Victims and perpetrators
I have been thinking about that recently where it relates to everything being alive.. as the Native Americans believe. They believe that even rocks are alive.
I think in the sense that consciousness flows through all things in degrees of awareness that everything is alive or at least sustained by that conscious intelligent spirit.
I think our awareness and power of will does more to determine what we attract to ourselves on a conscious level.
There is no telling what or how we attract things to us on an unconscious or subconscious level.
One thing I am pretty sure of is that someone who uses their conscious will can wield a lot of power over someone who does not. Often a perpetrator will seek out a victim who is unaware and less powerful, not only just physically, but willfully and spiritually too.
On the larger scale, I can go out and gather a bunch of rocks (a lower level life form) and build a house with them whether the rocks have anything to say about it or not. They are unconscious compared to me so I have the power to exert my control over them. They are probably not even aware enough to have any preferences in the matter. They are just being rocks. They don't care if they are on the mountain side or being stuck together to make a house.
The strong predator always preys on the weakest prey. The remaining prey will reproduce and the survivors grow stronger and stronger as they evolve.
The same is true for human predators. They pick victims weaker than them. The only way the victim attracted the predator is by appearing or being weak.
In self defense classes we are taught to always look and be alert and walk with confidence and alertness so as not to be perceived as someone who is weak or not paying attention. That perception of you by the predator is what attracts a predator to a victim.
So it is not that the victim is thinking about getting mugged (although they might be) but that they look like a likely victim to a mugger, and they may be in a dark parking lot late at night, not paying attention, perhaps even drunk.
Under cover police officers know how to act like victims because they know what attracts muggers, although a smart mugger can spot an undercover "victim" very easily.
Edited by
Jeanniebean
on Mon 12/22/08 03:21 PM
Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do. I've been awfully sick, still am but tryin to get better. Ruth, I'm sorry to hear you feel like crying today, I hope you are alight?? 
