THE PURPOSE OF FORGETTING

[cyberangel]

Dear Friends,

This post will either resonate with you or it won’t, but whether is does or doesn't is not the purpose of it, it is merely a sharing of experience, knowledge and beliefs of one’s soul

Last night I had a lovely conversation with a new member (Alena) and we were discussing thoughts and experiences. We touched on the subject of the soul’s purpose and I suppose the meaning of our existence as humans. I was sharing my thoughts and experience and knowledge as I understand it. I explained that we, ALL, know all there is to know already but we have chosen to forget.

Alena asked some wonderful questions, but some were hard to answer in chat, as some answers take more time that what chat can allow, and it’s not fair to dominate chat with a single topic as not all topics are of interest to all members, so in that context I chose to give only brief answers, and in doing so I felt I let our newest member down a little, so with that I will now try and answer, from my understanding, her valid question...WHY DO WE CHOSE TO FORGET IF WE KNOW EVERYTHING ALREADY?

Well, in my understanding and experience, the reason we chose to forget is so we can experience life in its entirety. Meaning, if you already know something how can you experience that which you already know, so we must forget in order to allow us the experience. I believe our purpose in this life, body, planet is to experience all there is to experience, because when we are at source we ARE everything.

For example...How can we experience day and night if we are already both day and night...so we create a reality that consists of a day and a night so we can experience both at separate times. We must choose to forget that we are both day and night in order to experience them individually. I hope you can follow me, as it’s so difficult to put into words or to find suitable examples.

So many talk about reality and different realities...WE create our reality. Each of us experiences their own reality, so my reality is different to yours because we choose different life experiences before we arrive into our bodies. When I saw my ‘soul’ and communicated with its consciousness, it also revealed part of myself that I had no idea of before, therefore opened me up to an awareness, a part of me, a higher fragment, that I never had access to before...if you can follow me.

I realised that ‘I’ was only a small part of the whole. That when I return to source ‘I’ will cease to BE and once more become ‘one’ with everything, that is why I always say “You are just another version of me and vise versa”. Furthermore, all we meet in this life, are souls that are creating their own experiences, and every soul has also a meaning within your reality. I think that is why ‘we’ all connect so well in chat and here on the forum, because we are able to connect to the energy first behind the being...if you get me. It is easier to ‘connect’ to each here as a soul first, not a gender, age or race, but as a soul and kindred spirits. We, together, are source. And WE together, are creators AND experiences.

That is why ‘I think’ we reincarnate...it is to experience all there is, not in this lifetime alone but over many lifetimes, and not just on this planet but many and throughout many universes. We are both finite and infinite. Anyway I just wanted to at least try and give an answer, although you all know the answer already

Love and Light my friends

[donq]

Hi angel,

It reminds me of this story:

Someone asked a millipede, “Wow! So many legs of yours! How can you manage them all at once, to walk?”
The millipede thought for a while and said, “Hmm…I don’t know. I really forgot about how I can do that!”

Aftermath, when the millipede tries to think about this later, then his legs are stopped, and he cannot walk any more!

[markings]

I have this question "In what way do we know everything already before we chose to forget what we know?"

What would be the point of experiencing something if we know it already?
In my mind there would have to be a difference between the two, therefore my question.

[baangus]

Jul 7, 2014 11:24:47 GMT markings said:

I have this question "In what way do we know everything already before we chose to forget what we know?"

What would be the point of experiencing something if we know it already?
In my mind there would have to be a difference between the two, therefore my question.

I would agree with that, although I would say it's more a matter of wording. The Source and the ALL is that which knows everything. We are a part of that Source, so in one sense one could say we know everything the Source and the ALL knows. On the other hand, we are individual souls who incarnate in order to experience new things. We do choose our soul tasks and our karmic challenges pre-incarnation, so that much we do know (and forget when we incarnate), yes. But do we know how those karmic connections will come to fruition in the physical? No, we can't know that; rather, we incarnate in order to experience and find out. Our soul-spirit evolution is dependent on coming to these new discoveries and understandings, based on our experiences in the physical, in order to learn and grow as soul beings.

Important law of spirit: There is always an absolute versus relative perspective to every question. Both are valid and both correct.

[cyberangel]

Hi Monty, Markings and Baangus,

Thank you all for your replies. In relation to your question’s Markings:

"In what way do we know everything already before we chose to forget what we know?"
“What would be the point of experiencing something if we know it already?”

Very good and fair questions markings, and thank you Baangus for your very well put analogy.

As I understand it, we are ALL just fragments of source but each also an individual in their own right, encountering multiple experiences at once, with different variables and outcomes. I know that might seem confusing or even disorientating to our human minds and why we come here as individuals, but if you think about it logically it makes perfect sense. We, incarnate to ‘live’ and ‘feel’ THE EXPERIENCE and to ‘interact’ and ‘explore’.

What is the point of experiencing something we already know? Let me try and explain it this way....Take a roller-coaster for example...you have seen pictures, even seen videos, read the manual of how it works etc...But all that is missing is the ‘experience’ of riding on one. You know how is works, you have seen others reactions but you lack the ‘thrill’ of the experience. That is what it is like for us as consciousness...we know all there is to know but we are lacking the ‘thrill’ of the experience.

So now you say...well if ‘one’ tries it than is that not experience?...NO, that is just one of many variables of the experience. We choose to forget because we need to in order to fully experience the encounter.

I hope I have helped to explain it somewhat but no matter what I say, you will have to ultimately seek out your own explanation. My apologies for such a short reply but I have been on the road all day and I am now ‘experiencing’ fatigue

Love and Light my friends

[baangus]

Jul 7, 2014 20:56:51 GMT cyberangel said:

As I understand it, we are ALL just fragments of source but each also an individual in their own right, encountering multiple experiences at once, with different variables and outcomes. I know that might seem confusing or even disorientating to our human minds and why we come here as individuals, but if you think about it logically it makes perfect sense. We, incarnate to ‘live’ and ‘feel’ THE EXPERIENCE and to ‘interact’ and ‘explore’.

What is the point of experiencing something we already know?

Hi cyberangel. What I was suggesting is that we in fact don't already know everything, from a relative perspective anyway. Creation is an ongoing, ever-evolving process. In a very real sense, we as soul beings incarnate in order to further evolve Creation. We do that via our material plane experiences. If one follows that understanding, it's clear that we don't know everything. Rather, we are creating it all as we go. We are creating our knowing, as we experience it.

I'll try and give you a spiritual picture example, which may come across as even more convoluted, so be forewarned! When in spirit, we review our past life, and determine which karmic threads to pick up and work with in our next lifetime. But deciding upon and working with specific karmic situations in a particular incarnation is no guarantee of any specific outcome. That outcome is entirely dependant on our own degree of consciousness while in the physical, and dependent of course on the consciousness and openness of those others we karmically interact with.

In other words, we can know what we wish to accomplish karmically. But we cannot know what we will be able to accomplish. We neither incarnate to experience something we already know, nor do we know what it is we will be experiencing. Rather, we incarnate to experince that which we do not know, but wish to know.

[baangus]

I'm adding this second post because I wanted to keep my absolute perspective observations separate, given how potentially confusing my last post already was!

Hermetic wisdom describes the All (Pure Spirit, the Source, God) as containing all that is, and all that possibly can be. There is nothing that is not of the All; nothing that is not the All. Therefore it follows that nothing can be created that is not already the All. So you see how that particular bit of wisdom shoots down my entire "We evolve Creation" theory.

I'm bringing this up to show that even I don't know what's actually going on! And also to suggest that, quite obviously, it's just as possible that we - somehow, somewhere, on some plane of reality - do in fact already know everything. Because everything we experience is part of the All.

Does that mean we can only experience that which already is?
No wonder the mystics say God is unknowable.

[donq]

Hi all,

First, I want to say thanks to angel for starting this thread, in her effort to explain it to alena and sharing it with us.
Second, thanks markings for raising some friendly questions so that we can look at it from some different point of views.
Last but not least, thanks to baangus.

Hi b.,

You wrote:

“...That outcome is entirely dependent on our own degree of consciousness while in the physical, and dependent of course on the consciousness and openness of those others we karmically interact with.”

Great one! I like it very much.

[cyberangel]

You're welcome Monty and thank you. Glad you all got something out of it.

Love and Light