Theos-Talk Archives (June 1995 Message tl00045)

Brenda,

The manifestation of perfection in man, as I understand it from
the Secret Doctrine and from my perspective as a psychoanalyst,
is accomplished when soul, spirit, and body are working together
as one.  I believe this is consistant with Liesel's comments in
digest 259.  Even accomplishing this level of completeness fails
to truely manifest the total potential of the universe, as each
of us, even in our perfection as humans, lacks perfection
(completeness) as we do not fulfill the manifestation of the
non-human elements of the universe.  As I see it, we can only
participate in the totality of existence when we shed our
physical manifestation, and our spirit is reunited with the
universal spirit.  As I may have suggested in my previous
comments, I am exploring the possibility that "space" is the
holographic blueprint for the physical manifestation of the
universe, that spirit represents the information contained in
space, and that our personal individual spirit is only an
incomplete segment of the totality of information.  I am working
on a commentary on the Stanzas which brings twentieth century
physics into a new perspective.  My drafting process is slow, and
I'm really not ready to subject the text to review on the net
yet.  (It seems there is never enough "time" and too much "space"
in my time-space continuum.  Anyone else find that particular
problem?)

On reincarnation (reference comments by Daniel Caldwell in digest
259), there is an interesting variation on Pascal's argument for
the existence of God in the most recent American Theosophist.  In
his article, Be the best you can be, Ayers suggests, indirectly,
that there may be everything to gain by beleiving in
reincarnation, and very little to lose.  Certainly there is a
lack of objective evidence for belief in reincarnation, but there
are tantalizing subjective evidences that come from past life age
regressions under hypnosis.  In my practice, I see people often
who suffer depression which may be directly related to their
belief that they have to be perfect all at once and forever.
These patients are "cured" of their depression when they learn
they may have more than one chance to "get it right".  These same
patients often suffer tremendous guilt feelings that reflect
their blind acceptance of church teaching that they are flawed
from the start and can never become perfect (unless, of course,
they are "saved" by the charisma of their personal
teacher/preacher, or by tithing, or by paying off the secular
demands of their church).  There does seem to be a wide range of
practice within and between various denominations, which reflects
the apparent conclusion that the individual preachers/teachers
are given a lot of freedom in their interpretation of the way
they should use and promote the sense of guilt in their
followers.  I use the possibility that reincarnation is a fact of
existence to build a new perpective for some patients, enabling
them to view their religious systems in a new, and more
constructive light.  (Please note well that I am very critical of
some individual preachers/teachers and their approach to guilt,
and am in no way being critical of the belief system of any
organized religion.  Please make the distinction between
religious belief systems, which are spiritual and universal, and
parish/congregation/cult policy, which are secular, manmade, and
imperfect.)

Last, a question for anyone on this list who is computer
literate...  I joined this list a couple weeks ago, and
obviously, I have missed a lot since the start of this list.  Is
there any way I can recover the first 250 digests???

Love and light,  Fred