The Tao

In the beginning there was dust, atoms, gas, the Tao. As the species evolved over the millions of years of development, the intellect of each descending species increased and therefore the capacity for abstract thought also increased. At some point of development, the species felt a necessity to perhaps bring order to the chaos they lived in along with a guiding principle of concept that would protect and give direction. And the Tao was everything. 

In order for the TAO to broaden its experience, it decided to create this earth existence and divide itself upon it. The purpose was to gain the greatest diversity of experience. And in order for the Tao to learn, progress, and grow, the Tao chose to break into smaller pieces. We call these smaller pieces “fragments” of the Tao. Some of these fragments are us. You are a fragment of the Tao. The earth is also one of those fragments, so the earth is a fragment of the Tao. (Some people use the word “Tao” for God).  The Tao (or some call it "Dow") is the total gathering of information, knowledge, wisdom, energy, etc. It is the sum of all existence, both what you can sense and that which you have no concept of. It is everything that is. 

Besides breaking into fragments, a process was developed and created that could help the fragments rejoin the Tao.  But part of that process was to learn and gain experience. It was the process of going through different experiences and incarnations that would help the fragment, as well as the Tao learn, progress, and grow. And the most frequent process used for gaining experience, learning, and growing was done by first incarnating and then assessing the incarnation after one dies.  And then after that, planning a new incarnation experience with different experiences to see how the fragment would react and engage in those different circumstances.  

Eventually the fragment has learned and experienced all they set out to do and then the fragment combines with another fragment, being a dual or combined fragment.  And then continues with their progression and combines with a trio, etc. In this process the fragment and joined fragments experiencing life in and through a myriad of levels and eventually recollect back to the Tao.

The purpose of the Tao in fragmenting was to produce an infinite number of possibilities that may be experienced; both positive and negative. Having said this though, one would assume that there would be equal portions of positive and negative. However, this again is not the purpose of the Tao. For more energy that feeds the Tao is derived from positive experiences. In other words, the Tao itself desires increased energy and the best way to obtain this is through positive experiences. Therefore, the Tao, in its wisdom, devised mechanisms that would skew the experiences more towards the positive aspect, therefore producing an increase in positive experiences.

Therefore, early in man's and woman’s civilization there were operating techniques that strove to produce positive energies. By bringing together large numbers of fragments in various soul ages, the possibility of new and varied experiences is maximized through their interactions. But there needed to be a skewing mechanism that would produce more positive than negative energies. This skewing mechanism can be considered “government” or social structures.  These groups that define social order can provide order so that the maximum numbers of people may associate together in harmony through governing of its citizens. 

The Tao did not plan experiences but only a mechanism or an engine to generate a grand diversity of experiences through uncontrolled interactions.  We at times limit the Tao to what we comprehend. Obviously the Tao, knowing that many combinations of fragment energies would produce unlikely products as well as likely products, would have assumed that a group of fragments would have been more in tune to the energies than others. Therefore a framework of expectations could have been expected so that the Tao, although experiencing unknown and unexpected experiences could rely on anticipated combinations and groups. In other words, simply due to the great vastness of fragment numbers and lives, all possibilities can be expected both those which are positive and those which are negative.

The purpose of your life in its ultimate dimension or understanding is an opportunity to experience something that the Tao has not yet experienced before.

The Tao allows both positive and negative energy in our lives. Negative energy often provides humanity with the ability to learn and grow in very different ways than positive energy. But positive energy is the source of life itself, so the scale needs to be tipped towards having more positive energy than negative energy and things need to be out-of-balance in order to sustain the continuation of life. There needs to be more positive energy than negative energy.  

There are several built-in mechanisms to help create more positive energy.  One is our desire to feel good.  This desire for these feelings will lead us to create more opportunities to provide us with these sensations.  These sensations, such as a feeling of love and acceptance, or pleasures from food, or sex, music, knowledge, insight, awareness, are all sensations that are felt with the creation or expansion of spiritual energy!  In other words, there is a mechanism within us that helps continue to motivate or drive us to create and experience more positive energy and this positive energy is a source we use to create, expand, and develop spiritual gifts.  

The other mechanism to help assure there is an unequal balance of more positive energy is the law of karmic debt.  There is negative karma and when that is created, the repayment often includes “interest.”  Often during our debt repayment process, we end up doing more good and creating even more positive energy than was created in the original negative experience. The end result is more positive energy in the world is being created. The Tao is no longer in equal balance of energy. This creates an even greater amount of positive energy in the world for us all to enjoy.

Summary

The Tao desires to learn and grow and the way to learn and grow is through having diverse experiences.  Diverse experiences are both positive and negative. Positive experiences have greater value, however, because this energy is the source of life itself. There is a built-in mechanism to assure the balance of energy will be towards positive energy because it is this energy that fuels life itself.  Positive energy is the source of how we enjoy life. Being able to create more positive energy and also learning how to refine this energy to be used for more specific purposes, such as for certain types of spiritual experiences, can help us create even more joy and pleasure in our lives.