Post by Iseke on Sept 23, 2010 0:23:11 GMT -5
Hope I'm not misunderstanding your post at all. If I am let me know.
I think I speak for all souls when I say I did not spend the majority of my lives being white. (Then again, I believe we have many lifetimes as other lifeforms, so when I say this I also mean to say the majority of one's cycle is not spent being human. But I know others believe differently, so bearing that in mind my statement applies to "all souls" insofar as my worldview on this matter is correct. Even if we were to assume we only incarnate as humans, though, statistically speaking I'd have a much higher chance of being born non-white than white a majority of the time.)
I am a white human now, but this in no way reflects my cycle of physical experiences as a whole. I really don't agree that one needs to be any particular skin color or even a particular species to reach enlightenment. If you are saying that we need to break from our preferred patterns (which I think you meant when you mentioned "shake off fellow travelers," a reference to an earlier comment you made about those who reincarnate together in groups I believe?) then I would agree with you that one can only gain true experience by trying many different and varied experiences instead of just the same ones. I think that may be what you mean. And I definitely agree with that point, although I don't think that traveling with some of the same souls in many lifetimes has to be a detriment.
But, like I said, please don't assume that those of us who are white now were always white and will continue to be so. I know I have lived in many different cultures and had different skin colors in my human lifetimes. And yes, seeing different things is far more fun than just living the same lifetime over and over. Even so, there is still a lot of diversity to be had in even one ethnic group.
Anyways...um...I try not to think about my skin color that much. That isn't to say that I don't think about the history of what white people have done all over this world. I certainly do. I had a lifetime of being the victim of white supremacy specifically. So, with nothing but the most respect to you, it makes me a little uncomfortable to have it brought up so much. I think of myself as having this experience of being a white person in the US, now and temporarily, but being white is not who I am as a soul or even as a person. I may be consequently steeped in western culture and American whitehood, but there's far much more to a person than that.
I think I speak for all souls when I say I did not spend the majority of my lives being white. (Then again, I believe we have many lifetimes as other lifeforms, so when I say this I also mean to say the majority of one's cycle is not spent being human. But I know others believe differently, so bearing that in mind my statement applies to "all souls" insofar as my worldview on this matter is correct. Even if we were to assume we only incarnate as humans, though, statistically speaking I'd have a much higher chance of being born non-white than white a majority of the time.)
I am a white human now, but this in no way reflects my cycle of physical experiences as a whole. I really don't agree that one needs to be any particular skin color or even a particular species to reach enlightenment. If you are saying that we need to break from our preferred patterns (which I think you meant when you mentioned "shake off fellow travelers," a reference to an earlier comment you made about those who reincarnate together in groups I believe?) then I would agree with you that one can only gain true experience by trying many different and varied experiences instead of just the same ones. I think that may be what you mean. And I definitely agree with that point, although I don't think that traveling with some of the same souls in many lifetimes has to be a detriment.
But, like I said, please don't assume that those of us who are white now were always white and will continue to be so. I know I have lived in many different cultures and had different skin colors in my human lifetimes. And yes, seeing different things is far more fun than just living the same lifetime over and over. Even so, there is still a lot of diversity to be had in even one ethnic group.
Anyways...um...I try not to think about my skin color that much. That isn't to say that I don't think about the history of what white people have done all over this world. I certainly do. I had a lifetime of being the victim of white supremacy specifically. So, with nothing but the most respect to you, it makes me a little uncomfortable to have it brought up so much. I think of myself as having this experience of being a white person in the US, now and temporarily, but being white is not who I am as a soul or even as a person. I may be consequently steeped in western culture and American whitehood, but there's far much more to a person than that.