[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

I believe the cheeses are technically neutral, but your life experiences and beliefs will cause you to classify them as good or bad.

I've encountered some pretty nasty smelling cheese in my life but years later realized how much growth and wisdom I got out of the experience. Have that happen enough times and when you next encounter an ucky cheese you start looking at it as a growth opportunity and it doesn't have the negative impact it may have had if you were new at the whole maze wandering thing.

Is there a way to shorten the time it takes to realize that nasty cheese contains growth and wisdom?

Also remember that you chose what cheese to put where along with your higher self and those wise guys, er I mean wise spirits in the ether. There is a reason for all of it. When you can discern that reason you will feel better towards the encounter.

Thanks for the laugh! Those wise guys have it in for me, it seems. Some of the nasty cheese seems to be a result of actions or non-actions of my free will. So, it seems sometimes those cheeses show up along the path, as you said, along the way and weren't there as the original plan. The free will that goes a different way than the original plan might make the higher self and wise spirits put discouraging cheese along these not planned paths as a deterent. Does that make sense?