You've got me thinking too :D. Thanks for your reply, it's an interesting angle on this, expecially your concluding line "Why allow us to learn about these things if the spirit realm has no concept of a gun/protection or scarcity?". This sentence seems to relate to "scarcity is going to exist only because I believe it's a lesson we need to learn".

I agree about the lesson and the learning. However, I don't know that something has to exist in order for us to learn from it - I mean, we assume many falsehoods throughout life (illusions and false notions) which we take for truth, and then realise we were misled (by whatever learning process/life experience). The realisation and shedding of falsehood is IMO, the learning. In my experience, the greater the untruth one has played with, the greater the potential for learning/growth/expansion when one sees through it.

The notion of 'scarcity' being mirrored in the spirit realm is an interesting one, but In my opinion/experience I cannot agree that it is so. For me, the veils that conceal reality are removed the closer one gets to Source (God, Universal Energy, or whatever the label/concept of ONE), or the further away one gets from the illusion of external reality/identity. Pain and Suffering - the greatest of teachers - are of this physical plane and they are factors of the illusion that we are brought up to believe is the Truth (that we are powerless; we have to be slaves to the concepts of the mainstream Matrix, competition is natural/necessary, we don't deserve Love, we need to work on it coz we are imperfect and flawed etc etc). The physical plane is the realm of illusion, of negative emotions and desires, fear and control etc which, when we perceive, understand the workings of within us, and transcend our enslavement to - raises consciousness through a process of seeing through the illusions. The raising of consciousness reaches towards the spiritworld - one can become spiritual in this physical world, not the other way around!

At the level of spirit, there doesn't seem to be the same possibility of the playout of the energies and fears that make up the scarcity mindset when in a physicality - there is no need. Additionally, the game of incarnation on this physical plane could be specifically to interact with the illusion as if it were real, such that the experiences to be had when entering into a state of complete forgetting would be vastly more expanded than if one had the awareness of the game and one's role in it (there would be less discovery). It is here, to my mind, that scarcity comes in - not as a reality, but just as a perception, a tool of learning through the apparent experience of lack. There may be no such thing as scarcity, but saying this sounds like bullshit in a world where one's experience is largely of pushing (and/or seeing everyone pushing) for maxi-profit. Is it not the case - frankly speaking - that negative feelings and perceptions around versions of he earns undeservingly taking away from me, unfair, I may not get a piece of the pie can be said to influence/give birth to ALL the activity currently taking place on Steemit re the flag-wars?

So that's back to my initial statement, so maybe this is the one question to consider - is there abundance or not?...or to turn it around and ask 'is scarcity a thing or not?'. I think this reveals itself for a multi-layered question if one looks into it from an individual and personal perspective.

I'm pretty sure I am mostly in agreement with your second para. Alignment is a multi-dimensional thing, yes, agree that an idea can resonate and complete in both realms, but IMO, only if it is a bearer of truth, and not falsehood.

Wanna conclude with quoting you: I think we are shedding the skin of the old ways and the new ways will bring in a 'heaven on earth' with abundance....yes sir!

PS @ldacey-laforge, thanks :D