KARMA AND REINCARNATION

Recently I published a blog on this subject stating my disagreement with the idea of Karma and reincarnation in general.

As I said, the idea that everyone must return to earth many times in order to purify the soul, runs contrary to my experience and relegates the Spiritual World to the role of a glorified waiting room. There are countless different spheres in the spiritual world, through which each of us graduates as we progress spiritually and this progress is reflected in the light that surrounds us. Each sphere is delineated by light - only individuals whose light is bright enough for a particular sphere may dwell in it.

However, there is no doubt in my opinion that some people do reincarnate - the evidence is too strong to be totally refuted. What determines who reincarnates? Just as those who die believing absolutely that they must remain 'asleep' until the sound of the 'last trump', do just that and can remain dormant for centuries of our time. So it is with people who have an absolute conviction that they are required to reincarnate. Free will is paramount and the mind is the most powerful instrument in the universe. Such people will therefore insist on being reborn as physical human beings on earth - and not necessarily just once either.

In my opinion such reincarnation demonstrates the power of the mind and the primacy of free will but the fact that it happens does not mean it is necessary for the growth of our soul. In many ways it impedes such growth because repeated doses of incarceration of the spirit within a physical body in a physical environment run the risk of coarsening the soul! This means the individual who insists on reincarnating may have to work much harder than the rest of us to progress in the spiritual world, once he or she decides to abandon repeated incarnations.

Reincarnation theory was born as a mistaken interpretation of information from the spiritual world that each person is reborn many times. The reference was to rebirth to the differing spheres in the spiritual world, not to rebirth on earth but this was not understood. Equally, the information Alan Kardec (the founder of Spiritism) received through his trance mediums that went into the compilation of "The Spirits Book" and "The Mediums Book" was erroneous. Oh yes, the information came from the spiritual world but from those people there who had convinced themselves they had to reincarnate in order to progress. It illustrates the naivity of accepting at face value everything that comes from spirit. Spirit people possess the same prejudices in spirit that they had on earth and although experience in the spiritual world eventually persuades them to change those views, it does not happen immediately. We must be wary. Everything we receive from spirit should be analysed carefully and examined by our own sense of what seems right and what makes sense to us. The fact that something was uttered by a spirit does not make it sacrosanct.