Tosia H Zraikat

Reincarnation: as natural as breathing

This boy remembers being that woman!

 

Story and image from http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/09/proof-of-reincarnation-this-boy-can-remember-specific-details-about-his-previous-life-as-a-woman-named-pam/

 

Children across the world have stymied their parents with memories of past lives. Many cases have been checked out and confirmed. Some will not believe in the children's recollections no matter what evidence is put before them, because believing in reincarnation changes the way we see life, death and ourselves. I know that my three dreams of past lives (one of which I saw confirmed in a documentary!) gave me a totally new perspective on life and myself.

Hindus, Buddhists, and some other ancient religions taught reincarnation, as did certain ancient Greek philosophers, and probably the Celts and some other pagans. Reincarnation was also taught by many esoteric Christian and Gnostic groups.

 

In the 1800's when higher beings, speaking through certain mediums, explained reincarnation to the future founder of Spiritualism, Allan Kardec, the concept was hardly known in the west, and what little knowledge there was of this phenomenon was often riddled with misconceptions. The same in the 1930's, when the great American psychic, Edgar Cayce, learned about reincarnation from higher spirits, and was considerably unsettled by what then seemed contrary to his conservative Christian beliefs. 

Nowadays, the concept of reincarnation is much more widely accepted. Almost everyone you speak with has some vague idea of what reincarnation is ... but few, I have found, have a clear idea on what they think reincarnation is, and how it works.

Many believe that reincarnation is a perpetual, unbreakable cycle of birth, death and rebirth to which we are tied until our soul-self is finally refined enough to re-merge with God, or that particular millenia-long cosmic cycle ends. Some believe that human beings who are spiritually backward or who live badly might reincarnate as animals, especially lower animals like worms.

I used to believe, along with many others, that we could choose to be reincarnated as animals, trees or even rocks, just for the experience. Nice, but it seems unlikely except, perhaps, in some cases where a soul has earned the right to do so as a well-deserved rest.

According to the spirits who communicated with Kardec, Cayce and spirit communication researchers such as Mark Macy, Konstantin Raudive and George Meek, reincarnation is a natural process through which the soul learns its own nature, and progresses towards en- light-enment.

As such, the cycle of reincarnation can be hastened, prolonged or keep going for  eons and eons according to the level of an individual's attained spiritual growth and development.

Inevitably, we are told, every soul will be enlightened, though it might take thousands upon thousands of earth years. Once a soul reaches a certain level of purity, it is freed of the cycle of reincarnation. Some, however, will choose to be reincarnated again and again in order to help others along the path of awakening, as the Dalai Lama has vowed to do. In Buddhism, such entities are called Boddhisatvas. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edgar Cayce's spirit source said several times that the man we know as Jesus voluntarily incarnated (was born onto earth) several times before his last known incarnation, each time trying to teach and explain to an often blind and deaf humanity our essential Oneness, not only with the Creator and all of creation but with each other. Allan Kardec's source had said the same a hundred years earlier, as did ethereal spirits who communicated with Instrumental Transcommunication researchers like Mark Macy in the 1990's.

 We have no idea how many generous souls are among us today who have voluntarily left their spiritual paradises  and incarnated in order to serve humanity and to help save the Earth.

 

Meaning of Leaves

In Australia, the first day of September (today) is considered the first day of Spring. For me, Spring starts on the Spring equinox, that day and time when day and night are closest to equal length, for from that day, after a Winter of short days, day get longer and longer.

All those leaves on my latest mandalas are signs of Spring, but of something more besides, for I don't intend to draw them, yet there they are, twirling at the edges.

In the traditional Chinese symbology, I am ruled by the element wood, which is also the sign of spring. On one level, then, my leaves are the volatility and movement of spring, when the energies of nature push new plants up through the soil, and new leaves out of the wood.

Leaves are also the plant's main sunlight receptors, the receivers of nature's energies, taking in her rain, sunlight and air. Like them, I am receptive, opening up my 'gates of perception' to the energies of nature and of spirit, and their messages.

This past year, I have become more aware of these messages than ever, so much so that everything around me seems to be speaking. I am in a world of spirits where everything is alive.

Leaves also shelter and protect the branches and creatures that rest in them against the sometimes harsh blows and blusters of weather and the heat of sun. Leaves provide shade, places of rest and refuge, shadows in which to hide.

That is what I feel the spirit guides, nature spirits and the Cosmos doing for me, keeping me safe, embracing me, giving me comfort and rest and shadows in which to dream, and softening the sometimes harsh blows of this world.

 

Yes, this is what leaves mean to me: beauty, movement, life; captured sunlight, the nourishment of wind, earth and rain, and the guidance and comfort of spirit helpers, messengers and guides who are always with us. "There are thousands about us here at present", said psychic Edgar Cayce in one reading.

 

Gustave Dore. Second ring of solar spirits.

Spring mandalas, cc. Tosca Zraikat, 2015.