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1 FV—I read in the newspaper that a seventy-year-old man kidnapped and killed an eight-year-old child after pulling over and asking for directions. Why do men do that? What drives someone to kill? What kind of self-gratification could a person develop throughout life, or even across reincarnations, that would lead to such a need, desire, or sense of joy or release in killing a child? What does he accomplish? What is he trying to prove?
2 CFKW—These are unanswered questions that can only be answered by understanding the truth that led him to act that way. Not that it made him do it, but that it led him there—whether through joy, frustration, anger, punishment, or delusion. Whatever it was, it came from an emotion—an expression. A need to feel something. To feel an emotion—joy, anger, frustration. Regardless of which, it was the need to fulfill an emotional impulse—to witness its manifestation, to experience how it feels, how it unfolds, and what his actions might bring about.
3 Perhaps he wanted to get caught. Or to escape. Perhaps it was a confrontation with his own conscience, driven by fear or persecution. Whatever his intent, it was a manifestation of what, in his internal world, should or could happen. You see?
4 But when you take a life, you carry that life with you. You become entangled with it, adding its weight to your own burden. It becomes part of your baggage, something you must eventually unfold in future movements, future lives, future rebounds—whether toward what is good, or not.
5 But then the question arises: What is good and what is bad? Plenty of answers to this question have already been given, and plenty more are to come.
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