This is the second installment (of four) of my response to a reader’s questions after reading Thoughts on God: Ending Religion’s ‘Eminant Domain’on the Idea.
People do what they feel they must do to survive. Is this God expressing? Of course. However we choose to experience life we are also and simultaneously experiencing God.
I agree with this 100%, and that includes 100% of the life experience. If God is part of who we are (and I believe this is true), then what benefit is it to judge any part of the human experience negatively?
I’m not suggesting that we promote pornographic behavior, but not fear it; and not be so quick to judge behavior that is outside of our own comfort or “righteousness” zone, as somehow “beneath” God. God can’t be love and yet withhold it. If All is God, and God is Love, then God can’t be what God is “Not”.
We can acknowledge that, through veiled awareness — which appears to be a condition of entering and experiencing this world — we may indeed act unloving, for which we will create our own repercussions. It is created with God’s knowing of who and what we really are, as we go through the process of remembering it ourselves on our physical journey.
The data on the incidents of child sexual abuse (read rape) and those who eventually end up selling their bodies is staggering.
Neither you, nor I can know why a given human chooses childhood sexual abuse, or why a woman (or man) chooses spousal abuse. In fact, most of my life it made sense that these were not choices in the same way that gender, homosexuality, or skin color, or body type appeared not to be a choice. However, if we allow that life (and consciousness) extends beyond this world, and outside of the time/space continuum, and that our natural and eternal realm is also in the world of spirit, then it is easier to see how a choice can be made before we enter this world, as a function of agreement. It can be easier to understand how death doesn’t end life, and perhaps the actual “goals” of our spirit may be different than what appears logical to us. It is also easier to accept that we are the ones who make our choices.
It is easier to see how one can agree to play the role of an abuser before he or she enters this world, for when the veil drops on our consciousness, we “forget” by design. How can we have the journey into awakening to our light if we haven’t first experienced the apparent absence thereof (darkness)? And if all is God, then who but another aspect could we count on to engage in the drama of unaware life with us? “Dark” (fearful) experiences and relationships can set the groundwork, and serve as catalysts for the “abused” to embark on the true journey of his or her life; that is, to discover and then express the love that they are, which lives and flows forth, from within.
There’s great truth to the term “God knows why”. What we’ve not acknowledged for many generations, was that all are aspects of God, whether they believe as we believe, or whether we like what they’re doing or saying. Yet, if we start treating each other as aspects of God, loving them as kindred, and not treating them as aliens to be feared, we may indeed find that their behavior changes too, especially if we’re not fearful or repulsed by it.
Now does that mean that we sit idly by and do nothing because we understand the behavior we’re witnessing was a choice? No. We can exercise our own love channel. We can exercise our own acceptance channel by being at peace with what we see, even when we are inspired to take action to present other options.
I used to wonder why Jesus would allow himself to be crucified on the cross. Do you think he wasn’t aware of the possibility before he “came down” (not down to “earth” from Heaven, but “down” to physical vibration)? He came anyway, and loved ALL. Where did he ever say that prostitution was “wrong?” (I don’t know if they had pornography then.)
