"You create your reality"

[octavia]

I think you may be misunderstanding what I'm saying. Everybody experiences things they don't like. Women, men, every race, and every demographic. Everybody gets out of alignment at times, without exception. Its natural, and human. And when that happens, the opposite of what you desire happens. And the converse is true when you are in alignment. So for many people sexual harassment is that manifestation, for others, its people bullying them, and for others, its mental illness, and others it could be people cutting them off in traffic. And the intensity of the negative manifestation is directly proportionate to the intensity of the misalignment. But always keep in the mind, you can't objectively appraise the "negativity" of the manifestation. Somebody might cut me off in traffic and I don't think twice about it, another person it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's all relative, and personally unique.

Hi Anagogy,

I believe an area of my difficulty in understanding this idea is that, as I have said, I am not totally clear on what is meant by alignment/unalignment & following/not following one's bliss, as these are not conceptual terms I am familiar with nor terms that have I seen used in this context before.

To move closer toward the idea I desire to communicate, I will design a thought experiment. Let us suppose that an individual passes through the gateway of death via illness. Let us explore why this has occurred in the most abstract sense, without any contextual information, not even the nature of the illness itself. Has this individual's life ended because they were, as it is said, out of alignment? Or has this individual pre-incarnatively planned to end their exploration in this body at a certain age, the disease then, assisting in the fulfillment of this plan? Without more information, no appraisal can be made as such. For this reason, we may see the great difficulty in attempting to appraise the causes of all catalyst exclusively within the scope of an alignment/un-alignment model. This is especially true in the case of the catalyst known as sexual assault, for it is a catalyst that also requires an entity to act in a way that is not in accordance with the Law of One. The reason why we have chosen to refrain from offering any context is because we are attempting to convey the difficulties in the categorical appraisal of the causes of catalyst. Thus concludes the thought experiment.

There are many mechanisms of learning and of service which bring about catalyst. One example we can give is the case study of AIDS as offered to us by Latwii. Latwii explains the concept of AIDS then, in the context of polarity and learning, not necessarily invoking the concept of the individual who is out of alignment. We bring this up not to dismiss the concept of alignment/unalignment but rather to attempt to display the great variety of mechanisms that bring about catalyst.

The time, then, is short for those incarnate upon your planet to polarize in a fashion sufficient for the graduation. Therefore, there are many more, shall we say, training aids available for the acceleration of this process, the time being short. Diseases are one such method of focusing the attention upon a symbol of a generally shared difficulty. [1985.10.20]

Latwii's choice of the word symbol also happens to be a nice synchronicity with your earlier statement that:

All experiential manifestations are just symbols.

In the further exploration of the alignment/unalignment model, let us hone in on this statement in particular:

And the intensity of the negative manifestation is directly proportionate to the intensity of the misalignment.

Here we will consider another example, as the story of Jesus Christ's life may be helpful here, although it is not a life we can claim to be terribly familiar with.

[17.17] Questioner: Can you tell me what the Orion group did in order to try to cause his downfall?
Ra: I am Ra. We may describe in general what occurred. The technique was that of building upon other negatively oriented information. This information had been given by the one whom your peoples called “Yahweh.” This information involved many strictures upon behavior and promised power of the third-density, service-to-self nature. These two types of distortions were impressed upon those already oriented to think these thought-forms.

This eventually led to many challenges of the entity known as Jesus. It eventually led to one, sound vibration complex “Judas,” as you call this entity, who believed that it was doing the appropriate thing in bringing about or forcing upon the one you call Jesus the necessity for bringing in the third-density planetary power distortion of third-density rule over others.

This entity, Judas, felt that, if pushed into a corner, the entity you call Jesus would then be able to see the wisdom of using the power of intelligent infinity in order to rule others. The one you call Judas was mistaken in this estimation of the reaction of the entity, Jesus, whose teach/learning was not oriented towards this distortion. This resulted in the destruction of the bodily complex of the one known as Jesus to you.

In other words, Jesus, being placed between "a rock and a hard place," refrained from indulging in negative polarity, and passed through the gateway of death on the cross. Thus when we look at the context of his choice, there would be no reason to characterize his suffering as unalignment in the slightest. On the contrary, the nature of his suffering could be characterized as a testament to the purity and fidelity of his intent to serve. The idea we wish to convey is the vast diversity of the causes, functions, and even service of catalyst that lies beyond the scope of alignment/unalignment.

P.S. By the way, I like your new avatar. :)