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One In Three

In a survey conducted in December of 2017 by the respected, non-partisan Pew Research Center, their survey revealed that 33 percent of adults in the United States believe in reincarnation. One in three. That is a sizeable percentage.

I was a child that grew up in the Eisenhower-Kennedy fifties and sixties. I was raised in a Protestant denomination where it was a universal belief in a life that was “one-and-done, you’re either goin’ to heaven or hell for eternity when your one-and-done is done”. Any talk of a belief in reincarnation would have been branded blasphemy and you would be branded as a weirdo.

The purpose of this week’s blog post is not to get into a long, philosophical discussion on all the various permutations of reincarnation beliefs in all the various religions of the world. The purpose of this blog post is to get you thinking about this topic and how it concerns you personally in your efforts in the world of manifesting.

Reincarnation ……. What Is It?

So just what is this reincarnation thing that one in three Americans believe in?

Reincarnation is a concept that is loosely defined as your non-physical core essence (your soul or spirit) begining a new lifetime in a different body at some point after physical death. In different forms, it is a central tenet of Eastern religions – Hinduism, Buddism, Jainism, Sikhism and of the Druze. The majority of denominations within Christianity and Islam, as well as mainstream Judaism, do not accept that individuals reincarnate. Of those who believe in reincarnation there are those that state that reincarnation is an involuntary thing while others state that it is a voluntary decision.

Two Views From The West

My in-depth knowledge of the various interpretations of reincarnation among the Eastern religions is far too lacking to even begin a conversation about them. I will put forth two views, two concepts, of reincarnation that my reading has come across that seem to represent the two primary Western prevailing viewpoints on reincarnation. My interest in the subject came about as a result of observations that I have made during the course of my lifetime as well as questions that arose regarding the traditionalist “one-and-done” viewpoint. In between a hundred and one other time grabbers, I have done a certain amount of research into the matter. I heartily invite you to do the same.

Have you ever asked yourself why there is such a huge difference between the lot of one human being and another? Why are some people in the world so fortunate in their lives, while others endure prolonged suffering? Why should this be if God is loving and just and all-powerful?

Those who believe in reincarnation would answer that the life you are currently living today is not the only one. Their answer would continue that you have lived before, many times. One view put forth is that the circumstances that you were born into were a result of how things went in your previous lifetimes. In other words, either good or bad karma. The second viewpoint, somewhat in opposition to the first, is that you plan your life birth circumstances beforehand with the goal of achieving certain life purposes that contribute to your soul’s growth. For example, a soul may choose to be born with Down’s Syndrome in order to be a teacher about love, and compassion and empathy. Thus, in this second viewpoint, the person born into a degree of difficulties or challenges has purposely and meticulously chosen that lot to advance the growth of their soul.

Reincarnation And Manifesting

So just what does the subject of reincarnation have to do with the manifesting of something you desire in your life? Where’s the connection? Well, let’s say that you are a person who has come to lean toward reincarnation being a real thing. Whichever of the two Western views that you would subscribe to (karma driven or soul growth driven), it is critical for you to manifest whatever it is you came here to do. If your purpose was to come here to bring God’s love or compassion or truth or power into experience, then be those things. If you came here to be an artist, then put everything you are into being an artist. If you came here to fix things and be a mechanic, then put everything you are into that. Refrain from sleepwalking through life, merely working to survive and to grab some occasional moments of sunshine. Manifest your life as you intensely desire it to be because that true intense desire is a true “compass needle” indicator of your life’s purpose here. The exception to this would be if your intense desire is to harm anyone, including yourself. If that is the case, you are “off track” and need to manifest a new desire. Go within to the Kingdom of God and dwell there. If you do so, you will get to experience true joy, both before as well as after you “die”, and you will marvel at the growth of your soul.

Afterlife

In the past forty years, there has been an explosion of books, articles, and videos concerning just what happens to us after we die. Near death experiences, travels to the astral world, people who claim to have been to heaven, hell, purgatory and everywhere in between. There is even the claim of an atheist who alleged a near death experience and claimed he saw himself just sleeping (and snoring no less LOL). Still yet another alleged he wound up on the planet Saturn. Yeah, there’s a whole bunch of stuff out there about the afterlife these days.

Perfect Justice

Have you thought about it? Perhaps your feelings about it come from your religious upbringing (or lack thereof) Maybe pop culture or a friend or relative or neighbor. Maybe a book or group of books. Maybe you have never even thought about it and simply don’t care. Maybe you have even had a near death experience or perhaps a brush with an angelic spirit. In any case, it is my belief that, for a variety of reasons far beyond the scope and focus of this blog post, that it is impossible for our essence, our spirit, not to continue after the body has stopped functioning. Our bodies die…we do not…we keep right on going, with our personality intact. We leave this earth dimension and move on to that part of the great beyond where we exactly and precisely belong. Our placement is based on the state of our spirit. No randomness. No chaos. No corruption. No favoritism. No fixes. Just perfect justice.

The Life Review

My efforts to learn more about this afterlife thing has led me to the conclusion that when we die, we will all experience a procedure called a “life review”. Every aspect of our entire life — from the time we exit the womb to the second that we take our last breath — will be reviewed by us. In my imagination I picture it as being in sort of a cosmic movie theatre. While there will be advanced spiritual beings who monitor and oversee the event, there is not any lecturing from them. Every single evaluation and judgement on my life will come from me and me alone during the course of this life review movie. Divine judgement has already taken place before the life review in the proper placement of my spirit in the afterlife. There are many here on earth who claim that after a period, we are allowed to come back to earth and give it another go. And there are many here on earth that say that is bullshit. What do you think? In any case, the purpose of this life review is instructional so as to “grow our souls” as we continue on with our existence, whatever it may be, after this earth lifetime is over.

A Special Movie

This life review movie is a very special type of movie. Even though we have no physical body, our five senses come into play in a vivid, sharpened manner (high definition many times over). What makes this life review movie particularly unique is that we not only see and hear and feel what we did and didn’t do during our lifetime here on earth, BUT we also simultaneously see and hear and feel how our words and our actions affected other human beings, for better or for worse. both positively and negatively. We are able to feel their emotions with regard to things that we did or did not do. Our actions may have had an effect on someone many degrees separated from us. We are able to view our life from several different perspectives all at the same time. It is a wild movie. Where we did good, the movie is pure unadulterated bliss. Where we royally messed up however, it is a hellish torture. It then becomes the movie from hell. I am going to have bootmarks all over my spirit ass from kicking myself while watching all my stupid mistakes.

A Happy Ending

I have always been a fan of happy endings in movies. I figure I still have some time left in this world. Not much, but some. If life was a calendar, I would be somewhere in November right now. However, I am very well aware that nobody knows for certain when their “number will be called”. For me, it coud be as much as a dozen or so years from now or it could be sometime later today. Nobody really knows for sure. In this earth dimension, in what remains of this lifetime, it is my intention to do everything that I know how to do, using whatever resources that I have, to make the last part of my life review movie have a happy ending. I don’t know about you but I am so tired of making mistakes. I don’t want to have to make frequent trips to the cosmic concession stand and the celestial rest room in order to avoid watching a really bad movie. How about you?

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Reincarnation……….What Do You Think ?