Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant. - Wikipedia
Have you ever thought of what/who you were in you past life/lives? Have you ever thought if the concept exists? For most of my life I believed there was only one dimension on Earth. There didn't exist any heaven or hell; there was only now for each of us, no past life or future life. But then I read 'Many Lives, Many Masters' by Dr. Brian Weiss. My uncle introduced me to this book. While he was narrating the gist of the story, there was this crazed look in his eyes & he seemed lost in the narration. And he's a doctor. He's been a general physician for more than 35 yrs now & he was excited by a book on past life & rebirth. Now I was curious. So I borrowed the book & started reading.
Dr. Weiss is a highly educated doctor & like the rest of the medical community was trained to think logically at every point. Existence of past life was not possible. Catherine walked into this office then with over 30 phobias. She had so many phobias that she was leading a miserable life. None of the conventional treatments were helping so Dr. Weiss tried using hypnosis & regression. Phobias that we live with are almost always caused by some trauma we've experienced earlier. Hypnosis & regression techniques are used to go back in memories and address the traumas. Some of her anxiety was cured after she relived some traumas but most still remained. So they went further back in time & in the process they stumbled upon the existence of past lives. Apparently she's lived more than 80 times in the physical form. If she had an unnatural death, the cause of her death became the phobia in her current life. And so on & so forth the book goes. But the most exciting thing I got out of the book was the concept of (what I'd like to call) 'Inner circle'.
Sometimes some people walk into your life
& stay forever. Most leave. Some feel like they've been around & will
be around forever. Some feel like a passing cloud. He says that those people
who are in your most inner circle will always be in this circle in every
lifetime. Your daughter from two lifetimes ago may be that niece you're close
to in your current lifetime, or your husband from a past life is your best
friend in your current lifetime. The people who impact your life the most are
those people who’ve been with you always, through life, death & in between.
He also said that the nature of the relationship carries forward. If you’ve
been having a rocky relationship with a close person, you will have a rocky
relationship with that person even in future lives unless you break that chain.
Maybe this explains my relationship with my ex-best friend? Maybe this explains
my relationship with some of those people who have a profound effect on my life
but aren’t around me. Does it also mean that now since I’m aware of this I
should work on all those rocky relationships so that in my future lifetimes I
have lesser grief? Intriguing thought.
Have I started believing in rebirth &
reincarnation? I’m still unsure. Unless I undergo the same experience as
Catherine did, I may never be.
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