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Reincarnation On Trial
Would the experience of changing one's
gender create the fully mature person?
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A major precept among adherents of “R” is that of the importance of experiencing the other gender in order to become a perfected person.
The logic is often this: “I know what it’s like to be a female [or a male], I know the thoughts and viewpoint of a female, but if I could be a male with its particular perspective then I could be whole and complete.”
There are problems with this assertion on many levels, ones which have been addressed in earlier articles. Essentially, however, this is one more errant declaration of the supremacy of experience in terms of maturing the soul. But, experience, per se, can never mature the soul.
But let’s look at the implications of the statement: “I am a female and I know what a female knows.” Is this correct? Are females (or males in their respective turn) privy to deep understanding of the mysteries of the womanly mind?
Hardly. Each of us, female or male, at center of being, is linked to Universal Consciousness. One’s sense of “I-ness” and self is not a stand-alone entity but exists as a form of derivative life, merging seamlessly with Mother-Father God.
To know one’s self, in any semblance of fullness, would be tantamount to knowing all about God – which is not possible, and will never occur.
If a female or male says “I know what it’s like to be a member of my gender” – meaning, “I have substantial understanding of my own gendered mind” – then, I will suggest, this is gross illusion. Much of what one perceives or deems to be essential female or male mind-frame is nothing more than the conditioned self, a product of one’s particular culture, religion, education, and upbringing. This assessment of gendered disposition, the self-image, the personal evaluation, will vary considerably from tribe to tribe, around the world, courtesy of what Herodotus termed “local nomos.” As Krishnamurti used to say, "We can be conditioned to believe anything", and, most often, our beliefs, our personal "truth", issues as function of geography, where we were born.
And to posit that “If only I could live another gendered life, then I would have full knowledge of the complete and whole person” – is simply error. Female and male, individually, throughout the last millions of years, have created the world’s dysfunctional society, and to say that putting them together in one head would somehow create the utopian perfect person is just nonsense.
Allow me state this again concerning experience. We’re headed for a new world which offers a “Disneyworld” panoply of exciting and enthralling experiences. We’ll want many of these. It’s part of what makes life interesting and fun. But, when we avail ourselves of these experiential opportunities, we shall be under no illusion that any of it will advance us toward a more perfect spiritual maturity. That’s not what experience is for.
We quoted Dr. Peebles on the other side: "If you think you want to return to the Earth, it's because you have not yet found God within, [the true self."
This is the real and underlying issue that we must face. If we find ourselves rooting for another chance to enter a mother’s womb, and then to learn our ABCs, and all of the rest, then we need to center ourselves, “go within”, and find out what’s behind this desire for retrogression. It’s not something healthful. See “the 500 article” concerning those on the other side who fixate on this misperception and, in so doing, slide into an insanity.
Elsewhere on the WG site, I think it’s on the “Summerland” page, we find that Twin lovers do engage in a form of Spock’s “mind-meld.” They do enter into a deep awareness of the other’s thoughts and experiences, so much so, that they say “I became the other.” And so, even if it were possible to entertain “R”, there’s no need to recast oneself as an oppositely gendered infant and start all over. It’s already been provided for. But, when someday you share this sacred intimacy with your lover, it will not turn you into a perfectly evolved person. That’s not what it’s for.
Some people believe that to become the other gender would make them whole and complete. It won’t. No experience, of any kind, can do that for you. The very notion is quite misplaced.
We’re already whole and complete on the deep inside, because the “deep inside” does not really belong to us but is, in fact, an emanation of Mother-Father God. Our task is not to try to become perfect but to uncover and to realize the reality of one’s essential perfection. We’re already “perfect” because the soul is perfect, as it issues as essence of Mother-Father God.
And nothing that we might experience at the surface of life will ever change an atom’s worth in terms of one’s core being.
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