Is God merciful, are we allowed to make mistakes? What do Darwin and Rupert Sheldrake have to say about it?
Is it ok to make mistakes? Do we still deserve love when we make them?
And maybe the bigger question that lies at the heart of many of us would be: Does God/the Divine still love me when I make mistakes?
This feeling of uncertainty can paralyse us in to not wanting to take responsability over our own lives all together. We start thinking: Let someone else make the decision, then if it turns out to be 'wrong' at least I am not to blame and won't lose peoples/Gods love for me.
How many of us think like that underneath all the rubble?
I think many more then seems aparant. To me it seems to be an epidemic of a disease called 'guilt-ridden.' It's sad isn't it? Let's take a look at it.
I remember having Geography in high school and having our teacher explain to us the way primitive people thought. He seemed to be a kind enough person, you know the kind with hand knitted woollen socks in leather sandals all year round, I somehow seem to link that to kindness ;-) But he had the strangest ideas, or at least that's what I thought back then and even now.
He was explaining to us how primitive people thought that rain had come from God. This was obviously a very primitive idea that had snuck in to their primitive minds, lacking better theories. The better explanation would be that the heat of the sun had evaporated some of the water from lakes and puddles and formed a cloud in the sky. When the air around the cloud cooled down, the evaporated water condensed and it started raining. God had nothing to do with it.
There you had it. A unintentional chasm created between our young hearts and minds in less then five minutes(or at least an attempt at it). God and science are not one.
I must admit I never looked at socks and sandals the same way, his cool-adult-rating had gone down severely in those past five minutes. Because my own truth was that God and science ARE one. And it still is.
Ok, it is helpful to know that the heat of the sun evaporates water, which forms clouds, which, when cooled down turns in to rain, but how did the Geography teacher get from there to the conclusion that THUS God did not create the rain.
To me all of life's processes, scientifically understood and explained or not, are Gods doing and God given. Duh! 😁
I'm getting to Darwin now, don't worry.
Darwin in short has seen patterns in life's processes that led him to believe that life( animals, humans, plants) improves it self on the physical level as time passes. This happens inter-generational according to him.
Living organisms have descended with modifications from species that lived before them.
Species whose individuals are best adapted survive; others become extinct.
'Survival of the fittest'
Darwins less welknown idea's however included the transfer of habit from one generation to the next and what Rupert Sheldrake says about the inheritance of habits through morphic resonance is actually really close to what Darwin himself said. But the modern followers of Darwinism ( noe-Darwinists) say that all inheritance happens through modification of gene coding and thus habits are not passed on. But since the fenomenon of epigenetics has been recognised by the scientific world, (the way information is passed on through an alteration in gene expression instead of a change in the genetic coding) Neo-darwinism idea's that things can only be passed on through genetic coding from one generation to the next and doesn't include habits, doesn't really hold true anymore.
Epigenetic inheritance is an unconventional finding. It goes against the idea that inheritance happens only through the DNA code that passes from parent to offspring. It means that a parent's experiences, in the form of epigenetic tags, can be passed down to future generations.
(http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/inheritance/)
Rupert Sheldrake has proposed the theory that change for the better /learning from mistakes doesn't even really merely take place through epigenetic tagging either, but through a morphogenetic field that is like an energetic library/memory that encompasses all matters forming and shaping a species.
He has come to this theory because he studied a certain experiment with rats being trained to swim through a water maze to the exit. Even when the ones that were the slowest to learn it were bred, the offspring would learn how to get to the exit quicker and quicker and make fewer mistakes then the last generation.So basically the experiment was based on the principle: the survival of the slowest learner, instead of Darwins: survival of the fittest.
Nontheless the mistakes that were made payed off somehow, through a different medium then genetic coding or epigenetic tagging. He calls this medium: The morphogenetic field.
A field that could be compared in my opinion, to the oversoul of a species. Or to be more precise to a communal etherial field of a species. Which is the aspect of energy fields that deals with the shaping/forming and memory of living things.
This morphogenetc field not only influences the next generation of rats, but rats all over the world, even from the same generation are able to learn the things, that are stored as information in this field, quicker and with fewer mistakes, because it has been done before.
It's an ingenuis system that doesn' only aply to animals but also to plants and humans.
We humans have our own morphogenetic field that enables us to learn from each others mistakes and not only the practical ones. All our mistakes. Because as Rupert Sheldrake describes it, there is a field for all levels of life that stores information of a certain species, so in the same way there will be a communal emotional field for humans in which all new information on emotional behaviour in and between humans is stored I imagine. Which we could probably call the astral plane.
My point here is that however you look at it and through whatever medium it happens evolution is based on making mistakes and benefitting from them.
And as God and creation/science are ONE, we are meant to make mistakes, it is even inevitable.
SO YES, GOD IS MERCIFUL! We have invented guilt, so then we need God to be merciful, while mistakes are really no big deal to begin with.
In this way we could maybe see mistakes as stepping stones to better lives, instead of irrepairable damage that we have to forever feel guilty about.
Basically mistakes are just experiences that brought us to where we are now.
So if God has created life in this way, who are we to say that mistakes are bad?
Who are we to think that we don't deserve love when we make mistakes?
Let's influence this communal emotional field of the human species with the information that it is alright and even inevitable to make mistakes and that we thus deserve love at all times if only for our courage to make them to be alive and part of creation.
For me this is what we are doing here with these concious writing communities on steemit like tribesteemup, ecotrain, teamgirlpowa and steemsugars, influencing the field positively. And when there is a critical number of people being awake, the mass conciousnes will tip over to become awake. But even if it is just you, you make an un-erasable difference in the field! So keep on writing and reading!
Love and light Undrach-Clara 
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