I look at it more like.... Consciousness is.
And these bodies and this planet are hosting consciousness.
While incarnate we are subject to rules or a program of sort that might be called natural law. There are deep subconscious drives in us, a rich lineage of evolutionary wisdom.
I believe in a higher power guidance system and we call it divine. I believe we are here to learn the intimate relation between the two.
I think it is also possible that man, as advanced as we are, is still somewhat living on a surface level and the understanding of natural law is not so common place. I have a feeling that if we really tried diving deep some might appear as magicians or psychics. For me that has come about in trying to recognize that no matter the modality it all comes from One source.
I shared a video here,
http://spiritualportal.net/index.php/topic,7443.msg39896.html#msg39896That ask if we see reality as it is- and states that evolution favors a measurable they call "fitness."
Thanks for the response as you know I did respond to your link here at the portal. One important factor I see happening here is our choice of influences and explanations for different states of consciousness and the realities we encounter and experiences we have had.
The ‘rules’ or ‘natural laws’ you speak of are interpreted quite differently by all the various social conditions that surround us. For instance some people may have the notion of the ‘transmigration of the soul’. This happened during the early Christian years. It is a peculiar thing but that idea was accepted by most other religions until a group of so called religious authorities decided it was sacrilegious to have such views. So we see that we have to recognize that the natural laws that many legislators and scientists believe to be true may not apply to a more spiritual understanding. With this recognition in mind we come to the awareness that many people may have quite a different perspective on the world around us then we ourselves. And often the people around us may even persecute those who have a different perspective. I have even had ‘friends’ that laughed at me when I explained to them that the world we live in and accept as real to the senses is in fact a cosmic illusion created by a higher source. In my opinion we need to find a way to be able to interact with people who hold very different views of natural laws then we ourselves may experience.
In the response to your last entry Eric I find myself questioning my belief systems and making attempts to experience reality on a deeper level and in the process shedding belief systems I may have experienced as sometime true and replacing them with views that replicate my experiences. In this way ‘evolutionary wisdom’ becomes more of a guiding principle in my consciousness and not the misleading explanations that society and friends may give me.
