Thank you for the links, Nigel; I will look at them more carefully in the next few days, for I was just checking this forum before going to sleep.
Hi Bradly! I was wondering what happened to you over the past week or so, since you normally reply so promptly. I appreciate you keeping me aware of things. Just so you and Rich know, prior to the UB, I have read a various sources who have done their best to explain reincarnation. While I stand by my recent comments on that subject, I will also add this – the many higher-level beings which the UB has revealed seem to have quite a tolerance & patience for our misunderstandings, especially if we are honestly trying to live appropriately & educate ourselves about life now & the afterlife. So much so that they don’t bother to overtly correct those who continue to promote “modern” ideas about reincarnation, starting with Madam Blavatski’s “Theosophy” & Edgar Cayce (whose readings I’m very familiar with) in the early 1900s, and later the Seth material (of which I was already aware) in the 1960s, and others since then like Cannon, Newton, Weiss, Goldberg, etc.
The main point of listing all those individuals is to let Rich and others know that I know very well what has been taught regarding reincarnation. But what Rich & others may not yet be considering is how truths comes to our individual awareness in stages based on what we can accept at any given time. Thus for some people, like Cayce, Newton, & others, their staring point in adult life may be atheism, and maybe later on, they may turn to Buddhism, and still later on, they may accept the teachings of mainstream Christianity, and then later in life, they may consider the version of reality as presented in the Seth readings, and then finally they may read & accept the revelation of the UB.
Notice how each set of teachings keeps getting closer & closer to ultimate truth, which is a natural human process, provided we are honestly seeking greater truths. I think Nigel once quoted the UB, stating that our ideas are like scaffolding that eventually falls away, leaving us only the essential truths. I am curious to know what Rich believed before he found the Seth teachings. Also, did Rich find it difficult to let go his prior beliefs?
Even before I found the UB, I began to question the validity of reincarnation, such as how fair is it to hold people accountable for supposed mistakes made in lifetimes that they don’t even remember?! And when I began asking serious questions of those claiming to be psychic or past-life regression therapists, I soon realized there’s no way to truly, objectively validate what they tell you about your supposed past lives. It’s all based only on what you FEEL to be true. And on a practical level, while karmic debt is being resolved in one area of our lives, we create more karmic debt in other areas of our lives, so we never really get out of the rat race when you look closely at how the reincarnation process supposedly works. One step forward but 2 or more steps backward, for each lifetime?! That doesn’t add up, even if you have 10,000 lifetimes! And now we can see why the apostle Paul falsely stated that the death of Jesus on the cross became the perfect sacrifice to end all imperfect sacrifices. Same basic idea of karmic debt needing to be paid but in a different cultural/religious setting.
But this is where the UB makes more sense – you can KNOW what to expect in great detail in the afterlife; eternal survival is logically explained, with realistic, standardized goals to meet in order to graduate to higher levels of existence.
Goodbye for now.
