"Second, suffering is necessary to shake us awake to higher levels of awareness. The only way to learn is to fail, and the only way to realize that we've failed is to suffer for it."
To what extend can this be overcome by conscious effort? I meditated a lot on the life of family members and their suffering, for example. What I can say that at some point a certain realization was reached which also opened up an emotional component as well as a few events of highly relevant synchronicity. At that point I am unable to say whether my efforts linked my own - at the moment consciously unremembered - memories with the fate of my relatives or if there was genuine empathy at work - probably both. But judging from the experience I dare to hypothesize: If an individual has reached a certain amount of actual experience it might be possibly to generalize this to a certain extent and learn from corresponding emotions stirred up in meditation instead of learning by "big drama"? Which would, if correct, imply that said individual would need to reach a minimum level of development on the mental plain as it would require rather abstract principles (the generalization of the emotions of others) to create and guide astral experience (the emotions the individual experiences during meditation)?
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"Second, suffering is necessary to shake us awake to higher levels of awareness. The only way to learn is to fail, and the only way to realize that we've failed is to suffer for it."
To what extend can this be overcome by conscious effort? I meditated a lot on the life of family members and their suffering, for example. What I can say that at some point a certain realization was reached which also opened up an emotional component as well as a few events of highly relevant synchronicity. At that point I am unable to say whether my efforts linked my own - at the moment consciously unremembered - memories with the fate of my relatives or if there was genuine empathy at work - probably both. But judging from the experience I dare to hypothesize: If an individual has reached a certain amount of actual experience it might be possibly to generalize this to a certain extent and learn from corresponding emotions stirred up in meditation instead of learning by "big drama"? Which would, if correct, imply that said individual would need to reach a minimum level of development on the mental plain as it would require rather abstract principles (the generalization of the emotions of others) to create and guide astral experience (the emotions the individual experiences during meditation)?
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