"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[rva_jeremy]

It seems almost as if humans are a failed experiment.

I don't mean to come off as insufferably pedantic, but there's no such thing. Experiments can fail to confirm the hypothesis, but that's not failure at all: that's learning yet another aspect about the creation that you didn't previously know, that was only able to be established by asking the question in the first place.

I think what we are learning in this current iteration is the result of a veil that is simply too strong. It similarly stunts spiritual growth, hence the failure in the last two major cycles.

Caveat: everything below is pure conjecture and speculation.

Interesting. This gets back to my perennial question about the Law of One philosophy: what in the heck does the Confederation mean by "efficiency"? If selecting for efficiency of evolution means getting farther in less time, then I think your analysis is sound: that it's about finding the right mix of unity and separation experiences within incarnation.

But I feel a bit of resistance to that because I have a suspicion deep down that it is the negative stuff that teaches the Creator the most. The sense I get is that the unveiled condition of past octaves was one in which polarization was an almost completely uncatalyzed phenomenon (relative to our experience), using cosmic amounts of sheer time to figure out how to move forward absent the drive of discomfort. If this is the condition to avoid, if the idea is to play with "that which is not" in more intense ways, then what we're in now, while of course not 100% efficient (darn that bias towards kindness! ), seems far, far more efficient at finding novel opportunities for the Creator to discover itself in "that which is not". Of course, it bugs me to think this way because my ego is like "so, I'm just fodder, huh?"

I do suspect that I've tacked too far to the left; that it's actually a lot more simple and subtle than how either of us has formulated it. But it's nice to be able to discuss this with people on the same wavelength.