Post by Enigma on Feb 13, 2019 0:29:31 GMT
Reefs has judged a body with cancer to be a 'horror'. (Definitely something very bad, wrong, something that should not be happening).
He's observed that the presence of resistance to what is, emotional discord, fighting against life, often arises in concert with the bodily condition of cancer and has concluded that therefore, mental/emotional resistance (what he refers to as an absence of alignment) "caused" the cancer. And he then goes further to say that if one can 'get into alignment' (stop judging the cancer as bad, stop feeling badly about it, stop resisting it) the cancer will necessarily go away.
From a position of being anchored within the dream, this is indeed very much what it looks like. One arising condition that is bad/unwanted/ (resistant/delusional thoughts about life, giving way to resistant, discordant feelings), 'causing' another. (a physical condition/bodily experience, deemed to be a horror).
This is the classic LOA position. And, it's not wrong in the sense that this is indeed what the experience looks like from the viewpoint of a person within the dream/story.
The transcendent view however, reveals that nothing within the dream is actually a cause/catalyst to anything else. Yes, apparent patterns do unfold, where certain common themes or common happenings arise/play out, where apparently related happenings co-appear within a particular time-frame of experience, but from this vantage point, the whole idea of cause/effect is seen for what it is; An empty experience.
Reefs has asserted that Niz's cancer that preceded his death, was an indicator that in his latter days, Niz had to be 'out of alignment.' What this really indicates though is that Reefs cannot look at cancer absent "his own" personal value system that tells him, it's bad/wrong, a horror.
He can't fathom that the particular condition of cancer could arise amidst an absence of mental/emotional resistance to what is.
If it's true that Niz was in fact in complete and total acceptance of his bodily condition, then really, the cancer was not a 'horror' to him at all..nor was it bad or wrong...but rather, just another arising within experience, none of which had the power to sway him from his clarity/alignment.
And this really is one of the pitfalls of LOA. Those happenings that are deemed to be personally unacceptable by one dude, are used as fodder for him to then judge the alignment or lack thereof of others who appear within his experience.
Practicing LOA really then, only applies from a personal vantage point. If I deem cancer to be a horror and I then get cancer, obviously I'm not in alignment. The very fact of seeing cancer as a horror, is evidence of the SVP who is looking at conditions/appearances from a place of delusion. That's really what 'misalignment' is....the presence of deluded thoughts/ideas.
Absent a judgement that rendered cancer negative/bad/wrong/something that should not be happening, in having cancer, Niz really didn't experience a problem at all.
If one is absent the SVP who judges particular experiences/conditions to be deeply bad/wrong, then by virtue of that, he's in alignment. Alignment is not dependent upon appearing conditions.
Yes, a good example for Gopal to ponder.
