I believe in the power of intuition and the "god-voice" his spirit that lives in us.
I believe that all things paranormal have at least some thread of truth running through them.
And as of yesterday... I believe in past lives.
I went on a little journey yesterday to a place called Cassadaga. It’s a historical spiritual camp here in Florida where you can freely ask all those burning questions about your future, your relationships, and even about past lives. They have chakra healers and psychic mediums on call, they host seances, and yes there were even ghosts dwelling in the hotel.
I've had psychic gifts all my life. My grandmother was psychic, so as a child I thought it was super cool to have gifts like that despite having no understanding whatsoever about what they meant, or the responsibility that came along with them.
When I was twelve, my grandmother found religion, determined all psychic abilities were of the devil and it was never discussed again. So again, there was no place for me to take my abilities, to figure them out, to find out what to do with them and worse, I felt I had to squish them if I was to be a good "Christian". So I've spent a great deal of emotional energy over the years trying to convince myself I'm insane, NOT psychic.
When I started to see my youngest son, however, have these same struggles, I knew I couldn't let him go through what I had and over the last two years I've been trying to be more open to these gifts. I've been trying to learn them so if nothing else, I could bring some sense of rightness and comfort to my son with his gifts.
I think when I started this journey, I expected to be able to continue to read people, and maybe find a way to use that so it could be helpful... I never expect a damn burst of psychic abilities I had no clue I even had! The more I learn, the more comes to the surface. Every time I start to get a handle on things, a new twists occurs. This time, it's past lives or what I'm now seeing as the game of immortal souls.
I’ve never given past lives a lot of thought because, for me, even if we have had them, they don’t seem to really have any bearing on this life. I mean if I can't remember the lessons I've learned, then what difference does it make that I've learned them? To think that I just keeping living life over and over and over, with no point or purpose or real memories of people I’ve met and places I’ve been… that’s depressing.
Still, I believe ALL truth is god's truth.
I believe that if large numbers of people proclaim something as being right, alive, real, true...
then there has to be some truth there. Something real is drawing people to whatever it is and im the case of ghosts, angels, demons, all things paranormal, and even past lives, they do have a lot of people attracted to them, so it’s not that I’ve ever adamantly said no that can’t be possible, it’s more the idea of it made me sort of sad because of the aforementioned not remembering, but yesterday I had a vision of what I can best make sense of by saying it was a remembrance of a past life and this morning I'm remembering even more... how can I discount that?
I've had a lot of freaky weird spiritual/paranormal stuff happen to me over the years, this past week breaks all the records though. I have to feel that I am on the brink of a spiritual awakening if you will. That I'm on the edge of a major breakthrough for my life, my faith, my soul.
There is much debate, and loud demands made on us as Christians to not believe in reincarnation. The loudest argument is that reincarnation leaves no place for judgment after death, but I'm wondering, what if these "past lives" are choices we get to make after being judged, redeem, and residing in paradise? What if even as immortal beings, we still need amusement and entertainment and one of the biggest things we like to play is this thing called “life” or “mortality”.
What if there are countless reasons we could have for doing "life" over again?
Quite frankly I think you can find more evidence in the bible that supports transmigration or reincarnation than not.
Take for instance things like God knew Jeremiah before he was even formed in the womb.
Jeremiah 1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Okay... Knew him how? Perhaps it's simply that somehow knowledge of all things god would create lived in his mind before he actually created anything. As an artist, I can understand that sort of thinking, but it honestly makes more sense to take this verse literally as God and Jerimiah had a relationship before he was placed in his mother's womb.
Believe me, no one wants to make sense out of everything around her more than I do, but I think in some things, we really need to just accept that there is no way of knowing with certainty what exactly happened, or was being inferred. It's the thing that makes the Bible, a VERY dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, but for some people, they won't open their minds to possibilities if the Bible doesn't allow it. sigh... We need to be open to the spirit of god... NOT bound by legalistic rhetoric, but I include some of these versus here, not to convince those that wish to be bound in dogma, but for myself, to open the possibility that this life is not what I've always been led to believe. To allow myself to open my mind to bigger theories and realities than I ever have in the past.
Other versus I found that show some clue that we have and do exist outside of the earthly realm follow.
"He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish in his sight and love." (Ephesians 1:4)
Job 1:20-21 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and he fell to the ground and worshipped. And he said, "Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
Job seems to say here that he will return to be born again in a womb indicating that he expects to reincarnate.What if there was a time in history where this was simply an accepted fact?
What about
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:4-9)
The Hebrew kabbalists interpreted this quote to mean that a generation dies and subsequently returns by the process of reincarnation.There are many other Bible verses which are suggestive of reincarnation, but one of the verses I hear argued the most is John 9:1 "And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus answered, 'Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'"
The disciples ask the Lord if the man himself could have committed the sin that led to his blindness. Given the fact that the man has been blind from birth, we are confronted with a provocative question. When could he have made such transgressions as to make him blind at birth? The only conceivable answer is in some prenatal state. The question as posed by the disciples explicitly presupposes prenatal existence. It will also be noted that Christ says nothing to dispel or correct the presupposition.
Another of my favorite curiosities on this subject is this... Matt 24:34 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
No one will argue that the disciples are not still alive today, so the easiest way this verse can be true is if the disciples and others alive at that time of Jesus are reincarnated just before his return, otherwise this verse is a lie and we all know how god feels about liars.
It's also known that the Catholic church outlawed and put to death those that preached reincarnation.
THE FIFTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL THE SECOND COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE A.D. 553
IF anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert
the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema.
Why would they bother to do this?
The only reason for the Catholic church to outlaw something would be if people were doing it. This tells us people were talking and believing in reincarnation... Christians were talking about this so much that the church outlawed it!
CHRISTIANS must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on
that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting
then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them
be anathema from Christ.
In my meditation this morning I was crying at the idea of life repeating itself over and over. I was grieving the loss of the personality I have now who would die and that I would not retain in any real way what I have here, the love I've experienced, the victories, the lives I've touched and the good things I've done... I was comforted with the words spoken into my mind, "How can you know what you will or will not retain from this life until that moment occurs? You discount too much. Your thoughts are too small."
That's when I was given the vision of, we’ll call it heaven because that’s the label I’ve got for it, it was perfection. It’s magical and the well of all joy and we dwell there, that is home. However, life here on this planet, and probably others, is coexisting and evolving and once we are bona fide residents of this place of perfection, I believe we have the ability to jump back into "life", either because we are bored, or we wish to learn something, or perhaps we are needed to set something straight of make things play out the way they should... but for whatever reason, we continue to jump into this "game" setting the parameters at the beginning which creates the mainframe of our experiences. It helps choose our parents and families, it determines what gifts we’ll have, what weaknesses, struggles we’ll face, determines the length we’ll play, it puts the “game” in motion if you will.
At this point, I have to believe that some day, when this life ends for me, I'll receive all the blank pieces and I'll know it was so easy, but until then, I have to keep walking on with what I know to be true, and what I feel in my soul, towards the things in this life that give me purpose. Towards my dreams and the promises god has given me for what this life can become.
As I learn and open to knew possibilities, it does not take away from the truth I already know. It adds to it. It makes my mind expand, my heart becomes more engaged, my passion rises to new levels. Learning, for me, is a journey to wholeness. There was a moment this morning when I felt the joy of god on me, I felt his delight in my coming to these realizations so early in this life. There were further revelations and clarity I received, but I'm not in a place to share all of it. I do believe that who these words are meant to resonate with, will see them, for those of you scratching your heads after reading this, I pray you be blessed on your journey and that you always stay open to learning truth.
One thing I took away from this morning was that I am only halfway through this life and this knew knowledge changes so much for me. This shift in direction is powerful. It promises me that it is not too late to achieve everything that god has put in my heart. I have not missed my windows of opportunity. In fact, my best years are just starting and I see great love and adventure in my future. God is releasing so many blessing on me. This is my time. This is my moment. And I will receive it gladly with gratitude in abundance!
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