Do We Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way? Q: I personally have a strong Christian upbringing. I can remember the point when I said, “Gee. How do you know what you are telling me?” Then there was a long period of doubts and thinking and thinking and finally thinking, “Well, there really is a system.” I felt like I came out of it finally although it is very complex to me. RK: That is the way it should be for everybody, not just you. Everybody in this room has to have something to teach them. Not that we are the source of all-knowingness. A lot of people feel that when I die I will become omniscient. I will know then all the answers to all these things and that is not so. All the clairvoyants and the mediums who deal through spirits all tell us that you are not any further advanced after you die or know any more things than while you were alive. So, we constantly have to keep coming back here and learning more and learning more until finally we build on what we have known and go forward from there. Some people will believe in reincarnation because it solves a lot of problems for them, feels more comfortable to them and somehow or other makes them feel they have a second chance or maybe a third chance if they goof up in this lifetime. It also makes it fairer, seems more just to some people. Let’s say there is a young man who got into the wrong company and followed what he was being told was the truth and it turned out to be all a lie and ended up being a murderer or a thief or something of that sort. He is condemned to eternity to hell-fire, etc., etc. It does not seem fair. About the only thing you can do is self-righteously say, “Nobody ever caught me at my mistakes so maybe I will sneak through and get into heaven.” Somehow, it seems to offend most people’s sense of justice. It also makes some people seem self-righteous which is probably unjustified. All of us eventually will have done everything. We will all, through all the different incarnations we have gone through, have made all the mistakes and have it personally driven home to us as to what works and what does not. There is some kind of internal remembrance of that that keeps forewarning us, “that is not right and this way is better.” Some people say that is a God-given conscious. Well, the power of attaining conscious is definitely God-given, but how you developed it was based on your experiences and how you responded to your experiences. (03-1983)
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