spooky2 wrote on Feb 8th, 2010 at 10:10pm:usetawuz, that doesn't make sense to me. Experiencing destruction of that kind might result in just having extreme experiences, but what it contributes to the evolution of a soul is a mystery to me. Maybe more "Loosh" is then produced, an energetical substance Monroe heard of in his explorations, but in this case it's not produced because of highly evoluted individuals, but because of plain damned suffering. People who survived kept on suffering from that, having feelings of guilt of why they survived, and the other's didn't. I just can't see any meaningful, good evolution here.
Spooky
My sense is that suffering, any suffering, is an opportunity to develop as a soul. Kind of a microcosm of life as a whole. What if you were stuck in an elevator in the first instance, or you were undergoing an extremely horrifying experience in the second...the questions are the same. How did you manage to deal with it up to the point you were either rescued in the former or died in the latter? Did you do your best to assist the others you were suffering with? Or did you cast blame and lash out at the others with you at your mutual misfortune? Did you realize that the situation was out of your control and with the calm and understanding of that fact, did you do what you could to help others come to the same conclusion, with the resultant ease of mind? Bottom line: did you increase the fear/negativity or did you attempt to calm the situation and assist those with you to diminish that fear/negativity.
The intensity of the lessons/opportunities will vary, however the lessons are all the same...to deal with all life throws at you with love and fearlessness...to help others see it when they can't, whether by your actions or examples.
The way I see it we achieve growth through experiences, good and bad, and how we deal with them, either with love or with fear, determines how much we have learned/grown, or not learned and fallen back to go through it again.
I haven't read enough of Monroe's books to understand loosh and the continued effects of bad experiences. I feel, however, that part of our progression includes developing the ability to cast off the negativity we have collected during our sojourns in the third dimensional lives we live. Some come to it sooner and others later, but from my experience, the ability to consciously release past negativity from previous lives has changed my life in the present.