Seraphis1 wrote on Mar 5th, 2010 at 6:15pm:[quote author=7A4C5B485941405A18290 link=1267667272/4#4 date=1267755314][quote author=58083A0 link=1267667272/3#3 date=1267747009]
Excerpted for Mythology and Symbolism:
Finally, I have to suppress love to gain power… to gain a crown I have to murder the several people who are ahead of me in the line of succession… until I become the only legitimate heir to the throne… how convenient…
There were two movies with themes like this: Kind Hearts and Coronets (a black comedy) in which the Alec Guiness plays a noble who is about eighth in line for a Dukedom… he proceeds to eliminate each one by some unfortunate accident that he arranges. I remember finding this a very funny film.
But, with ‘I Claudius’ I was extremely disturbed by the author Robert Graves strong case (albeit fictionally) for a historical suspicion of authorities that Olivia… Octavius’s (better known to the world as Augustus Caesar) wife skillfully arranged for the removal by death of all of the individuals who might have prevented her son Tiberius’ succession. In that time there was a struggle for power between the monarchist and the Republicans. Olivia won and Rome never returned to a true representative elected government.
I remember being deeply disturbed by Olivia’s murderous plots.
When I discovered something about my past it cleared a dark part of that past which I now am free of… but, now I know why 'I Claudius' and Olivia’s murderous designs were so disturbing… at some subconscious level I knew I would have to face in a series of future lives in which just such a thing would inevitably happen to me… karmic retribution for acts similar to Olivia’s.
There is an old saying amongst reincarnationists. The things that disturb you in movies or in the lives of people in the world around you are things you yourself will have to go through eventually. The things you can have deep sympathy for in the lives of people in the world around you are things you yourself have already experienced.
Either betson or b2 in some long forgotten thread said they remembered some kind of betrayal they had perpetrated against their friends either in the ww1 or ww2 and they didn’t want to remember it. Unfortunately, the more meditation you do and the deeper you get the more likely it will be that the mind will present you with the events in symbolic or actual form for you to deal with.
The truth is that the linear world we call ‘the present’ is an illusion… but, this illusion is created by belief systems… those belief systems create our ‘future’ … thus if you believe you did something bad… because of the nature of cause and effect… you also believe you must be punished for that bad act… it is part of the pairs of opposites that make the illusion possible…
So everything you can do to discover what your underling belief structures are puts you just one step closer to control of your destiny in the illusion… so let this thread be a step in discovering what beliefs structures underlie the positional-ity you are holding by posting things that bother you in certain movies.
The act of looking at things that disturb or bother you in the environment helps bring them up in meditation there to be dissolved in understanding or love.
S.