Alternative Healing Center
The US Gallup Organization made a survey in October 2001 of Americans' belief in psychic and paranormal phenomena. For this survey, they asked adults 18 and over amongst other things if they believed in "Reincarnation, that is, the rebirth of the soul in a new body after death". In the results, 25% said they did believe in reincarnation, 20% didn't know, 54% didn't believe in it and 1% had no opinion. Belief was only slightly higher among males than females, while it varied significantly between age groups: belief amongst 28-29 year-olds was at 25%, 30-49 year-olds were at 22%, while people 50 and over were at 28%. Some speculate that the phenomenon of past lives can answer troubling questions in the present and explain deja vu, a feeling that one has seen or heard something before. Many people report that they have walked down a street in a strange city and been overwhelmed with the sudden familiarity of its shop windows, sidewalks, and store fronts. Others say that hidden memories have been stimulated by witnessing a dramatic reenactment of some scene from the past in a motion picture or television production "God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to Him." It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection." I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.
- Koran
"All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies."
Josephus (Jewish historian who lived around the time of Jesus)
"Souls are poured from one into another of different kinds of bodies of the world."
Jesus Christ in Gnostic Gospels: Pistis Sophia
Voltaire
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Birth and death are doors through which you pass from one dream to another. Someone is born on Earth in France as a powerful king, rules for a time, then dies. He maybe reborn in India, and travel in a bullock cart into the forest to meditate. He may next find rebirth in America as a successful businessman; and when he dreams death again, reincarnates perhaps in Tibet as a devotee of Buddha and spend his entire life in a lamasery. Therefore hate none and be attached to no nationality, for sometimes you are a Hindu, sometimes a Frenchman, sometimes an Englishman, or an American or a Tibetan. What is the difference? Each existence is a dream within a dream, is it not?
paramhansa yogananda
Karma is sometimes called the law of the circle. It requires that whatever we do for good or bad returns full circle to our doorstep so that our soul can learn life lessons and gain self-mastery. We determine our own fate by our thoughts, feelings, words and deeds. Our free will choices in the past set the course for our current circumstances, and the choices we make today will determine our future.
The companion law to karma is the law of reincarnation. Reincarnation provides the necessary cycles of time and opportunity our soul needs in order for us to balance our karmic debts, fulfill our divine plan, achieve mastery and bond to our Higher Self. It is simply not possible to accomplish all this in one lifetime.
There are three ways to balance negative karma:
- The first and slowest way is to just live through it. This way can often be difficult. For example, in this life a person might marry and support those whom he abandoned or betrayed in a former life. Or he might have to suffer through the abuse he previously doled out to others.
- The second way to balance negative karma is to tip the scales by performing good deeds. This can be done through selfless service to life. Perhaps someone who serves tirelessly in a nursing home does so because she knows at a soul level that her karmic scale is leaning towards the negative.
- The third and fastest way to balance karma is by using a special gift from the ascended masters – the violet flame. Invoking this high-frequency spiritual energy can literally dissolve negative karmic patterns, help you gain self-mastery and free you from the rounds of rebirth.
We each have four bodies that are envelopes of our soul: (1) the physical body, which we can see and touch; (2) the desire, or astral, body, which contains our emotions; (3) the mental body, which is our conscious mind; and (4) the etheric, or memory, body, which contains the memories of all of our past lives. The violet flame works on these four lower bodies by changing the rate of their vibration.
- The third and fastest way to balance karma is by using a special gift from the ascended masters – the violet flame. Invoking this high-frequency spiritual energy can literally dissolve negative karmic patterns, help you gain self-mastery and free you from the rounds of rebirth.
