Sure spirituality can heal suffering.. And I think in the end, we are responsible to heal our own suffering..

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Rachel:
When one has truly fully processed an "awful happening" with the assistance of a qualified, sensitive, and spiritual therapist, the result is the surrendering of the pain, which leaves a vacuum to be filled with Love for Self and Others and which leads to Forgivness.
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.

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With all fear & pain the spirtually help is always there to give me the knowledge about Care2

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It sounds like Horatio has never suffered physical pain. There is a physical mechanism for it. There is also spiritual suffering and it can only be healed by spirituality.

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The difference between the prolonged suffering of humans and other animals is abstract intelligence. In other species abstract intelligence would be counterproductive and dangerous since their survival depends on total focus in the present and in the often short and violent lives they experience it would be just plain cruel; nature is not randomly cruel, cruelty and mercy are human occurrences and important as choices in our development. The animals that share our lives on the day to day basis have leeway to develop different capacities, but ,for instance the usual total optimism of the canines that is so healing for us is based on present focused consciousness and while we benefit from their example and presence our abstract extended awareness of suffering wouldn't do them any good.The suffering of our species is integral to our type of mentality and it seems to be important to us to learn the lessons of empathy and compassion. As Horatio has just put so wisely suffering can not be healed from our present perspective;I assume because our high-selves that decide our mortal circumstances judge it necessary for the growth in consciousness they desire upon entering the University of Mortal Life, for the accelerated development experience. I hope my soul believes I can learn from pleasure but perhaps it is only when we are sick of suffering that we release the desires that tie us to it.

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Suffering is also conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons, but does not have a physical activation, its activation is a result of human awareness or consciousness, such as the death of a loved one or the suffering of a soldier experiencing post combat stress. It is transcendent and abstract because we really don’t know its mechanics, its principles. As Peter Russell explains in Mysterious Light, consciousness can be very analogous to light. The stuff, as I previously expressed it certainly includes consciousness, but may be all inclusively consciousness. Consciousness may be the derivation of all things.

All of life’s vicissitudes, its pluralism, dualism, and its yin and yang, which includes unhappiness/suffering as opposed to happiness, are important to our evolution; each would not be known without experiencing the other. We would not know or understand compassion if it were not for the experience of suffering. There would not be any meaning to the words sympathy or empathy.

The answer to the question “Can Spirituality [consciousness or soul] Heal Suffering?” is no. It is not possible to heal suffering, but understanding its nature and principles can help alleviate its affect, and by gaining greater knowledge we can certainly minimize its physical occurrences, such as in famine, violence, accidents, and disease.

Suggested reading: Peter Russell -- The Spirit of Now

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Other life exists in completely different dimensions than human life, even though that life seems to be life governed within the principles of our laws of physics.

Humans can only relate to what is existential in the particular dimension we live governed within our laws of physics. Our responses are a result of how we sensorially interpret phenomenon resulting from chemical reactions that trigger associated biological behavior.

Therefore, humans can only determine their world within the limitations of their five sensory receptors. We do not have the capability to go beyond or change that fact. However, there is a great deal of knowledge still to be gained within these limitations leading to greater acknowledgement and understanding of the existential/knowable and of the transcendent/unknowable principles of our environment.

There are transcendental dimensions beyond those of humans and the other life on earth. Human beings in the great scheme of things are very limited. We are limited to certain color perceptions, since we can only determine color that is available from within our color spectrum through the absorption and reflection of light, and likewise sound only within our auditory spectrum. Sight is limited to only three dimensions. Things like time and space, beginning and ending, life and death, a black hole, our system of mathematics, the laws of physics, the bible, language with words like reality, and virtually everything else have been created by human be

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Things like time and space, beginning and ending, life and death, a black hole, our system of mathematics, the laws of physics, the bible, language with words like reality, and virtually everything else have been created by human beings for human beings to meet human needs.

We have learned through those things we have created, and as a consequence we have a greater understanding of life in our spectrum. Thanks to quantum physics we know there is something else out-there, let’s call it another strictly human term like stuff, a consciousness that we are not capable to authentically know.

There are those, including Dr. Chopra, who have expressed their view that there are levels of consciousness belonging to all life, and that consciousness is not specific just to human life. Dogs, cats, horses, birds … respond to a different level of consciousness than humans. They too experience pain and suffering, but not profoundly like humans.

Pain creates certain levels of suffering depending on the extent of a physical injury; but not all suffering is created by pain. Pain is the hurting, such as from a cut or burn, conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons, a physical activation, and all animals suffer from such afflictions. Suffering is also conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons, but does not have a physical activation, its activation is a result of human awareness or consciousness, such as the death of a loved one or the suffering of a sold

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I feel suffering is brought on by our attachments to physical and emotional desires; that suffering like other human emotions are a choice; that you can choose to let your environment weigh on you, or you could choose to live above it. It's your choice and yours alone.

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Rachel, I think that if that suffering leads you to forgive yourself for having been violated, strange though it seems we tend to abuse and blame ourselves for having been in the way of whatever hurricane has overtaken us, than self love follows that forgiveness and can expand in mercy and kindness to who knows where.

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