Continuity of Life

Most call it reincarnation, but being a Catholic most of my life, I learned quickly that reincarnation is an ugly word. People assume you're Hindu or Buddhist and will come back as whatever food you eat, or you're just plain crazy. So I call it the continuity of life. Christ stands for Christ Consciousness, and Jesus Christ had this 100% consciousness. He told us that we can do the same, not that we can "almost be like Jesus." We can also grow to be that Christ Consciousness, but we have to focus hard and work lovingly and selflessly to grow towards it over many lifetimes.

Science has proven that we humans do in fact evolve. Now, just because we can't see our soul's in this physical realm, we all know we have thoughts, feelings, and an appeal to do good, which comes from another part of us that is not physical. Why would our physical bodies evolve but our soul/spiritual bodies not evolve? Would God really want us to develop our looks but not our minds? Our souls/spirits evolve the same way our physical bodies do, with time. As Jesus said, "I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jesus was telling us we must be "born again" in order to enjoy the "kingdom of heaven," which he repeatedly says can be accessed from here on earth. Thus, once we evolve enough to enjoy this kingdom of heaven on earth, we will not need to come in and out of these physical vessels so frequently. Our souls will then take over these physical bodies which will no longer die off after just 100 years. We will be made of light and not of physically deteriorating food. The Bible stories begin with lives lasting hundreds of years. There is no doubt in my mind that we will evolve to this state of PURE LOVE once again.

Is this really hard to believe? Is a random criminal who spends his life in jail just unlucky? They obviously made bad decisions that put them in jail, but are they simply unlucky that they were born as people who make bad decisions? And are the rest of us just extremely lucky to have been so privileged to be able to make good decisions in our life times? Was Mozart one of us lucky people who was able to create an entire composition at the age of 3? His parents were not genetically enhanced and were certainly not overly intelligent. Or did it maybe take several lifetimes for him to gain access to his soul so early in life? I don't know about you, but I've been working on my spiritual development for a while now. My goodness did not just randomly fall upon me. Einstein is famous for exclaiming "God does not play dice!"

Now, do not be afraid of coming back as a cow or horse or dog, just because you abuse, eat, or mistreat them regularly. We can only evolve, we no longer devolve. When it seems like we are devolving, it means we must learn from the devolved state in order to fully evolve. We did have to devolve a little bit to get where we are today, but not by coming in and out of animal bodies. It was by focusing on the physical instead of the mental. All of our hardships ultimately help us grow. Each soul chooses it's path, and we typically don't want to waste an incarnation with a life of devolving. With this said, the overall trend in one's life is chosen just before incarnating again. We reside in the heavenly world, or the soul's realm, after our physical bodies die. But it does not end there. Jesus didn't say so, and it just doesn't make sense. We have to continue to grow and evolve.

One cannot reach their full potential as a PERFECT human being in just one lifetime, not even Jesus. There were 50 gospels about Jesus in the 4th century (when the bible was formulated), and only 4 were included in the Bible. Several of these other gnostic Christian texts talk about reincarnation. They even talk about Jesus being Adam, of Adam and Eve. Alone, Adam "sinned," which created sin for all of us. Then he grew exponentially over the course of 7 lifetimes, and finally came back as the PERFECT human being, Jesus. Jesus showed us how to grow to heaven, and alone he showed us all how to live perfectly without sin. Of course these Jesus teachings didn't fall in line with what King Constantine and the Council of Nicaea of wanted us to know about him, so they left the majority of his teachings out of our version of the Bible. About 30 of these gospels can still be found today online and in bookstores, but the rest have either been destroyed over the years or are still lost in translation. 3 great ones to research are: the Gospel according to St. Peter (Jesus' head disciple); according to Mary Magdalene (Jesus' infamous feet-anointer, faithful follower, & witness to his resurrection) which was only left out because a woman could never be a prominent figure during those times; and the Gospel according to Thomas.

Why don't we remember our past lives? Well, we used to, but we destroyed ourselves too many times. This will get touched on deeper in a later posting, but according to science, this earth has been wiped out several times throughout history, about every 12,000 years or so. One of the most recent cataclysms was caused by a meteor, which hit right near the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, by the Gulf of Mexico. There were mammoths found completely preserved and frozen near the north pole. They were standing up and had food still in their mouths, which proves it was the most sudden death ever experienced by a human or animal. Most evidence points to us, humans, getting to a state where our technology far surpassed our consciousness. Does this not sound similar to where we are now? The multiple cataclysms were so devastating that we evolved to erase them from our memories. We now just have to worry about our physical appearance, instead of worrying about our past mistakes.

A couple more Jesus lines that speak for themselves:
--"Jesus answered and said to them, 'Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.' Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist"(Matt 17:11-13).
--“Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John... He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit... He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just"(Luke 1:13-17).