We presently experience a worldwide return of faith in spiritual matters such as reincarnation and others. To a deeper wisdom reincarnation reveals itself as a cosmic law, present and active in all levels and dimensions of creation. This law is the pathway of all beings. It is cyclic and can be observed everywhere in nature:
Cosmically in the arise and fade of planets and suns; on earth in the succession of the seasons; in the day and night cycle and in other rhythms. During life everything concentrates around death, after death everything will concentrate around the new life. One implies the other. In both cases only the appearance (the vehicle) is adopted to the new environment, not the being itself. For our soul this world or the worlds beyond are identical in essence. Here and there, the same will for development, proof, maturity and perfection determine our actions.
The realization of our return throws a bright light onto normally unsolvable and senseless seeming questions of life. Behind injustice and sufferings, disorders and disharmonies of existence, a deeper meaning and wisdom becomes evident.
If the burden of the blind or the crippled appears to be incompatible with our conception of a loving god, we realize that these are simple consequences of our own wrong doing and thinking. Comforting perhaps for many parents, who might have lost their child at an early age, to know that the in the child incarnated soul had its own plan of redemption to complete, and that her withdrawal from this plane was part of a healing process, not a punishment.
Such understanding frees humankind from the fear of being extinguished and from the grief of separation from their beloved ones. It gives us consolation in our old days, by suggesting a new youth, and it gives us the opportunity to educate our talents further.
If we ask WHAT is being reincarnated, it becomes clear that our inner self (our spirit) remains the same during all incarnations, whereas the in body bound ME, our personality, modifies his role in every incarnation, similar like the role of an actor. Just like the actor, our personality plays different roles in every piece to be performed, once under a male, another time under a female personality mask. (The etrustic word for "person" (persons) is: mask). Like in the actors play, our role of life changes from incarnation to incarnation.
Often mentioned objections against the theory of reincarnation:
- "One life in enough for me. No more sufferings!"
This is an emotionally born defense reaction of our ego against thoughts of eventually having responsibility beyond death. Funny enough to observe that generally those people are the ones who ask for an extension of life when their final days approach.
- "I do not remember earlier lives, therefore, they don't exist."
Our brain cannot remember, because his memory covers only the present existence. Our spirit however is very aware of past existence and able to recall them when preparing for a new life on earth in the astral plane. On earth, our spiritual memory in not accessible to us.
In principal, every being has the capacity of remembering past lives. The power of doing so depends upon our degree of spiritual development.
- "My feeling for justice opposes against the thought of reincarnation, because I cannot see why I should be punished or why I should suffer."
Again, our present personality cannot remember, our spirit can. (Can you imagine that the actor opposes against the role he has to play, or the painting rebels against the painter?) Careful planning is the base for every incarnation, with the objective to overcome deficiencies and errors. Furthermore it must stay clear that there is no punishment but a higher leading education system functioning on our school planet earth. This relationship becomes clear with increasing spiritual maturity. The interactions between our thinking and doing and their consequences will become increasingly transparent to us.
- "Who is going to tell me what I did wrong, and how to do things better?"
Our conscience, the voice of our inner self! Besides, there will be many spiritual advisors and teachers helping us with any kind of questions we might have, if we seek their help.
- "Isn't it pretty senseless that I have to go through the childhood stage in every incarnation?"
Nature does not progress in jumps, but in a spiral shaped movement. No piece or part can be left out. Besides, there is no repetition of childhood. Every childhood is lived through in a different manner with always increasing possibilities for development.
- "In a new life I would be separated from my beloved ones."
Absolutely not! Relations in our present lives are relations of choice from many past lives. Spiritual attraction creates destiny links, regardless of love or rejection, friendship or enmity.
- "Reincarnation is not in accordance with our Christian religion."
The thought of a rebirth was very common among ancient Christian communities, so common that he did not need to be specially mentioned and repeated. However, many citations about reincarnation in the ancient Christian literature have been erased by clerical proofreaders. The content did not combine with their perception of Christianity.
- "The development of spiritual beings can happen without a constant rebirth on earth."
Our earth belongs to a group of privileged planets in the matter universe. Here, spirits with highly different degrees of realization and maturity can progress and interact with each other. The risks are higher, compared to the risk on other planets ( a spirit may fall temporarily!), but the possibilities of progress are better. Only where high and low, good and bad, love and sin can be found in abundance can a spirit teach himself and then eventually pass the test and advance to another class, - much quicker than elsewhere in the universe.
How can we explain the apparent gift for a special foreign language, our preference for certain historical periods or nations, our gifts for certain sciences or arts? Many arguments are valid at this point.
But as one person did eventually not yet understand the very meaning of love, so would the other person not understand reincarnation as long as the past did not come alive in his mind.
Every being is a bio-dynamical force field, for which the law of conservation of energy is as valid as it is in general physics. There, the total sum of energy in a closed system always remains constant, independent of transformation. Similar as a raindrop is always a raindrop when he falls down to earth, so are we always the same when we prepare for another earth period. But we need to realize that mankind is only one among countless intelligence life forms in the universe, neither the most important, nor the most advanced. And we need to know that the entire creation of light always, - at this very moment, exists simultaneously. Many exist consciously in beyond worlds, others ( the smaller part) live their present incarnation on one of the many physical worlds. Yet we realize a constant come and go and the question of numerical constancy becomes relative.
Our planet is a school of life, our existence one school day. But the cosmic school of life knows of thousands of schools of different levels, just like our earthly system knows different education levels.
( This may bring up the question of graduation! Can the reader see the similarity between the Here and There?)
Anyway, only a dreamer may believe that he can master everything during one school day only,and learn enough to graduate and be taken away to a higher level.
Some of our older students (advanced spirits) know about these principles. Let's listen to them!
But then again, some students do gather more knowledge and values in one school day than others in a dozen lifes. However, no one leaves his class until all material is understood and digested. May it take as many school days as necessary. The number of school days for a given soul is not a maturity indicator; it all depends on what uses one made of his knowledge.
(From time to time a person seems to have a rather meaningless incarnation. This may be during a period when his transition into a higher level is being prepared.)
The process of reincarnation
In the same way as our mind welcomes the sleep of the night, our soul welcomes the "sleep" after 'death', where the soul, after some life work, gathers new strength in order to be ready to be born again.
Since most of the people die at old age, others at a very young age, it may interest to ask what age appearance a spirit adopts when he enters the beyond world?
The answer is:
Youth or old age are body oriented conditions, who remain alive in our conscience after death for a short period of time, but become meaningless after a while. These and other characteristics of our personality are being transformed and adopted to the new world and their standards after some time.
The soul leaves the body accompanied by the force of unfulfilled desires and with the thought pattern predominant at the moment of death. The life beyond begins in the lower astral plane, in the dream bound region. Then the soul raises step wise into higher and more and more dream free spheres and may, having achieved the necessary spiritual maturity, reach the god-near spheres, the same spheres we manage to reach from time to time in 'out of body dreams' or during true visions.
It is therefore no unknown land we walk on, since we have been walking through these regions several times in earlier life cycles.
During the dream period, the dreamer repeats his earth existence, remembering all strong and weak moments. Now he sees himself in the way he really was. But after a while, pain, sorrow and joy make room for a clear realization of the good and the bad things that happened, and the realization comes that these things must be balanced. Slowly the soul perceives what type of negative action need to be balanced in a following existence.
The higher planes of realization
The more and more to himself awakening soul rises imperceptibly to higher planes of existence, to a plane in the eastern and western world known as Dewachan or Paradise. This heavenly condition paired with the feeling of being "at home" is individually realized as the fulfillment of his highest desires.
Orientation toward a new life
May the state of peace of mind last as long as it lasts, some years, hundreds or thousands of years, the highest point is reached and the descent downwards begins again.
With the realization that even the highest heaven is only a transition, new karma awakens in the soul and at the same time the desire for self realization and compensation of wrong actions gets stronger.
With the certainty that he leaves heaven richer than before, the soul follows the law of incarnation without resistance. He recognizes and welcomes the new objectives and challenges offered to him, and this even more, the more demanding the nature of his new problems are.
What are the driving forces for reincarnation?
- Thirst of existence
The Bhagavad Gita calls it: mania to adhere . . . ; she is full of passion, provokes greediness and desire and binds the spirit through its lust for action and by obsession.
Fundamentally it is our ignorance and lack of knowledge that leads us toward pain and suffering.
But nobody should think that it is all that easy to overcome his thirst of existence!
- Desire for development
All beings take part in a universal process of seeking perfection. It is as well this universal impulse of evolution that leads us into always new incarnations.
As we begin to appraise how much force and sleeping possibilities may still be hidden in us, their quantity and potential could suggest an unlimited future for mankind.
One indication that we have a lot more potential than we believe we have lies in the fact of our constant insatisfaction with what we are. This basic impulse helps us to develop into pure and independent spiritual beings.
- Karma
The third factor, determining kind and evolution of our incarnations is our karma. The reason why I am how I am today, why I have the character I have, those weaknesses, those strong parts, these parents and relatives, friends and enemies, the problems and happy hours, illnesses and sufferings, - all these are consequences of my thinking and actions in former lifes.
With all what I am, owe and experience, I am the inheritor of my past!
Here lies the deeper sense of the biblical dogmatic of the term: "original sin."
All karma of the past crystallizes and then rests during our visit in the beyond spheres, being activated on our way to a new birth and will decide our milestones and our destiny during the new incarnation.
The main driving forces toward the physical plane are:
- law of attraction
- law of choice of our relatives (this law leads us to the beings we are attracted to, with whom we have been together in past incarnations)
- the will for perfection
What are the driving forces for reincarnation?
- Thirst of existence
The Bhagavad Gita calls it: mania to adhere . . . ; she is full of passion, provokes greediness and desire and binds the spirit through its lust for action and by obsession.
Fundamentally it is our ignorance and lack of knowledge that leads us toward pain and suffering.
But nobody should think that it is all that easy to overcome his thirst of existence!
- Desire for development
All beings take part in a universal process of seeking perfection. It is as well this universal impulse of evolution that leads us into always new incarnations.
As we begin to appraise how much force and sleeping possibilities may still be hidden in us, their quantity and potential could suggest an unlimited future for mankind.
One indication that we have a lot more potential than we believe we have lies in the fact of our constant insatisfaction with what we are. This basic impulse helps us to develop into pure and independent spiritual beings.
- Karma
The third factor, determining kind and evolution of our incarnations is our karma. The reason why I am how I am today, why I have the character I have, those weaknesses, those strong parts, these parents and relatives, friends and enemies, the problems and happy hours, illnesses and sufferings, - all these are consequences of my thinking and actions in former lifes.
With all what I am, owe and experience, I am the inheritor of my past!
Here lies the deeper sense of the biblical dogmatic of the term: "original sin."
All karma of the past crystallizes and then rests during our visit in the beyond spheres, being activated on our way to a new birth and will decide our milestones and our destiny during the new incarnation.
The main driving forces toward the physical plane are:
- law of attraction
- law of choice of our relatives (this law leads us to the beings we are attracted to, with whom we have been together in past incarnations)
- the will for perfection
The law of choice of relatives
As lightning hits the spot with the highest voltage differential the spot where he encounters the least resistance, in the same way are we attracted to persons and locations with the highest degree of inner relationship and similarity of character and destiny.
The soul relates very early with his future parents! His thirst for existence finds an echo and an answer in the parents desire for intercourse. (and this in the most positive way!)
Old wisdom reveals that an enormously complex network of individual and collective destiny and karma potencies are being activated at this point. At first, this network spins its way around our potential parents, expanding later to our closer relatives, friends and enemies.
We must realize that our soul has accumulated a high number of contacts and relations during his past incarnations, to a degree that we always meet certain groups of peoples in each existence, - souls we have been with during countless incarnations.
Choice of parents
The thirst for existence drives our souls into always new lives. Our karma directs us to our parents, and our will of development assures that we will benefit progressively from the new existence. Together with the choice of our parents we automatically determine as well place, time, culture and circumstances of our new life.
(Obviously the law of choice of relatives comes before the relationship of blood, being only a natural consequence of the first.)
The higher the potency of a souls individual force, and the further the range of this force spreads out, the finer selected and structured the choice of relatives, the tighter the circle of their kind, and the finer must as well the apparatus of nature be, to be able to serve as a suitable playground for these souls during their new incarnation.
(We are not similar to our parents because we are their children, however, because we are similar to our parents, did we become their children! A child may be our "flesh and blood", but this is all we can give.
His soul = his life was given by god and travels with many different parents through many incarnations).
We therefore act wise when we always consider the yearning of the third party every time we join in love with our partner. The fact that this is not always the case, leads to the existence of so many unwanted children, children who did not come due to their parent's desire, but due to fact that a possibility for incarnation was being created by the reunion of two people, and this soul took the chance, driven by its thirst for existence.
Construction of the new body
It is fascinating to watch the creation of a new body! Shortly after the soul made contact with his future mother, a mysterious waving begins:
The shape of the spiritual frame of the future living organism, in which field force and construction plan part of the now active karma is being actualized, is created!
Paul calls this "astral matrix" of the future body shape the "spiritual body." He is at first only a thought, who, like all thoughts, seek growth and realization (materialization), an excellent example of the inventive force of creation living in thoughts. We agree with Schiller: "it is the spirit who creates the body!"
With the new body the wheel of come and pass for the new existence is set in motion. From here on the body (flesh) becomes a carrier of destiny with all its possible pronunciations.
Remember, some spiritual properties can be positively influenced by pre-birth education of the mother.
The sex of the new body
In our spirit, male and female poles are united. When incarnated, soon one or the other pole dominates in order to transmit and live all the therein originating expressions.
No man is only male, no woman only female. Often is the other pole so strongly developed, that some man notably express female characteristics and vice versa. This may also suggest that the soul may experience a change of sex in the next generation. There are no strict rules. Not the kind of sex but the use that we make of it is important.
The time between incarnations
No strict rules apply for the duration of our life on earth or beyond. Both depend upon many factors, among which:
- Strength of our thirst for existence.
- Kind and sum of our thoughts and acts, realizations and consequences.
- The crystallizing karma that pushes most urgently for realization.
- Law of choice of relatives and collective karma.
- Direction and intensity of our desire for development.
- Existing possibilities and opportunities offering place time and circumstances for optimal conditions of the incarnation.-
Therefore is the duration for each individual highly different.
In the Upanishads is mentioned that souls at their beginning of spiritual evolution would incarnate quicker and more frequent; and that the interval would increase as a function of their development, their thinking and acting on earth.
Such cycles may be illustrated in the following graph:
In this example, single earth lifes and the subsequent passage through beyond planes are being presented.
The relative long periods of time spend in the spiritual planes show that
the soul made quick progress during his incarnations.
Incarnation on other planets
Our soul is a citizen of the universe, entitled to live wherever he finds possibilities for development. This becomes more and more important when the final objective in the school of earth is achieved. But for many (most of us) earth will continue to be our common playground.
Our planet is however not the center of the cosmos, but only one among a million cosmic education centers for god-born spirits. This wisdom is by far not new. Many ancient cultures knew this already, some far more detailed than we do today.
Ethical consequences
Let us repeat the ethical consequences of correct thinking and life of today, for our existence tomorrow:
* we are never alone on our way through the many incarnations, but always part of smaller or larger groups of relatives and friends of our choice!
Therefore: should we respect and love all beings with whom we have contact!
Dynamic of destiny
We must eliminate two wrong opinions:
First of all the very superficial opinion that the course of action of our life is accidental, and then the fatalistic believe in the predetermination and unavoidability of our destiny. There are no accidental occurrences and as well no occurrences without a cause, only occurrences with links to our karma and destiny.
Our world is a world of law and order, in which even the smallest event is meaningful:
a result of causality chains and effects of forces, originating from us.
Just because we normally experience only the last event of such an "accidental" chain of action, do we assume that the event itself is merely accidental.
The awakened spirit investigates first, if the apparent accidental event originated from his own conscience, or if it can be identified as a result of his karma.
Secondly he may check if the event was a karmic effect caused by beings living close to him.
These often very complex cause chains are difficult to solve.
Turning away from fatalism
Even knowing that ambient forces are constantly acting upon us, we have the possibility to strike back! No one can force us to be unsuccessful or unhappy.
Certainly, our active karma will act upon us, but how it acts and where it will lead us, does very much depend on us.
Karma
What we call karma or destiny is indeed a very complex network of cause and action. Just a small part of it is accessible to our senses. The larger part acts from our extra-sensorial regions.
In addition to this lies the fact that from our total karma the bigger part remains latent, whereas only a very small portion reaches the point of maturity and is acting in our present life. Thus we may compare our total karma with a total energy amount, part of which latent, part of which active and part of which being newly created, since we are not only suffering or profiting from existing karma but constantly creating new karma as well.
Karma is therefore the law and the action of an ethical causality, expressed as a universal, just and sense- fulfilled world order.
But the karma goes deeper. It is not only external but as well internal. There are no beings without karma and destiny to be found in our universe, except those souls who managed to free themselves from this burden.
Those have reached the zenith of spiritual development ( = free souls ) in our universe.( Not beyond!)
Karma is multidimensional: a karma impulse creates potential energy, who may remain latent for a long time, before becoming active in one of the future incarnations.
This is the meaning of the biblical word, Revelations (14,13): "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."
Positive and negative Karma
Positive karma means the sum of consequences of our thinking and acting, based upon love.
Negative karma is the sum of consequences of our thinking and acting, based upon egoistic and unrealized (not realized in their consequences ) actions. Both are in principal "good," because they contribute to our inner growth and spiritual progress. The most common emotional and theological ratings like sin and retaliation, or punishment and reward are abstracted, being in fact consequences of the law of karma.
If we investigate our history on earth, looking back on wars and catastrophic events of every nature, the distinct impression may arise that negative karma is dominant. This is however not the world's culpability, but exclusively our own, and it weights so much more realizing that we have responsibility over plants and animals living on our planet as well! Therefore, positive thinking and doing are well overdue.
This is as well recommendable, since we have no idea in which race and country our next incarnation is going to take place. Ordinary human thinking like "good" or "bad" has no place under these considerations. What we may call "good," things like worry free existence, luck and success, may be rated negative by our inner self, whereas other things like sorrows, physical burden and pain may be regarded being very useful by our soul. Things are often not quite as simple as explained in middle age books, where sinners are being reborn as humans with defects, avaricious people and thieves in very poor surroundings, malevolent and insensible as blind, and murderers as persecutes.
The cause of the various troubles one has to go through are manifold and date back further than we expect. This may as well explain why a just persons apparently suffer and the unjust apparently triumph, why the good guy is loaded with sorrows, and the bad guy lives in luxury, temporarily.
Thoughts and wishes as karma producer
The opinion that thoughts are duty free, being secret and unrevealed, is inaccurate. Each thought seeks his realization. Once emitted, he will influence things and circumstances. Thoughts are forces, with a, according to their intensity and energy, living tendency for realization. They grow and become powerful, the more often they pass the brain, the more they are repeated. Their frequent repetition transforms them into potential spiritual realities, then into affections, then into habits, from here into character qualities, finally behavior, out of which new karma is generated. And this independent of time!
The thought determines our spiritual and physical condition, furthermore our life and the life of many other fellow brothers and sisters. We may be able to hide our thoughts from others, eventually for a life time. But in our following incarnation all these thoughts will become materialized reality for everybody to see.
Each negative loveless word harms the speaker. Its effective force causes disharmonies for body and soul, planting seedlings for spiritual and/or materialistic sufferings.
Read in Matt. (12,36 f.): "But I say unto you. That every word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words you shall be justified, and by thy words you shall be condemned."
It is not proper to say that because somebody suffers in this life, ergo did he not act well in his past life.
Or: "Because this one has a very bad relationship with his relatives, ergo did he act negatively toward them in a past life."
The law of karma does not function mechanically, it is dynamic! It would not make much sense to look for just one cause. One cause can have hundreds of consequences, the same way as one consequence may have hundreds of causes.
Illness and karma
One problem can have hundreds of reasons. (in our body, soul and spirit) A problem may not have always roots into the past, but may represent a challenge for the future of this individual.
Often enough can we find the reason for people's sufferings in their present life, making any search into past lifes obsolete. But all this should not be motive for resignation, because active karma, manifested as illness can be treated and modified within the scope of physiological possibilities.
We know from good spiritual healers that they managed to cure even heavy karmic burden coming from substantial disturbances of our soul and our spirit. These healing successes however imply that the suffering person is conscience and receptive for this intervention. Unconscious persons or persons with a mental illness and small children do normally not meet this requirement.
But there is no unchangeable karma. Everything, as we know from our normal
life, is subject to changes.
Single and collective karma
In essence does each being constantly influence others through thinking and acting, and is therefore responsible as a universal karma and destiny producer.
Five destiny zones can be identified:
The first, inner zone, is our own world, including our closest relatives. The second zone covers our next closer environment, our daily contact with persons of our professional life, friends and neighbors, culturally and socially connected persons of our city with whom we might have karmic links. The third zone covers all the other ambient connections, our response to land and climate, and our share of collective karma of the nation we live in. The fourth zone covers our share of the collective karma of humankind ( of which most of us are widely unaware ).The fifth zone finally covers our share of our cosmic karma, as well not realized on earth so far. No one can leave this fine web of responsibilities.
Destiny of nations and races.
The fact that we live in the nation we live is as well not accidental. Nations and races do have a specific karma of their own. In history they raise and fall, or blend with other nations, being finally absorbed by them. The life span of each nation or race depends upon the specific assignment and objective they have to fulfill within the plan of evolution.
Some lasted thousands of years ( India, China, Egypt), others some hundred years (Rome and Greece).
Old races reincarnate in new races, and it may happen that whole generations of an ancient nation reincarnate thousands of years later, matching their collective active karma conditions with today existing cultural conditions. An Indian Yogi revealed that many of the great Indian spirits together with their followers reincarnated in Germany and that personalities like Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schoppenhauer once belonged to the great souls of old India of the times of the Veden and Upanishads.
The great artists of the old ancient Greece reincarnated during the middle age in Spain, Italy and Germany, their great thinkers in Germany as Goethe, Schiller and Lessing; as Byron, Keats and Shelley in England, and many others in France, some in Russia. The great figures of ancient Rome, on the other hand, reincarnated mostly in England and in the USA, founders of new empires.
Destiny of mankind
The global karma of mankind reflects upon each individual. The inner connections and dependency of all beings are similar to the cells in the organism of our body. All are connected with each other.
Each of them (us), as a living cell of the organism of humanity, has the role to give their best for the well being of the whole organism and for his progress. Should he not do so, acting egoistically, then he resembles a cancer cell, slowly infecting and destroying the whole body.
The deeper sense of karma
What is being explained here can only serve as an impulse for meditative self-realization, an activity that has not been very popular in the past. Each being has a special organ (a spiritual organ - part of our spiritual body), a sensory perception or advisor of destiny. In animals this organ acts as an instinctive advisor for catastrophic events. In men this organ is activated from time to time in the hour of death, when some of our spiritual forces are already free. This way some happy or less happy pictures of future events are being transmitted into our dying and breaking eyes. But it must always be repeated that even these prophetic pictures can only be interpreted as a possible future, which realization depends largely upon our earthly work.
The inner voice
In order to activate this inner advisor we must at first qualify and tune into these fine frequencies.
Meditation and a balanced life are necessary, and even then will we hear our inner voice only when our inner leadership agrees with the request. Many times do we simply follow our instinct and act often correctly by doing so.
The higher developed human being can learn to contact his inner self though meditation.
As long as we do not develop the necessary passion for such a contact, will we not succeed in the transmission. But beware, many things we might interpret as our inner voice might simply be a somewhat louder conversation with ourselves, an echo of secretly expected desired thoughts. The real voice can be recognized in their determination and urgency. In case we follow her, a spontaneous feeling of happiness and freedom will follow, paired with the certainty that we did act correctly. Let us do like Mahatma Ghandi, who used to seek silence before every decision he made.
Other persons speak of their guardian angel, always awake and ready to help, ready to communicate with us, would we only be able to listen.
( N.B.: It is the writer's firm believe that the mechanisms of leadership for our guardian angel, his objective and degrees of freedom, are different compared to our inner voice, the contact to our spirit. Nevertheless he is there with all his blessing activity and we cannot afford to do without him in these dark days!)
The Bhagavad Gita calls him: The spirit of life.
Leadership and dispensation
If a child falls down, it will raise her hands trustfully toward the mother. With the same degree of trust can we seek help in god. Nothing is unimportant for god, if it is important for us!
Let us say with Morgenstern": The one who knows the finish, will not be bothered by the way to get there."
Karma chain reaction
Ignorance creates karma; karma creates consciousness; consciousness creates name and shape (of the new germ of life); those create our five (or six) sense organs; those union (with the ambient conditions of the new incarnation); union creates sensation; sensation creates effects; these bondage; bondage creates existence; this results in birth (into the new life)
Birth creates worries, grieve, sorrows, despair, age and : death!
Incarnation and returning home
The question is: "how many times do I have to come back, how much longer will it last?"
The length of the way is determined by us, because it is up to us to do our best with our karma.
To check if we are on our way is detectable in many ways:
- in our living interest, care and love in front of every living being
- decrease of our adherence to the world of senses
- calmness toward happiness and sorrows
- getting used to see everything in the light of eternal cycles of incarnation
If we help ourselves on this way and if we forgive our brothers and sisters, as we seek their forgiveness, then we can shorten the way and make our lives much less painful.
Let's work this out together!
Supplement:
The theories of Karma and Reincarnation as presented in this summary belong to the belief system of many religions on earth, presently alive or not. While some deny their existence, others vary explanations in extend, and content based upon the different cultural development and realization period during the ages.
Most recent spiritual realizations (triggered and driven by a phenomenon generally recognized as "The Shift") brought forward several teachers, entities, mostly not incarnated in our space-time dimension.
While I take the liberty of selecting three personalities as examples:
P. Yogananda, a recently departed Avatar, teacher of Kriya Yoga in the western world; Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts; and Elias, channeled by Vicky Pendley and Mary Ennis, there are many others performing in similar functions.
It is not the purpose of these notes to explain or discuss the relative spiritual progress since Yoganandas teaching. Please refer to the available Seth (J. Roberts) literature and/or study the Elias transcripts on their web page.
However, following Seth and Elias, the classical Karma theory linked to religious beliefs must be regarded as old and overcome. (Since I respect and admire every existing belief system, I could not resist to base this article on my long admired "old" theory).
And since we read further with Seth and Elias that we all are part of ALLTHATIS, deliberately dividing ourselves into soul fragments (essence) and sub-fragments (focus), jointly creating multiple universes like ours and that linear time progression exists and is experienced by us in this manner only in our dimension, then the theory of reincarnation must suffer an "update" as well.
Then we realize that we (soul-essence) have fragmented into many sub-units (focus or foci) living and experiencing time and emotions in many historical, present and future 3D movies. The basic understanding that we experience death –beyond- and new life as a linear motion would then belong to our formerly held belief system. For our true Self everything happens in the Here and Now and the essence uses his capacity to divide into as many fragments necessary to live as many single earth life experiences necessary to fully express all faculties of itself.
What a wonderful and unspeakable network of expressions and creativity, all in all a fragment of ALLTHATIS and, together with all the other universes in every bubble and dimension we unite into the OneBeing we finitely belong to: the one who has no name, no picture, no place, because He lives in all of US.
Lyryn (Vold)
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