I'm a bigot

[Steppingfeet]

Billy, my hat is off to you for the naked honesty, even if it was just scratching the surface.

I think the opening you created in the OP is a window into how early fourth-density may work. Immediately, or over time, I don't know which, the self will become more cognizant of its own thoughts. Those thoughts will be made visible to the collective.

We will see how much we're all alike - how many distortions of intolerance, conceit, judgment, etc. lie hidden or unexpressed within our minds. That exposure, and mutual acceptance, will presumably create a very healing environment that accepts each for who they are, "warts and all."

Bringing those distortions to light (perhaps different from your OP only in degree, not in kind) in fourth density, and accepting them, will engender the process of their falling away from the self. It is the exposing of the distortions to love that transmutes them into love itself.

I often wish that I could switch my body and mind with another, walk in their shoes for a little while, and truly understand where they are coming from.

You are the most empathetic bigot I've ever heard of!

You are Scrooge post-three ghost visit.

Truly, what you describe is the workings of the open heart, and that quality which leads to its opening: empathy. This desire for greater understanding is stronger, truer, and deeper within you than the shadow of unpleasant opinions and judgments which you notice operating in the background, and sometimes, foreground.

Got a couple of Ra quotes for you:

19.13 Ra: Consider, if you will, the tree for instance. It is self-sufficient. Consider, if you will, the third-density entity. It is self-sufficient only through difficulty and deprivation. It is difficult to learn alone for there is a built-in handicap, at once the great virtue and the great handicap of third density. That is the rational/intuitive mind.

Thus, the weakening of the physical vehicle, as you call it, was designed to distort entities towards a predisposition to deal with each other. Thus, the lessons which approach a knowing of love can be begun.

So much of our catalyst is simply learning how to relate to one another, learning how to get along, learning how to tolerate, accept, and eventually even love the other self as part of your self.

You are just noticing the raw material for that process.

But whereas the conventional so-called bigot would justify their intolerances, blindly and repetitively acting them out, perhaps even actively working to subjugate/harm/disenfranchise others because of the biases, you are instead examining yourself. You are grabbing hold of something greater than these automatic programs running in your mind. You are awakening the engine of evolution within: consciously exercised desire and will.

And something within you knows in what basic direction to aim that will (that being, upon love). How is that?

94.9 Ra: That this instrument should fail to see that which has been accomplished and see only that which remains to be accomplished may well be noted. Indeed, any seeker discovering in itself this complex of mental and mental/emotional distortions shall ponder the possible non-efficacy of judgment.

Imagine you are wearing all white. From head to toe you are pristine - not a speck of any color besides pure pure white.

Then, you run for all your worth through one of those color runs.

By the end of the race, what has happened to your formerly white exterior?


Earth is that color run. (Though generally less fun than those google images indicate.)


You cannot incarnate all white and remain all white through incarnation. You will necessarily be colored with the biases, preconceptions, beliefs, ideas, distortions, and paradigms of "the world." It's part of the all-inclusive package deal you got when incarnating here.

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Before we take up the path of spirituality, we internalize those colors and assume they are our own. We let the dye sink in below the skin to some extent.

Upon awakening to the possibilities of the spiritual path, however, we realize that, ultimately, we are not the colors. They are just a vestment.

And we embark upon the long path to discover who it is we really are, underneath the distortions of color.

We do that upon the positive path, of course, by coming to know-accept-love every color which was painted upon us. When we take responsibility for who we are and our creation, we come to realize that we adopted each of those colors. Even if we were raised in, as you said, a progressive household.

We purify those colors into their true distillation.

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E.G.: I'm reading a biography of Albert Einstein right now. He was an exemplary human being on multiple levels, not just for upending and revolutionizing physics.

And here he is trying to discourage his earnest son from marrying the love of his life (a woman his son would stay married to until her death 31 years later).

What does Einstein tell his son? Among other judgmental things, Einstein says that she is, basically, ugly, and their offspring will likely be unattractive.

We are ALL colored by our environments.

Having genuine interactions with real-life versions of those we think we hate can help dispel these strange preconceptions.

I've often wondered if this is part of the reasons why densely populated cities tend to lean left on the political spectrum. They have so much more contact, exposure, and interaction with different types of people that they learn (even if only a begrudging level of) tolerance, and likely even gain understanding.