Monday, 12 February 2024

Post No. 2,710 - What constitutes a disability in the afterlife? [Content Warning - discussion on disability, and also on character flaws]

Let’s begin by considering the idea of disability. 

The word itself is fairly clear: an inability to do something. 

(For example dictionary definitions see here, here, here, and here. The online etymological dictionary provides “1570s, “want of power, strength, or ability,” from dis- + ability. Meaning “incapacity in the eyes of the law” is from 1640s. Related: Disabilities”   https://www.etymonline.com/word/disability#etymonline_v_31459)  

However, in the context that is used in the money-obsessed West, it tends to mean a fairly specific set of inabilities related to either conditions present from birth, or acquired by accident. This is the sense most generally used, in my experience, when framing anti-discrimination and support laws - although those may be affected by unconscious biases and begrudging suspicion in those framing such matters, which leads in to ...

Socially, it has often been used as an epithet, and social hostility can, for instance, create a world that turns neurodivergent people with low support needs into people with, effectively, a disability (over issues such as honesty in communication, and not unthinkingly acceding to social conditioning/socialisation). 

This set of shortcomings of imagination/consideration/designing is also partly remedied (i.e., physically) by accommodations such as     ensuring doors, ramps and all other access can cope with wheelchairs,     improved contrast so that impaired visibility people can find their way,     and     provision of hearing loops for those who use hearing aids, or ensuring subtitles are always available. 

Another set of shortcomings can be addressed by education aka awareness campaigns, although those are unlikely to address social suspicions and victim blaming around non-apparent disabilities such as     intermittent need for mobility aids,     mental issues that lead to getting lost in car parks,     diabetes,     and     neurodivergence (which is often plagued by amathiac remarks such as “you don’t look autistic” or “my nephew is autistic and you’re nothing like him”). 

For more on this see: 


OK, so that is fairly clear - flawed, often deeply flawed, but clear. 

What about in the afterlife?


Now, the afterlife is in the astral and higher frequency Levels of Reality. To belabour the point, on those levels physical bodies do not exist   ...   but   nonphysical bodies do ... 

That means that physical disabilities such as quadriplegia no longer exist, which is why many people say  “oh, once you die, disability no longer exists”.

However, that, in my opinion, is lacking in awareness and understanding of what disability actually means.

Let’s go back to the nature of the world we exist in when we go to the afterlife.

The nonphysical world at the astral and higher frequencies is shaped by thoughts, emotions, etc - partly ours, partly what others subject us to. On those levels of existence, our thoughts, emotions, etc are apparent in our auras - and very apparent in our characters.

One of the flaws that will become far more apparent than it is on the physical level of existence is prejudice (i.e., unjustifiable/unreasonable discrimination against difference aka bigotry). 

That prejudice - of any type - inhibits free, loving and effective interactions between people - or, to phrase it another way, it stops us being more spiritually mature and loving beings, and thus is contrary to the purpose of existence. 

In fact, one of the reasons the physical Levels of Reality came in to being was so that we would meet forms of Life that are of a different basic set of frequencies to us (we cannot be characterised as a single note of frequency - we are at the least like a chord, and more accurately each of us is the astral equivalent of a complex symphony) - distance in the astral can be described as being emotional (“frequency”) distance, which is one of the reasons existing there is inherently pleasant - but that also means we are less able to know and draw on the rich variety of Life because we cannot as easily (it is still possible) encounter people who are very different to us. 

And the inability to cope with that difference is, in my opinion, the ultimate causation of evil ... 

To again state the obvious: if we do not have a physical body, it is only our astrals (souls, if you wish) that we have, and if they cannot function properly (i.e., cannot love unconditionally), they are less able than ideal - aka they are disabled.

Now, just as with physical disabilities, that is not something to hate or even feel dislike or discomfort with. In fact, reactions such as those only shows the person with those reactions to also be astrally disabled. 

Unlike many physical disabilities, the astral can be changed, and our characters/personalities/ability to be mature and loving can therefore also be changed. Fundamentally, that means disabilities of the type I am considering in this post - disabilities of personality - can be changed ... but one may have to experience and learn a lot in order to do so - which might influence the types of lives and sets of life experiences one undergoes.

In other words, one has to continue to become a more loving (i.e., more progressive, inclusive, non-judgemental) character, even after dying, but our lives are both a tool to enable that to happen (through increased awareness, etc) and a place for us to be that more spiritually evolved person - including not being biased or judgemental against physical world disabilities (including, and perhaps especially, non-apparent disabilities).

Food for thought?


When I first conceived this post, I was actually thinking about the ability to work with energy - and, as an example of the sort of problem I was thinking about, I cannot identify the function of what I perceive as orange in the solar plexus chakra.

My initial theory was that I ultimately may have to learn to be able to do so - although, in the meantime, diversity means others can cover that lack of mine in situations where it is needed (which is also why I distrust all claims about rules being absolute or universal). 

As a side-quest flowing from that, what I also have to learn to be able to do is sustain all my nonphysical bodies with the energies they need - which I often perceive as colour, but sometimes sound or movement, and even less frequently texture.

Since the 70s I have been using a range of colour breathing and colour visualisation techniques to nourish all my nonphysical bodies and the environments they are in on their respective levels of being.

That, incidentally, is the lesson we carry on after we (physically) die from learning how to look after the physical world. 

However, this is not just a case of greedily taking without ever provided effective return - a coloniser mentality is no more acceptable in the astral than it is in the physical. 

So an equally essential part of this is returning energy to where it has come from - which is a little like sending energy to wherever your crystals came from (which I think I have mentioned, but I am too tired to try and find a link to it just now ... maybe later).

The  procedure I use tends to be: 

  • I draw in the energy I need;
  • much like listening to a good song, gives me a boost;and
  • I then use the boost to return more than I took while staying at a higher energy state.

A physical world analogy might be gathering food from the physical world to get energy to live, and then using that energy to look after that world so it produces more in a sustainable way - as the Indigenous people of Australia have done for tens of millennia.


A quick final point:   variety is essential.

In the physical world/level of reality, variety includes, for instance, having a range of foods which provides what we need with regard to nutrition. 

Sadly, chocolate alone is not enough to sustain life ... 

It also meaans we have a range of people and a range of jobs, so we do not all have to be plumbers, for instance.

Socially, variety allows evolution through the development and trial use of ideas - and that is even better when we nourish difference. In fact, businesses have seen measurable improvement as a result of better inclusivity (again, low energy means I will not chase up links now - maybe later).

Physical variety means life will often continue despite major changes - if humans die out, other forms of life will continue, which has been shown by past mass extinction events. (I would strongly prefer that we continue, as we have a lot of unrealised potential that can help life, so ... do what you can to address the climate crisis please.)

Similarly with the astral:

  • variety ensures we have access to what we each individually need; and
  • there is the opportunity to learn and adapt - especially if we share experiences.

Thus both diversity and inclusivity are still essential.


Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

  • I have provided links on the fundamental assumptions  in the text of this post;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

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