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DestinyFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2009-10-04 11:56:56
Remote IP: 76.251.213.191
Message>>>By "speeding up the storyline" do you mean simply
>>>speeding up a scripted life path or speeding
>>>up the PROCESS of life?
They are the SAME thing. The difference is just point-of-view!
>>>To me the process of life involves choices
>>>that exist within a particular location
>>>in the lifestream (the location is the result
>>>of the choices made by your parents, earth forces etc.)
>>>...these choices can take us one way or another
>>>that could result in a very different life path.
>>>I could have been a christian or a buddhist if
>>>I had made certain life choices.
But you didn't make those choices, did you?
Don't you think your larger self, outside of linear time, already
knew what you were going to get yourself into and if anything
else has been encouraging it all along?
>>>To me, these choices represent BALANCING the different currents
>>>of the lifestream that are coming at us [remainder omitted]
Here we go again :)
>>>In the same way that we are a microcosm of the whole,
>>>we also contain currents of yin and yang as do our
>>>external lives (the result of larger currents affected
>>>by the free will of the people we interact with)
Flowing currents sure; but this is not an imbalance.
>>>To leave things up to "chance and fate" is also a choice,
>>>and seems to me to be more of a way to avoid choice.
>>>To do alchemy in itself is a choice, we can choose to
>>>practice or not to practice, or just to "let things
>>>be as they are". Do any of these choices make a
>>>difference in peoples lives? To me they do.
Any choices you make in your day-to-day life that involve
your worldly destiny are not really choices the lower self
is making, despite their appearance of being "free choices".
They are already dictated by the larger self.
That's why it's called a destiny, after all. :)
Choices to do alchemy practice are choices to speed up the
storyline already in place and are not a deviation from
the wishes of the larger self, they are only supplementary
in nature--acting in a consistent fashion with the hopes
and desires of the larger self. These are sort of the
only "free choices" the lower self gets to make, and they
are done so with full support and permission of the larger
self. Such choices DO make a difference in peoples' lives,
because they get to escape the "agony of time" in dealing with
certain problems--the time scale of which the larger self
can't necessarily appreciate.
S
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