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1. How to Learn Life's
Lessons
In the first part of
this book, we will learn to understand what Life wants from us, what
lessons it teaches us, and how we can become Life's favorite children. In
the chapters to follow, we will tell you what conclusions to draw from
these lessons and how to properly use the advantage of being a favorite
child of Life.
Different Strategies for Achieving a
Goal
How can Life influence
our behavior? Very simply, it either helps us or creates obstacles on the
way toward our goals. Everyone has
desires and goals in life-to get an education or a gratifying job, earn a
lot of money, create a family, raise children, achieve success in a
certain matter, etc. We all move toward our goals and, sooner or later,
most of us achieve them. However, some people succeed quickly and easily,
while for others it takes time and effort. Let us consider why it happens
this way. In theory, two different
strategies of achieving any desired goal are
possible. The first strategy is
a path of strength, struggle, and overcoming difficulties. In the
animal world, the best analogue is the behavior of a bison or a boar,
which are not afraid of anyone and tear down all the obstacles on the way
toward their goal. Some people act like this in real life, overcoming
numerous obstacles with persistence and fervor. It seems that their whole
life is devoted to struggle. They even like obstacles because they allow
them to live life to its fullest, as long as these people have good
health, of course. It is clear that
to achieve our goals on this path, we need a great deal of courage,
confidence in victory, a lot of energy, and the inborn qualities of a
leader. But not very many of us possess these
qualities. The second strategy
is a path of calm and confidence in achieving a goal, one that
virtually excludes taking part in conflicts, struggle, or overcoming large
obstacles. It is a path of a wise man, who does not waste his strength
struggling against people who do not know what they
do. In the animal world, a wild
horse, for example, behaves in this manner. It is strong, but it prefers
to listen and look around in case of a threat. This strategy allows the
horse to avoid fighting without
necessity. The second path works
best for the vast majority of people, who do not possess outstanding
inborn leadership qualities. We are going to consider this very path. It
means that we will learn to move toward a desired goal, listening to the
signals that Life constantly sends
us. Life interacts with us all the
time, but we are not accustomed to listening to its hints and giving it
the right command. Nobody taught us how to do these things, so we have to
make a lot of mistakes that are the reasons why our desires do not come
true.
What stands in the
way
The main conclusion of
our research of the failure when trying to achieve set goals is the
following: The primary reason that we do not fulfill all of our desires is
the fact that we are in conflict with the surrounding world or with
ourselves. But one of the primary conditions for getting practical help
from Life is an ability to accept the surrounding world as it is, despite
its obvious, from our point of view,
imperfection. It is necessary to
note that it is very difficult to accept this position in our world, which
is constantly being divided into the rich and poor, believers and
non-believers, honest and dishonest people, etc. But it is the necessary
condition. For you to more easily accept it, let us consider why we come
into this world.
1.1 Why Do We Come into This
World?
In virtually all
religions, we see an indication that a human being should not care about
his or her existence and should place this concern with God or other
Heavenly Powers. In the Christian New Testament, we find the following
precept: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
rust consumes and where thieves break and steal…" Buddhism directly tells
us that our world is maya, illusion, and there is no necessity to make
efforts to achieve success in it; otherwise, we will waste our time and
energy chasing a mirage. Similar statements may be found in any other
religion. However, it is absolutely
clear that these statements completely contradict all our convictions and
life experiences. We all know very well that if we do not do anything at
all, one day we will face a serious trouble, e.g., lose our home, job,
relatives, or health. Who can be satisfied with it? Maybe the ancient gave
their recommendations concerning some special human beings, for example,
monks? It turns out to be untrue. This knowledge relates to everybody. But
to realize this, it is necessary to understand why we are born into this
world. To better understand the
course of further reasoning, we will accept an assumption that will not
influence the following recommendations in any way, but will help better
understand their origins. We will
proceed by accepting the existing belief that a human soul can be
repeatedly born into different bodies. In oriental religious doctrines,
this phenomenon is called reincarnation and it means that some part of us,
i.e., our immortal soul, can move into a different body after death. It
happens many times, as many as the soul needs or desires. Let us examine
the reasons for this in more
detail. In principle, we imagine
that our heavenly substance, the immortal soul, does not need to come to
Earth. We could stay for as long as we want in the world that we call
"invisible" (in hell or in paradise, according to Christianity). But many
of us prefer to travel to Earth and lead an uneasy life.
Hidden
world has many levels
We
know from many sources, including the religious ones, that the hidden
world (hereinafter, the "Subtle World") has many levels. It has so many
levels because most souls live in very uncomfortable conditions. The lower
levels resemble the living places of the poorest people in Africa and
Asia. In Christianity, the lowest floors of the Subtle World are called
"hell." At the same time, life on
the uppermost floors of the Subtle World is like the life of a very
wealthy person living in a private villa on his own island. No doubt, each
soul would like to secure a place at a higher level. However, the floor
number depends on the amount of "sins" a human soul has committed by the
time it leaves the body (i.e., at death). This idea is directly connected
to the notion of "karma," which is spread widely throughout the
East.
Ancient Eastern
doctrines
The term karma is
very ancient. In Sanskrit, it means "action." It indicates that even in
the distant past, people understood that their own actions determine their
past, present, and future. Many
authors have written about karma, from theosophists and mystics of the
past to countless modern writers, and their approach is very different.
However, for the most part, they consider karma to be the burden of
problems and illnesses that a human soul inherits in this world. In
esoterics they call it "mature" or "family" karma. As a result, readers of
those books might feel that their life is predetermined and hopeless.
Fortunately, it is not nearly as bad as it
seems. Our experience indicates
that most problems in our life result from the mistakes we make as
conscious adults. We break some of the simple rules that we should observe
in this life, and as a result, we face many troubles, illnesses, and even
premature death. Not all these difficulties are an outcome of events that
happened in our past lives. We ourselves create our problems and illnesses
when adopting an incorrect attitude toward our world, and when we pay too
much attention to some aspects of our life, completely ignoring the
others. Life is full of diversity,
but we rarely accept it. We have ideals, and we are disappointed when our
high expectations are not met. In our method, these excessively
significant ideas are called "idealizations."
Notion of
idealization
To
idealize means to attach excessive significance to an aspect of
life that is important to you. This excess manifests itself in long
periods of negative anxiety and stress that occur when real life does
not satisfy your expectations. For
example, you have an idealization when you imagine a certain behavioral
pattern for your spouse, child, acquaintance, authority figures, or
others. You KNOW how they should behave, but they act a little (or a lot)
differently. That is, they do not fit the ideals that you imagine,
and their behavior does not match your expectations. As a result, you
become aggressive, trying to make them act as you deem appropriate. If
they do not behave as you imagine they should, you become depressed or
desperate. In either case, you do not accept this person (or the
rest of the world) as he does not conform to the ideal that exists
in your mind. We also idealize
circumstances and events in the world as well as people. For example: the
government acts incorrectly and leads the country into deadlock.
Politicians think only about themselves and do not care about others.
Religious extremists go crazy and sacrifice human lives fighting for
absurd ideas. Life is unfair, and many innocent people suffer in wars and
catastrophes, etc. You yourself can
become an object of idealization if for a long time you are unhappy about
your appearance, abilities, habits etc.
There are a lot of these
idealizations blemishing our lives.
Open and Latent
Idealizations
Before we
begin, we suggest that you distinguish between two types of idealizations:
open and latent. We call an
idealization open when something in our life annoys us for a
long time (or perhaps provokes some negative feelings). It can be
anything - your work, your apartment, a television program, the
government, your boss, a co-worker, your mother-in-law, your wife or
husband, your child, a significant other, a car, even yourself. If
something annoys you for along time, it means you idealize the
object/event and attach excessive importance to it/them, because they
behave differently from your point of view, making you
unhappy. It does not matter if you
openly show your distress] or conceal it charily from other people. It is
more important to note that deep inside you have been struggling for a
long time and you feel like you are failing to change the existing order
of things. The second form of
idealization is latent. It takes place when you are not always
aware of being unhappy about something. Sometimes you do not even realize
that a certain idea about yourself or other people is very important for
you. If something extraordinary happens with this idea or person, then
deep inside you will be displeased, become aggressive, or feel that your
life makes no sense anymore. For example, you may realize that you
cannot live without your great job or family after losing it. Earlier,
when you had it all, you did not even think about how important this value
was for you, but after losing it you become conscious of how precious it
was. It turns out that deep inside you had idealized that aspect of your
life or a person, without noticing
it. To determine your Latent
Idealization, you might want to try to imagine how you remove different
values from your life, one by one. If the lack of a certain value will
not make you suffer emotionally, it means that you do not idealize it and
are not obsessed with it. However, if you cannot imagine your life without
this value (e.g., job, money, honor, family, children, sex, power, etc),
then you know - you attach an excessive value to it.
You may not even guess that you
had a Latent Idealization until you get in a situation when something
unusual happens to whatever it is that is important to you (e.g., you are
a very tidy person and suddenly you find yourself in a dirty and untidy
surrounding, which annoys you for a long time).
You do not allow
the world to be
different
The term
excessively means that you value your model of the world too
highly, meaning you believe that everyone should (according to YOUR
standards) be honest, children should take care of their parents, people
should not insult each other, etc., thus not believing that Life can exist
in other variety and form. You think that you know how the world should be
arranged, and you are not willing to exercise an idea that it can be
different. From a religious point
of view, negative emotions are a result of condemning something in the
world and can be considered a sin. Consequently, by attaching excessive
importance to our expectations and values, we prepare the ground for
collecting sins. Eventually,
this value is to be eliminated or taken away from you so that you
do not forget that only God can bestow and take away things. He will
eventually "confiscate" what you value because you are unhappy about
particular order of things in this world, which has been created by
God. So if you are unhappy with the
world, i.e., you commit a sin, HE shows you your mistake. He does
not punish people like slaves, servants, or misbehaving children. Instead,
he gives us advice, teaches us and talks to us as reasonable beings who do
not YET understand the obvious truth. As soon as you understand his
instructions, he stops to defy you.
Life teaches us not to
condemn
If we idealize
something, we will receive a kind of spiritual "mentoring". This
mentoring occurs through the forceful destruction of the value that we
idealize. In this way, Life tells us, "Look, your ideal does not exist
anymore, but nothing terrible happened! You are the same and life around
you is the same, yet nothing changed! So is it worth it to waste your
nerves fighting for your
illusions?" For example, if you are
too deeply in love and idealize your partner, then most likely he or she
will soon leave you (or fall in love with someone else). Will life end
after this happens? Only for you, and only for as long as it takes you to
get rid of your suffering. Almost everyone has lived through this
experience, and usually more than
once. If you idealize some aspects
of family life, it is very likely that your husband, wife, children, or
parents will not share precisely the same ideal of it. The same thing will
happen in every other matter in
life. To better explain why things
happen in this way, we suggest considering the following
model.
Stress Accumulator
(SA)
Let us imagine all
of the negative emotions that we feel when life does not satisfy our
expectations as a certain liquid gathering in a container that we will
further refer to as Stress Accumulator
(SA). This liquid flows through
an upper pipe into the SA, where it gathers and the level of this liquid
shows the amount of our dissatisfaction with life in the form of
negative emotions. At the same time, the liquid is released through a pipe
at the bottom of the proportionally to our good deeds from life's point of
view. When this reservoir is filled
to a particular level (when a certain amount of "sins" has been
accumulated), we start to see forced spiritual mentoring, that is, Life
proves to us in one way or another that we should not have attached
excessive importance to our particular
ideals. There are as many as five
ways for Life to show us that our excessive expectations are
wrong.
Our world as
Purgatory
As we already
mentioned, the human soul can just stay in the Subtle World forever and
does not need to occupy a human body. Of course, every soul wants to move
to a higher level. As we said before, each soul occupies a level according
to the amount of liquid in our SA at the moment of the physical death of
the body. It is probably possible
for a soul to lower the amount of the liquid in SA while it is in the
Subtle World, but doing so would require a lot of time. The probability of
the soul doing something good in the Subtle World in order to lower the
level of liquid in the collector, is very low. It can be accomplished much
faster when occupying a human
body. Our planet is a place where
we may lower the level of liquid in our SA over time. In other
words, our planet is a certain purgatory where we can rid ourselves of
previous sins. That is why the inhabitants of the Subtle World's lower
levels very often want to come back to our world to avoid the
consequences of their mistakes. However, their choices are limited, and
because of their previous mistakes, they go to countries and families with
a lot of poverty, illness, war, violence, and other serious troubles. This
kind of environments make it terribly difficult to remain serene and
forgiving, so it is quite hard for a soul to realize its intention of
getting out of the "chronic sinners" circle. However, if we manage to live
under these conditions without bitterness and resentment, then the filling
level in our SA will lower
radically. For pure souls
inhabiting the upper levels of the Subtle World, our planet is a
place where they can come to experience real sensations, worldly life, and
help others to apprehend their mistakes. That is why many peaceful souls
return to Earth even when not required. They choose a body for a new
incarnation and come back to Earth with the best intentions. Many of them
very likely assume obligations to bring goodness and serenity, to
enlighten and heal people, and to help others achieve the right attitude
about life. Some inhabitants of
the higher levels may ask to come to our world on a tour to feel
sensations of the real world and physical body: love, sex, food,
interpersonal relations, material wealth, art, and so on. They are most
likely born into very rich families, which allows them to enjoy material
wealth, that is, of course, if they do not break the required rules,
complying with the travelers'
code. Unfortunately, not all of us
remember our promises or good intentions when we arrive to our
"purgatory." Earthly temptations seize us and we forget that we had
come to this world for a short excursion; "short" - because 70 to 90
years of an average human life is a very brief moment compared to our
soul's immortal existence.
Our life as a
Tour
When souls go to Earth
for the next incarnation, they are being instructed: "Do not forget that
you are going sightseeing, like visiting a museum. Behave
appropriately." That is why our
life is a tour. It is not a trip to an ordinary history museum where
all of the exhibits are put inside glass displays and you can only look at
them without touching. Rather it is a contemporary museum that resembles
hi-tech museums, where visitors can touch and interact with virtually any
exhibit. These exhibits demonstrate different physical effects: echo,
interference, diffraction, magnetism, laser radiation, and so on. Visitors
can touch the handles and levers, press buttons, and operate any of the
exhibits. By paying the entrance
fee to such a museum, we gain the right to employ any of the exhibits
within the working hours. However, we cannot take these exhibits home
because they do not belong to us. We come to this museum, play with the
gadgets and leave. The same thing
happens with the human soul. Before it goes to Earth, the soul is told:
"We give you a possibility of becoming a human being. Go, look around, and
endeavor everything they have over there. If possible, get rid of
your sins. Please, never forget that you are allowed to stay there for
only a limited time. Use everything they have there, but do not break the
visitors' regulations and be grateful to the one who let you in." Those
are the rules and everyone is to observe
them. Unfortunately, our soul
usually forgets these instructions. Arriving in the real world, we start
considering it the only one. Atheism and our education systems
teach this idea to us. At the same time, any religion reminds us that this
world belongs to God. Only a few of us perceive this important
reminder. For some reason, we do
not believe what we are told and we become engrossed in this world. We
fall passionately in love, thinking that the other person is our property
and we cannot live without him, or we become obsessed with money or power.
As soon as we become too attached, we forget who created this world and
who rules it. We are not even required to love God very much, but rather
remember that everything in this world belongs to God and keep this in
mind throughout your life. Take something, experience it, and put it
back in its place. The same
principle concerns any excessive attachments, i.e. material goods,
spiritual qualities, talents, creative work. In reality, these rules are
sometimes broken. For example, if we have an inborn talent for painting,
we may become arrogant and think, "I am outstanding, I am a creator, I am
the best!" It is a common and erroneous conviction, and instead of getting
rid of old sins, we begin to add new ones. We start attaching excessive
importance to our talent and, as a result, experience a lot of distress.
An upper valve opens in our SA and it starts to fill. We come to Earth to
lower the level inside the SA and instead - we increase
it. It is clear that if we gladly
use our abilities and do not experience stress, no matter what happens,
then we will have no particular problems because we do not need to be
"mentored." Sadly enough, this happens very rarely. One way or another,
almost all people break the rules of living in our world and Life has to
point them to their errors. We are controlled by a
Guardian
The Creator is
most likely too busy and does not have enough time to keep track of all of
our thoughts, emotions and actions. That is why Nature in its wisdom
created a certain tool in our very souls. This tool constantly
monitors our thoughts and actions, and on the basis of its
observations, regulates the liquid level in our Stress
Accumulator. Later, we will talk
about how this tool functions as well as about the "controller" of our
sins. For now, let us call him our Guardian. He monitors our activities,
calculates the liquid level in our SA and decides what to do with each
person and how to teach him a particular lesson.
What happens
when SA gets filled up
When
our Stress Accumulator is more than half-empty, our Guardian does
not have any significant complaints about us. We live comfortably, life
brings us joy and our wishes easily come true. It is called a LUCK level
and, at this point, Life gladly helps us and makes our wishes come
true. As soon as we start
idealizing something and, as a result, feel stressed for a long time, the
SA begins to collect the stress liquid. When the accumulator is
two-third full, the Guardian takes measures and teaches us a
lesson. He starts sending us reminders, e.g., "You forget that you are
just a visitor in this world. Don't think it is all yours even though you
have a ticket. Put things in their places." We begin to receive strong
signals, and if we do not understand them, the situation becomes much
worse. Actually, subtle didactic
signals have been previously sent to us already, but now they are becoming
stronger and more consistent. Minor accidents may even happen depending on
the type of idealization, for instance, problems at work, family troubles,
financial credit problems, private conflicts, money or property theft, and
others. If we continue to ignore
these signals believing that they are just coincidental, and carry on with
our misbehaving, then we will be given a more stringent warning. Pure
accidents do not exist in our world; they are strictly pre-determined.
All of the unpleasant things that happen to you are intended by your
guardian and are meant to remind you that you have the wrong attitude
towards the world around
you. Certainly, you may reject this
reasoning and continue thinking that these troubles are mere accidents,
yet by doing so, you will be left behind and not experience progress in
your life. If something bad
happens, for example, a robbery, you should realize that your Guardian
agreed with the thief's Guardian about stealing your money or your car.
This way, you are reminded of your misconduct and are being penalized
for breaking the
rules. Usually, we do not
recognize our Guardian's suggestion and continue our usual way of life.
The insurance pays for the stolen car, and you go and buy a new vehicle.
Later your Guardian pushes you in yet another accident with your new car.
It seems like this is the right time to start reconsidering your life, yet
it is easier for you to believe that everything was just an accident or
the other person's fault; because we are stubborn and have only practical
reasons for everything. So, Life has to teach us harsher
lessons. When more than 80% of
our SA is full, the Guardian starts to send us very strong signals. As
we already mentioned, accidents happen, family life is ruined, and serious
problems develop at work. First, we lose things that we are excessively
attached to in this world. A businessman may lose clients, get sued,
go bankrupt and nothing will seem to work to help improve the situation. A
housewife may face a family crisis, have problems with children or other
relatives, and so on. If we do not
understand why these signals are sent, serious illnesses appear. As a
result of erroneous ways of thinking, many of us get sick all the time and
it is almost impossible to find absolutely healthy people nowadays. That
is also why illnesses are often accompanied by
accidents. In our modern society
medicine rather efficiently fights physical illnesses, and as a result it
is often difficult for the Guardian to make someone sick (especially if
you do sports and watch your health). However, the guardian has plenty of
other opportunities to send a warning. If an illness does not happen, then
we face life problems, that is, troubles in many other
areas. For example, sometimes very
successful athletes attach excessive importance to their fame. They start
treating others with arrogance. As you probably guessed, it is an obvious
violation of the rules of tourists' behavior. Consequently, an
upper valve opens in SA, it begins to fill, and the successful athlete
faces troubles in life. He is no longer successful, no one hires him, and
people do not talk about him. He thinks his life is over. In reality, he
goes through a process when humiliation is cleansing his soul. Now he is
in the same situation as those people that he recently despised. If he can
realize it and asks for forgiveness from Higher Powers, then his situation
will soon change to the
better. Usually, we do not fully
comprehend the lessons we are taught. We do not understand that it was
Life who let us participate in the game and win. It is also Life who
changes our lives for the worse to make us understand that we are the same
visitors here as the people we
despise. When a soul comes to
Earth, it has permission to play any human games. It can experience
business, love, war, power, politics, spirituality, art, etc. Yet the soul
should not forget that it came to Earth as to a museum or even a national
park.
Our life as a trip to a national
park
We all know that by
paying the ticket, we receive the right to enter a national park, put out
a tent there, and if it is permitted, sometimes even hunt. However, do not
forget that we are under constant supervision. As soon as you break
the rules of the national park, a park ranger arrives and makes you pay
the fine. If you do something really outrageous, you might be thrown out
of the park or even sent to
jail. This example illustrates
how we should treat this world. We might dislike something about
it, but it should not cause us to become aggressive or get offended. For
example, in nature we might dislike that a giraffe's neck is too long or a
lion's roar is too loud. You might also detest watching a lion kill an
antelope. You might really hate
these things, but you understand well enough that nothing can be
changed. Even against your will, you must accept this park the way
it is. It is silly to be offended by a giraffe or a lion. However, in
reality, we often become annoyed or take offense with politicians,
businessmen, relatives, acquaintances, and others. You cannot change the
situation; you can only add some sins to your SA by having an incorrect
attitude toward things that were not created by you, thus not depending
whatsoever on your attitude or your
actions. That is why the best
attitude in our life is the attitude of a traveler who came to this world
for just some time to enjoy the surrounding instead of taking critical
notes. Again, the world is not created by us, so we have to accept it
as is. We are constantly being supervised in case we break the rules
determined by this park's owners. However, having come to this life, we do
not know or we forget that there is a guardian who always keeps his eye on
us. This model explains why it
helps us to turn to Higher Powers in critical situations. What is a
critical situation? For example, perhaps you were breaking the park's
regulations for a long time, so the ranger caught you and wants to have
you be sent to jail. Who can save you in this situation? The ranger can
hardly help you because he is doing his duty. You can only count on the
park's owner, i.e., God. The best way to attract his attention to your
misfortune is to tell him about your sincere feelings. God is merciful, so
he will probably believe you and forgive you. Of course, he realizes
certain insincerity in your Love because you probably rarely thought
about God until this critical situation occurred. Just try not to forget
the promises you are giving him right
now. God is compassionate, but he
does not always have time to forgive your sins. However, your Guardian
always supervises you. He knows very well how shifty you are, so next time
he will put you through such a hardship that you will not even have time
to ask for mercy. That is why re-thinking of your values and praying to
God is quite efficient in critical situations in general.
What
happens when your Stress Accumulator is
full
Let us continue
discussing the Guardian's penalties. When our SA is almost full (90
- 95%), we face fatal illnesses or major problems (e.g., going to jail).
If we still do not understand that we are breaking the rules for visitors
and place too much hope in doctors, healers or judges, then extreme
measures will be applied. At this
stage, the SA overflows and our Guardian loses His patience. If we
manage to recognize our mistakes and drastically change our way of
thinking and behavior, then the upper valve will close and the liquid
level in the SA will subside. In this case, the illness will go away (we
all heard of cases of inexplicable recovery from AIDS or cancer.) If our
views and behavior do not change, our life is taken away from us resulting
in physical death. When we die, our
SA is full, so the soul gets stuck on the lower levels of the Subtle
World, almost in hell. No doubt, the soul suffers a lot there. If we
idealized something in this life and our life was taken from us as a
result, it is at this level that we find themselves among similar souls.
If in this life we despised people, then other souls at this level in the
Subtle World will despise us as well. Imagine life in the world where
everybody despises each other. If we attached excessive importance to sex,
then now we share space with sexually addicted people and are being
constantly humiliated. After
passing away, we all go to a level of the Subtle World that corresponds to
the level of the accumulated liquid in our SA at the moment of death. We
create our own hell or paradise by our own decisions. To lower the liquid
level in SA some older people are put in conditions when they lose the
ability to have sex, feel the taste of food and experience other carnal
pleasures. This way, by the time we become old, we no longer have so much
attachment to the world and our SA empties a little, even if we do not
realize it. Here we considered a
situation of a person who does not realize that he is only a temporary
visitor on this planet, now let us examine what happens when we do
realize that we are only guests on this planet and are allowed here for an
excursion.
Conscious trip to
Earth
First, we should buy
a ticket. The price is probably a promise to enlighten people and help
them. This way, we get an opportunity to empty out our SA if it still
contains some stress liquid. Of course, a soul coming from a higher level
of the Subtle World has many options concerning the form of its next
terrestrial incarnation. To avoid excessive suffering or struggle for
survival from an early age, these souls are usually born into prosperous
families. You may notice this fact by reading the biographies of many
spiritual leaders. This soul often
is given a talent, for example, in sports, arts, science, healing, finance
management, trade, etc. These abilities are meant to ease up the existence
in this world because by using them we become more successful than people
without such talents. On the other hand, possessing a talent is also a
big test because by being talented, we are more tempted to idealize our
abilities, fame, material wealth etc. If we manage to appreciate our
natural abilities, not becoming arrogant and scornful, then we are able to
considerably clean out our SA and guarantee ourselves a higher level of
placement after our return to the Subtle
World. Unfortunately, the
biographies of many renowned painters, poets, writers, scientists, and
other famous people show that most of them lead lives full of wrong
passions and emotional attachment. As a result, after death they most
likely move two to three levels lower than they were before.
We
have access to everything on
Earth
We do not intend any
of the above mentioned discussion to scare you. We can assure you: We
come to Earth to use everything offered here. That is why each of us has a
chance to try business, politics, love, sex, art, becoming wealthy,
etc. We may do any of these things with passion and pleasure. However,
it is very important to remember that your life is just a game and you
should never despise and hate anyone or take offense. These are mistakes
that will lead to the Guardian teaching you a
lesson. How can we determine when
we are breaking Life's rules and deserve a reprimand? We believe that
everyone should feel it on his own, although we have some recommendations
for you. For example, you are fishing and suddenly lose a big fish from
the hook. Most likely, you will become very emotional about this failure.
Later, you will accept this situation and forgive yourself, the
fish, and the rest of the world. You should treat all other failures in
the same manner, regardless of whether it concerns your family life, work,
creative endeavors, etc. It already happened and we cannot do anything
about it. Keep this idea in mind and you will lead a happy life in which
your plans will be worked out quickly and easily.
First
conclusions
Our model of
the world and our discussion of the purpose for our coming to Earth
explain the reasons for most (not all, of course) illnesses, troubles, and
accidents. Our model supports the
idea of other religions that everything in this world belongs to God. That
is why we should try not to grieve for a long time if something or someone
does not meet our expectations. On the other hand, if we understand how we
should behave in this world and accept it as is, we have the right to ask
Life to give us everything that we need. We will make our wishes come true
because our planet has everything in abundance if we simply ALLOW
ourselves these good things to come into our
life.
SUMMARY
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We come to this world and may do whatever we want here (of course,
without causing harm to others). At the same time, we should not
consider anything our own and idealize any terrestrial values. We are
just visiting this world briefly and should consider our successes and
failures as a part of the game.
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If we start attaching excessive importance to some material or
spiritual values, i.e., idealizing them, our Stress Accumulator (SA)
will overflow and Life will give us spiritual lessons which will destroy
the values that we are excessively attached to and prove that our
convictions are illusory.
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If we do not understand these signals and continue breaking the
rules of this world, we face an early death.
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If we re-consider our attitude toward life and people and stop
attaching excessive importance to our expectations and ideas, then Life
does not need to give us its lessons anymore because we have already
learned them. As a result, we may get rid of serious illnesses,
troubles, accidents, and other things that hinder our life.
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