dking777
Senior Registered
I am at an age now - where I can look back on my long history associated with the mystical theme of reincarnation. I started talking about it when I was 2 years old back in 1962 and it has always been on my mind one way or another.
When I was a child and teenager - I felt the world would be a better place - if - everyone knew the truth that 'reincarnation' was a fact of spiritual life.
In my early adult life - I slipped gears and had no personal memories of past lives and formed a different opinion to live by. The theme was still coming to me 'mystically' and it was always a subject I spoke about and can recall in 1986 I still felt the world would be a better place if everyone came to accept reincarnation as a spiritual truth.
Now, at my age and this current phase of my life I am divided on the issue. I don't know if it would be detrimental or beneficial for society at large to accept it as a verified spiritual truth or a common religious belief. I do feel it is a possible double edge sword that could cut both ways. Maybe it has to come in very small 'baby steps' instead of one giant leap. Now, I try and examine why I thought it was so important for others in society to accept it as true. Was I just wanting that for 'selfish' reasons - so I wouldn't feel so alone with that sort of 'truth?'
I am curious to the opinions of others about this. How would it be beneficial - or - detrimental to society to have some sort of catalyst that caused a major shift in popular belief for 'reincarnation' as a fact of spiritual life? (Such as the Pope holding a news conference and embracing reincarnation into the Church? I dunno....something like that for the sake of argument. Or scientists discovering something so convincing that no one could possibly argue or deny reincarnation as a reality? So that 98% of the world embraced reincarnation as a reality. Minus the few die hard atheists and such.)
Sincerely,
DKing
When I was a child and teenager - I felt the world would be a better place - if - everyone knew the truth that 'reincarnation' was a fact of spiritual life.
In my early adult life - I slipped gears and had no personal memories of past lives and formed a different opinion to live by. The theme was still coming to me 'mystically' and it was always a subject I spoke about and can recall in 1986 I still felt the world would be a better place if everyone came to accept reincarnation as a spiritual truth.
Now, at my age and this current phase of my life I am divided on the issue. I don't know if it would be detrimental or beneficial for society at large to accept it as a verified spiritual truth or a common religious belief. I do feel it is a possible double edge sword that could cut both ways. Maybe it has to come in very small 'baby steps' instead of one giant leap. Now, I try and examine why I thought it was so important for others in society to accept it as true. Was I just wanting that for 'selfish' reasons - so I wouldn't feel so alone with that sort of 'truth?'
I am curious to the opinions of others about this. How would it be beneficial - or - detrimental to society to have some sort of catalyst that caused a major shift in popular belief for 'reincarnation' as a fact of spiritual life? (Such as the Pope holding a news conference and embracing reincarnation into the Church? I dunno....something like that for the sake of argument. Or scientists discovering something so convincing that no one could possibly argue or deny reincarnation as a reality? So that 98% of the world embraced reincarnation as a reality. Minus the few die hard atheists and such.)
Sincerely,
DKing