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More on Reincarnation
More on the idea that progression through lifetimes is not linear: Just because a person is living a relatively easy experience in this lifetime, does not mean that in a previous life they made some choices they will have to balance in experiences their soul chooses in a future incarnation. This present lifetime may be a life of rest for them.
I think it is very important to realize that a difficult experience in the present lifetime does not mark a person as lower or worse than a person having an relatively easy experience in the present life.
It might be that the person undertaking the difficult life has chosen to tackle some deep issues, for example, some of the very difficult situations undertaken by, for example, Joan of Arc or Saint Francis of Assisi. Furthermore, they may have taken on an easy resting life before the one in which they tackled the difficult issues.
As always, it is best not to judge or to compare ourselves with others.
Continue readingIs Our Reincarnation Progression linear?
Today, I have been thinking about reincarnation. As I understand it, our progression through different lifetimes is not linear–that you keep getting better and better with everylifetime–the idea that in a previous life you were a worse person and are working on getting better. This would mean that a person living a very difficult experience in this life must be at a lower level than a person living an easy life.
However, in the Edgar Cayce psychic readings, he says that in this present lifetime, we are often working on a number of lifetimes. Usually, as our life progresses, we work through issues in one lifetime then another, some of which were more difficult than another.
Because I have remembered a number of my own past lives, I know that our progression from one life to another is not in a linear manner. Sometimes, if we have made some regretful choices in a certain life, we may take a number of incarnations to prepare us to deal with the mistakes we made in that lifetime.
Therefore, just because a person is living a relatively easy life in this present lifetime, it does not mean that they will not have a future incarnation in which that have many issues to face and deal with.
Continue readingAn Interesting Blog Post on Beliefnet the largest Religion and Spirituality online community
I found the demographics interesting especially the age range.
Continue readingSecond Life is beginning to attract a diverse cross-section of businesses and organizations, including banks, retailers, news organizations and non-profit groups.
Debra Mason, director of the Center for Religion and the Professions at MU, mentioned that the center has a presence on the virtual reality Web site.
Rebecca Phillips, vice president of social networking for Beliefnet, spoke about how social networking sites have changed religious communities. With 3 million users, Beliefnet is the largest religion and spirituality Web site in the country. Phillips said Beliefnet has a liberal definition of social networking.
“It’s not just about users connecting to other users, but users connecting to the content,” she said. “If you want to express yourself on a page, that’s social networking.”
Phillips said Beliefnet allows members to connect to people with similar beliefs using message boards, blogs and prayer circles. Prayer circles allow users to request prayers for loved ones or share their thoughts with people who have posted prayers.
“On Beliefnet, a lot of our users are lost socially,” she said. “They can find members of the same community. I’ve been astounded by the amount of real friendships that start on Beliefnet.”
Phillips also debunked some of the myths concerning social networking, particularly that all users are teenagers or young adults. She noted that the demographic of Beliefnet users is typically 30- to 50-year-old women.
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Phillips also highlighted the active political discuss on the Beliefnet Community. She noted that some of the posts are heated opinions and not always in best taste. However, the Web site doesn’t have to do a lot of policing of offensive posts because the most dedicated users handle most situations within the online community.
Phillips said that some of the site’s members expressed concern over the recent acquisition of Beliefnet by News Corp, which incorporated the site into the Fox division. The site provided a forum for members to discuss their response to the acquisition.
Dream Interpretation-Looking Out to Sea
You’re on the edge of the ocean looking out to sea.
Interpretation–you’re ready to undertake a wonderfully creative enterprise.
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Dream Interpretation – Foods
Foods in your dreams don’t necessarily represent the actual food dreamed about. For example, even vegetarians dream of deliciously devouring red meat. These dreams often refer to enjoying life experiences with power–claiming our power.
Sweets can refer to sweet, innocently pleasurable experiences. Vegetables, to experiences that are good for us. Fruit, to emotionally and physically satisfying experiences, sometimes with sexual connotations. Milk often represents mother love or issues with mother. Bread can refer to satisfying experiences that require planning and effort such as a business or a pregnancy.
These dream intepretations come from Gillian Holloway Ph.D.’s The Complete Dream Book.
Continue readingAmazing 2012 News – Native Leaders Meet in Palenque, Mexico
Here’s an interesting post from the “Lord Pakal Ahau’s Maya Diaries” blog site. For me this is amazing news because I was not aware that so many modern-day indigenous people are aware of the 2012 prophecies.
Actually, now that I’ve read the article through a couple of times, I realize the article does not mention 2012. The native leaders did not come to Palenque because of concern for the 2012 prophecies but because of their concern for Mother Earth. The article is about their concern for the environment. The web site is about 2012. Nonetheless, it is a coincidence that the native leaders met in an area where some people have interpreted ancient Mayan texts to refer to December 21, 2012.
The leaders came from as far away as Alaska and the Northwest Territories of Canada. The article goes on to say that some scholars believe the ancient Maya’s downfall resulted from environmental abuses. If you click through on the link below, you can read the whole article and see a photograph of the assembly.
More than 200 leaders from 71 American Indian nations in Mexico, the United States and Canada came together to the natal town of Lord Pakal Ahau in Palenque on March 2008 with a 2012 message. Here’s the AP article.
Mar 11, 1:53 AM (ET) By MARK STEVENSON – PALENQUE, Mexico (AP) – North American Indians assembled in the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids Monday discussed how their tradition wisdom could help save the planet, and were told that even indigenous cultures have struggled with environmental abuse.
Lord Pakal Ahau’s Maya Diaries
Continue readingNew 2012 Movie Announced
Here’s an item from another person’s blog. It looks like Hollywood has jumped on the 2012 bandwagon. Mel Gibson is not the only one doing movies on Apocalypto and the Maya. It looks as if this movie is not geared to the past, as was Gibson’s, but is looking toward scaring the movie-viewing population as we get closer December 21, 2012. Evidently, this director did the disaster movie, “Independence Day.”
Continue readingThe following announcement was of interest:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Sony Pictures has picked up disaster-movie king Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic script “2012,” one of the first big projects to hit the market since the three-month writers strike ended on February 12.
While a deal almost was assured, many studios quickly dropped out of the hunt. Some didn’t like the story, describing it as a “Roland Emmerich greatest-hits package.” Others balked at the price tag. The project comes with a $200 million budget.
The script blends the idea of the Mayan calendar, which predicts the world ending in 2012, with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers plaguing the planet and a large cast of characters dealing with the mayhem.
Emmerich, known for such films as “Independence Day” and “Godzilla,” will direct the project from a script he co-wrote with Harald Kloser. Sony is planning a July 10, 2009, release. http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN2252926420080222
December 21, 2012 is when the Maya’s “Long Count” calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era.
While some astronomical occurrences will happen then, some people suspect that the Mayan date may mark the end of civilization or perhaps the beginning of a time of great tribulation or the emergence of a new and better age.
A few others seem to believe that December 22, 2012 may mark the beginning of a new and better era for humanity.
About Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret
From a Boston Red Sox Baseball Team blog on the benefits of the Law of Attraction as described in The Secret:
Ramirez has been reading Rhonda Byrne’s self-motivational bestseller “The Secret” in the clubhouse, highlighting various passages. … From Publishers Weekly, via Amazon:
Supporters will hail this New Age self-help book on the law of attraction as a groundbreaking and life-changing work, finding validation in its thesis that one’s positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness … and did we mention wealth? Detractors will be appalled by this as well as when the book argues that fleeting negative thoughts are powerful enough to create terminal illness, poverty and even widespread disasters.
I love The Secret too and have benefited from applying the suggestions in it.
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Continue readingNew Movie "The Moses Code"
James Twyman, the for-peace troubadour is at it again. He did a movie on the Indigo Children, and the next one is called, “The Moses Code.” It is directed by Drew Heriot, director of “The Secret.” Sounds good.
Continue readingThere is a kingdom being built by certain living luminaries such as Marianne Williamson, Michael Beckwith and Eckhart Tolle along with many other names that are becoming more and more intrinsically linked. They along with others who are like minded, are expecting a “Shift in Action” for a new world! One of the main people behind the movie called “The Moses Code” is James Twyman.
An In-depth Discussion of Reincarnation
Some interesting comparisons between Buddhist, Hindu, New Age and Pagan ideas on reincarnation.
Continue readingReincarnation, literally “to be made flesh again”, as a doctrine or mystical belief, holds the notion that some essential part of a living being (or in some variations, only human beings) can survive death in some form, with its integrity partly or wholly retained, to be reborn in a new body. This part is often referred to as the Spirit or Soul, the ‘Higher or True Self’, ‘Divine Spark’, ‘I’.
In such beliefs, a new personality is developed during each life in the physical world, based upon past integrated experience and new acquired experiences, but some part of the being remains constantly present throughout these successive lives as well. It is usually believed that there is interaction between predeterminism of certain experiences, or lessons intended to happen during the physical life, and the free-will action of the individual as they live that life.
This doctrine is a central tenet within the majority of Indian religious traditions such as Yoga, Vaishnavism and Shaivism (from Hinduism), and also Jainism and Sikhism. It was common belief among the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans[citation needed]. Many modern Pagans also believe in reincarnation as do some New Age movements, along with followers of Spiritism, practitioners of certain African traditions, and students of esoteric philosophies. The Buddhist concept of Rebirth although often referred to as reincarnation differs significantly from the Vedic based traditions and New Age movements in that the “self” (or soul) does not reincarnate (see below).