Personality survival

43 posts · 8 participants · started Feb 18, 2015, 7:38 PM

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   BradlyParticipant
   Sep 18, 2020, 11:01 PM

   paul_pdx wrote:

   Lately it feels like we are choosing to collectively manifest the multiple dramas currently unfolding, in order to clearly demonstrate to ourselves and our species the emptiness of greed and selfish individualism. The only sustainable path forward is one of compassion, cooperation and selflessness on the local and global scale.

   Thank you Paul…and I really appreciate the “we”…and agree that the global challenges of collective suffering (the multiple dramas represented by pandemic and climate change and natural disasters and war and refugee displacement and, and, etc., etc. – you know the “multiple dramas”) are indeed acting as a catalyst for more universal responses and selfless cooperation and compassion by individuals,  communities, nations, and international organizations.

   Globally there have been two fascinating trajectories over the past 7 decades that give evidence of our evolutionary and epochal progress.  These trends are significant and measurable and factual.  Remember that 80-90 years ago, the UB authors told us that the worst of the era of materialism was over.

   The first trend line is that violent death and violence in general per 1000 people (per capita) is declining, significantly so, and every single decade for 7 in a row.  This includes kidnapping and rape and assault as well as murder and death by starvation and disease too.  This hardly seems possible based on the noise (news) machine and politics of fear and division that overwhelms us by distraction and repetition of the negative.

   The second trend is the increasing numbers of dollars, resources, volunteers, and volunteer hours donated to help alleviate human suffering- from war and disaster relief to hunger relief and housing and medicine and sustainable industry and, and, and….  This trend includes government and church resources but the true surge is by the NGO and private volunteerism efforts that is sourced from and reaches to every corner of our world.

   I agree we witness an embarrassing exposure of the worst of humanity which is being contrasted and will be overwhelmed by compassion and service.  I think we witness the emergence of the brotherhood/sisterhood of the universal family…and our inevitable destiny.

   Evidence of the success of those rulers and celestial hosts that guide us through the mortal epochs of time.

   I recall that the reality response to evil inevitably overwhelms evil…a collective manifestation of truth, beauty, and goodness.

   Well said Paul…

   PROGRESS!! 

   "Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."

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   BradlyParticipant
   Sep 19, 2020, 1:00 PM

   namelessuntilfused wrote:

   “Collectively manifest” is the weaponization of all forms of modern communications into false PROJECTIONS.

   Poppycock Alert!!

   Another declaration which directly contradicts the UB.  Now that’s definitely a “false PROJECTION”!!!

   Now…to Paul’s well articulated insights…..

   “Collectively manifest”…or collective manifestation is a teaching of the UB and describes a universal reality pattern repeated throughout the Papers.  As go the parts so goes the whole.  The collective population or whole of humanity essentially and effectively manifests or expresses the manifestation of the constituent individuals or parts of that whole.

   Evolutionary epochal planetary progress is a result of and reflection of this very reality and universal operational fact and truth.  Who does not know this?  Who could disagree?  How so?

   Even secular social sciences know this one!  It’s called culture!  Mores, traditions, democracy….all express group will.  Group dynamics is the study of how each group member effects the group…and how each personality added to or removed from any group changes that group.

   We are also taught in the UB that the each (the part) is also affected by the collective (the whole) in two oppositional ways at the same time.

   First there is the cultural momentum of the whole.  Traditions and mores and cultural norms create and define and enforce – expectations, approvals and outcasts, acceptance and rejection, status quo and deviance from the norm, opportunities and freedoms and more.  The part is affected by and carried forward by collective cultural evolutionary forces which express prior progress…momentum of the whole.

   Second is collective inertia…the exact opposite force from momentum delivered by precisely the same traditions, mores, and cultural creations of expectations and limits and social controls (rewards and punishments) over the choices of the part/individual.  The part is affected by and restrained by the same collective cultural evolutionary forces which discourage further progress…inertia of the whole repressing creative deviation from societal norms.

   A truly fascinating juxtaposition whereby the same force delivers oppositional equilibrium to a fluid  dynamic that is both stable and in flux, which results in endless evolutionary progress over time, slowly transforming both the collective whole by the personal experience and expressions of the part!!!!  Wow!

   This is why original thinkers and explorers and scientists, artists, philosophers, and prophets/visionaries are so often considered radicals and undesirable, disruptive forces who meet the resistance of inertia, habit, tradition, mores, social structures, and expectations that are threatened by change.

   This is why change comes so slowly to the collective whole.  But it certainly does come…as witnessed by our million year history!  But its coming is not accidental.  It comes by the celestial and spirit influences which minister to both the the each and the all.

   The spiritization of personality and the religious experience and growth of soul is expressed within the collective which reflects that personal progress collectively.   Personal experience is personally expressed.  The expression of experience by each part is reflected in the collective whole.

   Paul’s post reminds me of this teaching and universe reality.  As science eliminates superstition and we collectively gain experiential wisdom and spiritual insight unto the greater good for the greater number and learn to balance self interest and altruism and come to know the difference in true liberty and false….then do we collectively progress toward our collective (and inevitable)  destiny!

   Personality survival and the collective progress took a giant leap forward with the gift of the Spirit of Truth and flood of God Fragments 2000 years ago.  A real game changer in progress, acceleration, momentum, potential realization, and personal spiritual progress and survival!!!

   Thanks Paul!

   

   103:5.5 (1134.3) Human happiness is achieved only when the ego desire of the self and the altruistic urge of the higher self (divine spirit) are co-ordinated and reconciled by the unified will of the integrating and supervising personality. The mind of evolutionary man is ever confronted with the intricate problem of refereeing the contest between the natural expansion of emotional impulses and the moral growth of unselfish urges predicated on spiritual insight—genuine religious reflection.

   103:5.6 (1134.4) The attempt to secure equal good for the self and for the greatest number of other selves presents a problem which cannot always be satisfactorily resolved in a time-space frame. Given an eternal life, such antagonisms can be worked out, but in one short human life they are incapable of solution. Jesus referred to such a paradox when he said: “Whosoever shall save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for the sake of the kingdom, shall find it.”

   Me here:  Funny.  I think nameless posted proof of Paul’s point in his disagreement with that point – the collective manifestation of the personal religious experience!

   100:4.6 (1098.3) You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor’s motives and sentiments. It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being. If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious. If each mortal could only become a focus of dynamic affection, this benign virus of love would soon pervade the sentimental emotion-stream of humanity to such an extent that all civilization would be encompassed by love, and that would be the realization of the brotherhood of man.

   "Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."

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   BradlyParticipant
   Sep 19, 2020, 3:06 PM

   My thought of the day from the Foundation this morning was 2.7 below –

   132:2.2 (1457.5) My brother, good and evil are merely words symbolizing relative levels of human comprehension of the observable universe. If you are ethically lazy and socially indifferent, you can take as your standard of good the current social usages. If you are spiritually indolent and morally unprogressive, you may take as your standards of good the religious practices and traditions of your contemporaries. But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man. This indwelling spirit is the standard of personality survival.

   132:2.3 (1457.6) Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival.

   132:2.4 (1458.1) The spiritually blind individual who logically follows scientific dictation, social usage, and religious dogma stands in grave danger of sacrificing his moral freedom and losing his spiritual liberty. Such a soul is destined to become an intellectual parrot, a social automaton, and a slave to religious authority.

   132:2.5 (1458.2) Goodness is always growing toward new levels of the increasing liberty of moral self-realization and spiritual personality attainment—the discovery of, and identification with, the indwelling Adjuster. An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Adjuster, all of which lead directly to an increased desire to do the Father’s will, thereby fostering the divine passion to find God and to be more like him.

   132:2.6 (1458.3) As you ascend the universe scale of creature development, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment. The ability to entertain error or experience evil will not be fully lost until the ascending human soul achieves final spirit levels.

   132:2.7 (1458.4) Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty. Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart—the shadows of potential evil.

   132:2.8 (1458.5) Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness. The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them.

   132:2.9 (1458.6) By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life. Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise. In all such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative; it has become divinely complete and spiritually replete; it approaches the purity and perfection of the Supreme.

   132:2.10 (1458.7) The possibility of evil is necessary to moral choosing, but not the actuality thereof. A shadow is only relatively real. Actual evil is not necessary as a personal experience. Potential evil acts equally well as a decision stimulus in the realms of moral progress on the lower levels of spiritual development. Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice.

   Me here:  I think this is exactly what Paul was speaking of by his observation above:

   “Lately it feels like we are choosing to collectively manifest the multiple dramas currently unfolding, in order to clearly demonstrate to ourselves and our species the emptiness of greed and selfish individualism. The only sustainable path forward is one of compassion, cooperation and selflessness on the local and global scale.”

   "Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."

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