Our origins

Here is an understanding.
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Humanity is just one of a myriad of evolutionary life cycles going through similar journeys to our own in myriads of Universes.
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We all come out of nature or the 'absolute' and through a long series of evolutionary steps and many, many lives come down into the state of self-reflective consciousness.
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We are also around this time living in an environment, which we call dense materialism.
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And this is where humanity is now.
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Over countless more lives, those who choose to make the effort and to evolve their consciousness are moving back up again into more spiritually aware lives.
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Till finally they merge with nature or the absolute.
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As mentioned above from around the half way point in this journey humanity attained self-reflective consciousness.
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At this point it became responsible for its actions, thereby creating karma for itself as individuals and also collectively as nations or as a species..
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As stated above we are just past the half way point in this journey and have another 2.2 billion years to go in our 4.2 billion year cycle.
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We have all had millions of incarnations and will have millions more before we reach the end.
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Put another way we have all been present through all the major steps in this evolutionary journey.
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All of us have been present in each major race and most of the sub races.
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Races totally forgotten today, we don't even know their names.
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Races long before our memory or belief that such races existed.
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Going back literally millions of years.
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And when we do dig something up that indicates intelligent life that long ago we deny and rationalise that it cannot be so.
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Be that as it may in each life we have one or two major lessons to learn.
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If we learn them we move on, if not then we repeat them until we do.
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Those who choose to be increasingly material and selfish in their lives divorce themselves from their souls and are then eventually destroyed, their atoms being recycled.
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Many choose this option or are too lazy to change.
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An individual's true journey for those that choose to grow moves from basic consciousness and selfishness to increased consciousness and altruism.
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From being separate units if you will to an individuality's forming part of a greater whole.
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Just as individual blood cells in our bodies form part of a greater whole, so humanity will again become a conscious part of a greater whole.
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This is where the idea that "we are all one" came from.
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Today this might be a mental stretch, but over time the idea will gain traction moving more and more humans to see others as themselves.
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To become more sharing and caring.
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This increased consciousness allows us to understand why we are here.
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What we must do each and every one of us becomes clearer.
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Our real lives are not about money or fame or power, although modern thinking, particularly in the West, might say that it is.
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Over time many lives from now the truth will prevail.
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That we are all here to serve each other.
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To help each other.
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To help others to grow.
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Even now it can become clearer and once you find that clarity for yourself, and only you can find it, then your experience of life changes.
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It changes in as much as the inside fears are dispelled and a quieter peace of mind is more the norm.
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Thoughts and actions dedicated to living a life of contribution.
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A long long journey filled with many tests and hardships.
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And yet how could it be otherwise given the mess we make of things now that we are responsible for our own actions?
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Our origin was hard.
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Our present time is also.
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And the future?
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That is absolutely down to us.
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There is no free ride in the Universe.
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Our origins might not be clear today, however the outline is as stated above.
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It is called the ageless or perennial wisdom.
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