Writer's Block: In a Former Life
Yes. I'm not religious really, at all... but I am spiritual. I do believe in ghosts, and spirits, and that we have a "home" like heaven. I would like to believe in a higher power, I guess there would have to be a supreme being. I don't really believe in a firey pit of hell (though I do joke about it), but I do believe in limbo. Really, the closest 'religion' I can find that comes close to what I believe in is a semi-christian outlook preached by Sylvia Browne. My dad thinks she's a giant fraud, but he's very close-minded. Maybe he's right, maybe she's full of shit... but I don't think so. Buddhism also resounds well with me.
What she preaches goes sort of like this: There are only so many souls, though new ones can be created by God. God is the supreme being, and Jesus Christ did walk the earth as God's son. She doesn't believe he died on the cross, but doesn't question that he did sacrifice himself for us on the cross.... he just didn't die, exactly (kind of negates the whole, rising from the dead thing). Anyways, spirit wise: when we die, we either ascend to "home" in spirit-form, or occasionally we don't realize we're dead/are afraid to go to the light because we feel we won't be forgiven, and we stay behind... stuck on earth as ghosts. I've seen ghosts, and felt them... sometimes they're angry, sometimes they're just lost and confused. She describes reincarnation as kind of a spirit's quest for knowledge.... your spirit may chose a life that is going to be have many trials, in order to gain the knowledge. You as a human usually won't remember anything from your past lives, but you may retain some things (like a fear of water, because you drowned in a past life... but not all of your fears are past-life things, obviously). She also talks about the Hall of Knowledge... or something like that. And all kinds of other interesting things ("imprints" and "chulupas" or something like that, I can't remember how it's pronounced now lol). She also says that if you are evil during your life, and your soul has turned away from the light and love that is God, you will not ascend to heaven.... instead, you go through what she calls "the left door", where you are pretty much reincarnated, hopefully learning to accept love in the next incarnation. I found that really interesting. Enough babbling, I have two of her books "Visits from the Afterlife" and "Secrets and Mysteries of the World", which were enlightening to me, but are a pretty damn good read even if you think she's full of crap, lol.
That being said, I know nothing about any of my past lives. I feel a connection to the colonial times, certain things like sewing and cooking and raising animals for food/gardening feel very homey for me. Like I've done it before. Maybe I have, maybe I'm wrong... I don't really know, lol. My dad swears that he fought in WWII, and that's why he has such a connection to it. He actually has pinpointed an airforce pilot who flew missions over Germany (I think?), that he thinks may have been his former self. Considering he thinks most of this stuff is bull, that's pretty big of him to admit that. It kind of amuses me that he was reincarnated as a half-japanese guy, with the whole WWII connection. Lol.
Maybe I'm insane, and I feel like I need to believe in something.
What she preaches goes sort of like this: There are only so many souls, though new ones can be created by God. God is the supreme being, and Jesus Christ did walk the earth as God's son. She doesn't believe he died on the cross, but doesn't question that he did sacrifice himself for us on the cross.... he just didn't die, exactly (kind of negates the whole, rising from the dead thing). Anyways, spirit wise: when we die, we either ascend to "home" in spirit-form, or occasionally we don't realize we're dead/are afraid to go to the light because we feel we won't be forgiven, and we stay behind... stuck on earth as ghosts. I've seen ghosts, and felt them... sometimes they're angry, sometimes they're just lost and confused. She describes reincarnation as kind of a spirit's quest for knowledge.... your spirit may chose a life that is going to be have many trials, in order to gain the knowledge. You as a human usually won't remember anything from your past lives, but you may retain some things (like a fear of water, because you drowned in a past life... but not all of your fears are past-life things, obviously). She also talks about the Hall of Knowledge... or something like that. And all kinds of other interesting things ("imprints" and "chulupas" or something like that, I can't remember how it's pronounced now lol). She also says that if you are evil during your life, and your soul has turned away from the light and love that is God, you will not ascend to heaven.... instead, you go through what she calls "the left door", where you are pretty much reincarnated, hopefully learning to accept love in the next incarnation. I found that really interesting. Enough babbling, I have two of her books "Visits from the Afterlife" and "Secrets and Mysteries of the World", which were enlightening to me, but are a pretty damn good read even if you think she's full of crap, lol.
That being said, I know nothing about any of my past lives. I feel a connection to the colonial times, certain things like sewing and cooking and raising animals for food/gardening feel very homey for me. Like I've done it before. Maybe I have, maybe I'm wrong... I don't really know, lol. My dad swears that he fought in WWII, and that's why he has such a connection to it. He actually has pinpointed an airforce pilot who flew missions over Germany (I think?), that he thinks may have been his former self. Considering he thinks most of this stuff is bull, that's pretty big of him to admit that. It kind of amuses me that he was reincarnated as a half-japanese guy, with the whole WWII connection. Lol.
Maybe I'm insane, and I feel like I need to believe in something.