07-09-2016, 06:03 AM
Hi Scott!
Youch. That's a difficult one. While I do empathize and try to commiserate with all situations, it would also be a bit disingenuous of me to say that this would be a 'clear' or 'balanced' attitude in a given situation, without exposing myself to said circumstances. And who knows how I, despite current understandings, would respond given certain stress points.
The closest I could equate those conditions (as best I understand them) would be the modern equivalent of a super-max prison. In that one's liberties are severely constrained. But even there, one is not toiling, physically, every day, with the threat of a whip/lash if one is not picking enough cotton, or not meeting enough 'quota'.
So, personally, I think it's possible to retain one's dignity and integrated personality even despite overwhelming circumstances.
Maybe someone like Nelson Mandela, or Gandhi could serve as stronger role models here.
I think they were able to maintain the attitude of 'Love', despite subjugation and overwhelming 'odds' against an apparent dominant negative government.
Ra offered this on Martin Luther King:
In terms of the actual specifics of the situation that you gave, first of all, one can 'acknowledge' the other-self (here, the slave owner) without condoning their actions.
One also has to acknowledge one's situation as well, in that, according to the legal framework, there is no recourse to one's situation, as being a 'possession' of someone else, and at their whim.
Could one then try to escape to a different State, with the threat of death and severe torture hanging over you? I guess that could be an option.
In terms of the actual actions, that would differ by circumstance. Maybe some 'owners' were more 'benevolent' than others, relatively speaking, and some 'owners' more 'cruel'.
But I think the understandings of the self (and orange ray) are contiguous in the sense that the attitudes that we have continue on, despite harsh external conditions. So despite extreme external pressures, one can still have clarity (in certain portions of consciousness).
Youch. That's a difficult one. While I do empathize and try to commiserate with all situations, it would also be a bit disingenuous of me to say that this would be a 'clear' or 'balanced' attitude in a given situation, without exposing myself to said circumstances. And who knows how I, despite current understandings, would respond given certain stress points.
The closest I could equate those conditions (as best I understand them) would be the modern equivalent of a super-max prison. In that one's liberties are severely constrained. But even there, one is not toiling, physically, every day, with the threat of a whip/lash if one is not picking enough cotton, or not meeting enough 'quota'.
So, personally, I think it's possible to retain one's dignity and integrated personality even despite overwhelming circumstances.
Maybe someone like Nelson Mandela, or Gandhi could serve as stronger role models here.
I think they were able to maintain the attitude of 'Love', despite subjugation and overwhelming 'odds' against an apparent dominant negative government.
Ra offered this on Martin Luther King:
34.10 Wrote:The other example is the entity, Martin.
This entity dealt in a great degree with rather negative orange-ray and yellow-ray vibratory patterns.
However, this entity was able to keep open the green-ray energy and due to the severity of its testing, if anything, this entity may be seen to have polarized more towards the positive due to its fidelity to service to others in the face of great catalyst.
In terms of the actual specifics of the situation that you gave, first of all, one can 'acknowledge' the other-self (here, the slave owner) without condoning their actions.
One also has to acknowledge one's situation as well, in that, according to the legal framework, there is no recourse to one's situation, as being a 'possession' of someone else, and at their whim.
Could one then try to escape to a different State, with the threat of death and severe torture hanging over you? I guess that could be an option.
In terms of the actual actions, that would differ by circumstance. Maybe some 'owners' were more 'benevolent' than others, relatively speaking, and some 'owners' more 'cruel'.
But I think the understandings of the self (and orange ray) are contiguous in the sense that the attitudes that we have continue on, despite harsh external conditions. So despite extreme external pressures, one can still have clarity (in certain portions of consciousness).