posted March 24, 2015 12:50 AM            

What did Mother Earth/Gaia "do" to "deserve" the Karma she experiences, through humans and other (ET) races? Why would she "sign up" for this incarnation/experiences she is having?

posted March 24, 2015 01:13 AM            

As for karma...I believe in that, but more in the traditional sense than new age sense, that is as cause and effect and amoral as gravity rather than one plans it out with a mentor to learn and grow on some higher plane of existence (though that may happen as well).

As for what Earth could have "done..." Well nature is incredibly brutal in a way we humans now insulated and protected from the worst of it by our technology and science can't understand. It's not just the gazelle as it bleats in agony, still alive, while lions are already feasting on it or the spider stung into paralysis to serve as food for the larvae of a wasp. It's the maggots that come out the skin of still living beings or countless parasites that still infect lifeforms (human and otherwise) to this day should they drink of the water or even just fall in which will turn them into pain wracked skeletons urinating blood or cause their brain to swell until it kills them. Heck, plenty of animals attack each other for fun (I recall one particularly interesting footage of killer whales having a grand time biting into and tossing a seal around like a game of ball, or dogs with a bone).

As said in World War Z (and quoted here for truth), "Nature is a serial killer." Forget the Disney and Miyazaki anime that portrays nature as gentle and friendly, it's often without mercy. People today often wonder why our ancestors lived in the smelly, filthy, diseased, polluted and poisoned death traps that were cities once upon a time (far more filthy and polluted than today with possible notable exceptions of cities like Magnitogorsk or even Mexico City, though any city in the third world with a lot of livestock roaming free is probably a contender) and it's because it was better and less deadly than the alternative of living in nature which was also deadly, unpredictable, frequent starvation and deprivation, and often loneliness and despair (and that's before factoring in the people who would often happily rob and kill them, sometimes with sadistic fun thrown in, in the name of their own survival and madness from such endurance of a harsh natural world). Even today it can be brutal and dangerous to live in rural regions (despite the technology now available and other factors that prevent predators, human and otherwise, from overwhelming them) where they're at the mercy of nature with little aid from civilization.

posted March 24, 2015 01:58 AM            

There are some schools of thought or theories that the "harshness" of nature is merely a reflection of our inner psyches... that animals can be so brutal because they learned it from us.. theories that the animals learned how to kill from us, that their behavior is merely a reflection of ours, that if our collective consciousness was more evolved, this would be reflected in the nature around us. If one believes that the outer is a manifestation of the inner, as within so without...

I also believe that the meaning of the planets/signs exist before/beyond sentient life gave meaning to them, I believe that we merely tapped into their already existing meaning, not that we created the meaning itself. So I disagree on that one. I'm also not sure if the Earth is older than all the signs..

posted March 24, 2015 02:02 AM            

As for the Karma the Earth is just a temporary home where we can experience material life to evolve ourselves as souls to gain wisdom through being falsely separated from our divinity. All you see around is the result of collective consciousness and the earth is patiently waiting the day when the collective consciousness has evolved into Christ consciousness so that we may complete our earthly lessons and achieve heaven on earth.

posted March 24, 2015 02:09 AM            

Angels are the wide eyed divine. If you believe in angels and you were to feel the presence of one you would suddenly feel you have just what you need in that moment and more. We see angels as (representing) higher power. Then why, in texts are the angels told to bow to Adam? Adam is special because he knows the names- And before God breathed His breath into Adam, the Angels were afraid of him. "the sound his dry clay made when they hit it". Manifestation

posted March 24, 2015 02:21 AM            

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Originally posted by Swanlake:
..."nature is incredibly brutal...."

That's an extremely bizarre and lopsided view
what you said up there Pixie Jane!!
What about the earth's bounty?????
And the beauty of nature?

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What about it? It's irrelevant to why Earth would be having a hard time, whether you think of karma the way I do or the more popular new age (and anthropomorphized) way.