tgecks
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Dear Friend-
It seems to me that you are considering things only from the human viewpoint, and with a decidedly Judeo-Christian bent. This is not incorrect, just limited in my opinion.
Yes, I believe that even the abused play a role in their abuse, just as the abuser has a role. I personally believe there is no coincidence whatsoever, and that every bit of every thing you encounter is there at your behest. The Course in Miracles goes so far as to suggest that there is NOTHING at all "out there" and that you are dreaming ALL of it, even the other people who seem separate, but who are really just projections of your Self so you can blame "them" rather than deal with the guilt yourself. Well, we did used to sing "Life is but a Dream..." It is. It goes on to say that none of this, not one bit, is created by God, but was the result of the crazy thought of the Son of God that it might be separated from God to begin with. And in that instant, "when the Son of God forgot to laugh at how absurd an idea this was that anything could be separate from the Father" the Big Bang happened. And more-- that God will not and cannot intervene in this creation without making it real, which of course, it is not. Yes, in my opinion you are creating and drawing to you EXACTLY what you have devised for your own purposes of your lifetime, good or bad. No coincidences at all.
You say "surely" there is some justice and karma, and some sort of hierarchy of good and evil over there. There is not. As Neale Donald Walsch wrote in Book 1 of Conversations with God, "Even Hitler went to heaven." And I believe this is true. Try to think about it, as evil as it all was, as someone trying to show ourselves to us, to show the insanity of war and human indifference and suffering. It did not work, not really in a truly effective way. The looters are still looting, the news is full of fear and loathing, and there is still ethnic cleansing happening right this moment. Doesn't God care? Not really. There is nothing we can really do to hurt our real self, unless of course you look at it only through human earthly eyes. From this limited view we are victims of it all, recipients of a stream of happenstance and plagued by illness, famine, earthquakes.
You are not your body any more than a radio playing Beethoven is Beethoven. If you took the radio apart, Beethoven is not in there. Likewise, you are not really in there either. We are broadcasting from somewhere else, creating and holding the Dream, the Timeline for our purposes of learning and acting out every possible thing we can, even being handicapped and dealing with tragedy. Would we really learn anything if we were not challenged? Would we have evolved?
Just my two cents worth. It may seem harsh, but I truly belive we create it all just as we would have it.
Great Light, Thomas
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