This blog is based on a discussion I recently had in the chat room, a discussion which gave me much food for thought and got me really thinking regarding some of the goals I have placed on my life. This is part of the great thing about connecting with other spiritual people of great understanding about the cosmos...the growth and advancement of my own ideology.
One of my goals is to fight for a better world for humanity to live in. For many years now I have struggled towards the establishment of a world where poverty, rampant crime, rampant disease, war, economic inequality, and environmental destruction are things of the past. Such a world wouldn't be perfect, as humanity is a flawed species that probably would not benefit from an absolutely perfect world, but I do believe that humanity is capable of creating a much better world.
But there may be some unforseen consequences of creating a better world in regards to the spiritual realm. One of the perceived benefits to life in this highly volatile world in which we live in today, under the current economic system based on competition rather than cooperation, is that we have a huge array of diversity in regards to the types of lives that our incarnated spirits can experience. For some of us, living under impoverished conditions or growing up in a war-torn nation or environment may be necessary for certain of us to experience what we need in order for our spirit to grow and learn. If we lived in a better world bereft of poverty and war, wouldn't that mean that our spiritual growth would be stifled? Would we be subject to a lack of diversity that condemned our spirits to no longer being able to use the material plane of Earth for purposes of growth and learning?
My answer is: no. I think humanity is collectively evolving as a species just as we each evolve throughout different incarnations as individuals. In our current level of collective spiritual evolution, it's true that we need various degrees of suffering and hardship in the world, as defined by today's standards, in order for us to grow and learn as individuals and to provide us with a diverse array of experiences as opportunities for further individual growth. But in the future, once we evolve further as a species, I believe that suffering as we know it today will no longer be a necessity for spiritual growth. Is it not inconceivable that in a future time period of increased social and spiritual growth for the entire world that we will reach a level of existence where diversity is not measured in degrees of hardship but rather in a myraid degree of lifestyle choices and paths that are currently out of our reach or considered to be taboo by modern standards?
I have found our society to be very conformist and not conducive at all to diversity of lifestyle and I have seen our society push a "one path fits all" mentality on us. The fact that our world is embroiled in such turmoil often forces us to struggle for our very survival rather than giving us the time to think in regards to what we can do to build sufficient growth experiences for our spirits to develop further. Further, having to spend 24/7 of your life fighting for your very survival doesn't give you much time to develop our full talents and abilities to their highest level. It may be good for learning pure survival skills, but not in terms of learning the many other things that humanity is capable of learning.
In a future world where competition has been replaced by cooperation, and where many of today's severe problems have been conquered, people will now be able to work for the betterment and growth of the human species. Advances in medical science will enable us to stay in our physical incarnations and experience a state of good health and homeostasis for much longer periods than we are currently allowed. The introduction of a practical means of long distance space travel and exploration will give humanity the collective opportunity for new experiences and life lessons that are completely undreamt by our species today.
As a result of this unprecedented growth of experiences in the future, the spiritual realm will change remarkably. Our need for different experiences while in our physical incarnations will change, and the better world of the future that some of us envision will be filled with diversity of experience in ways that we can barely imagine today. In a universe of experience filled with lunar colonies, civilizations on other planets, and a world free from want where all of us can concentrate on developing our full potential, spiritual, psychic, and otherwise, I think we have a tremendous realm of opportunity and diversity of experience for us to look forward to in the better world of tomorrow once our species makes a collective evolutionary jump spiritually.
Chris
Tags: Spirituality Spiritual Growth
