Yes, that's right. Reincarnation is real. Some of us have been reincarnating for millions of years and some of us have been reincarnating for a much shorter time than that. This is why some feel that they are "old souls" and seem to be quite mature for their age when they're only 6-7 years old. This is a topic that is newer to me, but in the time that I have spent with it, has convinced me of its absolute authenticity.
One of the most fascinating and eye-opening people I have ever read about is Edgar Cayce. Cayce grew up in Kentucky in the late 1800s and had found work as a photographer when he became convinced that he had special abilities. He had inclinations of these abilities earlier in his life, but like many of those who are similarly capable, he went through a decent amount of denial before realizing his potential.
You can research Edgar Cayce on your own (and I encourage you to do so) but the long and short of it is that he was able to put himself in a deep trance-like state and channel. Yes, channel as a verb. During this trance, words came through his mouth that were not his own. He displayed an amazing knowledge of medicine, among other things. He could hear someone's name who lived thousands of miles away and, at their request, perfectly diagnose and treat/cure their condition without any prior medical training. Sometimes Cayce would prescribe things that sounded as if they would poison a person, but when they were administered, would uncannily cure them of their ailments. He also could sleep while resting his head on a book and memorize all of the book's contents during his nap.
Cayce brought on some trusted assistants to help him with what he called "the work" and did everything he could to avoid charging for his help. He would enter this trance-like state multiple times per day, which, over time, was physically taxing on his body; "the work" ended up killing him. Cayce's notoriety grew tremendously and he even held court with President Woodrow Wilson, who sought his advice on governmental matters. While the contents of that conversation have been kept confidential, it is quite a testimony to the high regard in which he was held during his lifetime, even if most people today have never heard of this American legend. And there is a reason for that, which I'll explain later.
His diagnoses and personal readings continued for decades until his death in 1945. Over that span of time, his readings, diagnoses, and prophecies were meticulously recorded and were eventually filed in volumes that were sorted and categorized. Today, one can get any number of books (sometimes written by his descendants) about various topics that Cayce detailed in his channelings.
The reason why I spend so much time on this gifted man is that he is, in my mind, proof positive of the human ability to channel otherworldly beings. I have learned since I began my research into Cayce that each human possesses the innate ability to do the same. Some of us are more naturally able to understand that and 'connect' so to speak, which is why it seems like only some people can perform feats of this nature and others can't. But apparently we all can do it.
Many of Edgar Cayce's channelings involved telling people who they were in previous lifetimes. Some of their unresolved issues that perhaps had beleaguered them in a previous incarnation were still there in this lifetime, in their subconscious, ready to be worked out. Many times, until that person understood these issues and met them head on in this lifetime, they found themselves making inexplicable decisions that ended up consistently hurting them in the long run. This is the same phenomenon that many psychologists believe occur with traumatic experiences that occurred in a person's childhood. Perhaps observing domestic abuse as a child would manifest itself later for a woman by picking an abusive man for a husband or by a man beating his wife as a result of his childhood trauma. The idea is that these situations stick with us across lifetimes until we find a way to cope with them or, ultimately, to release them.
The reason you've probably never heard of Edgar Cayce is because of the things he revealed about the history of the planet (i.e. the supposedly mythical lands of Atlantis and Lemuria, among many other insights), his ability to channel entities that were clearly not him, and his prophecies for the future that were and are dangerous to the establishment. As I mentioned before, Cayce is proof positive that reincarnation is an indisputable fact, which flies counter to interests who are vested in making us believe the paradigm of "Hey, you only live once!" In addition, if only a small fraction of the people on this planet truly believed they could channel, and could then hone their ability so that no evil spirits could interfere, think about what kind of positive, paradigm-shifting impact that could have.
If 'the powers that were' can keep us believing that our current situation is the end-all-be-all of our existence, then we would be more willing to give up on our own positive, soul-strengthening and community-edifying experiences that serve to release old karma and help our souls develop. One of the discoveries I've made is that whatever situation we're in: we probably chose that before reincarnating. We knew what the general blueprints for our lives were going to be before we incarnated and chose them because of any number of priorities that we had in our true soul forms.
If you don't pay attention to anything else on this blog, please remember this next paragraph:
Yes, our soul is actually who we truly are. Our current incarnation is a manifestation of our soul, but also our experiences in this particular lifetime. Think of it like being an actor: for a time, Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones, but that's not who he is. Another time, he plays Han Solo, but again -- that's not who Harrison Ford is. Perhaps it's better to describe these lives we live as improv acting roles: we generally know what we're supposed to do but our lives change based on the decisions we choose to make with our free will. I will explain in a later post just how important that concept of free will actually is to the universe.
So, we may incarnate knowing that we're going to end up short, or skinny, or beautiful, or slow, or a genius, but we choose these traits because there are certain things that our souls want to gain insight on in this third-dimensional experience that are not necessarily available in the higher fourth- and fifth-dimensional experiences that exist elsewhere. (I'll explain dimensions some other time.) So, while free will plays a huge role in our experiences in this or any lifetime, much of what we end up living often was known to us before we decided to incarnate in our mothers' wombs.
Think about that for a second.
What that means is that the challenges that we feel we need to blame other people for because they did us wrong are actually challenges that we may have put before ourselves on purpose because we needed to make some kind of decision, or develop some sort of character trait, or do something else that we knew about before we incarnated. Sure, maybe we didn't know what the precise challenge would be but we had an outline of 'categories,' if you will, of challenges that would present themselves to us. For example, incarnating into poverty in a remote, undeveloped nation, means that one would (before they incarnated) choose a lifetime of financial & security struggles because perhaps they had it too easy living the high life in their previous incarnation and wanted some perspective of a markedly different kind of life.
The power (and eventually, when we process it -- peace) that this one concept alone gives us is astounding. How much easier is it to forgive others when we potentially chose these challenges ourselves? How much nicer would we be to each other if we knew that our soul was counting on us to perform the highest task of devotion -- service -- as often as possible? Think of the great heroes of history -- Jesus, for example. What made Him great was his emphasis on service to others. It comes up countless times in the New Testament. How much would we care about pursuing the almighty dollar if we really believed that it really doesn't matter as much as the media and out peers convinced us it did?
Imagine 7+ billion people living like Jesus. Christians throughout the world would love that, but there are many in positions of power that would not.
- If we refused to go to war (as Jesus would have), war would no longer exist.
- If we refused to pursue money (as Jesus would have) and idolize that house on the hill or the sports car in the driveway, the economy would crash.
- If we pursued service to others (as Jesus did) -- which can't be taxed or centrally controlled -- instead of service to ourselves, mankind would no longer be easily manipulated.
Many non-Western cultures believe very strongly in reincarnation, but it is a concept that is largely rejected by the 'masters of reality' here in the West. There are so many other insights about the positive possibilities for humanity if only we all knew for a fact that there was much more on the line during this lifetime than what we thought.
We can choose to incarnate for good or, if we have malevolent motives, for less pure reasons. Oftentimes, as I understand it, many of us often choose to incarnate in the same family, over generations -- though we certainly are not required to do so. We also often choose to incarnate at the same time as other souls that we have a bond with. Souls are gender-less, so we can incarnate into either male or female forms, and we all most likely have lived many lives as both genders.
So, Soul A can ask Soul B (who may have been Soul A's wife in a previous incarnation) to incarnate as Soul A's brother so that they can work out some communication issues that plagued their marriage in their previous incarnations. Or, maybe they just want to be together again and experience life in the third dimension as good friends. I like to believe that a lot of the time we end up reuniting with our soul friends in our Earthly incarnations if we trust our guts and try to genuinely connect with other people. I imagine that the people you feel closest to right now are your soul friends. You might call them 'soul mates,' but that term tends to have a certain connotation in our society that I don't necessarily feel applies to all 'soul friends.'
The following is just my theory; I don't have any proof of this, but it makes sense to me based on what I've learned regarding incarnation and the actions of those who have sought to control the world.
On a darker note, those who have controlled humanity under the false paradigm that has been in place for so long, have probably done so through selective incarnation. So, for example, a person who was part of this manipulation dies and eventually reincarnates as his own grandson (who hadn't been born yet -- that's how it works) because he knows he had indoctrinated his son (who is now his father) into this dark agenda -- and maybe even left himself some 'notes,' if you will, of things he desired to achieve in this new incarnation. Imagine the kind of power that could be maintained over hundreds (and really thousands) of years! The average person discovering something as dark as this would be a problem for this group, which is yet another reason why reincarnation and its many facets have been marginalized in Western society for so long.
But before we rush to judgment too much, let us also note that based on this same theory of reincarnation, we may very well have done some awful things in previous lives. Maybe one of us was a serial killer or was part of this group that I keep referring to with this dark agenda. But then we chose to live a life that was more worthy of our existence, and so here we are -- either in the very next lifetime or one that is 50 lifetimes removed from the questionable character we once were. If this makes you feel guilty at all, just remember -- there's nothing about your former life that you can change, as is my current understanding. It happened, for better or worse. All we can do now is live to serve others and follow the Golden Rule -- which, by the way, transcends religions and cultures. I encourage you to look that up.
And these are only some of the reasons why we don't know about reincarnation.
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