Fun soon became a powerful force in our spirit community. What began as a simple delight grew into a driving motive behind many creative pursuits. Our attention was no longer fixed only on our oneness with the Spirit Father and with one another. We also became absorbed in our oneness with the forms we occupied, in relation to the outcomes we wished to experience within those forms.
What started as a divine child’s playful exploration of an alternative preoccupation quietly became the primary focus for many spirit offspring.
Those who desired to return to the original primary preoccupation found themselves gathering with others who shared that desire. They formed circles of strength to remain rooted in the path they chose.
Our once unified, many-sided community of experience shifted into a community of living spirits organizing themselves into smaller groups, each with its own purpose, mission, and excitement-driven ambition. What excited each group was now different.
Everyone wanted something. And no one existed with the authority to decide what another spirit should or should not desire.
In time, a group of spirit siblings began to question whether an entirely unrestrained creative journey might eventually lead us to forget our primordial oneness with the Spirit Father and with one another. Another group responded that whatever unfolds must be accepted as part of our life’s preordained experience. The two groups argued.
The former wanted us to stop playing too much and get back to our original reality. But the other said any attempt to restrain another spirit’s creative freedom was equivalent to playing God over them. To do so, they said, would risk recreating a form of spiritual bondage that could never lead us back to the original freedom we knew in our oneness with the Spirit Father.
Both views were valid, yet agreement was impossible.
These differing positions gave rise to countless sub-communities of living spirits. They appeared like clusters and constellations scattered across the vastness of the spiritual cosmos.
Newly formed spirit people now found themselves navigating destinies shaped by association or by the regions in which they emerged. Still, each one—at any moment—could return to the original creative will that allowed them to consciously choose the life they wished to live.
And so it came to be. Our spirit people spread throughout the omniverse, following many life paths, even though in the beginning, only one life path existed.