(03-20-2015, 12:33 AM)Lighthead Wrote: I'm just basing my information on what the Ra material says (regarding trauma). I'm not sure if they're aware enough that their personality would disintegrate (the way Ra says happened to others in the Law of One material). But I would say that it probably slows down their evolutionary rate.
My guess is that it would actually accelerate their evolutionary rate, because of the intensity of the trauma. But, in the direction of STS.
The reason I conclude this is what we know about severe abuse of human children causing a predisposition towards being a sociopath. It stands to reason that the same might be true of our younger other-selves. The video posted in the OP, and the article posted by Diana (both linked here in this thread) both show that the mechanism for feeling intense emotions is the same in animals as in humans.
Thus, it stands to reason that their response would be the same.
On the other hand, we are also seeing an increase in animals showing compassion and 'human-like' forethought and consideration towards other animals, even across the divide of species, something hitherto unobserved. So, apparently, some of these animals are beginning their polarization to STO, and that appears to be accelerating rapidly...so rapidly that it's astonishing!
But those cases are few and far between. I've seen perhaps a dozen of such videos. Surely there are many more that haven't been caught on camera, but compared to the many billions of entities being traumatized, the number being observed as having accelerated STO polarity is miniscule indeed.
As with humans, it's likely that polarization can happen in either direction, in response to extreme trauma. We all know of cases of humans who were severely abused, yet turned into beautiful, compassionate people, rather than sociopaths. But scientific research has shown that the likelihood of that happening is very small, under certain circumstances having to do with whether they had any opportunity to bond with another human by a certain age. Surely, some humans override that, due to their free will and the invincibility of the human spirit. But even so, the end result is that the likelihood of severely abused children, who never had an opportunity for healing by a certain age, to become sociopaths is extremely high.
(Please note that one can be a sociopath and never commit any crimes. Sociopath doesn't necessarily mean psychopath. But it does indicate an armored, blocked heart, and a strong leaning in the direction of STS. A sociopath is defined by their lack of conscience, lack of empathy; ie., a closed heart.) It logically follows that the extreme cruelty towards our younger other-selves is, likewise, creating a huge population of strongly STS-biased entities...somewhere.
So, where are all those billions of traumatized, likely sociopathic, STS entities going when they graduate to 3D?