Reincarnation conundrum and Now!

[Talker]

Am in and out of the book Courageous Souls, as I mentally play out the many and varied scenarios written about in it. As beautiful and intriguing as the supposed inter, and intra conversations between souls are (as written) it strains the credibility factor. Yet it makes sense of the tangel foot situations one experiences in life.  While in  contemplative modes questions arise that the book makes no mention of. Do recall Adrian's mention of the possibility, of having many personalities in any period of ones life. If so, is it / would it,  be possible to be ones own father, mother, son or daughter, based on the need or desire for a particular experience!  Further, as mentioned by Adrian, "everything happens for a reason", so are wars between nations then, a working out of "out of balance" energies or karma from other "nows"!  Even homosexuality takes on a new meaning as covered in the book mentioned. How would the illicit love affair, lets say, with what seems to be, with a person outside the normal spectrum of aquaintences or from another country be explained! Other situations like illness, handicapped children, alcoholism, drug addiction, deafness, blindness, accidents and death of a loved one, sheds light and understanding from a totally new perspective.

[Talker]

  While in  contemplative modes questions arise that the book makes no mention of. Do recall Adrian's mention of the possibility, of having many personalities in any period of ones life. If so, is it / would it,  be possible to be ones own father, mother, son or daughter, based on the need or desire for a particular experience!  

Hi All,
Synchronicity at work. Just came across an article that some what answers my above questions, if true. A psychiatrist  wrote about a woman with 17 personalities. The formal name for this condition being " dissociative identity disorder". ( Newsweek 10/29/2007)
Listed were the 17 personalities, ranging from a two year old female on up to a mother and father figure (21 & 35 years of age). ( 12 females and 5 males of various ages)
The ladies age was not given, and is quite a story, but that is not what I'm writing about here. Would appear that one can have multiple personalities, but could this also apply, lets say, as 17 physical bodies from one Higher Self, even making a single family of it, in one life time!

[Adrian]

Hello Talker,

These are all excellent questions of course, but as humans, bound by the confines of the space-time continuum, people only see "events" from a temporal perspective. It is almost impossible for most people to see the greater picture and the why's and wherefore's from this temporal perspective.

Suffice it to say that Source, Universal Mind is perfect, and therefore everything, without exception that "happens" in the Universe is perfect, it is jusy that most people do not see or appreciate that perfection, preferring to ascribe these events to temporal situations. Of course these temporal situations and events are the result of people seeing everything as seperate from themselves and accordingly "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong" etc.  None of these really exist - there is only "experience".

As for the question of an entire family originating from a single Higher Self. Yes it is absolutely possible in theory, although I am not sure in practice it very likely.

Kind regards,

Adrian.

[L Lawliet]

Reincarnation hmm  . So, by your studies, you imply that we have and will lead many different lives, within many different characters, within the space - time continuum? How is this proving again? I've always been under the notion that reincarnation was a spiritual or religious belief only. For it to be a fact! Shouldn't everyone know of it, practically I mean?

[mez]

Is there any dependable information on reincarnation earlier than the bhagavad gita? people seem to have varying beliefs of reincarnation... some things they just believe because its a little theory they have come up with or heard and its convenient to believe it to them. I dont know where people get their information about it to be honest. Although as an aside the only thing "absolute" is belief... hence why in NDE's christians never see Krshna and Hindu's never see Jesus.

[JennyJ]

Hi all,  I never use to believe in reincarnation until listening to Mellen_Thomas Benedict. He said that the religious view of reincarnation is totally flimsy, is such a vague explanation but the physics behind it is so complete. Mellen goes to the other side every day and thought that all Near Deathers did the same. He has an amazing story to tell.

www.bbsradio.com/archives/otherware.php

This is a really good interview with Mellen_Thomas. Scroll down near the bottom of the page and its archived 29th April 2006.

Listening to this archive was the first time that I seriously considered my path in life really needed to be changed.  Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

Take Care
JennyJ
Australia

[Adrian]

Hello,

By far the biggest confusion about reincarnation is the notion that the same personality sort of oscillates between the Astral and Earth in a succession of incarnations, and hence the notion of "previous lives".

This is actually completely erroneous. Each personality experiences only one incarnation, but the Higher Self, which is Who we realy are - our total Self - experiences multiple incarnations as different personalities of both genders, concurrently in all timelines relative to the Earth concept of "time".

Kind regards,

Adrian.

[Suroh]

Yes I believe in reincarnation and that I had a twin brother pass away and reborn the next year on the day he died at the same time yet it was am instead of pm, it was my sister who gave birth to him and it seems he had chosen a life path which was totally the opposite from the life he had lived previous, a life that was to strengthen his weaknesses which had failed him previously. And the occurrences that are happening in his life now as I have have know him he would have wanted it to happen, yet as it is he can not remember its sad that certain things that have happened are in a sense part of this new learning experience he is required to go through.

And when my Grandmother passed away she was planning a trip to England, my cousin and her were so close and had so much in common, well at the time my cousin was three months due and after she had the baby (boy) my cousin left with her boyfriend to live in England for three years, and funny enough my Grandmother also wanted to come back as a boy as well. When they got back to Australia her son said a name that my grandmother nicknamed my grandfather which her son would have never known and which totally surprised my cousin.

Looking at these two situations I see that great opportunities come up in which   
we have a opportunity to move into a new form which is going to greatly support and nourish the souls journey in its next life so that it can ultimately fulfill its purpose, and if it is giving up the previous life to attain this, it is well worth the sacrifice. Yet I feel we don't or should have any control over this.

[zensunni7]

Theological and spiritual views have always left me feeling somewhat confused and bewildered. Reincarnation is muddy waters to me. If we all reincarnate, who are all the psychics talking to, like John Edwards and such?
I found some peace of mind when viewing it from a more scientific view, hiding in my intellect some would say.
I feel that we carry the experiences of all lives in our ancestry in our cellular present. Intrusion of past life experience I feel is the awakening of these stored experiences, wakened by experiences relative in the present.
I find believing I am a continuum rather than a series of lives divided by birth / death to be of more practical value to life in the moment. Spirituality has always professed there is no past - only the present, that all is happening NOW. SO with that in mind, past lives could not exist anywhere but Now.
The moment, present, is such a very small a window, the last word I typed is already in the past, not even the one I am thinking of typing next can be called NOW. SO wherein does the Moment exist?
I have seen myself as the famously searched for ' hall of records ' talked of in so many texts, we sometimes fail to see what is us. Biologically speaking we are walking talking libraries of experiences in this life and all those of our lineage and more.
Reincarnation has seen some very graphic truths, scars, memories, exact indications of past experiences, yet remove the fairy dust cover and I think we see amazing ability of the mind to bring it to life in the now. Stigmata can be made real by belief alone, and the blood and wounds are very real in the Now.
We have biological and mind access to all we contain within us, not as romantic or as colorful as a lot of the myths, but it is results we seek. Like " the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, " at hand translates as here and now from its original language.


Just some thoughts.

WithIn Love
Darrell

[Adrian]

Hello Darrell,

Thank you for your valuable thoughts.

Regarding your question:

If we all reincarnate, who are all the psychics talking to, like John Edwards and such?

The assumption is they are actually "talking" to anyone. In fact most of these high profile TV psychics are simple using a process known as "cold reading" and are not communicating with anyone at all.

The reason real psychics, who are actually mediums can communicate with "deceased" people is because, as I mentioned above, each personality only incarnates once before making the journey back to Higher Self with that package of information.

Each Higher Self can and often does have numerous aspects of itself living in the Astral concurrently without knowing each other before evolving back to their Higher Self.

Kind regards,

Adrian.

[Cosima]

Yes I believe in reincarnation and that I had a twin brother pass away and reborn the next year on the day he died at the same time yet it was am instead of pm, it was my sister who gave birth to him and it seems he had chosen a life path which was totally the opposite from the life he had lived previous, a life that was to strengthen his weaknesses which had failed him previously. And the occurrences that are happening in his life now as I have have know him he would have wanted it to happen, yet as it is he can not remember its sad that certain things that have happened are in a sense part of this new learning experience he is required to go through.

And when my Grandmother passed away she was planning a trip to England, my cousin and her were so close and had so much in common, well at the time my cousin was three months due and after she had the baby (boy) my cousin left with her boyfriend to live in England for three years, and funny enough my Grandmother also wanted to come back as a boy as well. When they got back to Australia her son said a name that my grandmother nicknamed my grandfather which her son would have never known and which totally surprised my cousin.

Looking at these two situations I see that great opportunities come up in which   
we have a opportunity to move into a new form which is going to greatly support and nourish the souls journey in its next life so that it can ultimately fulfill its purpose, and if it is giving up the previous life to attain this, it is well worth the sacrifice. Yet I feel we don't or should have any control over this.

Hi Suroh,

You seem to state all this as a "fact", but how can  you be so sure about it?
The way I see it, you think it could be like this, but again: how  can you KNOW it?

Cosima

[Cosima]

Hi Suroh,

What a pity that you don't answer my questions!
WHY are you so sure about these reincarnations - or is it you think it MIGHT be so?
I always wonder when people make so definite statements about things you cannot really prove!

Best wishes from
Cosima
from Germany

[Suroh]

Hi Cosima,

Sorry it had taken so long to reply, have not been on for a while, but to answer your question you may find it interesting to read the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying which opened up my perception to understand this.

Regards

Suroh

Australia