Rev Mike wrote:
before we choose a vessel (and many are created daily) we know what handicaps, if any, that vessel will hold.
Handicaps give a different perspective on the human experience and some choose to live those lives for those experiences, same with homosexuality...these concepts, handicaps and homosexuality, did not exist when we were all energy. These are the side effects of being solid. Energies return to this earth, usually a few generations down the line within the same family, but sometimes otherwise. We come for specific experiences that we cant understand in the energy form til we've lived them in the solid form.
Free Will being the most interesting to most, since when in our energy form, we are one with the father, and therefor work as one not as an individual.
Reincanation is a fallacy. We are not reincarnated. At least not in the traditonal sense. The "evidence" for reincarnation has another explanation. One I discovered many years ago. God imparts his "spark" the "breath of life" (spiritual not physical) and when He does so, it is a NEW life. Completely new, without history. Not reincarnated, not recycled in any way. It can be argued that it is not completely new, because of the ORIGINAL spark, that is of God that He imparts, but because of our physical nature, the ability to choose, the free will he allows us, it "IS" new, albeit infused with a part of God.
Reincarnation seems to make a lot of sense, when cases are discovered of children or others, who are found to have knowledge of "past lives" or the ability to speak "other languages" which they never studied for, or learned about, to their family's knowledge. And when the minute details of the testimony are found to be true, and it is clear that the child could not possibly have had pre-knowledge of this other life, then yes, reincarnation seems at first glance, a perfectly plausible explanation. It just happens to be the WRONG explanation.
Many years ago, an experiement was done with a particular type of worm. One that was cannibalistic. It was to determine whether "knowledge" could actually be passed on PHYSICALLY. Computers retain information on a hard drive. Our brains as well, STORE memory like a computer... PHYSICALLY. We know that we can RETRIEVE information at will, from a hard drive. Maybe the same could be done with a human brain? This would open the door to some exciting possibilities, like possibly simply INSTALLING the knowledge of mechanics directly into a brain, like you would load a computer program. Why would this not be possible one day, knowing that memory IS stored physically in our brains.
EXPERIMENT:
So these researches found a type of worm that was cannabilistic for this experiment. Because they would eat their own kind. The first control group, was sent through a maze. The worms found their way through the maze. Then these "experienced" worms were FED to another group of worms. And put through the same maze. The control group of worms, who had eaten the experienced worms, made it through the maze, in half the time as the group that did not have this benefit. What this indicated, was that, not only could knowledge be PASSED ON, it could actually be INGESTED and retained and understood.
I immediately realized that if PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES could be INGESTED, then most certainly they could be passed on through DNA! The discovery many years ago of the remains of a woman nicknamed "Eve" in sub saharan Africa, was found to be related, by DNA, to ALL LIVING HUMAN BEINGS. She shares DNA with all humans alive on the planet right now. This does not mean that she was the FIRST ancestor by any means, but what it does mean, is that if there were different branches at one time, they died out. Hers survived. In other words, "Eve" is in ALL OF OUR FAMILY TREES. If you go back far enough, she is a distant relative to EVERY ONE LIVING, including all those here on BandMix!
This means that the world IS A FAMILY, and OF THE SAME LINEAGE. This is wonderful and beautiful in and of itself, and gives one hope for world peace, if we could begin to internalize this truth more seriously. But for the purposes of OUR discussion on reincarnation, it has additional implications. If knowledge and experiences (memories) can be passed down through DNA, and WE ARE ALL RELATED through DNA, then it is more likely that a very distant relative of someone who lived long ago, even if they lived in France, or Timbukto, rather than a reincarnation experience, is what is occuring. It is a REAL MEMORY, but from a distant ancestor.
The people who believe they have lived previous lives, in a small way, DID LIVE THOSE LIVES, because their ancestor lived them, the memory of which is now a part of this person's DNA, and somehow, in a way we cannot recreate yet on purpose, they have momentarily TAPPED INTO those memories from a previous life. And feel them, as if they were their own.
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