Human suffering is necessary. Wisdom shows why.

While it can be very difficult to accept, human suffering is a necessary part of the human experience. No psychologically healthy human being wants to suffer and wants to witness others suffer. Yet, suffering is necessary.  (Psychologically ill people, however, receive pleasure from their own suffering or witnessing others suffering.  It is because of severe trauma that psychopathy occurs.)

There are degrees to suffering ranging from the suffering we feel when are hungry for food to the suffering we feel when the skin is cut or damaged from injury, for example. All forms of suffering are catalysts for action. Suffering motivates us to understand our situations and create solutions that free us from suffering.

For example, the mild pains of hunger motivate us to identify sources of food and gather them. The suffering of cold temperature motivates us to protect our bodies with clothing and shelter.

Strong experiences of suffering, like witnessing a loved one be eaten by a predator (a lion or cancer, for example) motivate the person to find solutions to protect themselves from these predators.

Suffering is the motivating that guides all areas of the human awakening process. In the physical world, we become masters of our environment. In the emotional world, we become masters of our minds and relationships. At the spiritual level, we seek unity with the Creator and with all of Creation (one and the same) – because the experience of existential separation is a form of spiritual suffering.

The problems we are facing in this world – like wars, domestic violence, psychological abuse and cancer, for example – must be honored for the catalyst for human and spiritual awakening that they are. Suffering must be accepted as a part of life – so that we no longer deny suffering when we witness it. Denial of what we are experiencing is the reason why suffering prolongs and after thousands of years, war is allowed to exist.

As mankind matures in wisdom and confidence, in personal strength and cooperative strength, we will create solutions that reduce and even eliminate the causes of suffering. We have already mastered many areas of farming so that we no longer suffer from hunger and famine. We have mastered clothing and shelter to end suffering from heat and cold. We are still learning to master war and violence. One day humanity will understand the causes for these forms of suffering and find genuine solutions.

To free ourselves from war and violence, we must learn more about our psyche, our emotions and our cultural beliefs. We must learn more about resource management and the common bonds that connect all humans together. We must spiritually awaken to recognize that we are all the same Source Consciousness expressing itself in infinite ways to explore infinite nature as creators.

We must be strong enough personally and collectively to accept that we have problems (no more denial and avoidance) and work together to create solutions on a global scale. This includes removing from positions of authority the psychologically ill human beings that are receiving pleasure from causing others pain (psychopaths).

As a global humanity, we must take away the decision making power that determines the allocation of resources from people with psychological illness. We cannot allow the mentally ill to run the hospital – so to speak. Otherwise healing is not possible and all of humanity will continue to suffer. We have to start at the beginning.

We should not want to harm those who are creating the wars and the abuse of human rights. Then we are no greater than they are if we desire to harm them. We must have wisdom and take action to reduce the harm that psychologically unhealthy people can cause by limiting their involvement in society. This is the original reason why the legal system and prisons were creating – not to punish criminals but to protect society from criminal behaviors.

We must not fall prey to our own violent motives. We must be wiser and act from the motivation to create good for all, including the criminals and mentally ill. So we remove from positions of authority those who are incapable of serving the welfare of all people. We must then rehabilitate the mentally ill with the desire to help them – even if their illness is so deeply rooted that it cannot be healed in a single lifetime.

Helping those who have caused us harm is such an immensely powerful form of love for the ill person. We have yet to truly explore this power and yet to discover how quickly mental illness can be healed. But we do know that all suffering is rooted in a lack of self love and received love from others. I am confident that love and wisdom together is the pathway to heal all of humanity.

Please recognize, that I said love and wisdom.

What some believe to be love may lack wisdom. We see this with the raising of children. Allowing a mentally incapable child to make decisions for themselves that will result in their own suffering may feel like love – like allowing a child to choose their own foods.  A child’s does not possess the mental maturity to process cause and effect at a sufficient level and therefore will choose to eat an excess of sugary foods because of the drug-like effects it has on the nervous system and hormone system.  Allowing a child to make their own foods choices has minimal wisdom and cooperates to increase the suffering of the child and parent.  The child is ignorantly causing health problems like childhood diabetes, obesity, hormone damage, etc and brain imbalances like ADD and depression.  And the parent is complicit in this.  We must have wisdom as a parent and make decisions for the child so that the child learns the correct ways to live.

Parents must become wiser and not act from fear and guilt when their child craves addictive, health damaging foods.  This is something I see greatly lacking in our world.  Parents are afraid to parent and the media is encouraging this unhealthy behavior through manipulative marketing of the massively profitable sugar-based food industry.  Research shows that sugar is more addictive than many illegal drugs like cocaine and heroine.  While the damaging effects of sugar take longer to appear than many illegal drugs, they are still damaging our health and psychological state.

The older generations are the carriers of wisdom. This is how society has progressed since it’s inception. Unfortunately in the modern time, parents are afraid to parent and the media is encouraging the reduction of human intelligence and health for the purposes of psychopathic pleasure (excessive greed and control of others). The wisdom the humanity has built over thousands of years is being forgotten.   Profit-based marketing and governments ruled by corporations are removing history from our school systems in an effort to eliminate the wisdom of our ancestors.  Thousands of years of wisdom is being systematically removed from our world because we have given authority to mentally ill people and, in our own foolishness, we cooperate.  We are ignorantly complicit in the creation of mass scale human suffering.

I clearly see the writing on the wall.  Waking up as a spiritual human being requires us to participate in this physical reality.  This is necessary.  Unfortunately spirituality has a long history of exiting society and refusing to help shape a better world.   Spirituality can be extremely selfish – but these behaviors I do not consider as authentic spirituality.  Authentic spirituality is the path of unity consciousness therefore selfishness cannot be a part of spirituality.

So we have our work cut out for us. 😀 But this is how humanity has always been challenged to learn, to grow, to love each other and awaken. I have confidence in the design of this experience. And yes, I understand it to be a perfect God-created design. I’ve examined and thought about this human experience long enough and deep enough to be certain that this reality is perfect. Even suffering – something we are designed to avoid – is perfect for the purpose that it serves.

If you got this far, I hope that some ideas I have shared help you to find more inner peace and love for all parts of our shared human experience. Thank you for listening. 🙏❤