Re: Should a belief in reincarnation ...

I think that as long as you are alive... you are learning...Outside of self-defense, I do not believe in killing anyone. As an ex-soldier, I once imagined that killing was an appropriate response to evil...While I was in the military I had a spiritual experience that led me to a completely different conclusion- that every positive moment we live is captured for eternity...the garbage is filtered out and burned up- and fighting evil is something we need to do individually and within us... Each and every one of us is the killer and the killed. Taking a life eliminates the posibility of reconciliation and amends for the incarnation that is killed. Killing also potentially stops a person from learning their life lessons. Life is too precious to waste. Re-incarnation is an interesting concept. I wonder if we don't just borrow other soul's experiences as a kind of loaner tool-box for our lives? I believe we borrow other soul's experiences when we need them on a subconscious level. My argument against re-incarnation is that people rarely remember un-extraordinary lives. Example: A white male from America would probably not remember a life of a beggar woman who dies a miserable death in a miserable existence in an un-important village in Africa...and an African might never remember a life of a Chinese salesman of toiletries. The truth is that most people who have memories of another incarnation remember a life or a small moment in the life of someone of importance or someone who had a particular tragedy or experience that can help that someone deal with particular experiences in their lives. I believe we know each other before we are born...I believe we get to choose our major life "learning" and we get to pick other soul's experiences to help us along in our life's learning. If you want to say that is re-incarnation, I don't have a problem calling it that. But, I think re-incarnation is more like an incarnation library loan. We borrow an incarnation when it is meaningful. My spritual experience leads me to believe that many of those shared incarnation experiences might even be viewed from outside of our body. It might be interesting to see if people who remember a past-life remember the past-life inside or outside of the past-life body. What do you think? I think if we keep looking...we might even remember meeting the soul who gave us our mini-clip video of particular times in other incarnation's lives and we might even remember contracting with them to help us out in this life. If we dig even further pehaps we might find that there is no such thing as time and each each of us has access to every other incarnation? When we kill someone else we are ultimately harming our own incarnation because we are all made of the same stuff. Each of us with a soul may have numerous opportunities to help each other out and that is even more of a reason respecting the lives of others. Killing someone ends any opportunity to heal what needs to be healed in all of us... Just a thought...