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Word Gems
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Reincarnation On Trial
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We have discussed that a sense of “past lives” results from attached spirits who inject their memories into our consciousness. Our mistake here, in principle, is not unusual and happens to us all the time, in a different context, during our years of spiritual immaturity.
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Those who suffer an overshadowing by an interloping third-party discarnate entity do not know that they’ve been invaded. The host is unaware of the parasite and believes that the thoughts of the door-crashing spirit belong to one’s own person.
When we learn of this process, we might be appalled that this kind of “mistaken identity” could occur. We don’t like the prospect of being taken over by some foreign power.
However, this untoward dynamic is not unusual for us. In fact, all of us will experience a form of it for most of our lives, and probably into our time in Summerland. I am referring to the issue of the “true self” versus “false self.”
This latter subject is a major theme on Word Gems as it relates directly to the site’s mandate of helping people toward self-realization and full humanity. A basic article on the subject can be accessed here. However, for our purposes at the moment concerning analogy relative to the Theory of “R,” allow me to point out areas of confluence.
Every unenlightened person is convinced that the “monkey mind,” the chattering thoughts that won’t shut down, constitute one’s essential person. But this is not correct. The thoughts-in-the-head are but a tiniest fraction of our intelligence. This “false self” is like a parasite, masquerading as our “true self.” We think that the thoughts of the mind are who we really are. We think that this is all we are. But we are mistaken, just as the reporters of “past lives” are mistaken concerning the origin of the thoughts of purported earlier incarnation.
I will not belabor this point. Much could be said, and I’ve already said it in hundreds of pages in various articles dealing with “true self” versus “false self.”
The primary issue at hand is that it’s very easy, extremely easy, to suffer beguilement, to be buffaloed, concerning the locus of one’s authentic self.
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