FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

Aside from positive and negative perspectives, what about the one who sees life here as meaningless? I had an ex-member write that he sees that what humans do is irrelevant because God and earth will go on with or without mankind. I can see that is true, but I’m uncomfortable with that perspective, because what’s the point of doing anything, if that’s the perspective you operate from?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that this kind of nihilistic approach to life has been the basis for many entities in their approach; that nothing is meaningful, nothing matters, and that they might as well not exist. It is a kind of non-existent approach to life. “Why should I worry? Why should I care? Why should I apply myself to making something of my life, to helping humanity or to doing anything? Why not just kick back and watch the old world go by until the day I die?”

This Awareness indicates that this is the approach that some entities live by, and it is their choice. If they wish their life to be meaningless, then they can look at life as meaningless, and who can object to that approach? But who wants to have that approach put upon them?

This Awareness indicates that if you look at life as meaningless and you see it as meaningless, it generally reflects on your own behavior, making most of what you do relatively meaningless, and you cannot have much quality or sense of purpose or meaning in your life. Your relationships are meaningless, therefore, your relationships are shallow. You are like a butterfly, passing through the earth, a lifetime of fluttering without ever really touching anything with much pressure or gravity.

Compare that kind of fluttering life with a life of, for example, the elephant, which would be the opposite extreme. The elephant walks upon the earth, its presence is felt, its presence is known. It makes its mark with every step, leaving a track with every foot that touches the earth. The elephant’s life is by no means irrelevant. It is very relevant. The very fact that it moves and steps and goes from place to place is meaningful.

This Awareness indicates that it is a matter of choice, whether you want to simply be a wisp of smoke that passes through life hardly noticed and making no impact on anything, or whether you want to be somewhere in between that wisp of smoke and the elephant; whether you want to make a mark on life, or to be recognized for something you do, or whether you consider living to be irrelevant, for indeed, as you say, the movement of the winds, the streams, the weather, the movement of the earth, the planets and stars — all this will go on with or without you.

The Beatnik Philosophy and the Hippies

This Awareness indicates that this essentially is nothing more than the same approach and philosophy that the Beatniks wrestled with, where they said “All life is false and phony so why get involved? We’re beaten. We might as well just forget it. Just step out of life. Step out of the mainstream of society and watch the fools go by doing their unimportant work which they think is so important.”

This is an approach that entities can use to excuse themselves from life. “Pardon me, life, but I didn’t mean to get involved so I’ll step out.” This Awareness indicates that it is one way. It is one approach. It is one philosophy which entities can take and live by if they so choose. The Hippie movement recognized the truth in the Beatnik movement, but said: “Sure, it’s perhaps all phony and meaningless, but as long as we’re here, why don’t we enjoy it? Why don’t we have some fun with it?,” and so they began working, living, doing things that they enjoyed doing.

This Awareness indicates that many of these entities in the Hippie movement became involved in things and then found themselves perhaps joining society in a way that allowed them to play the game. Even though they knew it was all phony, they could get involved with the game, become re-absorbed in society without becoming enmeshed in the facade and social activity in such a way as to become absorbed totally by it.

They kept their individuality, worked at their jobs knowing that they could walk off the job any time they chose, knowing that it was not a life and death struggle, knowing that it was simply a job and they were getting paid for it, and they enjoyed the use of the money and what it bought them.

This Awareness indicates that it is the same with any individual looking at life. You can get involved without becoming entrapped, for if you recognize that it is simply a situation and you don’t have to be involved in it, if you recognize that it is a life that can be ignored, then you also should recognize that it doesn’t have to be ignored. You have the right to get involved in life, and you may enjoy the involvement, and if it becomes too heavy for you, too difficult, rather than going insane or committing suicide, you can simply step out and look at it again from an uninvolved state, from an uninvolved viewpoint.

So you step out of life long enough to reassess your place in life, and when you have regained your balance, you can step back into life and get involved again with the relationships, with the activities, with the obligations and enjoy yourself in the game of life.

This Awareness indicates that usually the person who wants to step away and not be involved with life and simply let “God take care of it all,” has had an experience that was not pleasant and the entity does not like the remembrance of that experience and feels that he would like to escape, and the escape being to step aside and ignore the deeper aspects of life.

Looking for the Ideal Relationship

This Awareness indicates that some entities use this same approach in terms of relationships. They would like to be close enough to have the benefits of a relationship and all of the pleasure of a relationship, but they want to be free to step away from the relationship any time an obligation comes up. Thus, they want the best of two worlds and seek to find the best by involvement for pleasure and departure from any obligation or pain.

This Awareness indicates that this, of course, does not allow the entity the full experience of a meaningful relationship, and therefore the entity, by being shallow, unattached, except when it is beneficial, can pretend to oneself that he or she has a meaningful life, but gradually the entity will discover that such a life is nothing more than that of a butterfly, a flighty approach that has no basis for deep meaningful life involvement.

This Awareness indicates that when an entity truly gets involved in life, without being entrapped, the entity recognizes that he or she can step out of a relationship, but knows that he or she can also stay in the relationship, can stay in the reality of life and remain there, even through the pain, even through the difficulties, and gain from the experience of the deeper more meaningful levels of life, of the relationship that comes from deeper involvement.

This Awareness indicates such entities become stronger and more capable of handling these energies so that the entity who goes through life accepting the deeper levels of involvement finds this to be not a burden, but a normalcy, and in that deeper involvement and the obligations that go along with such involvement, the entity’s feeling of purpose is seen only as average behavior for that entity. It does not seem that he or she has extended themselves excessively or become too involved or taken on too much responsibility. It just seems normal. The entity still knows: “If it gets too rough, I can simply drop the whole thing and go off somewhere and live a quiet life, unattached.” Knowing that, the entity can also know that, “This attachment I am experiencing has some responsibilities that are very trying and difficult, but I’m not yet ready to give it up, to go off and live a shallow meaningless life. In fact, I feel I could take on even more responsibilities, if necessary.”

Those Entities Who Can Move Mountains

The entity has become stronger than he or she ever imagined themselves capable of becoming, and such entities are the ones in life who move mountains, who create history, who make changes for the rest of the people.

This Awareness indicates that when entities accept responsibilities in ways that require almost super-human strength, the super-human strength is only normal strength for such entities and it is considered super- human only by those who would not dare take on a challenge because they are inclined to avoid deep meaningful actions, pursuits or relationships or involvement.

This Awareness indicates in other words, the more an entity gets involved in the deeper meaning of life, the more normal it is for them, and the more energy they can move. The more an entity seeks to evade or avoid deep involvement in the energies of life, the weaker they become and the less capable they are of moving energies in life, of handling responsibility.

It is simply a matter of personal choice, whether your life is to be meaningful or to be shallow, unattached, allowing everything to flow without you.

In other words: Are you a piece of driftwood? Or can you swim the stream? Can you buck the current? Can you get to a particular place or goal, or do you just drift with the current?

It is a matter of personal decision and choice. This Awareness suggests there is no need to become upset with the entity who only wants to drift and let life pass them by, for your feeling of disturbance is not going to really affect that entity. This Awareness indicates if it is a close loved one, and you feel they are wasting their life, then indeed you may wish to put forth the effort to shake the entity up enough to get them to see your point of view.

HOW THE UNINVOLVED SPIRIT CAN VIOLATE OTHERS

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

This perspective is so different for me, I just wonder, if you lived life from that perspective, wouldn’t you violate people all of the time?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that this is possible, not necessarily probable. The entity may simply want to stay away from any involvement. It is no violation to another if an entity does not want to become involved in a relationship. However, if the entity tries to use another, gets involved in a relationship, breaks the relationship off when it is no longer of great value, and then shifts back to the shallow uninvolved attitude, the entity could indeed hurt another by such behavior.

This Awareness indicates that this is not uncommon. It is quite common for entities to say, “I want to be a free spirit. I can’t get involved. I’ll only get involved long enough to make you pregnant, or to make you fall in love with me, then I am off to my free spirit mode.” This Awareness indicates that this is quite common and it is a karmic violation. There is no justification for such behavior. This Awareness indicates there is no spiritual excuse for such behavior.

This Awareness indicates that sometimes an entity will create an attachment to another which may exist for many years, and then the entity will switch into the shallow mode and say: “I’m tired of this relationship. It no longer satisfies my biological urges, or my psychological ambitions, or my monetary aspirations, and I think I can do better. Therefore, I am calling it quits. I am off to see the world. It has been fun, but it is enough and I am leaving now.”

Such an entity, in such a shallow behavior, to shuck off a relationship as if they were flipping off an apple core without any respect or regard for the other person, who has perhaps given him or her some of the best energies or years of his or her life, without any explanation, without any concern for feelings, without acknowledging the devotion of that person, simply flicking it away like an old apple core, such is criminal in the sense of spiritual obligations.

This Awareness indicates that it is indeed sad that there are people who do this — such irresponsibility in regard to the welfare and feelings of others. But it is common. This Awareness indicates it does create karma, and in some future time, those entities who behave in such a way may find themselves constantly being rejected by others. Because they have treated others in such a way, they themselves may be treated in a similar manner in future experiences, perhaps in the next lifetime.

If they have been blessed in this lifetime with good looks that allow them to treat others in such a way, they may find in their next lifetime that they are not good-looking, that they are quickly rejected by others, or that they are used, and dropped and left broken-hearted, so that they might get a feeling for the kind of things they have done to others.

This Awareness indicates it is all part of karma. It is part of the cycle of life. It is part of the learning experience, for all of life is truly a learning experience. It is not simply a situation where you can play games with being involved and jumping out of any involvement without any consequence, there are consequences to all of your actions.

Karma is always being created and entities will either create positive karma or negative karma, and the negative karma will extract payment, and the positive karma will receive payment.