It's Just an Experience

In recent posts, I’ve made comments regarding the idea that life experiences are actually neutral, not “good” or “bad” as our egos typically like to define them. I’d like to expand on this topic because I feel that a mindset of neutrality offers yet another great reason to accept things as they are, rather than rejecting them for what they are not.

In one example, maybe we’re the kind of person who enjoys judging obese people. On one hand, sure, they very well could have chosen that weight merely by sitting on the sofa and eating nonstop in front of the tube all day. Clearly, there’s an emotional or psychological issue that needs to be taken care of. But what of those who are “overweight” (at least by Western standards) “without a cause,” so to speak? What if they judged overweight and obese people harshly in a previously lifetime and need to burn off bad karma? That in order to do so, while still in soul form, they chose an extra-large body. It was non-judgmental (or objective self-judgment, at worst): I deserve this. It’s just an experience. I’ve felt what it was like to be skinny. I went too far, however, and made fun of those who were fat. Now I will choose the experience to be fat myself. Once we step into the often times harsh reality of a dualistic world, we see that it’s too often filled with anything but non-judgment. Thus, life can be extremely trying at times. No matter, it’s the life/experience we’ve chosen, and it’s the life/experience we must bear. (Consider what this may mean for those of us having such thoughts now…) And if our soul is occupying a body which is “overweight” for reasons that have nothing to do with karma or mental imbalance, well, it is what it is. It’s what was chosen, so it’s still just an experience.

In a different example, suppose a man dies in a car accident at age 31. We may say, “He was too young,” or, “But he was supposed to do this or that.” Was he? Do we really know that? Yes, by his own freewill, he can try to drive across town while totally drunk and kill himself. Such action is probably not in the Divine Plan Book. But if he dies when his car slides off the road due to black ice, who is anyone to say that the work he came here to do is not done? Who’s to say that his death was “bad”? Perhaps it is just an experience; an experience chosen by his soul before his life began.

Ooh… here’s a good one…

What about gays and lesbians? Consider the conservative Christian family who is repulsed by such things. Then daughter comes along and says: “Mom and Dad…I like girls…I like ‘em a lot.” And Mom and Dad are floored and totally embarrassed. “But it’s against the rules of the church!” Does that make it against the rules of God, also? Are you sure? Please excuse me if I am wrong, here, but I don’t recall Jesus ever saying: “Respect not the homosexuals.” (!)

Once again, I go back to the reincarnation idea that, in soul form, the entity says: “I want to be a girl; I want to like girls, too. It’s just an experience.” It’s only when we get plopped into the physical world of obscene and suppressive belief systems, of hatred, bias, blah, blah, blah, that suddenly we are “no longer allowed” to have the experience that the soul perceived as both natural and neutral. Yet if we don’t have any connection to the wisdom of our higher-selves, of Source, who are we determine whether same-sex attraction is acceptable or not? Because dogma says so? Because the ego says so? As for the parent’s repulsion, their eyes are so heavily veiled that they don’t realize that before their own birth they very likely chose—chose!—the experience they are now so adamantly rejecting.

As we are, as we’ve been, most of us don’t truly know where we’ve come from or where we’re going. And without honestly and openly cultivating our lives, all we ever really “know” is what the “powers that be” have told us. If we are to develop any real understanding of life, it’s critical that we work to truly open up the passageway between the self and Source. No one else can or will do it for us. Equally important is that we remain objective and alert when discerning any information an outside source may try to feed us.

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To make a comment to those who may be wondering, since the thought arose in my own mind on several occasions as I wrote this… Where does one draw the line?

For instance, I was recently talking to someone about the gay/lesbian thing and the question arose: What about those who get a sex-change? As far as I am aware, Jesus didn’t say anything about that either. But based on what I do know, my feelings are that…

What is natural is natural. If a female or male has an inclination toward other females or males, respectively; it’s still natural. There is no alteration of any sort, and such attraction is observable throughout the animal kingdom. Sometimes channeled messages from the spirit realm also speak of this as acceptable. As for being, say, a man, and deciding, “I was supposed to be a woman,” I think there is a mental problem there. In such a case, not only are the possible future physical implications highly unnatural, but, at least from my view, it’s like saying, “God screwed up.”

Ultimately, it comes down to understanding who we are and why we are here, on a very personal level. While everything may be “just an experience,” there will still be a karmic price for that which we think, say, or do that opposes the natural order of Life.