REINCARTATION
The Human Experience:
You may have heard the expression "we are spiritual beings having a human experience" – it means that we are more than just our physical bodies. It means that we are pure awareness temporarily inhabiting a human body in order to develop our consciousness. Think of your inner essence as the pure white light of a movie projector and your life as the reel of film. The white light becomes colored by its interaction with the film – giving it new depth. We develop new dimensions of consciousness from our interactions with life in just the same way.
In order to operate in a multidimensional universe we require a multidimensional body – or more accurately a series of bodies which enable us to operate in all the "realms" of human endeavor. These bodies are all inter-linked and inter-penetrate each other because each one is more subtle (or less physical) than the previous. Our subtle bodies are integrated enough so that the average person considers himself to be a single being.
For example, we consider our minds, our emotions and our physical bodies as integral parts of our being. Our persona is composed of a soul (self awareness), a causal body (creativity), a mental body (intellect), an emotional body (emotions and desires) and a pranic body (life energy), all of which operate through a physical body. As we develop, the focus of our consciousness rises higher and higher through these bodies.
The physical body allows us to move around and interact with things in this physical world. They are like virtual-reality suits that convert everything we touch, see, hear, taste or smell into electrical impulses that can be perceived by our other subtle bodies. The pranic body or energy body largely determines our physical health and well being. Just as blood circulates through our physical body, subtle energy (chi or pranic) circulates through our pranic body.
The energy body is the template around which the physical body grows, so treating the cause in the energy body can be more effective than treating the symptoms in the physical body – this is how alternative therapies such as acupuncture and Reiki work.
The emotional body is the home of our emotions and desires, and its aura allows us to subjectively sense our environment.
For example:
When we walk into a room soon after people have been arguing we can sense the tension. Our emotional bodies emit emotions into the atmosphere and can sense those emitted by other people. This explains the shared feelings and emotions we often experience in group situations, such as supporting our favorite sports team or protesting in a rally. The effect can be so strong that normally pleasant people can end up doing some very unpleasant things.
The mental body is the home of the intellectual and rational mind. Thoughts, like emotions, are "objects", which our mental bodies create and transmit into the environment, or receive and interpret from others. The physical brain is not the source of our intellect; it is merely the organ that allows the intellect to operate through the physical body. In fact, the brain is more like a relay station which links the mental body to the physical world. The causal body is what differentiates humans from animals – we have them and animals don't.
The causal body performs four main functions in human beings:
1. It is the true home of the human self – where the Soul “sleeps” between incarnations.
2. It is our personal storehouse of experiences and memories from all our incarnations.
3. It is the source of our abstract, conceptual and intuitive thoughts.
4. It constructs a link between our persona (lower self) and soul (higher self).
5. The causal body is commonly called the soul, but it is not commonly known that it divides in two at the start of each new life and only a small piece actually incarnates.
In simple terms, a piece of the causal body detaches itself from the main causal body and incarnates into a persona and a physical body in order to experience life as a human being. The lesser causal body collects life experiences and, after physical death, returns to the greater causal body to add itself to the hole.
Now the concept of Soul Retention is the ability to bring that information with you in each incarnation - you thus remember everything that you ever were in the past. This is of course the true nature of Immortality.
Now Allow me to brake it down even more...
Natural life is cyclical. Day fades into night and turns back into day as the sun rises. One season gradually gives way to the next. Over the passage of time, new generations are born and old ones die. The continuous succession of birth, death and rebirth permeates nature even though our own lives seem linear. So it's no surprise that some ancient observers looked at the seeming linearity of human existence and decided that life, like the natural world, might actually be more cyclical than linear. Multiple religions, philosophies and movements adopted this belief in cyclic life, or reincarnation. Reincarnation, also called transmigration or metempsychosis, is the concept that the soul, or some aspect of the soul, is reborn into new lives.
Reincarnation is the belief that a part of our consciousness will continue living after the death of the physical body and will be re-born into a new body here on Earth. The belief of reincarnation is widespread, in fact almost universal in the East, but it has never been that popular in the West. This is due to the skepticism of mainstream science and the fact that it is not really mentioned in the Christian Bible.
However, times are slowly changing and more and more reputable doctors and scientists are now investigating aspects of reincarnation, including past life regression, near-death experiences.
For many people the idea of life after death is very comforting because it lessens their grief and removes their fear of annihilation. For others it is a subject that is never contemplated because "ignorance is bliss". But whether you believe in it or not, the fact remains that life after death is a certainty because life cannot be extinguished – it only changes form. Death is an unsuitable term for passing on to a higher form of life because the energy that is self cannot die – ever! The bodies of incarnation are discarded when they are no longer required, but the soul is immortal.
To the soul, each incarnation is like a day’s work. Leaving the physical body behind can be compared to taking off our overcoat, leaving the emotional body behind is like taking off our clothing, and leaving the mental body behind is like taking off our underwear. We return to our causal body (soul) completely naked to sleep for a while before awakening the next morning to get dressed again for another day’s work. We begin each new incarnation by putting on our underwear (mental body), our clothes (emotional body) and our overcoat (physical body). After a long hard day at work we are tired and our overcoat is worn out, so we take it off and head back home to sleep.
Aset Ka again has the knowledge of Soul Retention or Continuity of Consciousness.
If we have all lived before, why can’t we remember anything of our previous lives? There are two reasons why the average person cannot consciously recall their past lives:
After each incarnation, the subtle bodies of our persona dissolve in sequence over the course of many years so the pathways to their memories are lost to us. New subtle bodies are formed for each new incarnation but they have no connection with our previous lives, so we are a new persona in each lifetime.
Only the greater causal body (or soul) is ours for our entire journey through the human kingdom. It is the storehouse of our experiences in the human kingdom and contains the memories of all our human incarnations. However, the average person does not incarnate with his greater causal body so cannot access those memories. The lesser causal body contains causal matter (soul essence) from the greater causal body, but the memories, knowledge and abilities it contains are incoherent and our conscious minds doesn’t know pathways that are required to recall them.
Now before reincarnation the average time between incarnations is 100 years at the primitive stage, 500 years at the civilized stage, 1200 years at the developed stage, 2500 years at the humanistic stage and 0-5000 years at the enlightened stage, but there are no set rules. Like a true definition of a Vampire most people reincarnate automatically when the "thirst" for physical experience awakens them from their dream-like state, but more advanced individuals have more control over the timing of their incarnations. For example, a humanistic person’s "afterlife" is typically 200 to 3000 years, but they may choose to reincarnate almost immediately.
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