responsibility - guilt - causation - agency - displacement - presence - choice - suffering - commitment

There seems to be confusion with regards to responsibility, guilt, and agency embedded within human notions of 'justice' and 'fairness'.

Accepting total responsibility for life is the most powerful posture an individual can take in relation to the actual and potential. Responsibility in this sense is not meant as 'causative force.' When I say I am responsible for what happens to me, it does mean that 'I alone' created the experience/event. It means that I accept what is, that I do not separate 'myself' from all aspects and agents active within the sphere of my life that lead or conspire to produce particular effects. It demands an inclusive sense of 'myself' in that it opens identification to all aspects of perception. The center of 'myself' may be located by my body, however the idea that this delimits 'me' is an arbitrary boundary circumscribed by a habit of thought.

Causation and agency still remain within this sphere, however, acknowledgement of the interplay of relationships leads to a far subtler, multifacted conception. Within this diagram, concepts of 'blame', 'fault', and 'guilt' are dismissed as insufficient, prejudicial formulations of emotional, territorial responses. 'Victims' per se do not exist. The 'victim' is a mental judgement of a relationship. It is a statement of pity, yes, but pity which pretends to strip the party which one 'feels sorry for' of its power. 'It's not fair' is the cry of an immature person who has not yet acceded to the vast, complex web of relationships that sustains and allows for life to flow through its embodiments. 

Within this atmosphere of acceptance there remains the potential for renewed commitment to re-engineering, transformative play with these relationships to the extent that we are aware of the physics principles and have access to conditions which allow for the harnessing of its powers. To say that one is responsible for all the 'good and bad things that happen' in one's life is not to assign guilt or praise or any kind of moral judgement. It is a definition of the point of power that allows for change through the agency of perception. The greater the awareness, the greater the commitment, the greater potential for change. 

At this point of departure there is no longer any judgement of pain. There is no longer any displacement of myself from my life. There is no longer any separation. Yet distinctions remain. Life is as before, only my perception of it has changed. I have claimed participation with the point of power. In this sense, presence is responsibility -- the ability to respond. Once awareness of the constructs clarifies itself, responsibility is a personal choice. Pretense vanishes. Suffering, which is merely resistance to life, to what presently is, vanishes. What remains is commitment to life and the art of perception.

saving souls - the mission - marriage vows - trust - innocence

The meaning of the mission to save your soul:

To live in the full radiance of the light. It has nothing to do with any belief, any god, any set of rules. It simply means to face the light of truth, to be with life as it presents. Neither good nor bad, it simply is. To no longer resist, to no longer feign hiding in the darkness...

Hades, the underworld, is the metaphor for suffering in darkness, which is the act of refusal. Resisting what is. Saving your soul is the mission to heal, to make healthy, to release suffering, to allow for the full spectrum broadband transmission of light to your human psyche and your perceiving, dreaming body.

Only you can do this for you. The requisites: to feel, to think, to dream. To be or not to be is this question of whether or not you will commit to being a partner with life, light, universe, joy, the pervasive divine spark of consciousness. This is the metaphor of marriage. In truth, you marry life, and thus your own being.

For better or worse:

No matter what comes, you are committed to trust the process of life. To feel the pain which guides you to awareness, intelligence, creative expression, play.

What is this process of life that we must trust at all cost? Are we as a scared, tender, adolescent wild pup that must be coaxed from its hiding place to be fed and stroked? Le Petit Prince and his fox. We are the little prince and the fox, both. This is the taming, the bonding, this is the process of saving your soul, of claiming your divine innocence in the full light of awareness; and knowing its value, knowing what it means.