Spiritual Balancing

One of the things my faith deconstruction has brought me is a willingness to explore any idea, no matter how far-fetched. I think the way to understanding God is through imagination. If he/she/they exist, the language spoken must be one of thoughts. We don't see God and can't carry on a vocal conversation, but we do have thoughts and can interact with those. If one is to communicate with God, to me, that appears to be the way how.

Ok, so that being said, I watched a video on spiritual balancing from The Law of One material. The Law of One is a set of conversations written back in the 70s. It's what's called a channeled message, meaning the conversation is supposedly with a being from a different dimension. Very woo-woo but, like I said, I'm willing to look at any idea. To me, it's no crazier than believing the authors of the Bible heard from God. I try to first understand what the idea is and then apply critical thinking on top of it.

The Law of One states that ultimately everything is unified in the Creator. The distinctions we see around us are a needed part of growth and understanding. The apparent separation between things and people is to provide contrast. We can only know light when it's compared against dark. To truly understand the nature of goodness, we have to see the nature of evil. But this contrast is a temporary state of affairs and ultimately, when people choose it, all will be unified again.

The video talks about emotions as being sources of attraction and repulsion. Everything we experience draws us to one another or pushes us away from each other. If we decide that we want to be an attractive force (i.e. returning to a state of oneness), we have to learn to process divisive emotions like fear, anger and anxiety.

The video claims the way to do this is not by suppressing these emotions, but by amplifying them. Really allow yourself to feel the full force of your anger or fear. Only by not resisting will you allow this emotion to give you the proper contrast to know what love is. You don't fight with the other person, as this amplifies the external division and creates more repulsion. Rather, you go inward and amplify the emotion. Punch a baflg, scream into a pillow, write a letter. Whatever you need to do to exhaust yourself with the emotion. Only then will you stop seeing the source situation or person of your anger as an enemy, and starting seeing them with compassion. We eventually see that the person is a part of oneness, which means they are a part of you.

Putting aside the channeling part, this idea has merit to me. I've been watching the news regarding the upcoming election (both sides of the political aisle). It's very interesting to me that each side does the same thing to each other. Demonizing their opposition while claiming they alone have the completes solution. The more we polarize, the less unified we are and the more conflict we experience.

If we could take a pause and really try to understand what each other is saying, not from our perspective but from theirs, we would stop seeing each other as enemies and more as peers. Understanding doesn't mean agreement, just respect and dignity. We must never forget that we are miracles. The sheer number of conditions required to bring about the consciousness of a single person is simply amazing.

So, behind the anger and fear, rather than seeing another person, try to see a reflection of yourself and let the healing flow.