lost generations

by Al on 20 Jan 10 at 16:21 in earth
What did our parents do for us? A loaded question perhaps, and one that should never be asked, which means it is worth asking as there may be other things hiding under it's umbrella.
Far from looking to discredit our parents, the concern here is the way that generations of people have been abused for as long as history has been recorded.
My own parents were 'war children' and then in recent times, we have, in the UK, the likes of “thatchers children”. These terms refer to abused generations of many millions of people. To think of the things that children may blame their parents for, parents who may have done all they could for their off spring, but were limited due to an abusive approach by “the establishment”. Such terms are no longer good enough. It is time for SOULS to start accepting personal and group responsibility for what they have done and are doing. Four years in power, then pass the buck is not good enough.
No more can we accept to be imprisoned and silenced by political correctness, fear of losing our friends, income, and indeed, our family itself.
We have a chance, a chance to turn it all around, now, in every waking moment, every living breath, it is our collective responsibility to do so.

I have no children, but can only imagine how much energy goes into raising a family, children who we can only hope will blossom into wise adults.

The whole notion of passing on any lifestyle qualities that we have, is rarely on the government's agenda. They not only don't care, but deliberately seem to destroy generation after generation. We have a chance, let us grasp this opportunity with both hands, and feet if need be. Goverments have no power, and so the nameless faceless fascists beyond government must now be questioned.
A political or military/ militant approach will suit our captors fine. Without spiritual enlightenment, we are going nowhere.
Due to formulated/ fabricated “religion”, we have people, souls, clinging to politics and science, while discrediting genuine spiritual types who they may see as “religious”, people who may be well on their way to transcending the limitations of “religion”.
We need to sort the wheat from the chaff. Knowledge and words will not be enough. Souls need the actual EXPERIENCE of being a deeply peaceful being. Simply being told that you are a spiritual being, something which governments should and could have been doing all along, is not enough, but is the starting point. Because that is simply what we truly are, and it will never ever change, ever. So let us be so.

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Parents
by MySpiritSings on 26 Jan 10 at 06:07
Do souls need their parents or do they discard them when they become enchanted with some new idea or form/way of life. As parents we teach, we care for and most importantly we love, but what of the rewriting of memories? Where do the years of tender care go and how is it so easily forgotten?

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re:parents and lost generations
by howiemac on 08 Feb 10 at 12:30
do souls need their parents? It is a common belief amongst reincarnationists (including me) that we, as souls, choose the body we incarnate in, and thus choose our parents, nationality etc - and so we should accept and honour our parents - they may have chosen to have a child, but they had no say in the soul that they received - the soul of the child chose the parents. The role of parent is one of selfless giving, and it is very rare that a child fully appreciates what their parents have done for them, at least not until they have matured and perhaps had children of their own. Nobody is perfect of course, and all parents make mistakes, as do the children... it is normal for teenagers to rebel and even, at some level, disown one or both parents - the parents will be perceived as wrong even when they are imparting great wisdom. This same scenario is often created artificially by cults, or by selfish power-mongers, who deliberately seek to separate us from our families, in order to make us dependent on them. This can cause a great deal of upset and misery. Ultimately souls, as spiritual beings, do not need parents, nor indeed anybody - but when incarnated as humans, we certainly need parents (or surrogates) when young, and will form emotional bonds at an early age so strong that any manipulated separation from the parents will be very damaging psychically. A child who has discarded a parent, for any reason other than persistent abuse by that parent, will most likely suffer from that loss themselves, until they gain the wisdom and inner strength to achieve a reconciliation with that parent. The parent must, of course, also find the wisdom and inner strength to accept the reconciliation and to let go of the past hurts caused by the separation. This process may not happen for many years, but it is a natural healing of an unnatural breach.

As Al says, we have to accept responsibility for what we do, individually, and collectively. As he says, governments have no power. Those who seek to control us only have control to the extend that we let them take it. Our natural state, as spiritual beings, is to be "self-sovereign": in charge of our own destiny, accepting responsibility for the results of our actions, and refusing to bow to the dictates of others, when they seek to control or manipulate us. In simple words we have to be true to our selves, and we have to stand up for ourselves against would-be oppressors. As Al indicates, we may blame our parents for wrongs inflicted by our government, society or culture - when we are very young we think our patents are all-knowing fountains of wisdom, and as we grow up and discover that they are, like all of us, flawed in many ways, we feel let down and turn against them. In fact we should be turning against the ignorance of the society or culture, and not against individuals who have themselves been trapped by that, and have been doing their best to nurture us. We have to learn for ourselves how complex and misguided our human society has become. We have to learn to be true to ourselves and to love ourselves, before we can truly appreciate and truly love others. This takes time, effort, and experience.


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