04-05-2014, 11:40 AM
(04-05-2014, 11:18 AM)michael430 Wrote:Lessons aren't inherently packaged in isolation like that, but rather unfold due to how circumstances are addressed. Acceptance is more like a field of consciousness which calls upon many, many aspects of self including those aspects which may be appreciated by the contrast provided by various ideas of identity conformance. It's really only in retrospect that we consider a cause-effect experience to be a particular lesson. To learn consciously, all preferences (including sexual) must be better known and when we are not congruent with an idea of self (or other self) that is golden catalyst.(04-05-2014, 11:01 AM)zenmaster Wrote: By "aura infringement", Ra is referring to restricted opportunity for catalyst. The "as if" treatment of things, including ourselves, draws from an understanding which was influentially developed. We take cues, we are prompted, full opportunity for complete expression and actualization of our being exists only in potential. In any learning environment, there will be a bias offered. And given the limited options offered by society, the soul will tend to gravitate toward that which promises to offer the best lessons possible.
I suppose living in a society full of people who consider your sexuality "sinful," against nature, and the cause of a deadly plague is a huge lesson. But what's to learn from that? That people hide their fear and prejudice under the guise of "God" ? Ok I learned that. What's the next lesson? To accept that that's just how people are? Just like those people are supposed to learn that being gay is just how I am? Seems like a paradox :-(