GoldFish65 said:
Here's a thought.....
What if the whole reason we are here is to simply experience life as physical people....as actors on a stage?
Life is like childbirth.....we go through the pain of delivery and declare we are never doing that again...only to repeat the process a few years later. Obviously the joy outweighs the pain.....and such is life. At the end of this incarnation we will look back on it and think.....what a rush that was......I'm going back.
Participating on the board is triggering a flood of memories of my childhood. When I did interview my parents, family, relatives and family friends after amnesia - they all had stories about my childhood I was blind to. To sum it up, my Mom once told me that she thought she had given birth to a midget. One of my nicknames as a three and four year old was 'little man.' My Grandfather told me that everyone got used to the idea that I was an 'old soul' and had brought along memories that could only come from living in the world in a previous life.
I can recall 'thinking' this very concept when I was about 3 years old and I was learning to talk. I was talking at a very early age.
I can recall walking into a kitchen with a couple of Aunt's trying to get me to play some silly child game with them. I stood with my fists on my waist and said,
"What was I thinking when I decided to come and live here with you people. You talk the silliest talk I have ever heard and you keep trying to put silly idea's in my head. I only got so much room in my mind and I want to keep what I got and you keep forcing things in and I keep loosing what I want to keep. I swear.....I never want to come back into this world ever again. What was I thinking coming back here and doing this all over again?"
My Aunts just looked at one another and shook their heads and then picked me up and sat me on a counter and started playing some silly guessing game with me.
When I was 3 and 4 - I could recall being in spirit prior to be being born and could remember a past life vividly.
When I came across the concept of what 'sweeping it under the carpet' meant, I felt that was what I was doing with my 'past life' memories during childhood. I was examining what I could of it and then 'sweeping it into the unconscious.' Out of sight and out of mind. There was a sense of frustration and resentment falling into place and in order to focus on this life - I couldn't walk with the past life memories so vivid on my current mind. It was a process of letting go of the old and getting on with the new.
Years later when I was in my own 'denial' stage and talking to my young friends about the theory of reincarnation, the first thing out of their mouths was,
"If it is true - then I NEVER want to come back here again and want to make this my LAST go around."
So I wonder if we all go though that 'house cleaning' process when we are at a certain stage in our childhood - burying memories and going into a self imposed denial to live this life to the fullest. I wonder if we have a subliminal moment that gets triggered and we recall a moment in our childhood when we had a fists on our waists asking,
"What the heck was I thinking coming back into this world again?"
Point is - we sort of lose sight of what our spirit had in mind and what our spirit was thinking.
I agree - once we get over the pain of it all - the joy sets in. That joy might not fully set in until we do step out of this world and look over our shoulders and say, 'Wow!'
Next thing you know - there is another kid in the world some where asking, "What the heck was I thinking?"
The merry-go-round and roller coaster ride strikes again.
DK
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