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Reincarnation and Past Lives no Karmic Debt |
Reincarnation the Way to Advance Your Spiritual Progression |
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Insight into Reincarnation & Past Lives or Life New Old & Group Souls |
Sheps Six Reincarnations & Past Lives or Life Awareness & Spirit Wife & Guide |
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Most people on this world to have karma they bring onto themselves in this lifetime but there is not past life karma to work of as those spirit returning have to be free of karmic debt and evolved to a faitrly high lever. But it see we as humans love to blame everything bad on that it must be past life bad karma and karmic dept and not the real reason that they are just having an unfortunat time life so many other living within the naturs of good and bad that exist here, So we say I cannot get a love or find a lover or mangy I have ill health and why is it is am always so unlucky is my past life karma, well the answer is not it's not, life is tough thats all, and know you probable will not get rich or win the lotery either like the majoeity of other here, We make our own luck in this life by our own actions and choices in life adn many mistake we will and have to make in life to learn for and there maybe great hardship for some to bear and try to live through and overcome.
Mostly in the west there is not as much emphasis put on reincarnation or rebirth as there has been in the east, where it is often closely associated with the laws of karma and cause and effect. Understandably there are a number of ideas concerning the subject of reincarnation and rebirth. My own personal views on reincarnation are open to the readers interpretation and greater understanding and are insights based on what I have learned from my own experiences of past life, coupled with the help I have received through spirit teachers and guides.
Old souls may not have had multiple reincarnations but are very old and are sometimes very evolved in spirit and group souls are basically the same thing but they have had two or more incarnations sometimes several incarnations on the earth and are always as one group soul, just one has what is called past life amnesia, where they don't remember their past life/s. Some believe that a group soul might be able to have incarnations on several different planes or dimensions at the same time, so in effect several facets or divisions of the group soul might exist at the same time and be experiencing life elsewhere on other planes or worlds and when these facets return to the higher self they bring to it the experience of each life, this group soul might also be referred to as a collective soul, but no matter how many lives we have we each only have one soul although each time we return we are given a new spirit to add to the old, so we may have many lives but still one soul.
However there is also another theory where we all come from one collective soul and we each return with our experiences and become at one with all spirit in what might be referred to as The Great Spirit or collective soul returning to God. In my own experience and understanding I feel this is not the case and those spirit that have had one or more previous incarnations cannot have multiple incarnations at the same time and if the old soul chooses to reincarnate they come in their entirety of spirit as one individual soul that comes as one with our new soul and remains as one soul from that point onward which is at the point of conception, where the spirit is received and the new and old soul is coupled and joined together to become as one new and inseparable life.
There are those who believe that we may have to experience a number of incarnations in human form, until such a time as the soul has obtained an appropriate level of enlightenment, through the process of a number of rebirths and experiences of life here on the earth. Often this has been considered to be something we have no choice in and that it may entail having rebirth here on a number of occasions in human form, (This should not be confused with the transmigration of souls, which is a different understanding that is thought to entail transmigrating from the lower species to the most evolved species here on the earth, which is human). Many that have believed in rebirth have believed that it may involve working off the karmic debt of past lifetimes and therefore hardship and sufferance in the present lifetime has often been attributed to any past life karmic debt, that has been brought forward by negative actions of past life onto the present life and incarnation, thus any present life suffering might be attributed as a consequential result of the karmic laws and be seen as karmic debt and therefore unavoidable. The karmic laws being the laws that are thought to maintain equilibrium through action causing reaction and for every action there will be consequent reactions, therefore positive action is thought to result in positive reaction and negative action resulting in negative reactions, either in this present time or in some later incarnation.
My Interpretation of Karma
Let me begin by saying we all take on karmic or spirit debt for everything we do wrong or every bad or negative action or the opperset karmic or spiritual credit for every good action and we will have to work off any karmic debt we build up at some point. If you come from the East then it is possible that you believe that karma is an inescapable fact of life, if you come from the West then you may have little comprehension of what the karmic laws are or what they represent. My own view of karma and karmic law is that it is nothing more than the natural and universal laws and natures, that all things live within the natural laws and natures and that all things are subject to and governed by the natural laws and natures that exist throughout the universe and beyond, as I believe that many of these same laws also exist within the spirit realms and that these natural laws are inescapable, and that what effects and experiences we may have that are either positive or detrimental has very little to do with previous life actions or karmic debt or credit, and is much more related to our present actions and situations within the laws and natures that exist...
However I do believe that spiritual debt and credit can be taken on by the spirit and that this will have some bearing on the spiritual level and plane of evolution that we will move onto after this life within the spirit realms, for it is true to say that our own spirit is our own judge within the spirit realms and that by the light or darkness that our spirit shines forth we will be our own judges and by our own life's actions and we find ourselves on the appropriate plane for our own level of spiritual evolution.
So there is no forced reincarnation and the karmic laws do not affect the few that reincarnate here, most of us on the earth are on our first visit to this plane and only very evolved spirit can come back here for multiple incarnations if they choose, some do and some prefer to stay in spirit, so the numbers reincarnating here are quite low.
There are also beliefs that humans can possibly transmigrate genders and species and even experience somewhat of a lottery as well as possibly being able to choose what gender or species that they will be in their next incarnation. For instance in the next life we might wish to be the opposite gender or may wish to come back as a bird or fish etc. It is true that there are some choices that can be made by spirit that are choosing to reincarnate and they can have a life plan and certain experiences, but there are limitations on what can be done or granted as all reincarnations have to fall within the natural laws of evolution and they are granted in a fair way to each.
My own understanding is that on our first incarnation we come here within the mortal life as the spiritual spark of life that has no gender and it is within the mortal life that we firstly assume from the physical form which gender we will become and remain, both here and within the spirit realms, as also if we reincarnated back upon the earthly plane, as once in human form it is not possible to alter our gender or species. There are practical reasons why we cannot change genders, firstly male and female attributes are best left separately as they are and it is better that they are not fully incorporated into one life, that upon reawakening within spirit we would become both male and female and this would cause an imbalance and disharmony...
As well as having mass confusion of feelings and conflicting emotions and there would often be an inability to be able to express one or the other of our masculine or feminine traits, somewhat like a split personality half male half female, although both we all have both male and female nature just more one or the other and although many believe that within spirit we do not have a physical body, We still keep human form and structure, it may not be of physical matter, we have an etheric body in spirit, but we do still keep the body and our normal cognitive skills and memories and this is supported by the vast amount of evidence that comes from the spirit realms and points to this fact and we are in spirit, an identical double of our mortal body and mind. I know this through personal experience of being partly awoken to my past life for a short time and this is my sixth life here as a male.
So it appears men and women are given attributes that are meant to be complimentary to each other whilst living and still having separate forms and identities. It is understandable that some men and women might wish to gain the experience and a greater understanding of the natures and feelings of the opposite gender through experiencing it first hand for themselves, this of course would give us a much deeper insight into each others differences and feelings. This can be more readily achieved within the spirit realms without there being any need to change genders. This is because spirit are far more capable of sharing personal experiences of mind with each other through their psychic and spiritual abilities to link with each others minds, not only to share and communicate knowledge to each other, they can also share memories and very vivid and deep emotions, to a level where one can experience the other in a melding of minds and spirits.
Some cultures have believed in the transmigration of the soul between species and life streams in spirit and that the soul as all life is not strictly limited to only living in one life stream and that the souls of lower forms can therefore evolve and transmigrate to a higher life stream and life forms. Often it has been thought that soul's might begin life at the lower end of the evolutionary chain and then experience a multiple number of rebirths within each particular life stream, until such a time as the appropriate level of evolution is reached, whereby the soul moves to a higher life stream and is then reborn within a more evolved species, eventually ending up a human.
This understanding does make for a reasonable analogy of one possible way in which we could spiritually evolve through the species and progress onward through the evolutionary chain to higher streams of life both here and within spirit. However although it is truly one way in which it could work, to my understanding it is not correct from the evidence that spirit gives and each life stays within its own life stream here and within spirit, which means we firstly come here as a human soul and will always remain human both here and within spirit and we as humans are the only species that can have reincarnation.
The Way of Reincarnation
It seems that the way reincarnation is found is by those who are devoted to the way of light and to their own spiritual evolution and furtherment within the spiritual planes of evolution and it appears that those who have recently passed over to the next or lower planes of spiritual existence cannot immediately or directly have reincarnation and there is a good deal of evidence to support this, as for those who regularly visit good clairvoyant mediums will almost certainly find all their loved ones still within the realms of spirit and often they remain there for quite sometime and in most cases will still remain upon the plane that most of us will pass onto. So it seems that reincarnation is (a) not compulsory and (b) it is something that is granted to those that have obtained the required level of evolution and earned the opportunity through their own evolution and merits and have almost certainly moved on to higher planes of spiritual evolution, where to have reincarnation by choice becomes possible if one wishes it.
As already mentioned spirit can ask and to some extent arrange a pre-destined life plan, this is done through prayer asking for the experiences that one wishes to have and what is done to accommodate this spirit is that they are put within a life here that by natural events will most probably have many of these things in the natural events of their life within the situations they live within and as I have said there is very little outside influence to change any of our lives here we all live a natural destiny within the natural laws and whether we have an old soul or not present our lives would be in most cases exactly the same. But on a very rare occasion such as in the case of individuals such as Moses, Christ, John the Baptist and others that have more directly work for the Father here there has inevitably been a need for some changes in their lives other than what would have been that life's natural destiny, but they all made their own free will choices, but these are special cases and not the normal way it works. In most cases there is no need for this as the present life's destiny is not altered in anyway by the presence of an old soul, unless you're here to serve and teach like myself.
Karmic groups are those who are thought to incarnate here within each others lifetimes and have a connection with each other from a past lifetime, so that in someway in this lifetime their paths may cross once again in a shared destiny of some kind. There are stories and those that believe in the theory of karmic groups and that those who may have persecuted others in a past lifetime maybe reborn again with those who they have persecuted, only that in this lifetime they will not persecute others, but instead they will be here to make amends for the wrong doings of a past life and to work off their karmic debt, which I have said there is no karmic debt.
As far as I am aware it appears that humans are the only spiritual life form that is able to have reincarnation or rebirth apart from mosquitoes and wasps as they never go into the spirit realms and are given rebirth in another species. It also seems that the only practical reason for having reincarnation is to gain experience and therefore evolve. This is maybe because humans unlike most other life has a far greater ability to gain from reincarnation due to his or her intelligence and mankind strives to find greater understandings as well as meanings and purposes of life. Mankind seeks unlike all other life to expand his or her intelligence and knowledge of all things, so that we can comprehend greater things through which we gain greater wisdom and insight. Some might disagree with this and I understand that and all that I say and write is open to interpretation and can be accepted or rejected as you see fit.
Many believe that other specie may one day evolve greater intelligence as humans have done through the process of evolution from ape to mankind, however in my own view I think mankind is the only species that God created to evolve to such a high state of intelligence, thus I feel it is unlikely that other life will follow the path mankind is on, these things are in the hands of God.
Many reincarnation or rebirth theories do have a good foundation and are possible ways in which the process could take place, presuming that rebirth or reincarnation is possible, but of course there is always one problem, how does one go about proving that rebirth or reincarnation is possible. It is more a question of belief in it being possible than one of being able in most cases to categorically prove it, although some have what they feel has been to themselves absolute proof that they have indeed had a past life and what is thought to be evidence has been given. I myself have gained and become aware of certain aspects of what I believe to be my own past life through having past life experiences as well as having the conformation given to me by spirit guides including my karma who is a guide that knows about my past life and any pre destined purpose we might have.
However some here have had vivid experiences, where they could see themselves in a past time and they could describe accurately things of that time which they new nothing of and when they have investigated what they have experienced they have found these things to be true. Is this not absolute proof that they have had a past life experience. I'm afraid not, as some of these individuals may have been mistaken in their belief that they were experiencing and encountering one of their own former lifetimes, when in fact it was a spirit guide quite often taking them in meditation back to his or her time upon the earth. So for instance if you were to see yourself in a Native American Indian village wearing Indian clothes and being part of the village life it does not necessarily signify that you have been a Indian in a former life as this might just be an Indian guide giving you these impressions of his or her own former lifetime and culture while they were here upon the earth.
There are those here that do set out to find some form of proof that rebirth or reincarnation is possible, for instance there is a growing interest in subjects such as past life regression, which is done through the process of hypnotism, where the subject is regressed through the present life as far back as the memory goes and then an attempt is made to regress them further back before this lifetime, in an attempt to see if any evidence of a past life can be uncovered. Most certainly hypnotism has been proved to be a useful tool in uncovering suppressed memories within the subconscious mind...
However what is uncovered in past life regression through hypnotism is difficult to prove as being genuinely past life memories and is open to being unreliable, as whatever suppressed memories are surfacing that might be thought to be of a past life could just as easily be a number of other impressions that have been given by spirit or even the sub-conscious minds own imagination and beliefs trying to fill in the gaps to the questions while the mind is hypnotised and in a more lucid state where the imagination and subconscious mind are more greatly open to be used. Those who have an interest and belief that they may have had a past life seeking to discover what evidence of this can be found through means such as past life regression, often have been told they were this or that in a past lifetime and already have a belief that they have had a past life, therefore this impression and belief is already within the sub-conscious mind that is open to suggestion and thus it is quite probable that when hypnotism is induced, what is revealed, yes, could be a past life memory, but in many cases is more likely the belief that is already instilled within the subconscious.
I have belief in reincarnation, but I feel that trying to unlock the memories of past life experiences through hypnotism is not the right key to open the door and that past life experiences would more likely be found through meditation and further spiritual development and maybe it is not meant that we should discover to much of our past life because of the effects and possible complications it may bring into our present life. So maybe it is better that we are not on the most part fully able to unlock the door to our past life within this present lifetime, but there maybe a time in the future that human evolution becomes very spiritual and we might find the key that unlocks many doors including past life's, but mostly I feel it is Father God who holds the key to our past life if we have had one which is still rare.
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