Thanks a lot, Andy and congratulations for having the experience. Sorry for your loss, though.
These experiences are what we can build faith and certitude on while we’re still breathing.
I"m kind of proud of myself for conducting a thread on reincarnation without igniting fury in Theosophy-programmed people. It’s a touchy subject and I’m pretty sure this is not accidental. It’s probably time to post a strong reminder that I don’t know whether reincarnation is real. If you’ve wondered why discussion of ‘spiritual’ issues more often generate a surplus of testosterone than enhanced awareness maybe it’s because all artificial ideologies are designed to divide people rather than to unite us. Notice that guys argue about this stuff more than gals do [Image Can Not Be Found]
I suppose I can tell this, since I’m not mentioning names, but when my two grandmothers passed it was long before I started seeking answers. One grandmother was revered and beloved by people who knew her and constantly gave her love, energy and resources to people who were in her life. When she passed people genuinely grieved.
That was in 1966 and I was living in Guam, going to high school. The night before we learned of her death I had a vivid dream in which she and I were walking through a lovely meadow together. She had a white bridal gown and veil on. A barbed wire fence was across the path and I picked her up, lifted her over the fence and she walked on down the path on the other side, not looking back. I remember not feeling a lot of emotion at the time but I think that was on account of my residual CIA Monarch programming. As far as I can tell, I had been ejected from the program ('character issues?–having character?) right before moving to Guam, the year before, when I was 15 years old. In those days, I was still programmed to assume life is meaningless and that religion is bull$#!+. I often wonder why I was so happy in spite of that [Image Can Not Be Found]
When my other grandmother passed, a few years later, I met her in a dream and she was in pretty miserable shape but not unhappy. She said something to me in the dream, then entered an opening in the floor, lied down and pulled the floor plank back over her. I had a sense, at the time, that it was her choice to be that way. She had not lived an exemplary life and was more accustomed to taking than to giving.
I believe in the religious notion that a soul can achieve an aware, ‘useful’ state (an Operator?) on the deathbed or any other time if one will review one’s life and ask for this gift. I think we’re all in constant need of reviewing our lives. I also believe the religious notion that anyone, anytime in the physical life, can ‘fall from grace’ and be consumed by egoism and inappropriate passions. This thought is kind of humbling and it probably bothers Theosophy-chumps who believe that they’re God and/or believe that only they are the masters of their destinies. Theosophy subtly programs people to be takers, after all. The ‘asking’ part never genuinely enters into their ideology because that would imply that there’s a God Who is independent of us [Image Can Not Be Found]
I love that my wife has such a good sense of how our destinies are lined out for us according to our choices. She teaches me an awful lot and I tell her often, ‘Thanks for not divorcing me!’ [Image Can Not Be Found]
I’ve mentioned the following, before, but years ago I read (then lost) an interesting treatise by a quantum physicist about how the dogma of reincarnation is probably a crude (we might read: infantile) interpretation of one of the hyperdimensional aspects of the soul. It was the only time (before or since) that I’ve seen an intelligent proposition about the possibility of reincarnation. I hope someone will pursue that one of these days. That essay ppealed to me (thankfully, it was math-free) because I have a sense that we’re each many people and live in many timelines and/or realities but that all of this is in harmony. Some say we’re all like leaves and flowers of the same branch and waves of the same sea, so maybe when a psychic plugs into the hyperdimensional aspect of someone they’re seeing the branch, itself, or the sea beneath the waves. I bet that’s kind of daunting.
It’s potentially frightening for anyone to look at something that challenges our personal awareness paradigm, so I never feel inclined to judge someone who accepts the sundry Theosophical packaged ‘explanations’ for unexplainable phenomena like life after death. None of us have the big picture, after all. I don’t have any answers for anyone, that’s for sure, but I think questions are more important than answers as long as one is in charge of his own faculties. With this attitude one will never be bored or disillusioned.
~Don
