Reincarnation and Time between Lives. REINCARNATION. It is not essential to believe in reincarnation but it does have certain advantages. It does increase one's sense of responsibility, as one may have to pay in the next life for one's misdeeds in this one. It keeps one on their toes. It is the subject guaranteed to wind up all black magicians. They cannot believe in it as they will have to pay for their misdeeds in the next life. People are easier to control by slave masters if they believe there is only one life and that is it. The higher one's personal responsibility, the more control one has over the environment and other people. Roman joke. "Such is the belief of the Celts in reincarnation, that they will lend money against a promise of being repaid in the next life." In the Norse and Vikings religion, all theories in the afterlife are allowed, from immediate reincarnation to a long stay in the Spirit World, according to one's choice of Gods. The Hindu religion is strongly in favour of reincarnation, and thus they can have Living Gods. In the modern West, reincarnation is frowned upon and we have black magicians instead. The writer has picked up plenty of culture clashes with Hindus but never black magic. PREVIOUS INCARNATIONS. There does appear to be a complete reversal between lives. So ghastly does one's previous incarnation appear, that one would never accept a drink in a bar from him. The moral codes of one's last incarnation are liable to be the complete reverse of one's current incarnation. If the last incarnation breaks through, this can lead to some unexplainable behaviour. To get a picture of one's last incarnation, list all the attributes one hates most or is glad not to have. This will give a reasonable profile of one's last incarnation. Then one has to take responsibility for it or just live with it which can be the same thing. The more famous or notorious the last incarnation, the more suspect it is. The top of the reincarnation hit parade according to British psychiatrists used to be the Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, hero of the battle of Trafalgar in 1815. It is glamorous to have a famous past life, but this can be self delusion and identifying with the heroes of the time. RETROSPECTIVE MORAL CODES. Legal liability ends with death. It is disastrous to judge one's last incarnation by present day moral codes, as they change with time. Sometimes particular moral codes go out of fashion, and then come back into fashion again. Judge all incarnations by the moral codes of the time, country and religion. Political correctness has no place in evaluating past lives. THE SPIRIT WORLD. This is a place for unfinished business. It is quite reasonable to stay around to protect one's wife, children and grand children. It is near impossible to contact a person immediately after death as they are too busy sorting out the things that they could not sort out while in body. It can take up to 6 weeks for a spirit to sort themselves out, during which time it is near impossible for a spiritualist medium to get a sensible message. Time in the Spirit World can be from near zero if there is no unfinished business to thousands of years. If the time is more than a 100 years can start to suspect that the spirit has become a non incarnating entity. The Pharaoh Tutankhamen was locked in to operate his own curse for 3,000 years, until the writer released him. This sounds a very stupid way to spend 3,000 years. The writer does not know what the Pharaoh is doing now but doubts whether it is anything described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. A complaint made against Spiritualists, is that they contact cast off egos, shells and other debris and not spirit itself. There may be a little truth in this. THE NEXT INCARNATION. The greater one's responsibility, the more choice one has over the future. There can be choice to stay or not stay in the Spirit World. One can have choice of bodies and identities when one reincarnates. The villain and black magician have very little choice. If one can take responsibility for all actions in the current life and all concepts from past lives, then there is no need to reincarnate except by choice. One can become a non incarnating spirit. This is very much in line with Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. HAZARDS. Remembering past lives can be very useful if one is a science fiction or other writer. Past lives on other planets can be a great source of science fiction. Remembering past lives can give the flavour of the time, but is no substitute for hard research. Such is the current notoriety of the Acquired Memory Syndrome, that the British Institute of Psychiatry has recommended memories gained through psychotherapy should not be admitted as evidence in any court of law. It has been known for psychotherapists to tell their clients, "If you had been abused as a child, you would know all about it and would not need my help to remember". If someone in authority says that we were all frozen inside ice cubes and dropped from outer space into an Earth volcano, then some people are bound to "remember" this. After one has taken responsibility for one past life murder, the next dozen are quite easy to handle. If one has taken responsibility for all past lives in a previous existence, then memories of past lives will not be available. When looking at past lives, the scenery is immaterial. If one poisoned someone else in a past life, it does not matter if both villain and victim were British, Chinese or both ETs of the same race. The principle is all important and choose the best available or logical scenery. If one believes themselves to be the victim in a past life incident, then one must take responsibility for being the villain and not the victim, as the roles are reversed in a hidden incident. Passed lives are for one's personal use only and should not be inflicted on people other than psychotherapists. Looking at one's last life is fine. Accurately cataloguing one's past 10 lives is suspect as one is liable to get all the detail and miss the concepts behind them. Taking responsibility for concepts is more important taking responsibility for the detail and scenery. If one can take responsibility for the concepts, then there is no need to remember the detail, and one is unlikely to remember the detail anyway. Trying to verify details of past lives by research can be a fool's game, as one is probably missing on concepts and responsibility. Immortality is not much use to bodies without eternal youth. Similarly there is no immortality for the ego (thank goodness) even if the Christian Church appears to offer it. If anyone claims infallible knowledge about incarnation and the times in-between, one can politely ask why they are still here on Earth. Consider the Great Pyramid of Giza. This is the oldest known building on Earth and is still the most accurately made. The engineering tolerances are to 1/100 inch whereas modern buildings are only built to a tolerance of 1/4 inch. It would be impossible to duplicate it today. Spirit guides tell us that we are learning and evolving. It could just be that we are in a state of entropy or devolution instead. Time between Lives or Incarnations. The webmaster has little reality on this, so he is passing you on to the experts. »§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«§:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*: »§« My friends tell me that I refuse to grow up, but I know they're just jealous because they don't have pajamas with feet. 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