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Reincarnation On Trial

Reincarnation is a worldly, materialistic concept.

 

 

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Editor’s note: On the “Sensibility” page, we discovered dozens of testimonies from the other side concerning an inability to see or hear upon crossing over. These were documented in Charlotte Dresser’s book, “Life Here And HereAfter.”

Several of these testimonies, from those who had led selfish lives on Earth, recounted a desire to return to the Earth. I offered a comment such that these statements formed an undergirding to reincarnational doctrine:

Editor’s comment: We’ll want to take special note of these remarks concerning “I miss the good old days of the Earth so much”; or, “I feel so unfit to live in the spirit world, I wish I could go back to the old world where I was comfortable.” This underpinning self-perception of unworthiness and unfitness, in many cases, among the low-minded, materialistic spirits in the shadowlands and even in Summerland, will form the foundation of a belief in reincarnation. It’s a way of escape from the soul’s mandate to face what one has made of oneself and to move forward from that basis; it becomes , a dishonest attempt to run away from one’s debts – debts to whom? – to one’s higher self, one’s soul nature, and to lose oneself in the oblivion of new identity, new world, new environment. Reincarnation is a worldly, materialistic concept. And now some will ask, how can that be as reincarnation speaks of many spiritual topics?” The answer is, do not confuse true spirituality with an object of thought. Talking about spirituality is not spirituality. Reincarnation is a materialistic notion because it preaches that something external to oneself, external to the soul-life within – a new world, a new body, a new situation – will transform the immaterial soul into something more advanced. But the soul cannot be touched by anything in material world. It stands alone, inviolable, unmoved. But this takes us in the wrong philosophical direction. The soul needs no advancement. It is life itself to us and was created in the likeness of the Creator and requires no enhancement. What we do need is to remove “the dark thick clouds which hide the Sun” of the true self.

 

a materialistic spiritualism

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was Asia's first Nobel Laureate. Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He spoke through the agency of Leslie Flint in the early 1960s.

“You are spiritualists as you call yourselves, knowing some aspects of the truth, but even then, even among the spiritualists I have been in contact with, especially since I've been here, I have been to various places where spiritualists congregate together and very seldom do I see any realization of truth in the highest sense.

attracting speakers, immature, materialistic, in their thinking

"It's all on a very low, material level, and in consequence they attract to themselves, many of them, souls who have very, made very little progress. Indeed many of them are very much the same as the people themselves. Indeed I would go as far as to say that generally speaking, spiritualism is not so much spiritual, it is very material, it is a very material conception of something which basically is spiritual. I mean it is very distressing.”

 

 

 

 

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