Many religions and mystical schools affirm that the soul does not die with the body, but that we reincarnate, that we are reborn in another body in the future, if we have any pending mission in this life. In this post, we are going to tell you what the wisdom of Kabbalah has always pointed out in this regard. You will be surprised to know that you can reincarnate in life, and that you can choose the teachers and souls that will share with you your own body, this avatar that you inhabit here and now.
1 .- For Hindus and Buddhists
To begin with the issue, we have to say that reincarnation is a firm belief in Hinduism and Buddhism. For the Hindus, there is a kind of wheel, a circular mechanism in time, which makes the souls reincarnate again and again, in a tiring way.
The souls become contaminated in their lives, the avatars are stained, and those stains are not erased with death, they are the "karma", and they are inherited in the next life or reincarnation.
Buddhists believe that Buddha himself reincarnates, and await his coming every so often. The monks of Tibet, through special meditations, discover where the Buddha has been reborn, and go out to look for that child, that avatar, to take him to a monastery in the Himalayas, where he will be educated to exercise his sacred mission. We've seen that in films like "The Little Buddha."
2.- For Christians and Jews
For Christians, reincarnation will occur with the return of the Messiah. The righteous, those inscribed in a certain book or code that is only accessed through holiness, are those who will reincarnate, who will come back to life. But that life is mixed with a never-clarified notion of a "beyond", an afterlife.
Reincarnation was not invented by Christians. As a large part of their beliefs, they inherited it from Judaism. It is not surprising. Jesus was not Greek or Egyptian. Jesus was a Jew, and during his life he did nothing but preach a reformation of Judaism, which he made very clear when he said: "I do not come to change the Law, but to make it be fulfilled." What later the Romans built with his teachings, a new non-Jewish church, is another story.
The version of Judaism, from which the Christian belief of reincarnation derives, is very peculiar, and little known in the Latin and Christian world.
A very curious detail is that the reincarnation of Judaism was originally thought of as carnal one. It is not about souls entering new bodies like in Hinduism. They will resuscitate 600,000 bodies when the Massiach era (Messiah) arrives. It is a real reincarnation, strictu sensu, the same flesh is reborn, the same bones, and the soul that inhabited it will returns to that body, with consciousness, with all the memories of their last life.
It is the reason why there are so many burials in Israel. Every wealthy Jew makes the effort to have his bones buried in Israel (do not even think about cremation), so as to be closer to the area where the Messiah will surely enter (supposedly one afternoon, walking down a small street in the city of Safed), and thus be able to enjoy the benefits of being reborn.
Tomb of the ARI in Safed
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This implies another life, not in another world, but in this same world, in an era in which there will be no diseases, no wars, and in which human beings will live thousands of years, like Adam, Methuselah and the patriarchs of the Old Testament, or forever and ever. At least, it is what has been pro,ised by the prophets who have envisioned the Messiah's era, which some call today a step from three-dimensional beings to beings of the Fifth Dimension. But that, too, is another story.
3.- What Kabbalah says
For Kabbalah, the body is finite, mortal, dust, and to the dust will return. But the soul does not, because it has equality of form with its Creator, it has similarity with the genetic codes of the Beresheet, of the moment of the creation of the universe.
In addition, there is only one general soul, called Adam Harishom, and each of us, our egos (our Self), is just a spark of that soul.
We are connected to it, and from it we receive all the information from birth to death, and even afterwards. Carl G. Jung had to be born in the twentieth century to allow us to understand the notion of the collective unconscious, something that did not please the science of Greco-Roman heritage, because it diluted the glorious and superb ego (the Self), whose last great priest was Freud.
And we had to reach the 21st century to understand the notion of "cloud" on the Internet, that is, a series of servers where all the information we need in everyday life is stored and "floated". Something like that "cloud" is the collective soul, the Adam Harishom. And the Creator would be the hidden, distant server, from where the light (data, information) of creation flows.
When dying, the information that was rooted in the body (in the hardware) returns to the server, to the general soul, and it would be the vision of lights, ascensions to infinity and all the images that in an astonishingly similar way those who have had the experience of clinical death and return tell us.
Those sparks can descend again, embody in another body, but without memory of the previous body they inhabited, except for rare exceptions that have been documented in India, or the case of the boy James Leininger, who remembered exact details of his previous life as Jack Larson, an American pilot of World War II, who died tragically near Japan. The boy James Leininger had a memory of the Corsair model aircraft, the Natoma aircraft carrier and the battle in which he died in his past life, and since he was two years old he had nightmares with this battle, which he drew obsessively.
For Kabbalah, then, souls would not be reborn because they have never died, but would rotate through the various bodies, maintaining the same gender or sex they had in the past life.
How does this affect the traditional concept of reincarnation? How is the process of rotation of the souls in the bodies? What exactly do the Kabbalists say about reincarnation in life?
In the next post, we will continue with this exciting topic.
Shalom!
Óscar Reyes-Matute
(Samuel Ibn Motot / שמואל אבן מתת)
Video reccomended:
The case of James Leininger
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