Just where did this come from? Amazingly, it feels right. We have a filled tapestry and an
understanding of our immortality. This
is quite astonishing.
I do recommend all my readers to work through this
article. There are assertions here that
were natural points of dispute and he has fallen convincingly on the right side
of them. You may have difficulty
accepting any of this but the whole is coherent and dogma free.
That is all good.
All
About Reincarnation
November
29, 2013
Gregg Prescott
Why do we reincarnate? How do our past lives
determine what lessons we will learn in the next life? How long do we wait in
between lives? Do we know what we will look like? Who helps us decide what life
experiences we would like to have?
Reincarnation is
the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after
biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the
previous life’s actions.
The word “reincarnation”
derives from Latin, literally meaning, “entering the flesh again”. There is no
word corresponding exactly to the English terms “rebirth”, “metempsychosis”,
“transmigration” or “reincarnation” in the traditional languages of Pāli and
Sanskrit.
Lord Vishnu is known for his ten incarnations,
the Dashavatars. Celtic religion seems to have had reincarnating gods
also. Many Christians regard Jesus as a divine incarnation.
Some Christians and Muslims believe he and some prophets may incarnate again.
Most Christians, however, believe that Jesus will come again in the Second Coming at the end of the world,
although this is not a reincarnation. The Buddhist concept of reincarnation
differs from others in that there is no eternal “soul”, “spirit” or “self” but
only a “stream of consciousness” that links life with life.
Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the
University of Virginia, investigated many reports of young children who claimed
to remember a past life. He conducted more than 2,500 case studies over a
period of 40 years and published twelve books, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of
Reincarnation and Where Reincarnation and Biology
Intersect.
Stevenson methodically documented each child’s statements and then identified
the deceased person the child identified with, and verified the facts of the
deceased person’s life that matched the child’s memory. He also matched
birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by
medical records such as autopsy photographs, in Reincarnation and Biology.
[ this provides an
inventory of hard evidence to describe the phenomena. The best leave no choices – arclein ]
Hindus provide several reasons why the jiva
takes on various physical bodies:
1. To experience the fruits of one’s karmas:
This is the main reason for rebirth. Sattvika (good or righteous) karmas reward
one with the pleasures of Svarga. Rajas (pleasure-seeking) karmas reward one
with mrutyuloka (mortal realm or earth). And Tamas karmas (actions related to
inertia, laziness and evil) condemn one to patala-loka.
2. To satisfy one’s desires:
When a person indulges in material pleasures, he or she subsequently develops a
stronger desire to enjoy more of it (Vāsanā). This unending craving to satisfy
one’s desires causes the jiva to assume new physical bodies.
3. To complete one’s unfinished sadhana:
When an aspirant making spiritual efforts for liberation from maya dies without
attaining his or her goal, the jiva gets as a natural cause-effect another
human body to complete its sadhana.
4. To fulfil a debt:
When a jiva is indebted to another jiva, it gets a human birth to fulfil its
debt and receive what is owed to it. The jiva comes in the form of a relative,
friend or an enemy.
5. To undergo sufferings because of a great
soul’s curse: A person’s grave error or sin may incur the
wrath or displeasure of God
or a Rishi. This results in the jiva of that person
getting another birth, not necessarily into a human body.
6. To attain moksha:
By the grace and compassion of God or a God-realized guru, a jiva gets a human
body to purge itself of the layers of base instincts.
[ I have found none of this particularly
convincing. These reasons are all promoting
reward and punishment but that seems wrong. I perceive instead an opportunity to step in
in order to advance the general condition of life on earth toward the fully
realized Heaven on Earth. This
necessarily must take many lives although we are now approaching a climax where
this is largely achieved. - arclein ]
• Spirits reincarnate on earth because they
are being given the opportunity to accelerate their learning process to
achieve higher consciousness levels.
This occurs because they become involved with so many more experiences in the
physical world.
• Oftentimes those who have not reached
higher spiritual consciousness do not return to life nearly as quickly as those
who have reached higher levels of consciousness.
• When a spirit does choose to return to
earth, it is because they have had a very good understanding of the lessons
that they were to have learned in their past life and what they did learn or
what they did not learn and what they will go to earth to do in a new life.
• The learning process as a spirit being is
quite slowed down for a spirit being that freely chooses not to incarnate.
• When a spirit would like to return it will
often sit and talk with its spirit teacher about what it had lived in a past
life and what it would like to live in a future life. And spirit
teacher and spirit guides will help direct that spirit to the environment that will
help it best continue its journey. [ this is
extraordinarily important – arclein ]
• You always return to earth at a later
date than when you left earth.[ this is the real meaning of progress – arclein ]
• In the past the typical times between death
in one life and birth on earth in another life could have been centuries.
Because earth is evolving so much quicker and manifesting events almost
instantaneously, those who had made great progress in their most recent past
life are given an opportunity to return much sooner than had been the case in
the past to help those who are struggling with their spiritual evolution.
• In just about every reincarnated life,
individuals return to an environment and experiences that they have always felt
and shared and wanted to evolve into. And so they are given the opportunity to
move back into environments where those desires and experiences in previous
lives can be enhanced and can be fulfilled.
• A child comes into a family generally
because it is to help that family as well as that family to help it. And there
are families that are selected that can help encourage them.
• A reincarnating infant who is destined to be
put up for adoption understands prior to leaving heaven that this will happen
and has the opportunity to select both its birth and adoptive parents.
• One can reincarnate into another
nationality, but the majority of the time one reincarnates back into where
it has spent most of its lifetimes, whether it be Christian or Jewish or Arab,
it does not matter.
• An incarnating spirit does not choose its
physical appearance but it does see its appearance prior to coming back to
earth.
• Spirits often like to nudge their new family
it is coming to to choose a name that it would like to have, but name-choosing
is generally done through the three-dimensional world for in the spirit world,
names are not important.
• Spirits who are reincarnating do not
experience competition in the spirit world over the same earth life.
• The first and most important lesson for
every spirit that comes to earth is for it to learn its own spiritual lessons
and to have a knowing of the individual it is and also to help others to
understand their inner beings as well. This effort is more important than
acting in a way which would help humans generally to progress in their earthly
existence.
• It is not true that an individual will
necessarily experience an energy that they have created in a former life,
so-called Karma.
Instead, one will be given the opportunity to learn from the lessons and the
energy created in the past to wipe the slate clean, so to speak, and move
beyond that and not have to re-experience it.
• It is an infrequent occurrence that a child would die, go back to
heaven, and then be reincarnated back into
the same family. If it did occur, that spirit returning a second time would
have the benefits of the experiences that the family went through in losing a
child.
•
Spirits in the same family grouping in heaven can reincarnate simultaneously
into lives that will have a great deal of interaction. A strong bond is often
felt when these individual have paths that cross.
•
A most general life
plan is prepared before
a spirit is reincarnated. Once it reaches its human level it is generally
disconnected from its spiritual level and any pre-knowledge it has been given,
because it does not have to follow that path–it is being given the choices.
•
Humans do not reincarnate as animals. Animals do not reincarnate as humans.
Every living object reincarnates in the form that it is in but may reincarnate
in a higher vibrational energy form of that same form.
•
Oftentimes a spirit who originated in a form other than an earth form will not
reincarnate back to earth for their next lifetime but will decide they want to
go to their original place of creation and will go back for maybe several
lifetimes in that original place of creation in a humanoid type form.
•
Those individuals who originated from a world other than earth are very
highly evolved beings and often find themselves very confused as earth beings
but have made that choice to bring that wisdom, that knowledge and the ability
to communicate other existences to earth in one way or another, to help the
earth’s spiritual evolution become so much more powerful than what it currently
is. [ this is curious – arclein ]
•
People who have always reincarnated on earth generally do not choose at some
time to go to a planet other than earth for reincarnation.
•
Inhabited planets are often found throughout the universe.
•
You on earth are envied by many from the other worlds for you have in your
humanness ability to still feel and express those feelings, to have a beauty
upon your world that many other worlds in the universe do not have.
•
The earth is a living entity and has a soul which was created to be highly
spiritually evolve. Earth is quite dismayed at the amount of disrespect and
destruction that is being done in the name of progress.
•
Both humans and extraterrestrials have much to offer and the creation of a
hybrid form of these races in the future will be most beneficial to both the
humans and ET’s. This hybrid form will be more resistant to all forms of disease
including health, mind, and spiritually.
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