why is catalyst so painful?

[anagogy]

I know that othes and Ra have said that Catalyst can be anything or everything that comes to awareness, so it can be good/plesant thoughts.

but I normally associate catalyst with SOMETHING bad or unpleasant, an unwanted.

there is something in the human mind (or my mind at least) that seems to resist the beautific change that the promptings of catalyst offer, and yet these are promptings that do not go away until addressed.

there is something in the ego that wants us to say that we are right, and have always been right, and the catalyst is a thing that points to the contrary, that an opinion or behaviour needs adaptation to the present circumstance.

funny, because Ra did not use our term ego, maybe because it was already so loaded.

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I say catalyst is painful because I had a weekend of spiritual purging, and while much better for the experience, it wasn't a pretty mental experience lol.

I would describe all experience as catalyst, or that is to say, a potential stimulus for growth or change.

So I think you are asking about the particular catalyst known as "pain".

Why is pain painful? Why is this particular catalyst so aversive?

I think that if it was not an aversive stimulus, we ignorant 3rd density beings would probably never get the hint to go in another direction. I look at it as guidance from the universe. As Ra would say, this is not a density of "knowing", therefore, we have this catalyst called pain. In the higher densities, there is still pain, but of a different variety, and it is less intense, for the most part.

Pain and pleasure have always been indicators to let us know when something destructive or constructive was happening to our beings, at some level or another. Pain in the body lets you know you are damaging your body in some way or another. Emotional pain is an indicator that one's focus of thought, in this moment, is contradicting one's desire.

Pain is there to teach us. The more slowly we learn the lesson it is offering us, the bigger it becomes until we eventually take serious notice of it, and resolve the contradictions in our consciousness causing stagnation within our beingness.

If pain were not aversive, we simply would not be as motivated to change. Kdsii made a good point about pain being resistance. The pain is only necessary to the extent that we do not recognize and alleviate our own resistance.