Chapter 2 Arcane Meets Earth
Arcane was sad. A normal man having gone through what Arcane had been through would have been enraged, crazy, beside himself, robotic. But Arcane was just sad. He had been through a lot the last few years since this war began. The last two or three weeks he had been tortured.Since the leader of Isfahel could not kill Arcane physically without destroying his planet Isfahel he tried to destroy Arcane mentally.
Tech Noir saw Arcane as an invaluable asset and wanted to turn him to Isfahel's side. He tried to destroy every good thing about Arcane and his life and everything that he believed. He had be sorely tested. Looking back on the torture Arcane saw it in a non dualistic context. In that context anything that didn't kill him made him stronger. For the moment, however, he was questioning many things he had taken for granted growing up on New Deva. He had very little left in his memory of childhood that was sacrosanct and left untouched by the deep and forbidding torture.
end partial quote from Chapter 1 of "Memories
This was how I felt pretty much at age 25 after having gone through 1969 to 1973. My childhood had been robbed from me by experiences leaving my childhood church. I had had to reinvent myself completely to stay alive.
I remember getting A's in Philosophy Class because I had suffered enough to understand what philosophy was actually for. It was for understanding the world around you and your relationship to it through the scientific method. So, I began to run even spiritual things through the philosophic and scientific method of analysis. This allowed me to understand myself better in relationship to the whole universe better.
This statement I found very true by Descartes:
"There is nothing so Good that no bad may come from it and nothing so bad that no good may come of it."
Though this statement flew in the face of absolute good and evil that one is taught in Sunday school, never the less it was the truth about living one's life here on earth in a true sense.
This eventually led me to non-dualistic thinking and compassion for myself and all life in the entire universe which I have found to be ultimately helpful in being realistic regarding all things in my life.
What is non-dualism to me?
Is rain good or bad?
Is Snow good or bad?
Is Wind Good or bad?
Is Global Climate change good or bad?
There is no one answer to any of these questions.
If you are talking about one person rain might be good one day and bad another.
The same is true of all the other questions as well.
This is the way life really is.
There aren't really useful absolutes regarding the weather at least.
But, right mindful compassion might prevent human extinction if the right people use it wisely.
By God's Grace
But, it might be important to say here that the two paragraphs I started with were also a past life memory. So, the issues I was dealing with in my young life in this life were karmically related in many ways to what I experienced as Arcane in that lifetime. So, this is an amazing thing too. So, even though I remember being Arcane, it is possible that as a soul we experience all lifetimes simultaneously since our souls are not residents (normally) of time and space at all.
By God's Grace
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