Yesterday morning something came together for me, from something I've read years ago; Monroe's story about the "Loosh" garden, and the theosophic material I've been reading for quite a while. I hadn't thought about the Loosh story for quite a long while, but in a moment of quiet it came back to me and made sense in a new way.
Monroe had received the story as an information download. It's supposed to be some introductory information about the Earth learning system. Supposedly the purpose the system exists is to create a substance name Loosh of an ever-refined quantity. Plants, animals and finally humans were put into the garden to produce that substance (which equals unselfish love pretty much), and then it's “transported off†somewhere where it's a valuable commodity or something.
The Loosh story I've seen from time to time referenced as a fear-based scenario, similarly to "The Matrix",with the same message. 'See, they're using us!' Though it tells us nothing about who 'they' are and we cannot assess the accuracy of the information. An information download of this kind is said to be as accurate as the receiver allows for. Partial download and distortion of the information are to be expected with someone who is learning this skill – remember this is from Monroe's second book. To verify that Monroe was still evolving those skills one has only to look at “Journeys out of Body,†his first book, which is full of undecoded symbolism. But that was what Monroe was *seeing* (with his own astral eyes) at that point!
The theosophic idea about how we learn and grow as humans is as follows:
Material I haven't reviewed much yet says that before we become humans there's for example evolution in the plant and animal kingdoms. Then, a causal body is formed as our permanent soul, for as long as we incarnate as humans. This is supposedly the first time one has an individual soul.
The process of incarnation works like this: the causal body extends part of itself into the lower planes and a mental body is formed around that, then an astral body, finally an etheric body, which then becomes a blueprint for our growing physical body. This process is called 'involution', whereas spirit comes into matter. Each lifetime brings new lower bodies, and each lifetime is a new mix of energies.
The purpose of all this is to learn and grow as a human, to experience certain lessons. The lower bodies are temporary vehicles for this purpose while the causal body is the permanent storehouse for the wisdom gained from each lifetime. Almost every lifetime contributes something to the growth of this soul or causal body.
Now, here's the thing. The causal body is only affected by the higher energies, for lack of a better word. Unselfish love, for example. Whenever a human serves the greater good, or commits an unselfish act, and so on, it's causal body stores that and it is positive growth from that particular lifetime. The causal body is not affected the other way round by negative emotions, so, even if many incarnations experience very little of these unselfish moments, the soul will grow.
So far, the story is rather similar to the Loosh story; some entity needs something from us, and this higher, refined quality is transmitted to it and stored there. But there are several vital differences that change the meaning of the story a lot for me.
First and foremost, seeing the soul and the incarnate as different entities is just half of the story, one possible viewpoint. But the soul and its incarnate are one. In fact, in later stages of soul evolution it can happen, and will happen ever more often, that an incarnate gets so aligned with its soul that it accesses the causal body more and more and finally gets totally identified with its soul. From this day on the incarnate will basically be his soul in a body on this planet, there is no more difference.
As causal body and lower bodies are just different levels of the same identity, nothing is ever handed over to someone else. Nothing is taken away. The gardener who sows and harvests plants a bit of itself, and in the best of circumstances that bit even grows back to make the full connection to this gardener. (In fact, the relationship between soul and incarnate is also explained with a gardener metaphor in the theosophical texts.)
But in the Loosh story energy gets handed on from the gardener, too, to somewhere else. In Theosophy, the causal body is not the highest level of identity possible, but the Monad. The Monad is basically a part of the Source itself, a part that chose to participate and evolve in the Universe the Source creates and witnesses. In this case a Monad chose to evolve by being a human, which is one possible choice, so it adopted a causal body. As the incarnate can grow to identify with the soul, the soul can grow to identify with the Monad, which will be the end of its evolutionary cycle. By this time it returned to Source.
This whole system makes it possible to define what spiritual growth is. Spiritual growth means agreeing to the process that is in place, evolving back to the Source by learning and growing; and willingly participating in it. This accelerates this process enormously. This is but one aspect of the relationship between soul and incarnate. It is a slightly different story from the one Monroe tells us, but in terms of the ultimate message it carries it couldn't differ more:
It's always you. Nothing is taken away. All the "Loosh" you create contributes to your own growth and well-being as a spirit.
Oliver
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Originally Posted by Ouroboros
(Must have been the many acronyms... 
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That is one thing about My Big TOE, it's very acronym heavy. A sad parallel to my current career field, IT Networking. The acronym rules all...maybe that's why I find his theory so appealing, lol.
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