An Analogy

(Recently in the UK press there has been a bit of a to-do regarding the reciting of prayers before town council meetings, and a lawsuit by the Secular Humanist Society or some such regarding the practice, which has kicked up a storm on the Letters pages of the daily papers and on Comments sites on the internet, about the role of religion in the political life of nations. Not merely a recent subject; and far from it. It all feels rather dated. I would like to broaden the dialogue a bit. Herewith my two cents’ worth.)

An Analogy

In the beginning was the virus - so to speak.

I want to draw an analogy to the existence of a Supreme Being - or at least, a First Cause1 - in a phenomenon that we can relate to - can, hopefully, relate to, he said - that occurs in the realm of our human life; ie, in the material realm. It has to do with the HIV - the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

In the beginning - as I understand the story. The details may not be precisely true, but the broad concept is. So: In the beginning, the scientists involved in the investigation into what became known as AIDS - Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome - could not actually see the viral cause - or at least, the causal factor. There was a presumption of what that was, but at that point, it was, could only be, a presumption. A presumption based on the presence of antibodies to ‘it’; whatever ‘it’ was precisely. Its reality was inferred, from its effect on its environment. It left a trace, that could be seen, and measured. Something was causing these antibodies to be developed. To tell a tale, of a presence.

And we can see a tale of a presence - a reality - of something larger than life; something we can, with some justification, call a Supreme Being, or a First Cause, or our Source, from at least one trace of its presence, in the phenomenon we have called reincarnation. Which implies a Plan. And a Plan implies a Planner. And not just something we call ‘evolution’, which can explain some gross material things. But the presence, the existence, of something beyond the gross material - in the realm of what we call ‘spirit’, or ‘the etheric level’, or ‘higher vibrations’, or some such description of something beyond the merely material - legitimately implies the existence of something ‘larger’ - more refined, shall we say - than our material realm alone can account for.

The existence of a Plan can imply the existence of a Purpose as well. But at this point, that Purpose can only be conjectured about. But we can, with some justification, from the ‘outline’ of the Plan - the existence, the reality of what we call reincarnation - make a decent stab at, infer, what could that Purpose be? At least in part??

Sages over the centuries have given that question a good mental stab; and have applied to the phenomenon, the principle, of reincarnation, an explanatory factor, that has been called ‘karma’. Meaning, roughly speaking, the existence of the consequences of actions. Action - reaction. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, in scientific terms. Which can be summarized in the expression that I like to use, to cover a greater concept, that I will get to in a moment: that As we do unto others, so do we do unto ourselves. And literally. But that latter ‘take’ on the matter is down the road a bit, still, in this little essay, using an analogy to make a point, about how we can make a legitimate, logical, rational inference about a greater reality than just the material one, from a trace of its existence in this material one, in the form of the phenomenon that we call reincarnation.

Now, you can say, ‘Well, that’s just your stuff’ - so to speak. ‘That’s still just a belief.’ But, really, is it??

Is the existence of the HIV really just a belief?

Actually, to complicate this discussion a bit - in a way, to ‘weaken my case’ a bit; but not really, but I’ll continue - there is, in point of fact, some legitimacy in the argument that there has been some hanky panky in this business, of a particular virus causing a whole range of symptoms, that may well not be caused by just one agent. But that’s getting into the further detail of that story. The analogy is still useful to employ, to make a point. For me to make my point: that we can legitimately infer a larger reality than just the material reality that we are currently in, from such traces of a larger reality as contained in the phenomenon that we call reincarnation, and - to complete my point - its attendant law of karma.

Meaning, that everything we do has consequences. Not only on others. But on ourselves.

There is, in short, justice in the universe.

But I’m beginning to get a little ahead of myself. My ‘argument’. My case, as to the existence of a larger reality, than that bordered simply by our birth and our death. In the material realm.

Which the scientists of our day are already discovering is but part of a larger whole. And here we get into the subject area of the existence of a sort of mirror image of our reality, our dimension, where we can be said to be existing in the realm of space-time, to which there is an energetic mirror realm, called time-space. And that other realm, dimension, can be entered into from this one, through what are called portals.2

But I’m beginning to get a little ahead of myself. But you might as well see where I’m going with this little discussion, about things of significance to our lives. And our current life time. When all of these strands are starting to come together. In order to aid us to make the leap, from current consciousness - current consensus consciousness, reality - to a higher level of consciousness. Higher level of grasp of reality. Of All That Is. That will see us through, into a better level of existence than we have managed heretofore on our lovely planet Earth. Better way of being, with one another. AS One Another. As the Human Family.

Experiencing, in a positive way, the quality of life of: One Planet. One Humanity. One Destiny.

But back to the subject of reincarnation.

All of this is all well and good, you say; but is there any evidence for that phenomenon?

I’m glad you asked. But, he said, gently: Need you to have asked? With all the evidence that there is, and has been, for years, and years, and years, regarding this subject; this phenomenon??

Granted, it’s not all ‘your’ fault. Your carrying culture has not done a very good job of helping you look at this matter. It has really been a very unenlightened culture, in being so engaged (ie, in thinking of 'it' as an identity) in looking strictly, or at least, mostly, at what is right in front of it. On the material level. Day to day existence. Buying and selling. Shopping and providing. Changing nappies, and oil, and...

The material life. The Material Girl, and Guy.

Oh, there has been the vague sense, of What’s it all about, Alfie, lurking on the edges of its consciousness. To be looked into further, some day...

Well, I’m here to tell you, that that ‘some day’ is here.

A time and place for us...

The evidence for the phenomenon, the ‘fact’, of reincarnation, is overwhelming; especially in our day. Our advanced Communications technology has brought to a larger audience than ever before, information regarding ‘past lives’, in many forms - books, videos, studies. Case after case after case of evidential material, confirming its existence; its reality.

One good example of which is the book ‘Past Lives Therapy’, by Morris Netherton, Ph.D. (first published in 1978, incidentally), wherein is explored the premise that “(t)he unconscious mind operates like a tape recorder. Indiscriminately, it records and stores any and every event that takes place...” This is also known in Eastern cultures as the akashic record. Anyway, the point of the book was and is to make a case for how things in our past lives affect our current lives in many ways, and if a previous event can be accessed, through a trained technique of self-hypnosis - really connected with, so that it becomes very real in the moment; as if it were happening in current time, being relived now - it can be released, and thereby cause the release of its effect in the present incarnation. That effect may be an attitude, or a physical condition - mental, emotional, or physical.

I don’t want to go into all this in detail here. Suffice it to say, for here and now, that there is considerable evidence in the record for the reality of reincarnation. Of the concept that ‘as we sow, we reap’.

For a purpose. And that purpose, as I say, can be conjectured upon. But it is not too large a stretch to consider that it is two-fold. One: that it is proof that there is justice in ‘the universe’. In the life experience. The total life experience; which, there is every good reason to believe, from this reality, of reincarnation, encompasses more than just this one life; and very possibly more than just a physical life on Earth. And more than life on this material plane of existence. And two: that, as we gain awareness, and grow from our experiences, and understand the dynamics involved - that As we do unto others, so do we do unto ourselves - we are progressing. Are evolving. In a spiritual context.

And as we do, we help others to do so as well, by the quality of our lives. And that awareness grows, and expands; and can ultimately take over the prevailing culture, and help move it up to a higher level, of awareness. Of consciousness. So that we don’t have to continue doing the same things over and over. Like enter into wars with ourselves, and such. Can break the patterns of lifetimes.

And move the world into a New Era. A Golden Age. Whereby we can build on our new-found collective wisdom, and understanding, of what life is all about. And inherit, and help bring about, ‘a new Heaven, and a new Earth’.

Understanding, then - really getting - that As we do unto others, so do we do unto ourselves - precisely because We Are One Another. Just playing roles. Now a prince; now a pauper. Now a male, now a female. Now of one race or religion or nationality, now of another. In order to grow in awareness. Ultimately to understand, not only that We Are One Another. But that We Are One.

That underneath this realm of duality - of separation into different bodies, and experiencing both the Light and the Dark, in the land of free will. - we are all of a Oneness. Sparks of the same divine Source. Fractals of the one Hologram.

Which may well be a projected reality, at one remove from our true Source.

But then that’s in the realm of conjecture. Here, let me stick to the facts of the matter.

The matter, of our true natures. Yes, we have an animal nature, from our vehicle in the phenomenal world.3 But we also have another part to our natures. A higher part. A more advanced part. That makes of us, ‘spiritual beings having a human experience’, in the words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

A good man; who has helped point the way, for us to move out of our lower capacities, into our higher ones.

There have been many such good men, and women, on our journey into the Light.

And they would have been part of the Dark forces as well; to some extent.

Since All is One, in the end.

At the end of the day. And I mean: at the end of the day. In which we have been living. Ready, now, to move into the new day, dawning. For humankind, to make the leap - as I say, and here reiterate, for emphasis - onto a new, higher level of consciousness than any ever heretofore, on dear old planet Earth. Readying us, with Her, for Ascension.

At the very least, as a manner of speaking.

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1 What does it take to qualify as a ‘Being’? Arms and legs, a body, a brain?? The definition could be broader than that, getting into the conceptual neighborhood of ‘consciousness’. Which could take the form, simply, of an Energy. Or, say, of Light (which contains information). Or some combination of Light and Love. That is to say, pure qualities, without an embodiment of some sort. Thus I also posit the description, of a First Cause, besides thinking of something beyond Man - superior to Man - as a Supreme Being.
By whatever name, it would smell as sweet. Which reality gives us our higher senses, and sensibilities.


2 For this point - and the statement in the footnote above, about Light containing information - see David Wilcock’s recent book ‘The Source Field Investigations’.


3 this combination - deliberately spliced - of genes from a hominid species on this planet, with those of a race of beings from another planet (known to the ancient Sumerians, whose ‘gods’ they were, as the Anunnaki). Who, perhaps all unbeknownst to themselves - seemingly having grown rather comfortable on this material level of existence; and simply looking to create workers to meet their needs - thereby gave our Source further access to a process of self-reflection - to fractionating Itself off into self-individuating pieces of Itself. For the purpose - perhaps - of growing Itself, more fully, into Its potential.
But then that’s all just conjecture. At this point.
The latter, that is. The former - about Homo sapiens’ origins on the planet - has every indication of being factual from the many books of Zecharia Sitchin on the subject. And helps explain why, in the Judeo-Christian Bible, it talks about “when the sons of The Elohim” (a plural term, literally meaning ‘The Lofty Ones’) “came in unto the daughters of ‘The Adam’” (a generic term, meaning the human species; created by the Anunnaki; the latter literally meaning ‘Those who from Heaven to Earth came’ - NOT ‘giants’. Space travelers. Interplanetary settlers; who came frm their troubled planet to Earth in need of gold. And hasn’t that aspect of our natures stayed with our species down through the ages...).