Free Will and Reincarnation

Free Will and Reincarnation

Free Will as a life path

Let us put forward two propositions, mutually exclusive to each other:

a) We have complete free will
b) We are subject to an overpowering force ( If partial free will exists then b) applies)

If b) applies then, until I am stopped, I choose to behave as if a) is true, so therefore as a way of being:

I affirm uncompromised free will as a life path.

Reincarnation and peer group approval

My free will chooses to have the authority and power to determine all of my experiences on this Earth and all other planes of existence.

I do not care very much whether anyone agrees with me; I am responsible for my own outcomes - and peer group approval or disapproval is simply a facet of the kaleidoscope of my life; it adds colour.

Reincarnation and Fellowship

Since I enjoy a measure of resonance with other thinkers I have sought out a group of people who follow this line of thought. However I don't believe that it, or anything else, is 'true' for everyone - but for me it is good. I simply choose this way of thinking as a path because it feels right to walk along it.

I am a mini-Sun

I conceive of myself as a ball of energy like a mini-sun with a focus and also with radiance, so that who I am interacts with all and everything to some extent. My beingness is unending; I choose not to die. Yet certain constructs exist within each of the worlds. On this Earth plane there is 'cause and effect', there is limitation and there is death. Yet it is quite possible to reside in a condition of awareness of 'soul-self' and then we can employ death as a traveller does an airline - to take us forward to our next chapter when we are ready.

Need for incarnation

As the soul matures it takes on further qualities and appetites for experience. These effectively are 'attitudes of magnetism' and attract the experiences needed in order to gain further knowledge. Some of these require immersion in the Earth realm since this world has unique laws that bind us into committed interactions and so accelerate our spiritual development.

Reincarnation and Parenting

Arriving into the physical world is quite shocking for the soul, whose essence-nature is pure and very sensitive indeed, so it is very easily unsettled. Inevitably parenting is imperfect, and the soul gets impressed strongly by inappropriate forces such as impatience, anger, sentimentality and even blame. These distort the balance of the incarnated soul and so its subsequent life journey is negatively affected. In other words we all have some degree of neurosis. These neurotic patterns need to be released for us to know untarnished joy.

The Golden Rule

A path that clears neuroses and brings us joy is one where we are perpetually of clear conscience, always truthful and always optimistic. This path is to follow the Golden Rule. (Do as you'd be done by).

Practice and Prayer

Piled onto this simple spiritual wisdom is a load of religious embellishment and social control, but such philosophy and regulations are only temporarily helpful for the seeker; in the end we must go our own way. Spiritual practices such as breathing, mantra, dance, visualisation and prayer most certainly help - and by prayer I mean but one thing only, we just say to life " Wow, thanks!"