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From This Lifetime to the Next
People who are disconnected from themselves will be as baffled by the afterlife as they are by the present. For them, cause and effect aren’t clear. Feelings of being alienated, alone, victimized, tossed around by fate, out of control, or abused by authority clash with one another. In this fog of confusion they cannot take responsibility for their own motivations and desires, and the afterlife may frighten or baffle them.
Being disconnected is an illusion from the soul’s perspective. And however long it may take, understanding, symbolized by light, begins to dawn. In clarity you realize that “I am” is your basis, not the things you did. You no longer identify with being a certain person; you now identify with being conscious, and what fills your mind is fresh possibilities.
The karma you brought into the last lifetime has been exhausted, and fresh seeds of karma are ready to sprout. Being reborn enters your mind gradually. For a long period (speaking objectively) you experience bliss; you have gained pure being, which brings its own fulfillment regardless of any karma, good or bad.
You find yourself in the same gap as the one between two thoughts, only this time you are aware of uncountable possibilities from which to choose. You will witness as the dream of a new identity begins to clothe you, and you will fall into your next life in complete surrender to past actions that you still know almost nothing about.
But all of us can take a more active role in how we reincarnate. The elaborate rituals in the Tibetan Book of the Dead are designed to make freedom of choice real, to bring the person fully aware into the gap so that karma can be shaped, controlled, or even fully resolved.
Adapted from Life After Death: The Burden of Proof, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2006).
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These words were in a movie not long ago YOU CANT STAND THE TRUTH. Thus many others that want some fix to help their conscience wane in a supposed transcendent state are of that persuasion too. For when there are NO HARD FACTS there is no TRUTH and NO TRUTH leads many into blind areas of despair to die lonesome in many forms of loathsome seeking pleasures that ended up of no consequence and having done very little to give back to others through life. That is the life that has been turned inward looking for their own divinity to save them. HELLO none is there. The trek back from that mindset that has set in and found a mum-boo-jumbo residence is a hard thing to do. But if you need help on a one to one basis contact me at dbaker007@stx.com for a good study back to civility saneness and seeing others as communed mankind all needing one another. Poor Deepak does his biding to just make money out of teaching and preaching supposed facts that have no validity at all.
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Bella, Bela!
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The Souls who are aware of the scripture: Matthew 7:14, "Because straight [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." can easily connect the dots to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
When you walk into a darkened room, there is always confusion...unless you light a candle. The words of the Messiah, are like that candle. He explained Gods eternal love, he explained that we are spiritual beings, children of God, yet children of men. He explained the two additional Commandments that are even more important...to love God with your whole heart and all others, as well as yourself.
The candle we hold within us, was lit by the message of Christ and all that we have to do is keep the little flame lit. Faith, love & charity.
God's love is true and eternal and forgiving, his Son, who is our brother, died trying to enlighten us, wake us up to who we really are...wholly spirits of God, images of God, experiencing who we are...and another good book to read is by Neal Donald Walsch, "The Little Soul and the Sun".
Reincarnating is nothing more than a learning experience...no one has to keep being born...or keep suffering.
God doesn't want his beloved angels to suffer. A good father/mother wants the best for his/her child.
Love, love, love!
Joy, joy, joy!
Peace be unto you!
When being human gets you down...remember, we are created in the image of our source, a pure and powerful energy! Seek that energy within!
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Well That is the way I feel too right now Laura, like in a crisis and, maybe its the amount of issues in the world I am not sure, but one thing is for sure I have much to learn about meditation too .
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Laura,
you will choose whatever it is that you will. no need to get anxious over possibilities...in fact, you should revel in them. you have many.
most importantly, know that you are loved, and love with abandon! there is no better feeling!!!
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While doing vapassana meditation (100 hours) I experienced something: I felt like I was in a substance like water(but not water)-less gravity-a different kind of float or suspension. I released bubbles/balls/eggs? out of my mouth (not my human mouth) and I recall my thought/words:"there you go my babies". At that time I thought that perhaps I was a sea creature that released babies out into the world. Mde me feel good since I could not have babies. Since that time I thought perhaps it was a glimse of the creator creating or that I ought to use right speech or that I am a creature on another plane. It is confusing bacause it could be interpreted many ways.
I'm looking for experiential evidence or something. This one issue will change everything in me. I was so sure that I was on the right path to Oneness. I have class tonight-SOM-I was planning to become a minister in this religion. Now, I'm not so sure I can do it. I thought it was my soul purpose. Crying as I write this. I know I'm reading this for a reason. Thanks for helping me. My stomache hurts. Feels like I was pumled in the guts. Advice would be appreciated. I don't know what it is that I'm going through right now, it hurts and I'm scared and it has been a long time since I felt like this. Lost????
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Life gives us all we need. Death to me is the end of the identification of the ego. Why has the ego become so strong.....it seems to me some ego based thoughts become very strong and then begins to dwingle in its power until it returns to balance again .....yin and yang principle? A balanced mind and a balanced body.
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The "confusion of cause and effect" as Deepa calls it, it is the result of re-entering a state where all physical laws as we "know" them are suspended. The great "I Am" is the Author of the separating-out of all phenomena (the "big bang"). In His/Her presence there is no time, all is immediate. There is therefore nothing to base the past on. It is the bridge from here to there or even to eternity. We all actually enter into a completely new experience together at the same instant as it were. We may or may not re-enter "the realm of time".
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My own personal journey has shown me the way. I am not one to believe things without proof at times. However, I know it was documented when God and Jesus Christ said I am. I also know that when you accept him into your life you can do all things though his strength and his spirit within you. I now live my life to bring him praise. Our God is an awesome God!
If you are a seeker of the truth read The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel ( a former athiest and Law Journalist)
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