Suicide and spiritual growth

[Frank]

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I now realize that I suicided because there were things I couldn't deal with, emotional things, things between myself and others. I was in so much pain. That pain didn't go away after I killed myself and I now realize that the one thing I need to resolve the pain is hanging from the rafters in the garage.

The above quote is from an experience by Mr Moen of the other BBS and serves as a classic example of the points I was trying to get across to someone a while ago on this BBS. Where the person was feeling despair to the point where they seriously felt like killing themselves. It also touches on the whole question of why are we here? Why do we become incarnate?

The basic answer is we are all here to learn lessons. Lessons that would be impossible to learn within the realms of the Astral. The reason is, again, due to the fact that within the Astral: Thought=DirectAction. Within such a sphere of reality, it is impossible to put any distance between your thoughts and your surrounding circumstances. Having a physical body acts as a very effective buffer between the whole thought-release-action connection.

It give us the ability to sit back and think; become emotional even; and not have our circumstances flit from one scene to the next. This gives us the luxury of being able to work through emotions such as fear and anger, and not have representations of these feelings continually being manifest, instant by instant, before our very eyes. As such, being Physical gives us the grand opportunity of being able to work to gain the requisite degree of knowledge and understanding, in order to banish these highly damaging emotions from our consciousness.  

Yours,
Frank