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I would take issue with this in particular...
Again, I'm no expert, but from what I am experiencing lately, individuals and indeed, we as a species enmasse, can and do alter and change our world on a daily basis.
The world changes on a daily basis for sure.
But it changes in spite of us, not because of us.
I would agree that there are certain aspects of our physical experience that we are creating and adding to collectively, and to that extent, it may seem like you have no control or that everything is in the hands of 'fate' from an individual perspective. But this is precisely what I was trying to get at earlier, regarding listening to the internal as well as the external.
Personal experience has brought me to a point where I now no longer except I am at the whim and mercy of some unseen force or God. When I come upon an obstacle, I take the time to evaluate how it is making me feel. I try and pick up on clues in my surroundings. I listen to that tiny voice inside of me until it gets loud enough for me to hear - and it does, more often now than for as long as I can remember. I may think about what lessons I might learn from this experience, were I to choose to continue with it, if it is just something I can walk away from, that is. When I find myself in a position of not being able to do so, I might then regard it as a learning experience, still.
So if you walk out of your house and a brick lands on your head and kills you.
What forces killed you?
Did some force kill you? Or were you at the whim of circumstance.
Extrapolate this example to absolutely any you can think of and the principle is the same.
Terrible things happen everyday, but from whose pov are they 'terrible' and who has decided just what 'terrible' actually means?
Exactly!
Terrible, good, bad are just human made concepts and actually don't exist.
What seems bad to us is good to another.
As I stated in an earlier post elsewhere on here, there are things happening in the world that I am not yet able to justify or even begin to explain. My 'feeling' more and more on the matter however, is that these things are the very reason 'we' are here. Were it all plain sailing and daffofils, there really wouldn't be much point and certainly no room for expansion or evolution, in terms of a 'soul' or 'source energy'. In this regard, although it still irks me and I am still not 100% comfortable with this attempt at an 'explanation', it is at least more comforting than the thought that people just get sick, or just commit terrible crimes, or just die - just because.
Maybe the highlighted bit is the soul trying to communicate with you
Perhaps, individually and collectively, there are certain aspects of life that we have chosen to live through in order to experience and grow further, no matter how uncomfortable they may appear to us to be at the time. Perhaps these certain aspects have been agreed upon, either collectively or on an individual basis, at some point other than when we are focused here in physical form and trying to make sense of it all? Again...I'd be hard pushed to sell this pov to someone recently diagnosed with cancer or whose entire family had just been murdered and ofc, I'd never dare say such a thing to anyone in that position anyway...am just trying to follow this through to its natural, if absurd, conclusion in my mind.
I totally agree with you.
Although it is the soul that needs the experience not us.
At no point however, does this infer (to me) that these things are simply beyond our control and forced upon us by some external source. Our outward reality is consistently a mirror image of our internal state, both individually and collectively. If you are unhappy with your current situation, change the way you think about it. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE and nobody and no-thing else. Only when we take responsibility for that and actually start to believe it, can we begin the process of changing our thoughts. Only by changing our thoughts, can we change our world.
We can change our perceptions at any time, or rather we can have our perceptions changed for us
