Human Families and Relationships

The real family of any human being are the people that they are most connected with psychically. Humans tend to place a great deal too much emphasis on relationships which may be purely physical: who they have sex with or who physically gave birth to them. These aren't necessarily the closest relationships for a human psychically.

To understand how this came about, we have to take a step back to understand how the concepts of family and relationships took on such importance. In the time of Atlantis, people were very psychically evolved, and they could clearly see who they were connected with. They didn't tend to overemphasize the gross physical side of things.

Unfortunately, as recounted in Surfing the Himalayas, Atlantis sunk, and twelve boats of highly evolved Atlanteans set out to spread the Dharma elsewhere in the world. Eleven of the twelve groups didn't make it--only the ones who landed in ancient Egypt did. In a bow to human sensibilities, Rama didn't explain why the group in Egypt was the only one to succeed. When they arrived on Egypt's shores, they were a rather bedraggled bunch and not really that evolved any more. However, the folks from Atlantis who landed in Egypt had a big advantage over all the other groups: there was already a large network of Enlightened Cats living in Egypt who (probably foolishly) decided to take pity on these Atlantean refugees and help them.

The Cats, with perfect seeing, saw that these humans would have to regain some etiquette in dealing with each other. Since the humans had devolved so much, the only thing they understood were the physical processes of birth, sex, and death, and so the Cats recommended that for one lifetime the humans place increased emphasis on these physical relationships so they could learn etiquette in dealing with each other.

The idea was that after they learned etiquette, they would regain their psychic abilities and physical relationships would return to their proper place as a secondary kind of relationship.

Unfortunately the humans became very attached to the power that was associated with these relationships, and they refused to sever these relationships even when asked by the Cats to do so. Some families became more powerful than others, and so naturally they saw it is a drop in power to pursue Enlightenment. They didn't realize that the Dharmic path is always more powerful than an egotistical path.

Some of the powerful families became very egotistical and, if I may dare to use the term, quite pompous. They continued to worship Cats, which was probably the only thing they did right. But they also build great monuments to the human ego, such as, in the case of the most powerful families of all, the Pharaohs, massive (and totally useless) pyramids which remain standing to this day.

So I guess the answer to your question is this: try to remember what it was like in Atlantis. Give the relationships based on the physical processes of birth, sex, and death their proper respect, but don't become attached at all to the physical power associated with those relationships, and always remember that the psychic realms are a lot more powerful. And then try to find an Enlightened Cat who will accept you as a student and put you back on track.

Love,
Mooshke

Mooshke the Enlightening Cat