01-27-2022, 01:22 PM
(01-27-2022, 04:50 AM)Quincunx Wrote: Don't think that only 3rd density mind/body/spirit complexes are being tested in order to graduate. There are many wanderers who have either chosen to help or still feel they lack the qualities to do anything.
Was there ever a moment in which you thought you were being tested in your spiritual development? What do you believe was the test? Do you feel like you passed it?
I have never felt as though I am being tested. I wonder if that idea derives from religious thinking?
The only thing that might come close is that things can seem so random in 3D—that there seems to be no fairness or justice in this world. But being tested makes no sense to me due to the injustice and fairness (why do some people get tested more than others, for example). Whether one believes in something more or not, for me, just making the best of whatever comes is what I aim for. I like the following quote from Richard Dawkins, which is spoken by him in an epic song by Nightwish—not for the specific idea which derives from science and atheism, but for the sentiment.
Quote:After sleeping through a hundred-million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble and enlightening way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred? —Richard Dawkins