Imagine one massive drop of water, as big as the earth,
falling from a great height. What will happen when it hits
a flat surface?
Yes, the massive drop of water will split into tiny
droplets ' myriads of them. That is similar to what
happened when we got separated from God. We became
humanity, and there are a few billion of us on this planet.
Imagine that each one of us also broke into pieces at the
beginning of time. Each one of us strive to become whole
again, and then to become part of God again. How do we do
that?
Imagine each of those tiny droplets that form you, wanting
to unite with the other droplets again, and then wanting to
re-unite with the other individuals that are part of the
gigantic drop that is God. It would be like watching a
reversed film of the droplets becoming a gigantic drop
again.
This process of becoming whole again can happen in one
lifetime, or it can happen over many lifetimes. That is
re-incarnation.
Each lifetime that we spend on this earth is part of
eternity. Each lifetime brings us closer to being whole as
individuals again, and that is why we return to this earth.
The bodies, people and circumstances we choose each time we
return to the earth depend on what we need to learn here.
Do we need to return as males or females? With other
people from previous lives whom we have unfinished business
with? Or with different people?
Have you ever noticed that some people tend to have close
bonds that are not affected by time of circumstances? Like
lovers or twins that separate and meet again years later?
Mother and daughter that are very close? Friends that live
in different countries, but always remain in contact?
Could it be that such people have become whole to the
extent that they are there to support one another on this
part of the eternal journey?
The opposite is also true ' that people experience intense
destructive emotions about each other, but for some reason
they cannot separate. We all know about the wife that in
her mind has a very good reason for staying with a cheating
or violent husband. The same holds for e.g. incestuous
relationships and for abused and neglected children.
None of these happen by chance or by accident. It is all
part of a Plan that spans centuries, and of a movement
towards integrating first with our selves, and then with
one another.
Eternity does not know time. We created time so that we
can better understand the Plan.
Eternity also does not know form. We use bodies because we
are not spiritually whole enough yet to leave those bodies
behind.
We keep re-incarnating until we can, as in the example of
the droplets, be re-integrated again.
Then, like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi and others
like them, we return to this earth again, so that we can
light the path for our brothers and sisters. Our aim is to
re-integrate all souls, so that we can become One with God
again.
That is what re-incarnation is about.
That is why we sometimes "recognise" complete strangers and
experience déjà vu (the strong, sure feeling
that you have been in a particular place or situation
before, even though your logical mind says it is
impossible).
That is also why we sometimes have shocking daydreams about
the people we love most, and why we often have such
difficulty breaking away from the people that hurt us most.
Once we understand that we are part of eternity, it often
becomes easier to understand the most joyful and most
hurtful parts of our lives. Then we get closer to being
like those perfect single drops of water that reflect the
beauty of nature, or even to being like the collection of
perfect drops that form a rainbow.
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Spiritual interpretations of everyday life and of the book
A Tapestry of Life
