inuyaSHA0004 said:
i believe that this place we call "home" this world/realm or whatever it may be on a much greater scale, is the Hell mentioned in the bible, the reason i think this is because, the heaven mentioned in the bible is a perfect place. a place completely without evil.
how much would we appreciate heaven if we didnt know the pain of hell? thats why we are here, to know what suffering is, so we can truely7 appreciate heaven.
I think hell (suffering) is both undesirable and unnecessary. But the
possibility of hell is necessary, so that we can experience the joy of choosing love/good. You don't need to really experience/actualize evil in order to appreciate good. You don't need to experience a car crash in order to appreciate the joy of driving a car.
That being said, I agree that life on this planet is a form of hell, due to the amount of suffering we can see almost everywhere. But how and why did we get here? Here's a theory:
There seem to be two fundamental ways of perception of reality: analysis and intuition. Analysis is a step-by-step process which is focused on details. Intuition is not a process; it is instantaneous awareness of the whole picture, but without awareness of details. Analysis explores the "trees", intuition grasps the "forest". This idea about two fundamental ways of perception is not ad hoc; it has been found that our brain hemispheres have specialized functions - the left hemisphere focuses on details and step-by-step analysis while the right hemisphere sees a global picture, intuitively (instantaneously). Or so the research suggests.
Now, let's say that God is all that exists. God too perceives reality (= himself) both intuitively and analytically. Intuitively, he grasps the whole reality but he doesn't see the details; he only sees an infinite undifferentiated mass. This is the timeless, "omniscient" perspective of God. And so he sticks analytical "sensors", or points of reference, into this mass and starts differentiating in the step-by-step process of analysis. This is creation: a portion of undifferentiated reality is tapped into (=intuition) and differentiated into patterns (=analysis). The beginning of creation is the beginning of time; each step in creation is a moment of time. And we too are God's analytical "sensors".
In the beginning we used our free will to switch between the analytical (non-omniscient) and the holistic (intuitively omniscient) perspective, which resulted in harmonious, optimal creation - our analysis was guided by all-encompassing intuition; intuition enabled us to create details in harmony with everything, although we were not aware of all details that existed. But at some point we misused our free will and neglected the intuitive perspective: we were so fascinated by the analytical awareness of our details (overwhelmed by the pleasures derived from them) that we started paying less attention to the intuitive awareness of the Whole; and so we started creating disharmoniously, non-optimally. As we pursued analytical pleasures, our awareness of analytical pleasures grew while our awareness of the larger world faded, which motivated us even more to pursue these pleasures and further limit our awareness. I don't mean to say that these pleasures are wrong (quite the opposite), but it was our preoccupation with these pleasures - that we stopped checking the wider context - that was wrong. We were rushing recklessly down the road of life - and crashed, ending up with addictions and obsessions built in our minds and bodies and severely limited awareness. This was
the spiritual fall or
the revolt of the angels.
And we got stuck on this planet.
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