I know this topic is very difficult for many people in this forum, but we cannot solve the problem if we don’t confront it. Surely everyone has noticed the rise of pedophilia worldwide, from Europe and America to Asia. Many predators exploit less developed countries, where laws protecting children are weak, to carry out their abuses. This issue is rampant where I live—Vietnam—with no effective solutions in place. The authorities are negligent, and adults seem indifferent. Even Buddhist monasteries, once highly respected, have seen numerous cases of abuse. In the Catholic Church, the problem is all too well-known with countless incidents.
I’ve spent time researching this issue and wondered: Is this a disease, as science suggests, related to brain disorders, or is there some dark force influencing our minds? After all, many pedophiles come from the elite class, showing no signs of abnormality in their youth, only to fall into depravity in old age when equal sexual relationships between men and women no longer satisfy them.
I’ve also tried exploring the perspective of occult teachings on this matter but found no clear answers. Can anyone in this forum explain it to me?
I’ve noticed there’s a group in this forum dedicated to fighting pedophilia globally. However, I believe we need to uncover the root cause to eradicate this issue once and for all. Could it be that Earth, this material realm, is truly filled with evil as religions often claim? Are we here to cultivate ourselves to escape this “hell”?
IMO I think it’s less that we’ve had rising cases and more that we’re just far more aware of it now thanks to information being more accessible. Before things like social media and cameras and such it was a lot easier to hide these things. But now it’s possible to find a trail if the person isn’t careful.
What’s done about it, however, is a different matter.
A lot of cases also pop up in lower class individuals as well. It’s not just a rich person problem.
Not always. Some people commit sexual abuse as early as adolescence.
So this is three totally different questions each worth their own thread. Philosophers have been discussion the latter 2 for ever and in the end there’s lots of good idea, many causes and interlinked reasons, and no one simple answer.
To stay on the first one, what is the “root cause of pedos?” is seems to mainly be ingrained and chronic abuse of children in societies very culture. It’s a slippery slope and tends to accompany the decline of a civilization as it’s culture degrades across many areas of society. You will also see theft, gangs, disrespect at every level, poverty and fat cats in a huge class divide, no middle class with the ability to set standards for those who can afford them, and this is one of many signs of self-sabotage and degeneration the culture exhibits. Books wax on about the signs for the fall of Rome and how many parallels there are to that now - this is all speculative but they are making good points that this is not how a society survives, by destroying the minds of it’s own future.
Other societies like the Gnostics cam up with spiritual philosophies about it, for example that we’re basically losing a spiritual war between satan and the All. Are we in a prison or on a battlefield or something else, every groups has a different opinion and none of them are going to be perfect.
One thing we know: once a person has been abused as a child, they tend to become abusers, and they abuse more than just themselves, so you get a cultural rot that spreads generation to generation. Especially if cliques and cults in that culture codify it into their group - “normalize” it. Then as adults nobody speaks out to try to fix it. This is explained by the niece of someone who has remain nameless for the no politics rule, not claiming anything about this video by it’s very interesting for understanding how things like that perpetuate, things regular people wouldn’t even think could be a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDr-xPKSmTA
So for example, I joined this working and one of the rituals I am doing is to restore a new perspective and empathy to these people, for this kind of harm anyway, the organized kind. Healing the damaged people in our society would go a long way to stopping all of this, though I can’t guess it would be easier than the death curse route. The idea is very simple - remove pedos so that stop making more. Kind of like best way to eradicate an annual weed is to make sure it can’t go to seed.
This is just my opinion and point of view, I may be wrong. I will also answer more philosophically.
For the first cause - I agree with Mulberry, abusers were more often than not abused themselves. As for solving the issue once and for all - I don’t think this is really possible, as you would have to end their free will to do harm or anything, really. They have to become aware of the shadow themselves to stop it.
There are many great issues globally and I’d argue that it’s not worth to burden yourself with things you have little control over and rather focus on your circle and people you actually care about. It will propagate further out.
I would compare this to having money and also having vast amount of people suffering because of lack of them. If you split and give them your money, each one gets very little and won’t save them - but you suddenly have none and become one of them, and now you all are miserable. You alone won’t save the world. If you instead invest to yourself and people / things / ideas you can create something beautiful and lasting for yourself and those worthy of it.
You can also embrace this attitude. Burn it, if it doesn’t deserve to exist.