Nefastos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:52 pm
Karma is always partly collective, and without taking the blame completely away from mediums or figureheads of problems, it makes the struggles also abstract. Without such an abstracting approach, problems tend to escalate to scapegoat lynchings.
I think we could make a approximating deduction from this, where the collective karma reveals itself through the responsibilities each one is connected to in any event. The individual karma that need to be left for each one is defined by the responsibility each in a collective manages to reach towards through sharing the essence of the collective, taking part of it, and thus its powers to be taken upon one's shoulders. But these portions of the essence can also be divided when more individuals hear the call for the same areas within the collective. So going deeper still, the truly individual karma can be seen through the challenges each individuals inner structures are wrapped in to shadows and imbalance, and how the collective areas of work challenge these individual structures to be opened up. There seems to be an area where each individual's own process need to be respected to a point.
Respect and trust are key concepts.
Straight forward reactive approaches to fear are always jeopardizing this individual
space of respect and trust. I'm sure most understand and have a first hand experiences regarding this idea of individual space related to karma. From a more recognizable point of view we could look how romantic relationships often have to deal with these individual spaces and balance them well to support each others dharmic progress while being very intimate at the same time. But it is the metaphysical in these experiences that interest me, the idea of this individual space. I doubt not making too big of a leap when suggesting it is the same space where we individually dream in. That it is this space of ours in the matrix where all our individual structures connect in to, the physical organ of brain as a center of the nervous system is one symbol of, and the physical organ of heart is another, more broadly centralizing (laya) aspect of.
It is also the space of solipsism, but solipsism is kind of a pathological state of the space where the more broad centralizing aspect of the Heart is in part disconnected and not making true connections outside of the individual space. Thus there are struggle for the individual center point to be aligned with the universal centerpoint of buddhi.
Nefastos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:52 pm
fighting not against human beings, but against the Aeons.
This is a more general and abstract part of the key, pertaining more to the movement towards the higher triad. It reminds me of the idea of human beings being stomped on by gods when seeking their help for insignificant things. If an ant would have the wild idea to ask something from a human being who is walking down a path in a forest, the straight approach could be crushing. Between human beings and gods, the connection can be made, not by naively asking for help for what ever petty quarrels one is having, but rather through learning to reach the level of gods (and beyond). Not by seeking the divine powers to fight the otherness in fellow human beings, but by seeking the divine powers and the level they are to be operated, i.e. seeing all interaction as parts of the Aeon, and how we are to fail or ascend over the challenges of these Aeons. Recognizing the Aeon and it's challenges is the work of elevating one's view from petty particulars of human quarrel to the level of the Gods, the Aeons are embodiments of. Further on, overcoming the emphases of the Aeons and their challenges is where the Satanic pride is in it's true, most pure form as this is where human beings can truly rise above gods or angels, instead of repeating their hierarchical structures in exact negative form by straight on rebelling against them.
Focusing on overcoming things this way, you can still be a human being to another human being while at the same time try and elevate the focus towards a level where perpetual repetition of problems is not the only possible outcome. And here indeed, it is largely respect for dharma of each others that the differently intimate circles and spaces around us are defined and observed.