On Being Good Hosts

‘The least that you can do is let us get credit for saving your immortal soul.  - I mean, …’

I know precisely what you mean, your being members of a very proselytizing church, and all, and thus very earnest in your belief system.  But tell me: How do you handle the fact of the growing evidence for reincarnation?  And as I put it, ‘the natural fact of reincarnation and its attendant law of karma’.  Wherein and whereby we are ‘saved’ by our own efforts, in getting further up the mountain on our way to the top, without the intercession of a surrogate ’savior,’ doing it - the heavy lifting - for us.

‘What do you mean, “the growing evidence for reincarnation”?’

Available - in such as books and articles and videos and studies - to those who have eyes to see.  That is to say, to those who are not limited in their research into, and exposure to, such things by their belief systems.    

‘…This is all so…discombobulating……’

I understand some of this attitude, of needing, looking up to, a ‘savior,’ and which goes a long way back, well before the Christian era.  It is a very ancient tradition, when peoples, living in very bleak and humble circumstances, felt they needed help to ‘climb out of’ their life circumstances, couldn’t do it by and for themselves, and which is why so many peoples have looked to such as a ‘savior,’ or ’the state,’ to help them in that chore; to do that for them, their being so powerless on their own, and all.  But the idea of ’capitalism,’ and of private property, has helped many ‘see the light,’ helped them to climb out of their circumstances on their own recognizance, on their own power.  And thus has been self-empowering, in life.  And therefore, has been, on balance - and I reiterate, ‘on balance’ - a good thing.  People taking responsibility for themselves, and all.  As sovereign beings.  With - as you say - an immortal soul.    

And so you see, maybe I have something to give to you.  Contribute to your progress.  On

The Path.

‘…Sorry if we were, well, …’

It’s okay.  I understand where you were coming from.  I’m sure that I have been there too, in that same boat, as it were.  In my own learning experiences along The Way.  That is to say, being very sincere believers in something, some religion or political system.* 

But I admit that It felt contrived.  And I wasn’t happy contributing to a contrived situation, as though being roped into something.  Who wants to be, or feel, roped into something?  That’s like cattle being roped into a corral.  Being treated like cattle.  Or a wild horse, being broken to the saddle.  Not me.  And not for me.  For my supposed own good.  Which is why we have free will.  To choose for ourselves.  Not to have ‘it’ done for us.

And now, here we are.  At a major Turning Point.  Collectively.  And to wake up to the fact that 

We didn’t choose to incarnate at thIs time in order to maintain the Old.  But to build

the New.  And obviously, people dedicated to aspects of the Old will resist.  Until they see

the Light.  And thus, the need for

an Event.  Filled

with Light.                 

To emphasize

the Point.

  

And reconcile us to

New Beginnings.

All aboard.  To sail on these new seas.


P.S. More on that last note:
     Many people are having feelings of impending doom.
     Could be (depending on one's personal life circumstances).  Or just of an End,
     of an Age.
     With perhaps - quite possibly - an extra measure of Change in it as well.
     Of a Light-filled nature.

     See above.
     (And so to speak.)

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* Or a combination of both.  As in communism.  Which is a secular religion.  Of true believers.  Even though they feel that it is based on science.  And is a total rejection of all things spiritual.  So that its adherents, er, believe in the ’salvation’ of Man through political action.  Thus, their belief in Dialectical Materialism.  That this realm of matter is all there is.  What a limited vision.  Of

   The All That Is.