We need to start framing reincarnation like gravity - as a property of experience. Take all the religiosity out of it. Let yourself be an energy scientist for a moment and just consider the property and what it could teach you about experience.
To know the workings of the world, we need only to
look. We reincarnate every single
day. We die every single day and are
reborn as ourselves.
And, if we didn’t, we wouldn’t live.
If our skin did not shed itself and completely renew every 30 days, we
would not heal from scrapes and scratches.
Every month, 1.6 trillion cells form your new skin and all the experience,
memory, and about 100,000 bits of information are passed along. We have to die to be alive. The component
parts of your hand are made of completely different material from that of 30
days ago but remember everything – without any failure in transmission.
Everything that was will come again. Spring arrives just on time, every year,
reincarnating in a cyclical orbit.
Everything spirals – your DNA, your toilet bowl, the galaxies, and your
experiences. Oh… and your emotional
habits (turns out that the daily hormone cocktail of neurochemicals, a.k.a., “feelings,”
is addictive, like your morning coffee.
You simply get used to your daily chemicals). Where attention goes, energy flows.
Energy transmutates matter.
This happens all the time.
Energy manifests in matter, giving the breath of life – of movement,
dance, and song – to inanimate atoms.
Prana. Qi. Ki.
Chi. Soul.
If you have ever lost someone and watched them pass over, the
experience is life changing. You can
see life… feel it – not just in the movement of the body, but also the heat of the
body, the pulse of the neck, the feeling of the soul inside. And, you can also see the transition. You can see the body remain – empty –
following the last breath. You can feel
the escape of prana – of soul. We all see this
and feel it – regardless of faith and irrespective of
definitional disputes over terminology (i.e., Biologists can call it
Energy while Christians call it Soul and both are right).
What if we do all go to Heaven? And, what if we return again to learn a
little more?
That would certainly be
the coolest thing in the world.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to just have harps and clouds and cheesecake
all the time. Cheesecake is definitely in Heaven.
From time to time, I want
to go hard. I want scrapes and bruises
and up-all-nighters. From time to time,
life needs a little jaggedness and friction.
We need the rain for rainbows. And,
knowing that we truly DON’T die… knowing that we can dip into the arena of incarnation / of experiencing again, and
always have complete connection to God (Oneness, Source, the Quantum Field) is completely awesome. It is incredible to know that the essence of us does not and cannot be destroyed.
So, may your smiles see you again soon; they most certainly will. They always do.
Namaste,
Ryan
Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development. A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.
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