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Reincarnation: An Overview By Richard Kieninger As busy as most of us are—building
a community, working in the business world, and sharing a family life, it’s
easy to lose sight of the higher purposes behind coming into incarnation. In
fact, all of us have spent the majority of our existence as Egos residing on
the Astral Plane as decarnate entities. The following may help you regain the
perspective you probably had prior to taking on your current physical
vehicle. Like most Egos, you have
incarnated into all major races and civilizations as you strive to master
this physical plane of existence and balance your Egoic experiences. As a
decarnate Ego on the Astral Plane you did a lot of planning and consulting
with Advanced Beings in order to evaluate your last incarnation and prepare
for this one. Generally, you wait until the timing is right to incarnate into
a society that would be conducive to your advancement. In certain instances,
you may have chosen to incarnate into a civilization where much of your
hard-earned advancement went for naught while you were trying to uplift a
tribe or helping to get civilization to go in a certain direction. If you
have incarnated now to help establish the Nation of God, you find that
societal pressures go counter to Egoic advancement and you must put up with a
lot of negativity that wasn’t around in Lemuria, where you probably spent
your most effective incarnations. At the close of your last
incarnation, when you decided that you had made optimum use of your lifetime,
you allowed your body to die. As you underwent transition you may have experienced
a rushing sound and it appeared as though you were plunging through a dark
tunnel. Suddenly, as you dissociated more from your physical body, you
discovered yourself in the presence of another being who appeared as a bright
light. This guide, usually a member of the Brotherhoods, helped you perceive
and understand your return to Astral existence. Your guide also helped you
evaluate the experiences you had during that lifetime. He or she pointed out
to you those lessons which you set up for yourself, and aided you in
determining to what extent you had learned those lessons. This review allowed
you to begin planning your present incarnation. While you are incarnate,
you travel astrally every night and can converse with other Egos on the
Astral Plane. While traveling to distant places, you maintain mental contact
with your sleeping body via a thought process which can be seen by a
clairvoyant as a faint thread of astral light like a thin wire. This is
called the silver cord. When you went through transition, your silver cord
began to dissolve. The first three days after
your body’s death is known as the retrospection period. In order for your
retrospection period to occur, your former body had to be mostly intact. Had
it been prematurely cremated (before three days had elapsed), or had it been
disintegrated in an explosion, you would not have been able to complete the
retrospection. Such circumstances are corrected by incarnating briefly into
an infant’s body which you design to die in a short time, thus providing a
body with which to go through the retrospection. After thoroughly planning
on the Astral Plane with Higher Beings those experiences you wanted to have
in your present incarnation you next decided on the moment that would be
right for your re-birth. The Higher Beings offered suggestions on this, based
on Their ability to perceive your Egoic advancement and to determine where
and when you might reenter the stream of physical existence in order to
continue your learning. You also had to decide
which Egos you wanted to have as your parents. This involved making an
arrangement with your future parents before they incarnated. These Egos may
have worked with you in prior incarnations, perhaps as friends, relatives, or
in other relationships. You need not have had any previous connection with
the Egos who became your parents, they may have “just happened” to be in the
right circumstances for your continued Egoic growth. It was necessary that
your Egoic advancement be greater than or equal to the average of your
parents’ advancement. This is a Cosmic Law. Finally, you began
designing the physical vehicle you needed for doing this lifetime’s work.
This began with the selection of your parents’ genes for determining your
body characteristics and, with the assistance of the Higher Beings, you chose
which egg and sperm would combine. As the fetus began to grow you may have
modified it in order to build in special attributes to aid your physical
work. This could take the form of a handicap to force the learning of an
attitude to further your Egoic growth, or perhaps a highly developed organ to
permit you to carry out a special task in this lifetime. For instance, Albert
Einstein had a brain which was unusually well supplied with blood by extra
capillaries, furnishing him with a super-oxygenated brain. When the time had arrived
for you to enter your new physical vehicle, you prepared Egoically for your
re-entry into incarnation. This involved a slowing of your Astral vibration,
which allowed a harmonious mergence with the physical vibrations of your new
body. In turn, this resulted in a loss of awareness of the upper Astral
Plane, and a new attunement with physical reality. The moment of your
occupancy of the new body was synchronized with a unique resonance of the
planets in our Solar System with your character development and with your
plans for your life. That moment of your reincarnation was marked by the
infant body taking it’s first breath by your Egoic will. Had you decided at
the last minute against incarnating, you could do so merely by not mentally
commanding the baby’s brain to begin breathing, thus resulting in a
stillbirth. The choice was always yours, since no Ego is required to
incarnate if he or she doesn’t want to. Now that you are well into this incarnation, like most of us, you have no conscious memory of the vast amount of Egoic experience and thought that went into designing this lifetime, and only after reading The Ultimate Frontier or other information regarding nonphysical existence is your Egoic memory of these Astral events being jogged. Many Egos who continually incarnate into one particular ethnic or religious group to the exclusion of others, never gain the perspective that would allow them to realize the full panorama of human reality. Even when these Egos go through transition, they may be unable to admit that their body has died, and thus remain in the slower Astral vibrational mode. These are known as earthbound Egos; they have not raised their perceptions in order to tap into their Egoic memory (overself). They cannot enjoy the beauty of the upper Astral Plane until they relinquish their focus upon physical existence. Many such Egos have never accepted the truths of Existence because their earthly philosophies didn’t agree with the ultimate facts, therefore, they operate on illusion even while decarnate. Whatever an Ego fantasizes on the Astral Plane becomes his environment. There his world reflects whatever he believes or imagines. |
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