A Rhetorical Question
This is a rhetorical question, and a clearly speculative one, but one I’ve contemplated myself on occasion through the years.
Suppose you were a disembodied spirit up on the astral, an infinite being floating around doing whatever disembodied spirits do up on those lofty planes. Is there any conceivable reason you might choose to incarnate into a life of poverty and hardship down on this clod of earth hurdling through space? Within the vast expenses of eternity would there be any possible benefits to undergoing such a constrained experience?
As I said, it’s a rhetorical question, but anyone who cares to weigh in with their own thoughts is welcome.
Over and out
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Ray Grasse is a writer, astrologer, and photographer living in the American Midwest. He is author of ten books including The Waking Dream, Under a Sacred Sky, and An Infinity of Gods. His websites are www.raygrasse.com and www.raygrassephotography.com.
Does the infinite being have a concept of poverty and hardship, and does it make any kind of judgment?
Otherwise, it may simply be a matter of a “shift in tension”—an experience that is simply different from that eternal state. Something to learn from.
I would think that the most reasonable assumption is that there was no choice. In buddhist doctrine, one would say that the merit that supported this sojourn through the ´higher planes´has been exhausted, and back down into the muck our rhetorical being goes.