Life in a Spiritual Society -- Excerpts from Chapter 12
- So far, we've focused on being a spiritual individual, enlarging and redefining our beliefs, which will change our day-to-day reality. However, apart from a few spiritual groups, we have no real societal support. But, projecting a few years into the future, suppose people such as you become the norm. What would society look like then?
- This chapter examines how several societal issues and institutions would change if a spiritual worldview prevailed, beginning with the institution actually charged with our spiritual welfare-organized religion.
Organized Religion
- Organized religions will be the first thing to go with life in a spiritual society. The word "religion" literally means to "bind back" in the context of our relationship with God. So their professed purpose is to teach us what God is and then how we can appease it to get a passing grade on Judgment Day. However, their approach is to separate you from your own divinity, so that you can stand apart from it, feel guilty about being separate from it, and then worship it from a distance … in a very specific way-their way. And they condemn any other way of worshipping that fictional deity. But it gets much worse.
- Their notions of what that deity is are extremely narrow and limited. First they teach that their judgmental and vengeful God wants something from you, but how can God possibly want something from you? What can this being possibly need? That you behave in a certain way, we're told. And if you don't act in that way, then God will impose sanctions on you, such as not letting you into heaven. Why on Earth would your creator make you the way you are-human and imperfect-and then punish you for being that way? Doesn't make much sense, eh?
The Spiritual Society and Children
- Life in a spiritual society would acknowledge that the souls of children choose their parents for reasons of genetics, environment, imprinting and exploring karma, and that the child's soul makes a contract with the parents' souls. This contract is binding, and can be broken only at the soul level.
- Such a society would also know that the first trimester of pregnancy is a trial period on both sides, so miscarriage and abortion have no consequences. So don't be needlessly consumed with guilt and/or grief. It's all just the Creator learning more about itself.
- The parent/child spiritual contract can be voided if the incoming soul finds that the fetus is not viable for some reason, but again, this is all okay at the soul level because that soul fragment was part of your soul group and you've incarnated together countless times before … and will do so countless times again. In cases of miscarriage, that same soul fragment often shows up in a later pregnancy so, from the soul's perspective, it's just a tiny delay.
- In a spiritual society, parents would know that the incoming soul chose them specifically and would view themselves as "stewards" to give the incoming soul time to develop its ego-personality and worldview, and become self-sustaining. From this perspective, there can be no question of "ownership" of a child.
- Spiritual parents would know that a baby's mind is already forming while still in the womb, and is recording every energetic nuance in the Subconscious Mind, so they would ensure that the mother is stress-free. Because the new Subconscious Mind is already recording everything in its environment, parents would guard that carefully, allowing in only what will bolster the child's self-esteem and self-worth. In addition to health and nutrition, prenatal classes would also include telepathy so that parents can also get a head start on forming their relationship with the new child.
The New Children
- Aa part of life in a spiritual society, a new subspecies of human began showing up in the 1980s. Variously called Star Seeds and Star Children, they are also known as Indigo Children because of the color of their auras. In addition, they seem much older than their years, and have a disconcerting gaze that "looks right through you." They also display enhanced psychic abilities such as telepathy, precognition, psycho-kinesis, clairvoyance, powerful intuition, and the ability to affect electrical devices such as street lamps, computers, and watches. They also have a comfort and familiarity with off-world events and higher dimensions.
The Spiritual Society and Death
- For millennia, every civilization on the planet has embraced beliefs about death and where we go when our turn comes. The Romans went to the Elysian Fields, the Vikings to Valhalla and Pagans to the Summerlands. Today, in the West, Christianity gives us a pretty insipid "heaven," and the medical profession is no help at all. Instead, they pour all their efforts into delaying the inevitable, little realizing that the soul has already pre-ordained the time and means of death (except in cases of suicide).
- In hospitals (and to a lesser extent, hospices), people tread lightly around the D-word, and the staff feel that each crossing is a loss for them and a victory for the Reaper. In fact, unless you have committed monstrous acts while alive, going to the soul plane is a cause for great celebration, not the usual wailing and mourning. So why is this fact not in the consensus? Because the Judeo-Christian model of reality does not allow for pre-existence of the soul. Christian dogma asserts that the soul begins only at birth (or maybe conception) and at death goes into a state of limbo, awaiting Judgment Day.
- Also, Christianity makes no allowance for communication between the living and the deceased, which is commonly practiced by every aboriginal people, whereby those who have crossed over offer invaluable guidance to those still on the Earth plane. The former watch over the latter, with love and concern. For example, on a recent episode of Crossing Over with John Edward, a woman's deceased husband warned her of faulty wiring in her basement following a flood.
The Spiritual Society and Grief
- Grief is really about change, and the most obvious change comes when someone we love dies or disappears from our life. But it also comes when you're suddenly jobless or homeless after a natural disaster. Grief is the process of adjusting to the new situation. And that takes time. Of course, life goes on; eating and breathing happen, just minus the person/job/house/pet you're missing. No question, it's rough to be cruising along and suddenly life takes a sharp right turn and you're fighting for survival. Of course, you wrote this in your life's flight plan but that's no help when you're in emotional quicksand up to your chin.
- So, grieving is being confronted by change and having to adjust to it--your mate dies or leaves, or a tornado moves your house to the next state. Unbidden, unwanted change, drastic life rearrangement, major stress as you adjust. Of course, anger and denial are options, too, but acceptance and adjustment are the sane responses. And while you're accepting and adjusting, ask "Now why have I pulled this into my life? What did I plan to learn? How did I intend to grow?"
The Spiritual Society and Sex
- Apart from organized religion, in no other area of life are we so messed up as we are about sex. First, gender is possible only on the physical plane, for on all other dimensions, creator-souls are made up of both radiant, male, yang energy and receptive, female, yin energy.
- Second, having two genders is local to the Earth plane, and the species on the physical planes of other planets can have from one to five genders. Having only two genders makes for the maximum karmic potential. And the need for sex between a member of each gender in order to create a new member of the species greatly magnifies that karmic potential. So, what we take for granted as "just the way it is" is actually the result of enormous forethought and planning on the part of us as creator-souls in order to maximize Challenges and the need for matching Resources.
- According to the designers of our species, the primary purpose of sex is the energetic union of two people, with procreation coming second (which knocks the Catholic stance towards contraception on the head). Combining Divine union and creating children was a very interesting choice.
- For life in a spiritual society, Tantra comes closest to exploring the true gift of sex between two people as a means of focusing energy and using it to experience our own soul and merger with our partner. Those on the soul plane report that soul merger is the highest form of ecstatic bliss possible, and is infinitely beyond our ability to imagine while still on the Earth plane. In comparison, an orgasm is little more than a sneeze!
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