Why do we have dictators, despots and tyrants in the world?
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Baro-San,
This is only my opinion but the reason why we have dictators and tyrants in the world is because these souls are at a young soul stage of soul evolution. All of us on this planet are at different stages of soul evolution and awareness. Below I am including a link to describe the young soul stage from the Micheal Teachings. On a global scale most of the earth is populated with souls that are moving from a late young soul stage to a early mature soul stage of awareness. Which is why there is so much conflict in the world right now as the higher states of consciousness which is based on heart wisdom is now manifesting on the planet. Because of this the young soul stage which has been dominate for the last 2000 years is giving way and does not what to let go. There are pockets scattered throughout the world of souls that are either in a baby soul stage, or old soul stage of spiritual evolution. Many people here on the board are either mature or old soul stage of spiritual evolution. Which is still rare for the present day. Which can explain why many here feel out of step with modern very day life here.
All of us go through these different stages as we reincarnate and evolve in soul consciousness on our planet. So many of us here on the board have already passed the young soul stage in lifetimes long ago.
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Hope this helps and enjoy reading.
Love and peace.
Polaris
This is only my opinion but the reason why we have dictators and tyrants in the world is because these souls are at a young soul stage of soul evolution. All of us on this planet are at different stages of soul evolution and awareness. Below I am including a link to describe the young soul stage from the Micheal Teachings. On a global scale most of the earth is populated with souls that are moving from a late young soul stage to a early mature soul stage of awareness. Which is why there is so much conflict in the world right now as the higher states of consciousness which is based on heart wisdom is now manifesting on the planet. Because of this the young soul stage which has been dominate for the last 2000 years is giving way and does not what to let go. There are pockets scattered throughout the world of souls that are either in a baby soul stage, or old soul stage of spiritual evolution. Many people here on the board are either mature or old soul stage of spiritual evolution. Which is still rare for the present day. Which can explain why many here feel out of step with modern very day life here.
All of us go through these different stages as we reincarnate and evolve in soul consciousness on our planet. So many of us here on the board have already passed the young soul stage in lifetimes long ago.
The Young Soul
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Soul Age: The Ultimate Guide
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Hope this helps and enjoy reading.
Love and peace.
Polaris
Well.. I think it's another version of or an extension of the "why does evil exist" discussion.
To me, evil is any thought or action that separates you from another. Most penal codes are written around this premise: you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
The trick is to maintain a dualistic perspective. I'm me and you're you; I can accept that we're different, but I can also repect our human / spiritual sameness / oneness. I wouldn't wish you harm, no more than I would wish harm upon myself.
Evil (or evil thoughts in this case) to me, is a breakdown of that duality; the idea that you and I are different, we are not the same and that difference or "othering" becomes the rationalization or justification for evil acts. The more the world leans away from duality, the more chaotic, less good, unkind and evil the world seems. The more it leans towards duality, the more good, kind, cooperative the world seems.
Going back to free will, I think it's a complex and nuanced topic. I assume while you're reading this, you're sitting or standing somewhere. You can easily turn yourself to the right or left; there's no force field stopping you and no hand of god reaching down to turn back the other way. So in that sense, yes you do have free will over your own actions.
We just proved that and what most likely happened is that you did nothing, but rather just read the thought experiment. That also proves you have the power to not take action as well. So free will is made out of both action and inaction.
So action and inaction can both lend themselves to acts that create positive, negative or neutral responses or outcomes in the environment.
Examples:
Action -
Positive - Studying for an exam for a promotion at work.
Neutral - Turning left and right.
Negative - Punching your boss.
Inaction -
Positive - Not punching your boss.
Neutral - Not turning left and right.
Negative - Not studying for an exam for a promotion at work.
These examples are simple enough to get the point across. Notice though how symmetry is preserved between positive and negative actions as they flip poles from positive to negative. You study for an exam, you have a better chance of passing than if you don't. If you don't punch your boss, you won't get fired, like if you did.
Now evil factors into this through othering, which influences intent by becoming the justification for allowing or causing harm to befall someone else.
Say you are at a pool and someone is drowning and you don't help. The intent behind not helping:
Evil - you don't like the person.
Not evil - you are afraid of getting sued if you help attempt goes wrong.
Both are inactions that lead to negative outcomes in the environment (the drowning person dies), but one is evil, the other isn't.
These are simplified examples for the purposes of discussion and to summarize, we have free will, but our intent and choices of either action or inactions, determine the amount of order in our lives or chaos. And you can extend this to perhaps a personal Ven diagram like visualization over how our choices affect our different circles.. personal life, social life, work life etc and perhaps those Ven diagrams could be considered a fractal of everyone else's ven diagrams in their city and town and those extend further upwards to the state / province and national and then world level.
Through this example we can see how yes, small individual choices do matter and if we frame this in terms of reincarnation, if you believe the point is to learn, mature and gain wisdom, then the logical extension of that accumulated wisdom is to learn to effectively use action and inaction (through choice) to create the most positive actions in one's personal Ven diagram and collectively, the world would then lean towards dualism / duality.
Here's a twist.. if you believe that in the process of reincarnation, you choose a life plan for each life that may be based on karma or certain lessons to be learned, then you have free will within that framework, despite being guided through them. You can choose to opt out of them while incarnate, but that doesn't mean the system won't push back against you in various ways, because you consented to them at a higher level.
So @baro-san regarding this.. I am in complete agreement.
To me, evil is any thought or action that separates you from another. Most penal codes are written around this premise: you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
The trick is to maintain a dualistic perspective. I'm me and you're you; I can accept that we're different, but I can also repect our human / spiritual sameness / oneness. I wouldn't wish you harm, no more than I would wish harm upon myself.
Evil (or evil thoughts in this case) to me, is a breakdown of that duality; the idea that you and I are different, we are not the same and that difference or "othering" becomes the rationalization or justification for evil acts. The more the world leans away from duality, the more chaotic, less good, unkind and evil the world seems. The more it leans towards duality, the more good, kind, cooperative the world seems.
Going back to free will, I think it's a complex and nuanced topic. I assume while you're reading this, you're sitting or standing somewhere. You can easily turn yourself to the right or left; there's no force field stopping you and no hand of god reaching down to turn back the other way. So in that sense, yes you do have free will over your own actions.
We just proved that and what most likely happened is that you did nothing, but rather just read the thought experiment. That also proves you have the power to not take action as well. So free will is made out of both action and inaction.
So action and inaction can both lend themselves to acts that create positive, negative or neutral responses or outcomes in the environment.
Examples:
Action -
Positive - Studying for an exam for a promotion at work.
Neutral - Turning left and right.
Negative - Punching your boss.
Inaction -
Positive - Not punching your boss.
Neutral - Not turning left and right.
Negative - Not studying for an exam for a promotion at work.
These examples are simple enough to get the point across. Notice though how symmetry is preserved between positive and negative actions as they flip poles from positive to negative. You study for an exam, you have a better chance of passing than if you don't. If you don't punch your boss, you won't get fired, like if you did.
Now evil factors into this through othering, which influences intent by becoming the justification for allowing or causing harm to befall someone else.
Say you are at a pool and someone is drowning and you don't help. The intent behind not helping:
Evil - you don't like the person.
Not evil - you are afraid of getting sued if you help attempt goes wrong.
Both are inactions that lead to negative outcomes in the environment (the drowning person dies), but one is evil, the other isn't.
These are simplified examples for the purposes of discussion and to summarize, we have free will, but our intent and choices of either action or inactions, determine the amount of order in our lives or chaos. And you can extend this to perhaps a personal Ven diagram like visualization over how our choices affect our different circles.. personal life, social life, work life etc and perhaps those Ven diagrams could be considered a fractal of everyone else's ven diagrams in their city and town and those extend further upwards to the state / province and national and then world level.
Through this example we can see how yes, small individual choices do matter and if we frame this in terms of reincarnation, if you believe the point is to learn, mature and gain wisdom, then the logical extension of that accumulated wisdom is to learn to effectively use action and inaction (through choice) to create the most positive actions in one's personal Ven diagram and collectively, the world would then lean towards dualism / duality.
Here's a twist.. if you believe that in the process of reincarnation, you choose a life plan for each life that may be based on karma or certain lessons to be learned, then you have free will within that framework, despite being guided through them. You can choose to opt out of them while incarnate, but that doesn't mean the system won't push back against you in various ways, because you consented to them at a higher level.
So @baro-san regarding this.. I am in complete agreement.
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I haven't quite followed your explanation, so I asked three AIs for help to summarize it.
This is the clearest response:
Then I asked specifically what your post says only about "free will".
What I was specifically thinking in regard to "free will" was that your free will is restricted, limited by your beliefs. If you believe that something is impossible, you can't exercise your free will to invalidate your belief, until you realize that that is only a belief and not the truth.
If you believe that evil exists, then you'll experience the existence of evil. If you believe you have to pay for past misdeeds, then you'll experience paying for them.
Referencing the Murphy quote, if you believe that there are, or there were dictators, despots and tyrants in the world, then you'll experience their existence.
If you realize that the existence of evil, karma, evil doers are your beliefs, not truths, you can exercise your free will not to experience those. It isn't enough to intellectually tell yourself not to believe something. But, even just planting seeds of strong doubt has an effect.
Murphy explains that in our society we are conditioned to form beliefs that we then experience as reality. Those beliefs restrict the exercising of our free will which we could exercise by design.
This is the clearest response:
Then I asked specifically what your post says only about "free will".
What I was specifically thinking in regard to "free will" was that your free will is restricted, limited by your beliefs. If you believe that something is impossible, you can't exercise your free will to invalidate your belief, until you realize that that is only a belief and not the truth.
If you believe that evil exists, then you'll experience the existence of evil. If you believe you have to pay for past misdeeds, then you'll experience paying for them.
Referencing the Murphy quote, if you believe that there are, or there were dictators, despots and tyrants in the world, then you'll experience their existence.
If you realize that the existence of evil, karma, evil doers are your beliefs, not truths, you can exercise your free will not to experience those. It isn't enough to intellectually tell yourself not to believe something. But, even just planting seeds of strong doubt has an effect.
Murphy explains that in our society we are conditioned to form beliefs that we then experience as reality. Those beliefs restrict the exercising of our free will which we could exercise by design.
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Baro,
Free will is always involved no matter what stage of spiritual development you are in at present. This allows soul to create its reality be it here in the physical plane or in the higher dimensions. This process of trial and error throughout the many lifetimes lived on earth allows the soul to grow and evolve. The only thing that is usually hidden at least on the surface is how our karmic actions from the past play out in this lifetime. Most of us are not aware of what we have done, said, thought or felt in past lives but those actions (mostly intent) create the karmic patterns that manifest in the present life. Which is why many don't know why things happen when they do in their personal lives. Karma is used as a tool so that the soul may know itself by its own experience. However, the vast majority of people are not aware of the karmic patterns being played out in the background of their lives.
It is only when soul reaches a certain level of spiritual maturity is the veil of maya is lifted and we see and now understand why things happen to us. After all you are a total sum of everything you have ever experienced from your past lives to the present.
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Totoro,
Of course, we all have free will no matter what spiritual stage of soul evolution we are at. This is how soul shapes and molds its reality be it here or in the higher dimensions in between incarnations.
I may have went slightly off course or got long winded with my response to baro-san. But absolutely! We are all captains of our own ships, we choose and set the course through every action and choice me make (or don't!), one way or the other, at all levels.
How that refers to the original post though and which I was trying to answer with my previous reply, is that people often grapple with the question of why and how does evil exist in the world, especially in a creator / judge god world view (I'm not assuming that's baro-san's POV, but both concepts often go hand in hand in the same discussions) but the answer (IMHO based upon evidence that we see around us) is that we all have free will and sometimes that does lead to bad choices and undesirable outcomes.