So it appears that in the rest of the universe, beings are not truly self-managing. We see that here on Earth in the animal kingdom. It seems an instant karma system would be akin to everyone wearing a “shock collar,” to suggest a crude metaphor. Yet, every Free Will Experiment to date has failed when that shock collar is removed. So it seems the goal is to mold, train, cajole, and motivate intelligent beings to become self-managing in a successful way that works in a crowd, and not in isolation. What is Creator’s perspective?

This analogy is serviceable in addressing the basic quandary, that without a constraint, having a feedback mechanism like the Law of Karma, there is an increased risk of difficulty so that the penalty will not be small and immediate but delayed and potentially quite severe. This is like the world humans inhabit where you can go an entire lifetime and only face the consequences of misdeeds in a subsequent life that might well be hellish, lived as a victim, because you were a perpetrator before—that is a harsh consequence and painful lesson to learn. There is virtue in having feedback so you know what you are doing and have fair warning, so there is a delicate balance here in having free will and free agency but still the inevitability of a karmic reckoning. This is a lesson not just in the art of living but in the art of creating. Where should we put the setpoint to adjust things in a way that allow greater latitude and greater personal satisfaction, and not simply being compliant with a very clear set of expectations, but the freedom to be bold and explore new things and risk errors along the way, propelled by your courage and initiative and being 'self-managing,' as you put it, armed with ethics, good character, and a keen sense of responsibility to avoid causing harm to others as you are reaching for variety and an expansion of your reach? This you are helping us determine through your experiences in seeing what you can handle, what is too much and will overwhelm you, how powerful evil can become, and how successfully those still in divine alignment can meet the challenge of evil launched without constraint, and not become evil in turn. In a sense, you are our laboratory of creation, conducting the experiment that will determine the future of everything in how it is configured. This is what will make you leaders and examples for others, because you will have learned it along with us, and will be the experts already to help teach others how to live with even greater freedom than before.