Choosing torture as a lesson
QUESTION: Masters, I recently read about the torture and murder of a Japanese girl named Junko Furuta in 1989. It is horrifying to think that someone could endure so much suffering. I would like to know more about the desired spiritual lessons of the people that were involved. Why would Junko choose to endure such a difficult death and what did she learn from it? How did she manage to keep it together for so long? You have mentioned in previous posts that when we label someone as evil, it isn’t always the case. People are just souls experiencing different scenarios. What did Junko’s assailants want to learn from this lifetime and why did they choose to do so in such a manner? ~David, Australia
ANSWER: It is humanly difficult to imagine why your soul, or any soul for that matter, would ever choose the lessons this young lady did. Her soul had been involved in prior experiences with torture and man’s inhumanity to man in general. She wished to find out the extent to which a human body could exist without losing their mind. Past participations included the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, genocides in a number of African nations, slavery, and the Salem witch trials.
An additional incentive for this lifetime stemmed from a desire to have the citizenry examine and decide to revamp the Japanese judicial system. She wished to generate a social outrage to shake up the nation and even the world. So much goes on in the world where groups, and even entire societies, prey on individuals or whole subsets of people that she wanted to throw a spotlight on atrocities. This is an easy task with the influence of today’s social media – nothing seems to occur in a vacuum any longer.
Evil, despicable, psychotic, inhumane, sick, insane, and so on are terms attached to the men who perpetrated this event. But they, too, were carrying out the events they wished to experience during their tenure on Earth. These concepts or definitions concerning their actions are all judgments that third-dimensional ego minds require to separate their own actions from such atrocities.
To delineate what each man desired would not help anyone understand what happened. It is often the case that someone not engaged in the actual event cannot conceive the reason for its occurrence. Even when having the idea behind the action explained, the reasoning cannot be grasped or understood. Just appreciate that every soul is in charge of their own chosen lessons.