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Re: Is universal knowledge of an Afterlife a good thing?


Message written by

Craig
July 10, 2010 at 13:02:13:

In Reply to
Is universal knowledge of an Afterlife a good thing?
posted by
RonC
July 06, 2010 at 17:15:57:

 
Hi Ron,

I understand your questions. When I talk about humanity, I’m referring to individual, conscious people throughout time on all planes. The current Earth plane with the vibration we’re attuned to is just one of millions.

The religions of the world provide a good perspective on where humankind has been earlier in our evolution toward higher spirituality. We can see humankind’s evolution in the Old Testament accounts of the Israelites in the first millennium BCE. These people envisioned a God who had them bring out all the captive Babylonians and cut them with saws, harrows of iron, and with axes—men, women, and children. This God and the Israelites killed 50,000 residents of Bethshemesh—men, women, and children. And of course, the atrocities continue throughout the Old Testament. This is a cruel, tribal people.

For the Muslims, in 1398 CE, the Muslims executed at least 50,000 to 100,000 Hindu captives. References to other similar genocides were 30,000 Hindu peasants in one location and even 1,500,000 at Heart in western Afghanistan.

Humankind accepted violence as the norm. If the earliest people had known that they are only living on one plane for a short time and would then transition into other planes, the primitive, tribal cruelties would have continued. They would simply have been translated into another life condition, one in which people could be cruel without repercussions across lifetimes. Humankind would have had no incentive to change.

Instead, through the Axial Age of 800 through 200 BCE and into the first century CE, spiritual leaders continued to implore he people to change their people to change the cruel, violent, warring nature to be more loving and compassionate. That had some influence, but didn’t change humanity overnight. We are still struggling with self-absorption, violence, and cruelty today.

Our understanding of our eternal natures has been evolving as our tendencies toward cruelty have been diminishing. We are at a point of spiritual maturity now at which when we learn that we are eternal beings and we are able to communicate with our loved ones on the other side, our reaction is to become more spiritual, loving, and compassionate. Everyone who comes to realize our eternal natures changes remarkably, always in the direction of being more compassionate and loving. That’s true of near-death experiencers, people who have had visitations, and people who have had aided communications. We’re a different species today. We yearn to be loving and compassionate.

But we had to evolve away from the tribal belief systems to where we are today for this to happen. That growth required that we have some ignorance about who we are in eternity. As we evolved as a species toward understanding, egalitarianism, acceptance, and love, we also evolved to have more understanding of the afterlife and our eternal natures. I believe the progression had to be in that way.

Today, then, as we become convinced of our eternal natures, we grow spiritually at a depth and speed that we can manage. It’s time. Our understanding will evolve us toward more spiritual maturity, as individuals and as societies. And so, the veil is dropping. We’re part of helping that to happen.

Love and peace, Craig

 



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