Monday, 3 November 2014

[Content Warning] evil

My starting definition of evil is that it is whatever harms or hinders BPM spiritual growth / evolution / development.

It is vital that the assessment of spiritual growth/evolution/development be against the principles of balanced positivity and spiritual maturity summarised into the abbreviation BPM.

That includes, IMO, things like:

·         ensuring teaching is in harmony with the student’s learning [1] and cognitive [2] styles;

·         using teaching that relies on explanation/exposition first – no “throw them in at the deep end” rubbish;

·         making sure “challenges” and any "negative learning", if genuinely needed, are reasonable;

·         providing, in general, circumstances such that people are not lacking in the basic needs of life (refer to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for an idea of what I consider these are);

·         respecting and fully realising human rights and human dignity; and

·         enabling access to a wide range of Sentient Life and BPM lifestyles so that:

o   people’s minds are appropriately BPM stretched, and

o   they learn to coexist and work with people who of a slightly different frequency/nature that, in the nonphysical, where harmony vs. disharmony is the main sense of distance, they may not meet – which is why this physical level of reality came intobeing, to ensure they meet and overcome any effects of their disharmony;

·         etc.

Things which are counter to that are harmful, and, if they are severe or widespread, are what I consider evil.

Examples of that evil include:

·         restricting access to life opportunities by discrimination and/or bigotry, possibly violently (physically [e.g., slavery [3] , causing “learned helplessness”, etc], AND/OR nonphysically by psychic control or psychic attack, etc);

·         harm that is severe enough to significantly affect a person’s life, or continue to affect the person after this life and possibly in future lives (e.g., abuse, torture [4] , genocide [5] , etc);

·         anything which is counter to the reason this level of reality was created – see my post "The Origin of Evil" (at http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2012/01/origin-of-evil.html), which particularly includes:

o   lack of empathy, as was discussed by Hannah Arendt [6] after observing the trial of Eichmann [7] , and also made apparent in the famous Nuremberg trials [8] after World War (part) Two.;

o   severely harmful social/power structures/systems such as fascism [9] , patriarchy, and neoliberalism.

On the other hand, people can lose their life as a result of a natural catastrophe, perhaps an earthquake for instance, and that is just an example of the power of Nature, not an act of evil. They may well have enormous suffering and fear to work through (possibly in their next lives), but that is part of coming to terms with the fact that we are mortal, and Nature (including comets, black holes, solar storms and stray planets bumping into each other) is more powerful than we are.

And also on that other hand, people may have their life disrupted by an event such as the ending of a (romantic/intimate) relationship. That is not normally evil: it is often part of growing and learning and developing emotionally (perhaps, in particular, overcoming insecurity, jealousy, or possessiveness).

There are views on what is “evil” that I disagree with - such as most of what the neochristians consider to be evil - and others which I consider simplistic or naïve, but not necessarily totally without merit, such as the views portrayed in the Star Wars [10] series of films, or in Zoroastrianism [11] .


[3] Including modern slavery. See :
https://www.britannica.com/topic/slavery-sociology, which includes the following : 
“slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons”,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slavery&oldid=1057361752,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_slavery&oldid=1057543806,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom&oldid=1057039089;
and
https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/,   https://antislavery.org.au/modern-slavery/,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_trafficking&oldid=1057298228,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Debt_bondage&oldid=1049133278;
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abolitionism&oldid=1055544353,   https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/abolition-and-abolitionists/,  
https://www.wisdompills.com/emperor-ashoka-buddhist-ruler-banned-slavery-animal-cruelty-implemented-gender-equality/,   http://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Ashoka_the_Great,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashoka&oldid=1057657100,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act,   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amazing_Grace_(2006_film)&oldid=1055687937,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thirteenth-Amendment,   https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/13th-amendment-united-states-constitution/,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution&oldid=1056909835;

 

  

As of the time this definition was originally written, I’d touched on this idea in the following posts: 

 
     Post No. 571 - Changing the Personality of Oppressors

     Post No. 555 - Are Families Evil?

     Post No. 529 Some thoughts from watching Harry Potter
     Post No. 528 The Tara Dale Chronicles: the Woman in a Coma
     Post No. 527 For tonight’s meditation
     Post No. 509 For tonight's meditation: people change
     Post No. 455 Another unco-op
     Post No. 434 Retribution - aka, "counter-attacks"
     Post No. 408 The Fear of Organisation
     Post No. 403 Withdrawal vs. engagement
     Post No. 402 - An analogy for consideration of "evil"
     Post No. 386 - A Sunday's musings
     Post No. 385 Encouragement, and the "magical battle of Britain"
     Post No. 364 - The Origin of Evil
     Post No. 336 Hide and seek, firewalking, M.A.U.L. and uncooperatives
     Post No. 326 - Tonglen 
     Post No. 271 Compassion and uncooperatives
     Post No. 259 Does rescue involve lying?
     Post No. 254 Rescuing uncooperatives
     Post No. 141 - Peace conversion: a follow up
     Post No. 135 - The benefits of combining witchcraft and (spirit) rescue
     Post No. 122 - The downside of things getting better
     Post No. 101 - A new visualisation: astral trees as a clearing/healing tool
     Post No. 099 - The Neanderthal Predation theory - some thoughts
     Post No. 094 - Chakras: a less happy view
     Post No. 090 - Logic flaws
     Post No. 071 - Disenchantment and labels
     Post No. 069 - Boundaries: the shades of grey between peace and violence
     Post No. 035 - Evil
     Post No. 026 Judging others

PS - see also https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/were-practicing-social-murder-and-it-s-highly-profitable-8473de2c03f8 


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