I appreciate your perspective, certainly.
If you take the ideas mentioned above and combine them with the "The Power of Now" (the only "time" or "place" anything ever actually exists), taking each moment of experience to its roots, you'd perhaps be surprised at how much war goes on internally, how much "intent to kill off", how much "desire to smear" or ridicule or best or reject out of hand... in an instant of experience. How much neglected decay, ignored and even intentional "crime", deceit, righteousness, fear and volumes of bandaids, paint jobs, masks, and facades that allow one part of self to thrive as if it is "the only worthy one" or "the chosen one" over other parts. All the makings of full out war. War against self, by self.
All within one experiencing being... which is a perfect fractal reflection of the One Self, which is actually all there really is.
Until we see this within ourselves, we will see this outside ourselves. Again, precisely because we reject it as ourselves.
In this view the Law of Attraction is revealed to simply be "the self acting upon the self", slowed way down to 3D in dense linear time. The slower the consciousness frequency, the slower the impact of one's actions back on the self... or so it seems to that consciousness. This is part of what makes connecting the dots so difficult for most.
Perhaps in partial explanation of the environment here... imagine that the Oneself decides to experience "not self". What would have to be put in place in order for it to be experienced as real? Ignorance of itself is paramount, of course. ALL of itself, somehow, has to exist in some form (including potential and idea), in this "somewhere". As is a "system" whereby it would appear legitimate that everything is "not self", except some degree of the containment field that houses "self".
And "where" this could ever possibly take place would be at a frequency of consciousness also very "not self". Infinity and all knowingness is pretty darn high/fast frequency! The slowest consciousness frequency where sentience still exists... is 3D.
And getting lost in this system is a given. When you have eternity, these things are not an issue. But many who got lost and could not find their way back inward because they never looked there, devised a way and means by which they could sustain themselves for a really long time, in their attempt to get back "home" to their rightful place as "God". Of course, because they premised their intent on the false idea that "God" is something external, acheivable by external means... they missed the boat. For a really long time.
During this aeon, they came to know themselves as "God" except for a few small details. And refuse to give up this notion. Those few small details, the flaws in their understanding, are "temporarily" taken care of by feeding off the rest of God until such time as they either fully subsume or change their mind. Of course they believe they will find this perfect form and way to finally achieve their goal. But that is a delusion, whether they acknowledge it as such or not.
That one moment, which is all there is, when the choice was made to experience "not self"... is constantly occurring. So is the completion in full return. And every stage in between.
In other words, there's plenty of time and plenty of room for this to go on indefinitely. For those who live from/in distortion, of course. But for those individuated consciousnesses that realize the truth of themselves/All That Is, the illusion is no longer a prison or hell, and needn't even be experienced any longer, if it's not wanted.
But to get to the place where one's sovereignty is known well enough that they can make that choice, one must have given up many ghosts and false beliefs and dreams of external grandeur. And accepted as self a great many things it prefers to reject, ignore, deny, project, repress, etc. And so it's not so easy for most once they get here.
So there'll always be an illusory experience of "Divine Not Me-ness", and any portion of the One is free to explore it for as long as it desires. Whatever devices and games and tangents they can create while exploring this denser level of "not me", is perfectly acceptable.
Getting caught up in those devices and games and tangents is also perfectly acceptable. But it is a choice. At some point, at least, it becomes a choice. Most don't realize they keep making that choice. To refuse to explore where one might feel vulnerable. To refuse to acknowledge what stares one in the face and see it for what it really is. To believe in something false because it seems safer than daring to move into unknown territory where it might get dangerous or scary. Lots of choices, really. All day, every day, in every moment.
Conjecture: Every aeon or so, one being does it, perhaps. Completes. Realizes itself from intial full ignorance all the way back to full consciousness. And what we don't realize until they're complete, perhaps, is that "they" were actually many, many, many individuals in form in that "somewhere" that's right here. So when this one completes, so do a whole lot of other individuated consciousnesses. Or are at least given the choice to, perhaps.
I seem to feel we're at one of those times, and it's happening as we speak. It fits with the feeling of importance that's grown around realizing that we indeed have the ability to make choices, and those choices are rather important. And they occur constantly in our experience of life here. Not choices about what to reject of all there is, but choices to become more aware. To dare explore what we've left untouched. To venture with trust, rather than protect in fear. Either type of choice sets us in a direction, it seems. "Home" or more exploration of "the game".
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It does and it must require a master of the realm to rise to awareness while in the limited state, in order to close the gap completely and "go home". It is a natural and required eventuality. There is no other path to completion than for that which first set out into ignorance to re-attain full awareness.
In this completion, all other tangents of exploration are "returned home" to their source, in harmony, in awareness, in light of truth. Distortions are resolved, conundrums of eternal life are resolved, and the "game" ends.
"The most important decision you have to make is whether you live in a hostile or friendly universe."
~ Albert Einstein
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
The evolution of humanity is an evolution of the heart. The path is through the heart.