Something got me thinking about the concept of fate and desire today. Here’s what’s “streaming out” at the moment…

It seems like being born into incarnated life comes with an array of various desires that we, as an individual, feel propelled to satisfy. We are “burning up” these desires towards the “end game” of total satiation, unwinding us into a peaceful tranquility. The concept of heaven or nirvana is akin to a spiritual state in which there is no desire, as total contentment is an ongoing reality. However, if you’re in a body, that’s just not yet the case. There are things we want to do and fulfill before we’re able to desire that peaceful tranquility above all other things. (Unless you’re on a highly spiritual and monastic path of asceticism in attempt to “short-cut” through a load of past over-indulgence…) As such, we continue to reach out for various “symbols” of satisfaction, ranging from public recognition, enjoyable work, ideal relationships, enticing possessions, or whatever form of “it” we’re charged to with attraction. On a lesser level, a body automatically comes with AT LEAST the karmic motivation towards water, food, and basic survival to be met. However, when it comes to the more personalized desires, when do they stop, and what makes that happen?

The more one does internal work on themselves, some desires can be consolidated or evaporated as they come to be seen as either “symptoms” of bigger desires under broader umbrellas, or they are seen as “black holes” of indulgence that perpetuate along an endless loop without leading to any lasting fulfillment. Our journey continually calls for us to discern our desires so that lesser ones are able to be“burned up” without continually sparking up again with the need for repetitive enactment. In fact, all desire can be seen as continually being “lifted up” for release in some cyclic manner of consolidation, enactment, and evaporation.

Now, while I do believe that enough inner contemplation is the “ticket” that could potentially allow someone to “turn Buddha” and realize that ALL desires are inevitably “entrapments,” leading to one’s release from the karmic wheel of birth and re-birth, not everyone is necessarily on that trip. In a more “Jesus Christ vein,” some souls relinquish personal desire to allow an in-streaming of cosmically universal desire so as to simply act as mediating channel for God’s Will to come through clearer. You can also imagine an entire spectrum of other possibilities in between the extremes, and in other configurations completely, to choose from amidst such possibilities. In general though, I suspect that any given soul “comes in” with some desires that are more pressing than others.

As such, we ultimately work, throughout a given life cycle, to activate the fulfillment of certain pivotal accomplishments that “free up” soul energy to a more “enlightened” state—lightening us up to rise higher. The “big” desires for anyone’s given life are both extremely personal AND interwoven with more collective objectives. However, from the individual’s point of view, they will reflect areas that have the greatest “charge” to fulfill due to some complementary sensation of perceived lack, which sparks the “fuel” of the desire. For one person it might be a harmonious relationship, for another it might be a loving family, another might see it as a career position of leadership, etc. Fulfilling those core objectives allow one to let go of the burning idea that such satiation will bring ultimate and lasting happiness…cause they won’t. None of them will. However, we stubbornly refuse to accept that premise without cold, hard experience in many respects. Thus, we act out our desires to realize, firsthand, that they’re ALL ultimately “symptoms” of bigger and bigger desires that inevitably all echo a unified sentiment for eventual dissolution and release.

Being a human, in a lot of cases, we have a “grab bag” of objectives we’d like to experience, tiered according to whatever is most pressing about our individual life journey within the collectively flowing stream. I suspect we may discarnately design a path that will allow us to “unlock” the fulfillment of key desires in a way that spirals together under the umbrella of larger patterns of collective progression. As such, we keep moving forward through whatever “stories” will put us in the midst of the necessary crossroads, challenges, and synchronicities that will allow us to “meet up” with our desires “right on time.” However, sometimes we make “mistakes.”

Occasionally, through the burning desires we’re impassioned with, people may “reach out” “out of turn” to seize something they desire in the “wrong way.” Such would be any instance that the fulfillment of desire is accomplished via unethical maneuvers that actually cause harm: stealing for a possession, lying to get ahead at work, cheating to indulge some lust, etc. In all these cases, something has been MIS-taken…it’s been taken out of turn, not at the correct juncture, not in a loving way, and it’s cosmically classified as an abuse of will and power, although one can always argue various degrees of severity along the spectrum of infringement. This is the type of behavior that can be attributed to an “evil king/queen” archetype, with the idea of pragmatically justifying the means necessary to reach the end goal desired. Such “mistakes” are the generative forces that necessitate eventual retribution, which can be activated in a variety of ways.

While a personality may do harm in the name of selfish fulfillment, rationalizing any harm done to others along the way, the soul cannot truly be deceived about such actions. Therefore, upon termination of an incarnate existence, the soul has an immediately magnetized desire to right the wrong that has been caused, which is less connotatively akin to restoring a harmonious balance and equilibrium. This leads to a future incarnation (or event within the same life…not all matters crossover to that extent of such a prolonged “boomerang”) in which one of two (or sometimes both) possibilities get activated for rectification. It may be that whatever desire was “taken out of turn” is then elastically unwound so that the “once upon a time” perpetrator then becomes the receiver of the same “foul” action they employed so that an “eye for an eye” (as the selfishly ego-centered action of one person’s “I” is handed off to another person’s “I” to dramatize). This would be the traditionally karmic view that you get what you give, or that it all comes back around, etc. This type of retribution occurs when the other party, the one that was harmed, decides to simply swing the pendulum back to sender. The downside is that this can perpetuate harm back-and-forth for a while as it then merits another swing in another equally abusive fashion ultimately. Eventually though, souls mature and learn to practice restraint in a way that allows things to be “paid” and unwind without continuing to perpetuate further “due” harm.

When these wiser currents to “righting wrongs” are followed, the rectification occurs so that whoever perpetuated a wrong is put into a position with the same ache for whatever “desire” was mistakenly taken out of turn before. (Truly, when someone takes something by force that is not for them, it NEVER fills up the hole…it only makes it bigger. That’s because, ultimately, all desire’s satiation is really symptomatic with the desire to fully know and merge into oneself as an expression of God and Source…but, again, relaxing into an attraction of that truth requires that other “burning desires” in the way be allowed to ignite and extinguish beforehand.) When someone is re-experiencing the same burning desire of the past, even though they willfully TOOK it before, the saddening truth to moving forward with redemptive grace is to restrain from taking it by improper force again…even though the charge may even be stronger and greater. Patience becomes to key to healing and righteous fulfillment. The individual is called to more clearly discern and assess the underlying nature of the desire so as to understand that taking it by force truly wouldn’t lead to proper satiation in the long run. It would only keep the core desire burning, as claiming it out of turn brings harm to self and others in unison, which then must take spiritual precedence to reform. Therefore, “tests” will present themselves until the individual manages to “deny” the selfish capture of some aim until it is deemed, through baptism in time’s waters, “ripe.” It’s not that our desires become frustrated in order to make us angry and unhappy, but rather we must internally contemplate the nature of our desire and its fulfilment deeper into the point of what it really is and is ideally trying to present. When we do this, either the desire eventually becomes sublimated as something we eventually discover is not really a route to happiness at all, or, if it persists, as we learn to let go of an attachment to the idea of achieving it more abruptly by force, it is more elegantly enabled to come in through proper channels of more mature activity that will serve to do no harm. (With that, its more proper fulfillment will then be what releases the individual from that desire’s continual craving.)

So, yes, we do seem to have fated “appointments” with people and events, all lined up to help us “get what we want” until we only want peace…Whether it’s the desire for a specific experience, or the desire to redeem a past experience, we walk through it all until those roads are all “tired” and “worn out.” Frantically grabbing at things that aren’t ours though, out of time or out of place and projecting a scarcity of lack or fear of unfulfillment, only exacerbates the desire to a more inflamed intensity. Then the ball’s “out of our court” as other circumstances decide whether that inflammation returns to burn us or keeps us scratching the itch of something tantalizingly out of reach for some extended period of time. The best way to “ride out the wave” of this “program” is to stay on the “straight and narrow” track towards whatever it is that we’re genuinely drawn to (cause it’s certainly not wrong to reach for desires…fulfilling some of them in incarnation is the main way to allow them to dissolve) while being sure that we’re ethically doing no harm to those around us in the process. As we refine that intention to greater stages of integrity, we’ll inevitably find that we will eventually get everything that we could ever want until we no longer crave any of it at all…or so it seems…

Peace WILL reign, but until then, explore the majesty involved in translating the “kingdom of heaven” to Earth ;)