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First, we here at the Reincarnationist wish you a delightful and food-filled Thanksgiving. Second, we hope that you will never, ever, ever become a “hungry ghost“. What is a hungry ghost, you may ask? It is something quite profound in terms of the afterlife, something that we hope to avoid becoming, something that by living a fulfilled life we hope to steer clear from. A hungry ghost is the scary type of ghost, the needy ghost who bangs around the attic hoping to stir up some delicious energy from those living beings downstairs…warm energy to feed off of because, well, energy is what ghosts eat.
(Above: William Blake painted the most intense image of a hungry ghost that I have ever seen: The Ghost of a Flea circa 1819-20.)
Hungry ghosts appear in many traditions from Buddhism to the Book of Enoch. Even the vampire legend has its foot in the concept of the hungry ghost.
In terms of Buddhist states of existence in the wheel of life, the hungry ghost is characterized by “Greed; Insatiable cravings; Addictions. “I want this, I need this, 1 have to have this”. This is the realm of intense craving. The Hungry Ghosts are shown with enormous stomachs and tiny necks - they want to cat, but cannot swallow; when they try to drink. the liquid turns to fire, intensifying their thirst. The torture of the hungry ghost is not so much the frustration of not being able to get what he wants. rather it is his clinging to those things he mistakenly thinks will bring satisfaction and relief. The Buddha in this Realm holds a Bowl from which the ‘gifts of the gods’ are distributed. This is to entice the hungry ghosts to desire for the Truth which is the only way that the deepest longings and hungers can be satisfied. Consider: ‘Gollum’ from Lord of the Rings; The obssessive nature of Video Games; Addictions of various sorts; We can be helped in this Realm by our willingness to ‘look up’, to see beyond our obsessions.”
So, as we consume the bounty of our Thanksgiving feasts and express our thanks for all of the love in our lives, let’s also be thankful that we are are not hungry ghosts, and while we’re at it, let’s leave a lovely morsel of compassionate energy and a kind wish on the table for any hungry ghosts that happen to wander by…
Cheers to the truth, that it will keep us from hunger.
(Click here for an interactive tour of The Wheel of Life.)
Lonely hearts who turn to horoscopes to find their perfect partner are wasting their time, according to the largest test of astrology ever carried out [...]
…But before we hook into any particular view, we here at the Reincarnationist enjoy delving deeply into a subject. Plumb the depths of the subject for yourself here in this gigantic rabbit hole of research on astrology…
Thank you to our reader, Janine, for her personal Reincarnation Diary! She submitted this to us via the comments section of our recent post on M.J.’s new book and interview.
I would like to submit my own Past Live Regression findings:
A few years back, for my 40th Birthday, I decided to treat myself to a seminar with Dr. Brian Weiss. I had to past life regressions. Not expecting it to work because I “did not taste the lemon” during a little test excerise, I closed my eyes and went thru a truly unexpected experience. When I looked down I was a male, tall, broad, blond and wearing Armor. I knew I was Roman but not in Rome. I was in Isreal. I was one the soildiers who were going to put Christ to death. Mind you - the movie the Passion had not come out yet and this was the furthest thing from my mind that I would have expected to be. I refused to go with the rest of the men. I tried to stop my friend but she/he refused to listen afraid to not follow. I broke away and lived a very lonely holy life. At my death bed I was alone without a soldiers buriel because I had left my career (thank goodness). I did see him and started crying. My friend was watching me while I was regressed and said I was crying and crying. He was very small and holy and I knew immediately that what we were doing was wrong. I was not afraid to stand up for him even though it could have meant death to me.
The 2nd time I was regressed, I was a middle eastern woman with green vails and wraps. I had long red hair (which I did not understand until I went to Istanbul this year and was told that woman during this time used henna to make their hair red). My ex husband from this lifetime was my husband during this time and he had many wives and concubines. At my death bed I was alone in a very small room with a bed. At the side of my bed was my two children who are my parents in this lifetime! When I fianally visited Istanbul this year and entered the Topaki Palace I started to loose my breath. I could not breath. I also started to cry. Our private guide knew exactly what was happening although I was embarressed to explain until later over Turkish coffee. I saw the room where I had died. It was all extremly interesting.
I have been wanting to share this with someone for a few years now.
Thank you for listening.
The Dalai Lama
After more 60 years of peaceful resistance and negotiations with the Chinese government over their occupation of Tibet, the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, appears to be throwing in the towel. On Oct. 27th, the Dalai Lama announced to his followers that he no longer believed successful progress in discussions with China on autonomy for his homeland were possible. “I have been sincerely pursuing the middle way approach in dealing with China for a long time now but there hasn’t been any positive response from the Chinese side,” he was quoted as saying from his home in exile in Dharamsala, northern India. “As far as I’m concerned, I have given up.”? [read the rest, here]
Environment: Reincarnation of the machines
Aniza Damis
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When a human dies, the only thing that lives on is his deeds. And his organs, if he had donated them. But can there be life after death for household appliances? ANIZA DAMIS visits the Panasonic Eco Technology Centre in Kato City, Japan, and finds there is meaning in death, even for machines
WHERE do old television sets go to die?
Now that you’ve bought that longed-for plasma TV, what do you do with the old set that’s served you so well all through university and your first home?
In Japan, thanks to a sensible government environmental law, they don’t just die; they are reincarnated.
Old cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs are taken into a recycling centre and taken apart. Their CRT glass is recovered and sold to countries that still make such TVs.
Other parts are salvaged and reused in the manufacturing of other electrical and non-electrical products.
The end result: More than 80 per cent of the TV comes back to life in one form or another. .
But it’s not just televisions that get a second-chance at life… [the rest, here]
From AM Ocala Live:
This is our interview with author M. J. Rose and her latest book, “The Memorist.” M. J. Rose is the bestselling author of ten novels including THE REINCARNATIONIST (September ‘07 in hardcover and October ‘08 in paperback) - which was chosen by Booksense as one of 2007’s Best Suspense Novels. THE MEMORIST (November 08) is M.J.’s most recent book and continues the acclaimed suspense series that looks at how our past lives impact our present lives.
Click here for the interview!
Perhaps the question should not be who IS Obama, but rather who WAS Obama…?
(The Times of India)
Who was Barack Obama in his past life? If an American doctor specialising in past life research is to be believed, Obama was apparently a close associate of ex-US president, Abraham Lincoln in his previous life.
Dr Walter Semkiw, a physician practicing in San Francisco, claims that Barack Obama is the reincarnation of Lyman Trumbull, an Illinois Democratic senator and the principal author of the Thirteenth Amendment, which put an end to slavery in the US.
Incidentally, Illinois is the state that Lincoln also represented and which Obama represents now. Semkiw, who has written two books on reincarnation — “Return of the Revolutionaries”, focusing on cases of personalities reincarnated from the time of the American Revolution and “Born Again” which features reincarnation cases of Indian celebrities, says that he arrived at Obama’s past life in a similar manner — through a combination of psychic sessions as well as background research. …(For the rest click here.)
Before you start planning your exit strategy for the next few years, and contemplating who or what you’d like to be in your next life, here is a bit of skepticism regarding the 2012 end times…
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Here is an example of how to resist reincarnating by reincarnating a disco tune that could save your life…
Disco tune “Stayin’ Alive” could save your life
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. doctors have found the Bee Gees 1977 disco anthem “Stayin’ Alive” provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim… (Read the rest at yahoo news)
Let’s temper our beliefs with a little scepticism, shall we?
Never Say Die: Why We Can’t Imagine Death
Why so many of us think our minds continue on after we die
By Jesse Bering
- Almost everyone has a tendency to imagine the mind continuing to exist after the death of the body.
- Even people who believe the mind ceases to exist at death show this type of psychological-continuity reasoning in studies.
- Rather than being a by-product of religion or an emotional security blanket, such beliefs stem from the very nature of our consciousness.
Everybody’s wonderin’ what and where they all came from.
Everybody’s worryin’ ’bout where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done.
But no one knows for certain and so it’s all the same to me.
I think I’ll just let the mystery be.
It should strike us as odd that we feel inclined to nod our heads in agreement to the twangy, sweetly discordant folk vocals of Iris Dement in “Let the Mystery Be,” a humble paean about the hereafter. In fact, the only real mystery is why we’re so convinced that when it comes to where we’re going “when the whole thing’s done,” we’re dealing with a mystery at all. After all, the brain is like any other organ: a part of our physical body. And the mind is what the brain does—it’s more a verb than it is a noun. Why do we wonder where our mind goes when the body is dead? Shouldn’t it be obvious that the mind is dead, too?
And yet people in every culture believe in an afterlife of some kind or, at the very least, are unsure about what happens to the mind at death. My psychological research has led me to believe that these irrational beliefs, rather than resulting from religion or serving to protect us from the terror of inexistence, are an inevitable by-product of self-consciousness. Because we have never experienced a lack of consciousness, we cannot imagine what it will feel like to be dead. In fact, it won’t feel like anything—and therein lies the problem… (read the rest from Scientific American)