Life After Death?: Part 2 - Reincarnation

I wrote a post back on June 21 called "Life After Death?" and fully intended on addressing reincarnation at some point, not necessarily in that post.

 

I believe in reincarnation.  I believe my soul has lived numerous times before.  It is a feeling you have when you feel comfortable with an era in our history.  For me, I can "feel" my reincarnated roots as far back as the Crusades.  Scotland and bagpipes pull strongly at me, as does the American cavalry or "pony soldiers."  I had a hypnosis induced vision of riding in the back of a buckboard in a southwestern desert as a young boy, handing ladles of water to the soldiers as they rode up.  I awoke from the vision still smelling the sweat from the horses and tasting the dust.  It was a bit unsettling, but it cemented my belief of renewed life, in this world, after death.

 

I also feel a draw to 1890's England, depression era blue grass Christian music, and the Army Air Corps of World War II.  That pretty much brings me up to this life and my "rebirth" in 1953.  I make the assumption that there are missing lives in the mix here.  I probably died in the Civil War, for instance, but nothing of that period holds any special draw for me.  As horrible as that war was, I do not wonder.

 

To me, the great unanswerable question has always been, "Why hasn't the world just filled up with reborn souls of those long passed for thousands of years?"

 

Maybe we have to wait for an opening.  Maybe we do come back as lower life forms if we don't progress forward in this life.  Maybe we can be reborn as a higher life form, or into a different dimension.  This could be one of many "universities" where we keep having to come back for more life lessons until we get it right.  And then, maybe we're just sent where we're needed, like instructors at the university.

 

Maybe we get to a point where we have the choice to come back,  or where we go for eternity gets to be boring and we look forward to a break, a bit of excitement. in the real world. 

 

I think the more lives you live and the more we learn during each life, the more apt we are to remember all of our past lives.  My mortal body will pass into history but my soul will move on for another adventure.  It is a bit creepy to think that maybe this is a physical shell that the soul inhabits for a time on Earth and the little voice in our heads that steers us through life is actually our  hitchhiking consciousness.

 

There is also an idea that, what you screw up in this life you have to return and fix in the next.  I would equate that to the soul saying, "Oops, oh crap!  Well, too late now, I'll come back and fix it tomorrow."

 

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

-- Hamlet