Why the Concept of Reincarnation Can Matter to this Life of Yours
With specific examples of why it helps me navigate my present life
I shall start this article with a sonnet I published during Diana’s self-healing (a very spiritual concept) hiatus:
We’re soul partners in the realms of heaven Incarnate many roles across worlds’ stage Goal soul expansion with life as leaven How much pain will we endure and engage?
Each script is a bittersweet symphony Whether Greek or Shakespearean drama Lessons rise from ashes of tragedy Is suffering worth gaining nirvana?
The decisions of reincarnation Do we want to ascend to archangels? Helping souls trek to their destinations Oh with such dilemmas shall we wrangle
As the adage says no gain without pain How many rebirths can phoenix sustain?
If it pleases you to do so, please see the decoder ring here.
While Slack DMs are considered confidential, I do not think that applies when I do not reveal any personal information about the other communicant.
Some readers react to my discussion of reincarnation and the fact that I, Marcus, presently experience my 17,043rd human incarnation as Greg, with statements like, “leave me alone with your BS about past lives, I just want to focus on my life.”
In this story, I shall explain why the truth that past lives exist matters to me, and can matter to each and every one of you. How do I know it’s true, including the number of lives, and not just my opinion? See this story of mine, which I wrote to specifically answer a reader and excellent writer and thinker (Maxwell Jordan), who bluntly but respectfully asked those questions:
Synchronicity never ceases to amaze me. While drafting this story today, this article from Psychology Today, published two days ago, hit my Google feed:
Just as synchronously this great story by Andrew Bassano Brewer hit my feed yesterday. I highlighted these lines
“Past Lives” (in my opinion) are powerful forces underscoring how we (a) process emotions and, as a result of the emotional “trigger” being “processed” — the mechanism through which “karma” is initiated, (b) make decisions
and commented:
“Regarding past lives, this is my 17,043rd life, which sounds like a lot to people but I understand it is not close to vast. I have no specific memories of any of them. I have not undergone regression hypnosis, but I do speak to my spirit guides and my highest power with the assistance of a reputable channeler with whom I have worked for years, and some facts of some lives my guides have volunteered to me, and some I have asked about based upon emotional reactions I have experienced in this life that didn’t make sense with the facts of this life, which corresponds directly with what you have written here.”
Here’s the context for that comment.
Not long after my spiritual awakening, I perceived that my father had physically molested me when I was a young child. My channeler, Ane, both from her intuition, and based upon what all the spirit guides she channeled for me stated, said that he had abused me psychologically but not physically. My visceral and intense emotional reaction to my belief made this difficult for me to accept. Then it occurred to me to ask whether I had experienced something in a past life that could explain my reaction.
In June, I canceled my father. As I have stated in many essays, my reasons for doing so are not because I perceived in May that I had been subjected to a very brief period of power-based molestation. In fact, my guides said it had not happened. So, as is my INTP nature (yup, HSP and INTP — oh joy), my deeply visceral reaction in May has not made sense to me, that is until Saturday, when I decided to ask my guides if I had any sexual trauma in past lives…
Yes.
In a very recent past life, probably my last one, I incarnated as a middle eastern woman raped by three males. I carried that woman’s father’s shame to the grave with me. So, in addition to my reasons in this lifetime, canceling my father was necessary to empty pain-pocket-carry-over from that life.
A Sidebar About Soft-Plagiarism
I did not need to cite Mr. Brewer’s article here. Based upon my comment on his article, clearly nothing he said added to my knowledge and to what I chose to convey to you today. Yet, I chose to acknowledge his wisdom and that he poured as much of his heart and soul into his story as I do to mine.
Patrick Paul Garlinger wrote this great article about soft plagiarism last year, and how particularly galling it is that it infects our spiritual spaces:
How’s that for a non-woo-woo message my muse and goddess of the hunt?
Speaking of Diana:
Spiritual wisdom beyond her years Self-healing break left us in tears Gracing enlightenment seeking souls She should have been aware of the tolls By not asking for help animus sears
This morning I awoke to no more fears Return of our goddess oh so near Shall not worry for whom the bell tolls My muse is returning
From dusk to dawn disciples will be near Shall bless us now we’ve reached the New Year I pray you delegate wisely your roles Lest burnout once again engulfs totem pole Your flocks’ hearts cannot stand another spear My muse is returning
Back to Reincarnation
“A spiritual perspective helps people navigate challenges more effectively because it can give them a sense of purpose in their lives”
That I am experiencing my 17,043rd life, which is not a vast amount of lifecycles, gives me the perspective I have needed to navigate the suicide of my dear friend Andrew, the death from years of drug abuse of my friend Jason, and the loss of my lover Lindsey to an accidental overdose, and my own addictions. That latter death triggered my irreversible spiritual awakening and because of what I have learned about reincarnation I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that her soul, Sitara, and mine have incarnated together in every lifetime and we will again and that her soul is present in my life 24/7/365.
Born enslaved with trappings of advantage Handsome wealthy white male privilege Even in the darkest of times All saw his incandescent light as sublime Please rid your ship of vermiform infestages
Replace with vermilion vestiges You have a heart for the ages Stop heading windward into blaring chimes Oh Soulful Mariner
Set sails leeward with controlled rages Execrate false beauty larkspur engages Break free of demon tendrils while still in your prime Follow sweet scent and Light of Linstara’s sage and thyme Live out your life on warm white-sanded plages Oh Soulful Mariner
I’ll leave you now with a link to one of the stories that I am sure Diana referred to in her Slack message:
In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
