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Round 8: Binary Souls, Free Will, Why OneNess Chooses to EvolveFrom: Dylan
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2006-04-28 06:39:22
Remote IP: 193.224.83.130
MessageHello everyone
I've been following these discussions with fascination and would like to contribute something.
Shamans have been tracking, retrieving and reintegrating soul fragments since the dawn of humanity. I am convinced Taoist alchemy has its roots in this.
Shamans are also involved in identifying, removing, and psychopomping parisitic entities with different approaches from wrestling with them to persuading them to move on. This by its nature must involve a high degree of spiritual discrimination (in the true sense of the word).
How do we draw the line? There are boundaries of identity, however fluid, all the way to universal oneness. How do we know the difference between a fragmented soul part (it doesn't have to be lost somewhere, it can be right before us but just estranged) and a parasitic entity trying to get in on the action, even to the extent of imprinting false memories? Perhaps we have to get in touch with our core, original spirit/self before we can truly discriminate.
This is not to say that separate entities are always parasitic or predatory. In fact I think the majority are symbiotic, ie necessary for our existence. This is why Shamans also sought out, for themselves and others, power animals and spirit guides. These beings resonate in some way to their chosen humans and the boundary is very fluid. This also applies to physical organisms such as plants, bacteria an viruses. Bacteria and viruses get negative press but the truth is the vast majority of them are VITAL (the roots of the word are connected) to life on Earth. No bacteria and viruses, no life. A virus is even necessary to RNA translation. A minority actually harm humans and so we condemn the whole lot in the same way Islamic extremists are wilfully used to condemn Muslims in general.
Even our cellular mitochondria with its separate DNA can and has been seen in this light. Again where do we draw the line?
However, willing co-peration, love and harmony is not the same as identity. Or is it? Which identity are we talking about? I don't have the answers to this one and freely admit it.
I do think there is a difference though between seeing myself as an (aspect of ) original spirit with soul parts that have been thrown together willy nilly by the cosmos and that we have to somehow graft together and between seeing myself as an aspect of original spirit that has somehow become estranged from parts of itself in this lifetime or previous lifetimes and needs to reintegrate those parts with or without the help/hindrance of other spirits. The latter, in my view is more subtle than the former which seems to impy a kind of spiritual welding of entities together not much different to these demons which seem to be formed of collective entities. Collectivity and integration are NOT the same thing. Water is not a collection of Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms just as humans are not a collection of cells. Individuality is not the same as fragmented separation as Marxist ideology would have us believe.
So to end I would say that indivuality is a necessary (wholistic) component of harmony, spiritual evolution and soul completion. Only then can we truly fulfil our responsibilities to other lost souls.
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