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    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation
    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation
    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation
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    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation

    By Thomas J. Mason

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    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation is that we do come back. Death is not an escape. The Near Death Experience that I had this lifetime showed me that God is with us always and we are already with God, wherever we are. As God’s children we are always welcome to come Home for a visit, but God did not create us as individuals, with self-determinism, to hang around Heaven all day, as that “Lucky Old Sun” does. God gave us life to have a life.
    In my understanding, and realize that is all I know – in my understanding, God gave us life to have a life, to create our lives as we choose, to be a man or a woman, to be a highwayman, or a spaceship captain, or a drop of rain or a rock, or a tree or a fish, or a hamster – whatever we choose. Even if we choose to be a pebble on a beach, we have God’s blessing to contribute to God’s creation by creating.
    The HORRIBLE truth is that we will be back in the world we leave. We are, by this time in our eternal wanderings, so bound to the lives we are living, by our good deeds and our bad deeds; by those we love, and those we hate; by all the interconnections to others and this planet and this universe; by our successes and our failures; by all the incomplete projects in our lives, all the things we wish we had done differently, that we cannot get our attention off these lives and this planet and this universe. We are doomed or blessed to come back and have another go at it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas J. Mason
    Release dateAug 4, 2018
    ISBN9780463286258
    The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation
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    Thomas J. Mason

    Thomas J. Mason is a retired Information Technology Manager who lives in the High Desert north of Los Angeles with his wife of forty-two years and their dog, Tara. He discovered, after falling in love with the beautiful redhead who was to become his wife, that in addition to her incredibly cute redheaded twins, she had six other children. But by then it was too late. He was hooked. She continues to be the best thing that ever happened to him. These days, he puts his great-grandchildren to sleep by singing Irish and Scottish traditional songs while accompanying himself on his Irish flat drum, called a bodhrán.

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      The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation - Thomas J. Mason

      Section1

      Reincarnationi

      The HORRIBLE Truth

      The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation is that we do come back. Death is not an escape. The Near Death Experience that I had this lifetime showed me that God is with us always and we are already with God, wherever we are. As God’s children we are always welcome to come Home for a visit, but God did not create us as individuals, with self-determinism, to hang around Heaven all day, as that Lucky Old Sun does. God gave us life to have a life.

      In the song, The Highwayman, by Jimmy Webb, there are the lines:

      "I fly a star ship across the universe divide

      And when I reach the other side

      I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can

      Perhaps I may become a highwayman again

      Or I may simply be a single drop of rain

      But I will remain

      And I'll be back again and again and again."

      In my understanding, and realize that is all I know – in my understanding, God gave us life to have a life, to create our lives as we choose, to be a man or a woman, to be a highwayman, or a spaceship captain, or a drop of rain or a rock, or a tree or a fish, or a hamster – whatever we choose. Even if we choose to be a pebble on a beach, we have God’s blessing to contribute to God’s creation by creating.

      The HORRIBLE truth is that we will be back in the world we leave. We are, by this time in our eternal wanderings, so bound to the lives we are living, by our good deeds and our bad deeds; by those we love, and those we hate; by all the interconnections to others and this planet and this universe; by our successes and our failures; by all the incomplete projects in our lives, all the things we wish we had done differently, that we cannot get our attention off these lives and this planet and this universe. We are doomed or blessed to come back and have another go at it.

      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

      Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death...

      It is a central tenet of ... Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. The idea of reincarnation is found in many ancient cultures, and ... was held by Greek historic figures, such as Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato. It is also a common belief of various ancient and modern religions such as Spiritualism, Theosophy, and Eckankar, and is found as well in many tribal societies around the world, in places such as Australia, East Asia, Siberia, and South America.

      Although the majority of denominations within the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam do not believe that individuals reincarnate, particular groups within these religions do refer to reincarnation; these groups include the mainstream historical and contemporary followers of Kabbalah, the Cathars, Alawites, the Druze, and the Rosicrucians.

      Time After Time

      The concept is repeated over and over in popular culture: Time after Time; We Have All Been Here Before; The Highwaymen singing, I’ll be back again and again and again...

      We come back, we know it, yet we start out each life pretending it’s going to be different this time around. That is probably for the best. Otherwise, we would carry on from where we left off last lifetime: right in the middle of that argument or fight – actually we do that, don’t we? Still blaming the same people for the world’s problems. The reverse of that is true as well: still courting the same girl; still trying to complete that project; still hanging out with the same friends; or being born back into the same family.

      Each time I’ve had a new understanding about what Douglas Adams, of Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy fame called Life, the Universe, and Everything, I’ve eventually realized that I’ve had that same realization before. The most recent was just yesterday, when I realized that all the new revelations I’ve recently had were revelations I’ve had before. Which makes me wonder why I got myself into the situation where I had to have these same realizations again. Am I really stupid, or is playing The Game more interesting than understanding it and getting out? Obviously!

      To Body or Not to Body

      So, What is the Question?

      The Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead contain fascinatingly complicated descriptions of the journey of the Spirit or Soul in the between lives area after one has dis-incarnated, or separated from a body, in other words, died, and before one has reincarnated, or picked up another body, in other words, been reborn.

      In my observation, the situation is not that complicated. I know of two delightful old ladies, who reassured their families that the were going to be all right, went to sleep, dropped their bodies (died), and popped into new bodies just as they were being born, with no delay at all. So the matter is not that complicated. We’ve been doing it for many, many lifetimes and there is no reason to make a fuss about it.

      However, staying incarnated, once one has picked up a body, has proven more challenging. This book is about that subject: staying incarnated after one has chosen to reincarnate, and this whole reincarnation thing.

      Some religions hold that you are a body, a creation of an all-powerful deity; some grant you a soul, a mysterious something that can be saved or that, once freed from the body by death, spends the rest of eternity suffering in fire or floating on a cloud or indulging in the pleasures of the flesh. I do not know how that last bit is explained if one does not have a body.

      The religions I spent my time studying from 1967 to 2010 all seemed to accept the premise that the individual was a spirit who had a body and the purpose of the religious practice was to free the being from the body. I do not know why I studied them. They did not describe my situation, but then, nothing else did either. I was already out of my body.

      The Near Death Experience I had changed my life. Before the NDE (Near Death Experience), I was like a kid playing with a remote control car. My body was the car and I was outside it, controlling it somewhat, but from a distance. Running the body this way, brought the body near death, hence the NDE. To keep it alive, I had to take control. In this analogy, I had to get behind the steering wheel and take an active interest in where the body was, where it was going

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