Loneliness is distress and sadness over being alone because one has no friends or company. People can become friendless and companionless for many reasons. Some of those reasons can be a result of choices made, and others a result of circumstances. Still, the consensus seems to be, that no one has a real excuse to be lonely. That if you’re lonely it’s somehow your fault because you made poor choices, you didn’t become someone people want to be around, you’re not interesting, or fun, etc. Some may even see it as a symptom of selfishness or even narcissism—too much focus on the needs and desires of the self, and not enough focus on the needs and desires of others. What is the divine perspective on loneliness and how much responsibility does the self have for this dilemma?

Your question and the way it is posed present a very good illustration of the human level issue you are speaking about. Loneliness is something that is truly experienced by beings in the physical and not by those in higher dimensions. That is in part the physics involved in life between those two environments because physical beings are discrete units separated physically from one another and disconnected energetically to a large degree in terms of conscious awareness. Whereas in higher dimensions, people can engage with many individuals through consciousness alone and this is done routinely without reservation and uniformly with great joy by all involved because people do not judge one another in the higher dimensions so there are no reasons to be a wallflower, so to speak, no reasons to hold back, to shrink from sight from fear of being rejected and attempt to be invisible in a communal gathering, for example, which the shy person might do again and again and never be noticed. So we would trace this dilemma back to the problem of disconnection in the first place. What you are seeing in the lonely individual is the tip of an iceberg. It is a more extreme dilemma of disconnection than felt by the average person, but that does not mean the average person is intact, healthy, and well-balanced in all respects. All suffer because of the state of disconnection imposed by physical existence and in particular because of their disconnection from the divine realm as well as from one another because the intuitive gateway is compromised through a manipulation to downgrade human performance—this was done by your extraterrestrial overseers long, long ago. So in a sense loneliness is a quandary that is created by being a prison inmate cut off from the larger world and the universe as a whole. So your question and the dark picture you paint with all of the one-sided descriptions of loneliness being a characteristic of that individual considered in isolation ironically are missing the point, that all are largely disconnected from the wider reality and the greater universe of possibilities and are living a diminished life. So it is no wonder those with more extreme circumstances of not even having some human compatriots who consider them a friend, let alone a love partner or a family they belong to, there are many who are doubly deprived by not only being a physical human but in special circumstances of additional deprivation. As you point out, there are many, many reasons people can become isolated and cut off even from everyone and the reasons can be quite varied. In a sense, people choose their life circumstances but over time there is an accumulating aggregate of difficulty from many things done to the person that are beyond the individual’s control. These add insult to injury and greatly compound the damage. So people who lose confidence in themselves may end their life vastly worse and then a future incarnation may find them returning and at the outset starting out from behind and encountering many additional obstacles and roadblocks than the average person because there is a karmic interplay with the past difficulties and tragic circumstances, and unless they receive additional love and support from family in particular or stalwart supportive friends, they will have a worsening over time and may never surmount those karmic complications and may drift from life to life making little or no progress. Things are never so simple as to be a person’s fault or a shortcoming of their personality, as exhibited in the current life circumstances, there are always deeper reasons and energies in play.