Scott Mandelker and Soul Evolution

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" Human Crisis and Divine Plan

Scott Mandelker, PhD

I. INTRODUCTION

Understandably, we who seek love/wisdom (both personally and collectively) lament the perpetual darkness of Earth's global culture. Endless warfare, institutional corruption and deceit, vast socioeconomic injustice, education and media folly, mind control commercialism and discord in family relations -- all such common features of human society cause Wanderers and all who care great sorrow and pain.

And yet, our pain is due to our perspective, and our perspective is based on subtle assumptions, many of which disregard Divine Plan and more specifically, the role of Earth in galactic soul evolution. Of course, few souls here venture past their own personal distortions, let alone try to comprehend esoterics of global function in cosmic relief.

Our common view is simple and justified by common sense; however, it is childish when held up to consideration of Logoic Plan and primacy of the Law of Free Will in interdimensional soul evolution. The common spiritual novice view is this:

Human/cosmic evil is bad and should be
opposed and eliminated.

This notion stems from our own subjective bias that values love and all it implies: equity, justice, freedom, goodwill, and harmonious social structure -- and there is nothing inherently wrong in it. However, all that exists is allowed to exist, and the Creator has granted primacy to free will in soul progression to allow us to choose our own paths of polarized self-development (what RA terms "service to self" and "service to other" -- the ways of seeking separation and/or unity).

To Logoic being, evil is neither mistake nor tragedy, and the misery that plagues humanity is fully warranted by its own personal and collective karmic inheritance. No, the Creator does not punish, but rather, souls self-generate their own life conditions in both individual and collective formation, and all souls choose their own circumstance to catalyze learning and growth. This is one of the cornerstones of basic metaphysics.

Admittedly, these ideas are controversial and cannot be accepted without significant wisdom and awareness of multidimensional soul law. Beyond the veil, using just a common 3D-mind complex, such ideas cannot be verified nor proven; thus you may disagree. I simply present the understanding that has come to me, and it is up to you to determine its relative accuracy.

Human Crisis and Divine Plan

II. HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS GROUPS

Stepping back a moment, we can then ask this: why is it that evil, injustice and ignorance are so prevalent here? Yes, it is karmic law, the operation of multi-incarnational cause and effect. But could it be these conditions are not a deviation from cosmic law, not a perversion of how "things are supposed to be?" Could it be that planetary conditions are wholly in accord with Divine Plan?

Recalling dimensions of boundless light, sensing the profound love-harmony of groups from which we come, awakened Wanderers despair in the face of human evil and suffering. We know global conditions need not be this way; we trust ourselves enough to realize, "if they would but listen, this could be such a beautiful world." And yet, we have forgotten what Earth was meant to be, the true nature of the Logoic gift given to souls who constitute the dominant groups here.

For Wanderers, it must be remembered this is not our planet; it is their planet -- the ordained 3D home world of those in the majority incarnate here. Despite the presence of Wanderers and an ever-larger group of positively-oriented souls (seeking love-light, truth and harmony), the great majority of 3D incarnates here are non-polarized (not pledged to either selfish or selfless being). This is by far the majority consciousness on Earth, and you would do well to consider the implications, for there are many.

Please understand, I make no judgment here; it is simply plain fact: for one reason or another, most human souls are confused as to whether their path (not merely preference, but their affirmed, conscious, deliberate PATH) is that of love or control. Anyone can help an old lady who falls down before us, but real positive polarization demands far more than that. It is no less than whole-bodied commitment to our own personal growth and that of everyone around us. It is not a small matter; it is, rather, a driving imperative to an ever-growing life.

When oppressed, most humans on Earth seek freedom, justice and equal opportunity -- understandably -- but this too does not constitute true positive polarization. And generally, when those previously oppressed gain socioeconomic power, they turn their backs on the yet-disempowered, and turn left toward self-embellishment. This is the primary reason why the vast majority of human leadership is self-serving: those who support them outwardly, more or less, seek inwardly a comparable state of dominance and control. Actually, it could not be otherwise.

Thus, atop the human social ladder, ruling Earthly nations, we find souls for the most part polarized to self-service. Nor is this an accident: souls always get the leadership they deserve, in the same way as all beings receive the lives they create by karmic operation. It is spiritual immaturity to blame fate, accident, a fickle Creator or Creation, or some other "external" cause -- karmic law is eminently fair and true, and Divine justice operates in the most exacting detail, despite our ignorance of it.

Frankly, it is no mystery we find such misery, inequity, ignorance and prevalence of control structures in Earth's 3D social complex. It is primarily due to negatively-oriented self-serving leadership resting upon non-polarized (or inadequately love-wisdom based) souls who constitute the vast ranks of population. Upon close inspection, it is obvious that Wanderers are but a small percentage of humanity, and souls wholly centered in love-wisdom are really quite few here.

Simply put:

3D souls who are negatively oriented, negatively orienting,
and those not yet polarized
must go somewhere for their own development.

And where shall they go?

Well, in this sector of the galaxy they come here.

Human Crisis and Divine Plan

III. EARTH'S COSMIC FUNCTION

In no uncertain terms, Earth was given by the Logoic Creator of this solar system to be the home, training ground, and site of major 3D catalyst for all souls here at this point in the greater cycle. Although most souls universally end up choosing the love-wisdom path (serving others, moving toward unity in harmony), some do not, while some others have chronic blockage in their ability to polarize out of 3D along either path.

In this sector of the galaxy, planet Earth (an aspect of the solar system’s Logoic Creator) has chosen this role in grand service to these somewhat problematic souls. Not every Logos is willing to offer a portion of its being to host such disharmonious and darkened 3D incarnates -- and the Logoic willingness to allow itself to be used for catalyst provision for these somewhat "difficult" beings is a mark of its sanctity and power.

This is no different from how souls in 3D agree to be parents of "very troubled" other souls (coming to them as so-called "children") -- it is a sacrifice willingly made, a sign of a hardy being willing to challenge itself through disharmonious catalyst. The same can be said of the local Creator: it is quite willing to host these beings, a partnership that can lightly be referred to as "Orion and the Sleepers."

Human Crisis and Divine Plan

IV. PARTNERSHIP-MIRRORING CATALYST: FIRST VIEW

In any case, this can be understood further:

Souls in human 3D who are negatively oriented or orienting,
and those chronically asleep to the need for spiritual maturity
(unable to polarize left or right), wholly deserve each other
and reflect key unseen aspects of the other.

This is a very subtle point, but moves toward greater recognition of just how Divine Plan operates in this dimension, on a world that seems so full of crisis and chaos. From a shallow view, this is true -- but upon deeper consideration, 3D consciousness dynamics here are perfectly balanced, fitting, and fair. More than that, they are optimally self-structured to catalyze their own transformation if wisely used. A bit of collective depth psychology, á la Carl Jung, holds the key to understanding.

For those negatively oriented or orienting, the shadow-complex (consisting of all that is repressed) includes love, truth, and the reality of unified universal being. Conversely, for those maintaining chronic non-polarization, it is discernment, self-empowerment, and soul-demand for spiritual growth and choice that sits in the unseen shadow realm. Depth psychology teaches that the conscious orientation of human personality is always perfectly balanced by an unrecognized polar opposite complex in the deep mind.

The reason these two groups find themselves paired in this world is no less than the fact that each offers the other a perfect consciousness catalyst for their own continued soul evolution. Opposites do attract, both in interpersonal relations and collective soul grouping, and it is no accident these two forces are the dominant actors in 3D Earth.

Interestingly, those negatively oriented or orienting can be understood to be inadequately polarized on their path, thus needing catalyst sparking continued movement along their path of self-service. In contrast to those who naively imagine all souls should become "good and virtuous," there really are two paths of soul evolution, as above so below, and beings which consciously reject love-unity do have the right to progress themselves without heart-activation.

This is a controversial point, admittedly, but is well known to mystics East and West, is often discussed in Buddhist/Hindu teachings, and can be found in all traditions of genuine Ageless Wisdom. It is simply an outgrowth and consequence of the blanketing Law of Free Will, and is itself an essential feature of Divine Plan. The Creator has created the foundations of just such polarity, and actively supports its maintenance.

Curiously, the negative path demands continual reduction of love and unified presence, increasing conformity in thought and action to the ways of power aggrandizement, one-pointed access and use of self-will, and steady growth in the "negative use of wisdom" (using mind to control and dominate). Examples can be found in such books as The Art of War by the Chinese logician Sun Tzu, and the works of Machiavelli. These are simply manuals for those on the negative path, and were of course inspired by souls in higher "negative" dimensions.

In Earth’s 3D realm, those on this path find themselves confronted with a great mass of souls who have not yet made their choice of polarity, who innately rebel against their own oppression, but yet lack the self-trust and discernment to realize the solution to their predicament.

For those seeking further dominance, the challenge is to increase their own mind/will access and conscious polarization in the ways of control. In essence, the lack of discernment and self-empowerment of the masses they rule (those neither polarized towards love or control) reflects their own still-inadequate usage of mind and will upon their already-chosen negative path. This is a perfect example of soul-group mirroring, and in a strange way, is no less than another indication of cosmic unity.

Those whom we may consider "asleep" to their own divine light and strength are a perfect counterpoint to those on the self-service path -- who are also seeking increased access to inner power through mind, and in their case, a heart-blocked use of wisdom. The inertia of non-polarized groups offers significant catalyst for those already negatively polarized, giving them (in a kind of ironic sense) the opportunity to refine their evil.

Again, I certainly do not support or encourage the negative path, but I do believe we need to understand the esoterics of just why we find these two groups dominant in 3D Earth, and consider the dynamics of just how these two consciousness poles reflect and play off each other. Without doubt, the Creator and the highest beings in our octave of 7 densities are replete with love and unity-being, without an iota of the desire to harm. Of course, that is the ultimate goal of all soul progression upon either path.

But in time and space, there is polarized soul growth, and far more than making us all "good," the Creator seeks soul progression through freely chosen self-development. That these two groups find themselves facing off against each other in this dimension is no accident, is in full accord with Divine Plan, and offers carefully designed catalyst so each may refine their own choices.

Human Crisis and Divine Law

V. PARTNERSHIP-MIRRORING CATALYST: SECOND VIEW

For their part, those who've not yet made adequate effort in mind polarization find themselves dominated, in the main, by a negatively oriented ruling class relatively clear about the ways of self-aggrandizement. While this type of leadership does offer an opportunity to join their ranks (inviting some into human institutional/control structures), in the main, the agenda of those in control is generally to keep "as many down as possible," using them to their own benefit without significant power sharing. Of course, we see this in operation all over the world.

Certainly, most of the souls as yet non-polarized in 3D do end up choosing the positive path of love-unity -- and will not, in the long run, turn against their own heart. Nevertheless, they are given the option of going either way. The main function of negative leadership is to "squeeze" those not yet polarized through increasing body-mind restriction and control towards greater activation of their own mind and will through the catalyst of collective and repeated heart-wounding.

Of course, mind and will are essential to both paths of polarization, but the primary quality needed for positive polarization (in distinction to self-service) is heart-activation, genuine compassion toward self and other. By means of long-standing social complex oppression and dominance, negative leadership offers those not yet polarized the catalyst of physical-mental suffering and spiritual heart-constriction. The "hope" from higher levels is that those oppressed will generate greater heart-activation as a means of seeking their own freedom (itself a quality of the positive path).

Though these are truly miserable aspects of human experience, if used wisely (as with all catalyst) they can fuel great soul growth. In the face of such misery (i.e. "human crisis"), non-polarized souls are given strong impetus to wake up to what they really want, who they really are, the latent power of their insufficiently used powers of intellect, and the self-fulfilling primacy of heart-centered being.

Like turning lemons to lemonade by adding sugar, sour dismal 3D experience generated by negatively oriented or orienting leadership (driving human society to constant strife and limitation) is potent catalyst for those yet sleeping to their own unbounded potential.

Certainly, such difficulties also give those who are already seeking world peace a chance to increase their own heart-centered commitment -- but I believe it is mainly to the sleeping masses that negative leadership catalyst is directed. There are countless love-based 3D social complexes in the galaxy, but what makes this 3D realm unique is its preponderance of chronically non-orienting souls, those who have missed repeated graduations (on other worlds) and thus remain cycling in this plane.

The dominance of global human leadership works primarily upon those who are non-oriented, as they constitute the majority consciousness grouping on Earth, and have the most to learn as they lift themselves out of what RA termed, "the vast sinkhole of indifference."

Human Crisis and Divine Law

VI. CONCLUSIONS

For Wanderers, it is a key to our well being to understand and make peace with the rampant evil and ignorance on Earth. We cannot be of much service to others, let alone offer clear love-light radiatory energy to the globe, if we remain confused and daunted by the distortions of the social complex within which we live. The ideas of this essay come from my own personal confrontation and inner process of just this dynamic -- a relatively bright soul living in a somewhat darkened social complex. I imagine this is much the same for you.

No doubt, the Creator is all things and no-thing, and apparent polarity is predominant only due to our own occluded perception. With greater expanded awareness, so-called polarity is seen as interwoven strands of vibratory light in the boundless matrix of the One Field of Creation. The primary quality of the One Field is limitless light, Ain Soph (from Hebrew Kabbala) and Mahamudra ("the great seal," from Tibetan Buddhism). Thus we need not despair, no matter how sordid life on this orb appears to be.

From the perspective of freedom, there is no enduring slavery in Creation, and from the point of being of 6D groups who guide soul evolution, it is right and fitting that both negatively-oriented souls and those not yet having chosen each have a place to grow. Reversing my assumptions about how Earth life was "supposed to be," I could glimpse the cosmic function of this world by its being just the way it is. Our real challenge is to make peace with the fact we have chosen to be here.

And so, it is essential we grow settled in our own life-purpose and the fulfillment of our intentions in taking birth in this world. For myself, I realize that verbal and written teaching is but one element of "what I'm here to do," and that the quality of my presence (vibratory, radiatory being) is far more important than the thought forms I produce. For you too, it is crucial to come into alignment with just why it is you awaken here in human body every morning.

Wishing you wisdom and light centered in boundless heart-care, feeling the glory of the One in Whom we live and move and take our breath, I thank you for your work in being here, and trust you will continue your unfoldment in peace and power.

Scott Mandelker
San Francisco, CA
April 6, 2004"

http://www.scottmandelker.com/