Human reactivity to things humans say and do is often a strange mix of conditioned behaviour and delusional thinking and delusional interpretation of perception. We seem to have a vary fallible ability to distinguish a person's real intent when they perform an action or just say something. Images that in everyday life might seem abhorrent could be put to use, e.g., in comedy where they do not serve their apparently literal purpose, but serve to shift the mind's point of view in an unanticipated way. In the life mind these things can have a virtual life illustrating some point, while in actual living, they would be things that one would not do or promote. Because of our hard wiring and conditioning, certain images can make us squirm, and in the real world these things really do happen and cause deep distress for some.
But here on FFL supposedly we are more self aware of our limitations and self- generated delusions. The problem with spiritual 'development' is it is a method or methods to reduce these limitations and internal fantasies, but is often mistaken for truth. Truth, in a very peculiar sense, is the result of this spiritual activity, not the path by which it is achieved, because the path functions on the level of the delusions we have and share. The universe allows the darkest things we can image about human behaviour, there is no rule that prevents these things. When we make up rules to deal with such things, it is because we cannot handle them emotionally and because these things disrupt civilisation. But there is a distinction between the mental representation of these and the actuality of these, because a mental representation may never need manifest as physical behaviour, it can be free floating in the mind. It can also be expressed verbally or in print as fiction, such as in a novel or short story, or in a philosophical discussion, where it does not serve the purpose it would were it an actual fact. The whole purpose of the so-called spiritual life is to separate fiction from fact, but if you are on a spiritual path, that has not been accomplished yet, for you will still fall prey to misinterpretation. Only when the path ends, and the spiritual life really begins can our most crippling delusions be dealt with.
