by Owen K Waters
The underlying purpose of life is to raise one's frequency of consciousness by learning through experience.
Sometimes, it takes an individual many incarnations of exploring avenues of self-centered action to discover that what goes around also comes around. Such people may live in a world where they believe in doing unto others before they get a chance to do it to you!
The resulting karma serves as an education into what it is like to be the victim as well as the self-serving aggressor. Both roles, played throughout the multiple varieties offered in life, serve as learning experiences and eventually we begin to see and understand the actual nature of reality and how it works.
All of us, at some point, having tried all the alternatives for finding happiness at the solar plexus level of consciousness, discover that there is an escape from the endless loop of self-imposed limitation.
By opening the heart center, we discover a new and expanded viewpoint of reality. Before, living in a world filled with competitors, we may have even considered noble feelings to be the domain of the weak. Now, we realize that the frequency of heart consciousness includes all that we have mastered before and, in addition, introduces an appreciation of the beauty of life.
By helping others, especially those suffering from self-imposed, solar plexus-inspired catastrophes, we finally discover the sense of joy that eluded us in all our previous pursuits of material happiness.