Being incarnate in this dimension brings with it a responsibility for All that is / has happened. We do not exist alone, isolated by our individual selves, no matter how removed we think we are from the expressions of the outer world. We are all interdependent on each other and with the world we exist upon. We can do our best to focus upon that which is good, loving and joyful. Yet what we perceive as hatred, war, the deaths perpetrated on the innocence, is still part of the experience of all beings. Such events are part of our responsibility and accountability.
This is part of the balance between creation and destruction. It is the nature of duality. As much as we wish to run from it and condemn it, what we term as the negative side is still present in the consciousness of this earth dimension. And since we are all aspects of consciousness, of sharing that consciousness, then the positives and negatives are also part of our nature.
Taken by itself, this is a sobering view of our nature and creation. Why should we be held responsible for horrific actions perpetrated by others? I am a good person. I condemn violence. I try to meet each person with honesty, compassion, and love. These are questions which have always been asked. “Why do bad things happen to good people”, might be another way to frame this question? Then does it even matter if we do evil ourselves – if we are responsible anyway?
It has been said that a problem is never solved on the level that it was created. These observations and questions originated in our third dimensional space / “reality”. A solution is only available from a broader, more inclusive understanding. One that goes beyond the superiority of the egoic mind and the illusion of our separate nature.
A consideration of acceptance, applied to a situation, broadens our viewpoint. Acceptance inevitably leads to forgiveness, interdependence and compassion. The alternative is that we retain the resistance, the anger, the hatred, the revenge within ourselves, our own minds. There they become a cancer that eats away at our joy and happiness. But the recipient of that anger may not even realize it on a conscious level.
To understand connectedness, is to understand acceptance and compassion. Observations from those states of being address the “why” by embracing them with the love that we are. They may not be actual answers, but the questions are resolved. A.S. 7/23/22
