恰到好处VS.过犹不及

此段摘自《灵魂永生》第十一章“死后选择和过渡机制”

死后的过渡方式是千变万化的，就如同人世生活千变万化一样。我所提及的许多阻碍不只在死后阻碍你的进步，在你活着时也一样。这点无疑应该加以考虑。对性别特征的过分认同也会阻碍进步。如果一个人过度强调从男性或女性身份的角度来考虑本体身份，那么这个人可能拒绝接受在转世中将会发生的性别改变。不过，这种对性别的过分认同在人世生活中也同样阻碍了人格的发展。

虽然刚才提到的问题一般来说会引起阻碍，但还是有些例外。对天堂的信念如果没到执迷的程度，它就可以作为一个有用的架构，一个运作的基础，在其中，一个人往往就容易接受给予他的新解释。

在许多情况下，甚至“审判日”信念也是个有用的架构，因为虽然并没有人会对你们“赏善罚恶”，但这个人因而为某种灵性上的审察与评估作好了准备。

那些透彻了解“境由心生”的人困难最少。那些已学会理解梦境并操纵梦境的人会有明显优势。对恶魔的信念在死后是极为不利的，在活着时也一样。一种系统化的善恶对立的神学理论也是很不利的。例如，如果你相信所有的善必须用恶来平衡，那么你就把自己束缚在了一个非常狭窄的实相系统里，其中孕育着痛苦的种子。

在这样一个系统中，甚至连“善”也值得怀疑，因为一个同等的“恶”必然随之而至。神佛对魔王，天使对恶魔——动物与天使之间的鸿沟——所有这些扭曲都是阻碍。在你们目前的实相系统里，你们设置了很多对比与对立因素。这些在你们的实相系统中成为基本假设。

它们非常肤浅，多半是误用智能的结果。光凭理智是无法了解直觉知识的。理智为了让人世生活合乎情理，于是建立了对立系统。理智说：“如果有善，必有恶。”因为它想要干净利落地作出解释。如果有上升，必然有下降。一定要平衡。可是，内我领悟到从更广阔的观点来看，恶只是无知，“上升”与“下降”只是肤浅的术语，被应用于不知有此种方向的空间。

The mechanics of transition are highly variable, as the mechanics of physical life are highly variable. Many of the impediments that I have mentioned impede progress not only after death, but during your own physical existence. This should certainly be taken into consideration. An overly strong identification with the sexual characteristics can also hold back progress. If an individual considers identity strongly in terms of male or female identity, then such a person may refuse to accept the fact of the sexual changes that occur in reincarnational existences. This kind of sexual identification, however, also impedes personality development during physical life.

While, generally speaking, the issues just mentioned operate as impediments, there are always exceptions. A belief in heaven that is not an obsessional belief can be used as a useful framework, as a basis of operation in which an individual will often accept easily then, the new explanations that will be offered.

Even a belief in a time of judgment is a useful framework in many instances, for while there is no punishment meted out in your terms, the individual is then prepared for some kind of spiritual examination and evaluation.

Those who understand thoroughly that reality is self-created will have least difficulty. Those who have learned to understand and operate in the mechanics of the dream state will have great advantage. A belief in demons is highly disadvantageous after death, as it is during physical existence. A systematized theology of opposites is also detrimental. If you believe, for example, that all good must be balanced by evil, then you bind yourself into a system of reality that is highly limiting, and that contains within it the seeds of great torment.

In such a system, even good becomes suspect, because an equal evil is seen to follow it. The god-versus-devil, angels-versus-demons - the gulf between animals and angels - all of these distortions are impediments. In your system of reality now you set up great contrasts and opposing factors. These operate as root assumptions within your reality.

They are extremely superficial and largely the result of misused intellectual abilities. The intellect alone cannot understand what the intuitions most certainly know. In trying to make sense in its terms of physical existence, the intellect has set up these opposing factors. The intellect says, "If there is good, there must be evil," for it wants things explained in neat parcels. If there is an up, there must be a down. There must be balance. The inner self, however, realizes that in much larger terms, evil is simply ignorance, that "up" and "down" are neat terms applied to space which knows no such directions.

——摘自《灵魂永生》（Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul） 校译

《赛斯说●第五十九期》

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