The Way and Freedom

The question that you raise re choices, lifedesign, and the place of the deep unconscious (Soulmind) is arguably the most profound question ever raised in the history of philosophy. Too be completely honest and candid, its answer functions as a subset of a larger question: Does the suffering in our lives have any meaning, as in education, or is it just random, chaotic, and empty?

It seems that the answer that you choose for this larger question will form, or at least, greatly influence, the answer at which you arrive for the secondary inquiry. That is, if you have decided that the cosmos has meaning, this can imply that every event within it has meaning as well. If so, that meaning is not always evident,and might require much work to discover or to understand. It is, in essence, this embrace of meaning and Mind over emptiness and chilling void that marks the Enlightenment Tradition.

It is also true that the great mystical classics that you mention do not clearly teach the understanding about Soul-design and Soul-choices that we have discussed. Every mystical teaching is not taught in every mystical book, just as every text on mechanics does not include every one of the billions of mechanical facts in the world.

In the Way, we must use extrapolation and common sense to figure out the cosmos for ourselves. Unlike fundamentalism, the Way does not seek to answer every question for you, in the form of dogma carved in stone. It gives you the basic facts, and lets you fly solo from there. So, perhaps no two mystics have ever believed exactly alike re every microdetail of creation.