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The Earth Realm

The Earth Realm

The world is indeed a theatre of experience and we find ourselves on its stage in order to learn lessons that can only be taught in a physical realm. Four billion years of evolution on earth have led us to a point where we can make very fine distinctions between good and evil, darkness and light, love and fear, where we can make conscious choices that will impact us and others in profound ways.

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The Spirit Realm

The Spirit Realm

'The spirit world' or the essence of our collective consciousness has used evolution to manifest physical entities in order to express itself in space as a function of time, and hence, learn lessons. Nothing in nature is void of consciousness. Not even the rocks. All natural states, all sentient beings, and all forms of life derive awareness from this vital force, which acts as a kind of timeless container. Consciousness comes first while physical realms and beings are projected manifestations of that primordial force. Basically, as above, so below, as many ancient wisdom traditions state

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Modern Society

Modern Society

The embodiment in nature is about our symbiotic relationship to this world, rooted in the interconnectedness with the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we walk upon.

Modern 'technological' society can only be described as a counter embodiment, since it feeds on our attention and strives off our dependency. It appears to have been engineered to switch people off to the wider mystery of being alive, to bombard our consciousness with sterile, soulless messages of production and consumption, of envy and greed, that never get to the fundamentals of anything.

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It also attempts to convince us that we are just a well structured meat sack, or a well executed accident of physics and chemistry. It also directs our purpose towards production and consumption as efficiently as possible.. And .. the general existential philosophy relays the message that when we are dead we go on to a non-physical space where all our wishes or fears come true and play on repeat forever and ever, and that our only legacy is passed on through our genetic information and what we leave behind in material accumulation.

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Source

Source

I think we are a part of a very long, very infinite, very entangled journey, and that we manifest in human form many times upon this earth and in parallals. Reincarnation makes perfect sense to me precisely because I dont see consciousness as an epiphenomenon of brain activity, but as the true source of all created things.

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I like to put myself in situations where i make interesting mistakes. Artist by nature. Engineer by study. Designer by profession. Martial Artist by Interest. Mage by inheritance, and i live by two seas and a river.

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Consciousness as the true source of all created things.

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