A proposal

[sjel]

Groups like this should be a place of respite from the harsh blows of everyday realities and unenlightened beings

I think you're correct, but not in the way you meant.

Basically I advocate that there be introduced a form of interaction in which the "attacker" very explicitly lays out why he is saying that particular incisive thing - and the responder, knowing that there is Love on the bottom of the statement, somewhere, can instead use the statement as a means to explore his own negativity, by way of his own reaction. Advanced positive people already do this, they know that every front of hostility is a case in which Love hides its face. And that in fact the case and the Love are one and the same.

But if the attacker is ALSO "in on it," if the verbal attacker ALSO knows that he is merely a disguised conduit for love, then the disguise becomes EVEN MORE transparent to the one who is looking for it. In this way the "attack" becomes a lesson, much more obviously than if the attack been unconscious and intentionally hurtful.

Also, this way, the attacking words lose meaning in REAL LIFE, TOO. Because then you can recall back to when you roleplayed this scenario with a positive seeker, and remember how his/her words were tongue-in-cheek hostility - EVEN if the words themselves are outrageously inciteful.


On a much more advanced level, a very aware, positive couple might roleplay a bondage scenario - yet the whole time each maintains the awareness of mutual and cosmic love. SIMPLY TO destroy the fear associated with bondage. When the fear is dissolved, the roleplaying of negativity is no longer necessary.

Likewise, on this forum, when the fear of another member's words is dissolved through this mock-hostile interaction, such an interaction is no longer relevant and won't happen again.

(no hostile interaction is "for real" - remember?? maybe by consciously pretending on the level of pretend that we unawakened entities know, we can expand our definition of "pretend")