Greater clarity on pain and suffering and the need for such catalyst

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This is an issue quite close to my heart and has caused me great despair. The reason for the possibility of suffering according to my understanding is due to our individuality, our preferences. In order to have infinite individuality, one must have preferences, and in order to manifest those preferences, one must be able to experience that which they do not prefer. The suffering of our people is the logical result of these ideas, free will, and a load of regrettable decisions made by many, many individuals. I am not totally satisfied with this answer, but to me, it means that only the possibility of suffering is necessary, not the actual experience of it. This idea provides me some comfort.

In my opinion, suffering is that which by its own nature should not be explored or studied in such ways as it is being done now on Earth or anywhere else, not even by the One Infinite Creator.

Cannon,
what you are writing here reminds me of something that Ra says about suffering at one point. I think it is in the sixties sessions. He mentions how there is a way while going completely through the catalyst in a pure way, but not adding to it by some sort of dissociation too of the pain itself . This was not exactly what he said but I wish I could find that passage, I remember it made a big impression on me at the time.