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Originally posted by l_e_cox
reply to post by cornucopia
You are drinking from a deep well full of very good knowledge, but you are not to the bottom yet.
1) You mentioned nothing definite about pre-earth experience. But if we are eternal then we have obviously lived on planets other than earth.
2) You mentioned nothing definite about other cultures that undoubtedly still exist off world. Some of them and are very likely visiting earth. What are their histories and purposes?
3) You mentioned nothing definite about the sources of this knowledge. Is it arrived at via direct personal link to one's own past, or is it being passed on to us by someone else who, for some reason, remembers more than we do?
4) Data on the between-lives area seems a bit sketchy. Apparently people experience being told things, being confronted or counseled by other beings. Who are those beings and what are they trying to do? Is their purpose really as "helpful" as they want us to believe, or is there some sort of indoctrination process going on there?
These are some of the open questions in the teachings being pushed forward by what could loosely be called "New Age" teachers. They are far from dead wrong. Their teachings show a lot of workability (based on their general popularity and a lot of stories I've heard). But this knowledge is not yet complete! Who will step forward to the challenge of making it so?
The spirit is always referred to as the immaterial part of man. Man is not a spirit, he has a spirit. I believe the soul (psyche) is just what the greek word implies... the makeup of man. You are different from every other person. The thing that makes Raymond Raymond is the soul. The soul is how you relate to others and how you understand yourself. The spirit is how you relate to God.
Various regression evidence strongly suggests that the traditional idea that our successive lives are governed by a 'law of action and reaction' is unhelpful and misleading.
But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the basic idea may have come from fleeting out-of-body experiences of aspects of the intermediate realm.
There is no God in the sense of a separate entity, but there is plenty of evidence that we are all part of one, interconnected whole. So how do we reconcile this with the evidence for individual soul survival?
the aim of the Source is to experience all that is and can be