08-21-2009, 04:14 PM
(08-21-2009, 12:09 PM)Lavazza Wrote: This is amazing, but is it not a rather sizable violation of free will, not to mention being very uncharacteristic of Confederation sources?
The only speculation I can conjure is that the vast, vast majority of people have never heard about Oahspe, or TLOO for that matter, have not heard so by mere coincidence. Maybe only those who really want to have that information will find it, due to some cosmic law? I am otherwise puzzled. (which, as a side note, is actually a very nice feeling, wouldn't you say?)
A few thought here. First the world abounds with soothsayers that have been quite accurate at predicting future events, and many of them are even household names to most people in our culture (Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce being just two such prominent examples), but still the vast majority or people happily disregard or disbelieve even the best documents of these sources. What makes Oahspe different for you is that it is referred to by TLOO, a source which you obviously already hold in some high regard. So no, I do not see that this is a violation of free will any more than Ra's telling Don (and by extension us) that after 2011 (or so) the Earth would be a 4D Positive Planet, or that the United States was building ships that could travel at warp 0.5 in the Mexican desert when Ra was speaking to Don in 1981. You see, even if every transitory fact that Ra shared were to be proven true, then there would still be those that would choose to discount the veracity or significance of them. Free will is easily maintained by those that wish to remain asleep.
Ultimately though, all insights given by Confederation sources are given in such a way as to not infringe on the free will choice of others not to believe. In the case of Oahspe, I would suggest that a choice to disbelieve is quite easy to maintain given the relatively minor nature (as well as ambiguous wording) of most of his prophecies.
(08-21-2009, 12:09 PM)Lavazza Wrote: I have to admit here, that on some level my own skeptical hell-fire was quenched yesterday upon learning of Oahspe. Oddly enough- I have been praying for something like this to forever silence the skeptic alarm in my head that I cannot seem to consciously silence. (See my thread, 'Why do you believe?' for more on this theme) Maybe the vibrational request for information such as Oahspe offers is what is required to find it?
I think that this is your answer to why you found Oahspe and why it resonated with you. Now would be the time to simply thank the universe for answering your call so clearly. Sometimes the hardest thing to do when a miracle occurs is to gratefully accept it and move on. Such are the workings of Grace.
Quantum Wrote:It leaves one to wonder doesn't it? If the Confederation passes a material for dissemination as if though inferred to be correct in context, and that one material acknowledges reincarnation as a fact, even by secondary reference such as in the Cayce example, yet then also passes another material for dissemination which adamantly refutes reincarnation as a principle in fact, then what are we to believe?...It left me to not only question the Ra material afterwards, but very obviously the Ohaspe material as much, if in fact not the Confederation on the whole. Clearly both can not be correct.
Hello again Q! I do so enjoy communing with you again. All that I would add to what has already been said, is to point out that the Ohaspe material was consciously channeled by an entity working in isolation. As such, there is no telling how the message was garbled as it filtered trough the instrument's conscious mind. I doubt seriously that the material was received as it was transmitted, but certainly nothing would have made it through the instruments own free will filters, as it were. I think that it is just as likely that it was omitted by the Confederation source (in order for it to be acceptable to a broader western audience), than that it was filtered by the receiving instrument.
Love and Light,
3D Sunset