Cross-posting: The Ethics of Self Sacrifice

This was originally published at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/10/post-no-1229-ethics-of-self-sacrifice.html

I world normally edit out the spiritual/religious aspects of that for this blog, but cannot be bothered doing so today :)

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When I hear the phrase “self sacrifice”, or “the ethics of self sacrifice”, I, and, I suspect, many others, tend to think of someone weighing up one person’s life against the lives of others – most would possibly think of a military or disaster situation (or fire-fighting, as was covered in the film “Always” that we re-watched last night), the more advanced would think of a balance of quality of life such as someone who builds their life on having slaves.

In this instance, however, I’m thinking of something else, something that is well illustrated by a story from football (yes, since I’m an Australian, REAL football – Aussie Rules :) ).

As with all team sports, spectators tend to get fixated on individual stars, those who have greater development of individual skills, although they may not be as significant in terms of the team as a whole doing well (Aussie Rules, and, I suspect, most, if not all, other codes have a saying to the effect that “a champion team beats a team of champions”). One of the many balancing acts that coaches have to consider is between focusing on playing their game plan, and taking resources (players) away from that to “shut down” a key opposition player (often a star, but, since coaches are fairly hard-nosed, possibly someone less subject to public acclaim, but important to the opposition’s style of play), which is termed “tagging”. The tagger will do things like punching the ball away from the star, which is a legitimate Aussie Rules technique, or bump the player away from the ball (also a legitimate technique in this contact sport, although subject to rules to reduce the risk of injury).

In the match I am thinking of, almost two decades ago now, a young star in one team was assigned the role of tagging an older star in the opposing team. The older star realised that his young opponent was more important to his team that the older star was to his, so went to a quieter part of the field, which meant the younger star had less opportunity to contribute to the game. The older star’s team didn’t miss his contribution as much, and, as a result of this and other factors, won the match.

So, despite doing very little to actively contribute to the game, the older star made a major contribution to winning the match.

Coming back to this article, this is something I consider when making ethical decisions. In particular, I could have been far more successful in my aims of spreading information about clearing and spirit rescue, non-physical health, strength and well-being, BPM, and psychic weather work, had I signed up to one of the social media platforms.

However, to do so as they currently are would involve sacrificing ethics (I suspect there will be ethical approaches to this in a few decades time), issues such as sacrificing privacy, or contributing to FOMO, distraction, and other problems that have been immediately obvious from the start.

So, every time I considered getting involved in social media, I’ve decided not to.

In terms of making this blog a success, that has been a sacrifice, and since it is my blog and my goal is to be successful, it counts as self sacrifice. Nevertheless, I consider it worthwhile, as to sacrifice my ethics would make whatever I am doing an INHERENTLY flawed product, and there would have been long term spiritual consequences.

This is something that can be seen in politics, where elected representatives make the mistake of thinking something is necessary to do a greater good, and wind up losing everything they were trying to discover when their misdeeds are revealed.

A point that should be made here is that such misdeeds are always known on the astral – apart from the taint in the energy, there is also the Akashic Record.

Conversely, every time we stick to BPM ethics, even if it is not known on the physical, it is known on the astral, and may be used as an example to educate other people during their sleep state, for instance.

No valid, worthwhile self sacrifice goes without dee reward or beneficial outcome – but that may be non-physical (apart from the inherent blessing of not sacrificing one’s soul).

In the physical, things may progress more slowly as a result, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Food for thought :)
(and review the available information on ahimsa, perhaps, with a view to determining why it has such an insistence on non-violence)