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Time Travel To Spiritual Growth

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I was thinking about time travel today, which reminded me of the story H. G. Wells wrote in the 1890’s. In the story the main character discovers a time machine and goes well into the future, has a long adventure, and returns three hours later our time, then entertains dinner guests with an accounting of his trip into the future. As the story goes on, the main character goes on another trip and is never heard from again.

It was not the only story of it’s time though. Jules Verne had his own stories, regaling his readers with stories of submarines, underwater cities, and other wonders. Other writers of the day were also writing stories that would fit well in these two story tellers.

Phillip Jose Farmer did a great job in on of his books of tying it all together. Farmer introduced aliens into his story, with the idea they were being chased around the world. What if all those stories had there roots somewhere in fact, and not imagination?

Wouldn’t it be incredible to discover a time machine hidden away, taking a trip into the future and returning? All that is missing is the technology. Or maybe there is no technology gap. Maybe we do not allow ourselves the possibility that we already know about time travel, and we ourselves are time travelers already.

blooming treeWhen I think about our history, I have odd thoughts at times. Our human history which we really care about only goes back a few thousand years. Before then, one day was pretty much the same as the next to us. Mankind made no leaps and bounds changes to their lives, but lived pretty much the same as people living a thousand years earlier did.

I have created a story of my own having too much free time one day. My story involves reincarnation, time travel, and multiple lives. Plus it all takes place in the last five thousand years. Who would want or need to incarnate before this time, once would have been enough, because nothing ever changed. Perhaps as some feel, our end is near, and our time is short on this planet of ours.

What if we incarnate multiple times in this century alone? What if we were to experience recent history and time over and over and over? What if you live right now where you are reading this, but you have read this exact post numerous times, living in different parts of the world, with different lives, different experiences, and different learning’s?

How interesting would it be living in the United States living in a family close to Dr. Martin Luther King, in India as a part of Mahatma Gandhi’s cause, or in Europe with all Europe’s changes in thinking, government, and political boundaries?

Imagine living a lifetime as a supporter of an important cause, returning over and over to experience this same cause from different perspectives. Living one lifetime longing or fighting for basic freedoms, and the next lifetime as an oppressor of those same freedoms?

What possibilities would exist for the growth of our spiritual self! Imagine being deeply opposed to something that does not conform to our present beliefs, and living other lifetimes accepting the possibility of multiple lifetimes during a single century as not only possible, but probable.

Living now as your parents’ child and coming back as one of your now parents Parent! What a tremendous possibility for spiritual growth! What we would experience to be able to live through all our human experience, living each and every opposing facet, experiencing a single event from all sides. Maybe Casey had mostly it right after all, and we chose not to believe him?

Of course I have to include a standard disclaimer. If you are in a lifetime where your framework of how life works excludes this story as a possibility, you may not know in this lifetime if it is true, or not. Unless you have a major paradigm shift, or life experience that moves your world and spiritual views, and live through the experience, it will remain only an absurd story.

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Reincarnation filtered through karma or the golden rule

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I have thought we are reincarnated since I was a kid. There is just too much evidence including the Christian bible to think it is not a fact that we lived before, and we will live again. Unless someone is a practicing atheist and not a Christian hater in drag, it is rare to find too many major religions that do not have some kind of after life programming in their faith.

Along with reincarnation comes karma, they kind of slide across the horizon as a matched pair. Some people may reject the idea of reincarnation, but they hold onto karma. I read an interesting thought on karma a few years back, I wish I had the source so I could cite it.

The person who wrote it, was thinking about Christianity, reincarnation, and karma. They arrived at the idea that karma was visited upon us over the next three incarnations where we would reap what we had previously sown. After I thought about this, it was a pretty sobering thought. What if I was reaping in this life those things I sown in a recent past life? Whoa, serious stuff. I had to think about those possibilities for a number of days.

Of course after slicing, dicing, and deciding it may be a possibility Then there was the small matter of where does it fit into my own belief system? I found a place for it, and I thought I was done with it.  In the middle of one night, I woke up and felt like I had enough sleep. The only problem was there were still over three hours until the alarm went off.

I lay there, and my mind starting churning ideas like they tend to do when we can not sleep. What pops up except the recent thinking I did about reincarnation? One of the scariest or most exciting idea that came out of this late night thinking about this line of thinking about reincarnation is the later reaping of what you sow now portion.

I woke up with the alarm that morning thinking, as I did believing we are reincarnated or at the very least never die, I myself am reaping that which I planted was a pretty sobering thought. My mind was churning thinking about all those things which I have done with my life up until this moment, both good and bad. That brought me to an old Omni Magazine story I remembered where a man lived his life so neutrally that it was taking him hundreds of years to balance the good and the bad of his life.

What do I have to look forward to I wondered? Where was the list of the good verses the not so good I have done through out my lifetime? Of course our minds have a pretty skewed version of remembering things that comprise our life, so it really was a futile task to try. How could I wonder how my life would be weighed, when I saw it though colored glasses of my own making?

I started, over the next few days treating people differently than I had done up to that point. I payed attention to the idea that they were people and their life was no better nor worse than mine, but the were entitled to the same respect and care from me, that I give to myself. Once again that may not be saying much, because of the glasses we wear of our own making…

After some amount of time, the idea became second nature, as I had been living it most of my life, in my adaptation of the golden rule.  This was the golden rule with a twist though. A long reaching twist at that. Whether true or not, it has I suppose made me a more aware person, if not a better person. Once something is introduced as an idea, whether we accept it or reject it, it is always there, floating though our mind waiting to be recalled at the most inopportune time, like the middle of the night. I suppose on balance, a thought in the night is a lot better than the thief in the night.

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