, others are less fortunate.  But we are one.  My hope is that all will be uplifted to grace and beauty, and soon.  That all people will know the love and light of the true OIC

Not directly though, dear sister; the gun is not in your own hand.

And I absolutely agree, we are responsible to each and every other self; to offer support, love and kindness. That's why we're here. Our open hearts - the vibration we offer - is helping on a planetary level in which our senses are unable to see.

As you sit and appreciate the beauty of the Creator you are being of service.