Science of the Spirit

Zero Degrees of Empathy

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Professor Simon Baron Cohen presents a new way of understanding what it is that leads individuals down negative paths, and challenges all of us to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of empathy-erosion.

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l_e_cox · 2011-12-02T02:51:02Z

Close.

Here are two examples culled from my training:

In an ancient space opera society, a very able being (in a doll body), attends a show in a large theater. He becomes insulted by a joke in the show about his kind. He reacts by sending the huge central chandelier down on the audience below. This only serves to feed the zeal of the "meat body" attendees in eliminating doll-body beings from their society. The result is that the society is overrun by an enemy because doll-body beings are far superior to meat-body beings at running space ships.

On a planet being terraformed, a visiting free being becomes interested in some of the animals who are living there. In an attempt to learn more about some of the animals, he "blankets" them. But this results in their death. As they die, he feels a terrific intention from them to make him feel guilty for what he just did.

The above are two "whole track" examples of a failure of empathy. However, with the benefit of hindsight, and other research, it has been found that what caused these shortcomings basically added up to ignorance.

In the first example, the people in meat bodies had forgotten what using a doll body was like, even though they had all used doll bodies at various times in the past. They didn't understand the doll body being at all, and this made them fearful of such beings. The doll body being made no attempt to correct the situation, because he didn't realize that when you take a meat body you tend to forget your past lives.

In the second example, the free being is unaware that the animals are animated by spiritual entities like himself. He thought they were just little machines. The counter-intention he felt was from those beings, but it was not intelligible enough for him to recognize his mistake.

Over the centuries, thought patterns based on false data (lies, errors) such as those illustrated above, have been programmed into people. This programming shows up in the genetics, leading our scientists (who really should know better) to explain these behavior patterns as inherited and/or selected for and therefore essentially biological or chemical. This is a false assumption. A being is capable of changing his own genetics, or even those of another, through the exercise of intention. Intention is senior to mechanics. Part of our programming is designed to hide this truth from us.

The lecturer's empathy scale runs from zero to six. Without any programming, we would all be sixes. Where we end up on the scale depends on how much of the programming has been triggered into chronic (or momentary) action.

Our road out requires that we, in general, reduce our ignorance about this whole process. Individually, we must each confront those times when we acted out of ignorance and so harmed others, and forgive ourselves for those actions. There is still a lot of ignorance to handle on this planet. I hope we are successful.

avatarian · 2011-12-02T06:51:15Z

ie;cox...?

A nebulously wind blown etherial comment about humans to animals and aliens to humans one would percieve....as the C's have planted in "conversations" with the team.

It grabbed me that there was a certain incongruity in all these aspertions and curiously earth like lingo replies that bordered on the slang. Such communication at distance and with a singular device of ancient technology must make collection difficult...

By moving through densities there appears to be more of the same but different and wisdom is a vague as the nebulousness of the sky.

So one feasts off the other - yet those to be feasted upon the being is unaware that the animals are animated by spiritual entities like himself - ourselves our parallel selves or alter selves dressed up in the guise of Greys or Lizzies permanently looking to suck the lifes blood and therein destroy the environments...

The levels alterate, the confusion remains and there is one of contemplation before six & seven where we are apparently recycled - or we are recycling...like being reincarnated...to return to more of the same but different because time is only with us but without it doesnt exist.

A wave of energy to be interpreted by those who can acquire the STO and apparent clarity of purpose that appears to negate the need of "offering" love, consciousness and good intention where it is not asked for yet implies that we should ask to be educated, made aware and by self inducement understand that being a cenceptual Sufi we will somehow atone for all our sins and incongruities to be able to catch the wave - if and when in our time it comes - to go to a new density where we can throw off the earthly sensate feelings for something still more nebulous where there still reside the ignominious Greys and Lizzies still trying to pervert the course of wholesomeness...

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