Past Lives - Past Life

ALOHA ! 

“ Don’t grieve. 

Anything you lose 

comes round

 in another form. ”

  Rumi

“ If you're really 

a mean person 

you're going to

 come back as

 a fly

 and eat poop. ”
  

Kurt Cobain

“ For the first forty days

 a child
is given dreams

 of previous lives.

 Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred

 small lessons
and then the past

 is erased. ”

Michael Ondaatje

“ This life

 is but a brief

 tenure,

 one of many

 perspectives

 a spirit must 

experience

 in the quest for 

eternity. ”

Brian Rathbone

“ As a man, casting off 

worn out garments

 taketh new ones, 

so the dweller

 in the body,

 entereth into

 ones that are

 new. ”

  Epictetus

" You, I,

 we reincarnate over 

and over. 

We live many lives,

 and store up much

 experience. 

Some are

 older souls

 than others 

and so they 

know more.

 It seems to be

 an intuitive "gift."

 It is really

 hard-won experience."

 

HENRY FORD, 

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

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Do you believe

that we live

 more than once? 

Christian mystic

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said

" We are not human beings

 having a spiritual experience. 

We are spiritual beings

 having a

 human experience.  "

One night in Kona

on Hawaii's Big Island

over 20 years ago

I had a spontaneous experience

of a past life.

Suddenly,

 I was an old woman

a long time ago.

For her too, it was night;

but she / I

was on a voyaging canoe

such as the Hawaiians of old

used in their oceanic

journeys and migrations.

Forgotten for centuries,

resumed only in recent years,

voyaging and way-finding

are the very heart

of the Hawaiian Soul.

Rhythms of wave,

wind,

and the 

starry night sky

live on in the Koko,

the blood,

and in Hula.

What I remember

is confidence.

And belonging.

Confidence

in the voyaging kahunas

those young men

with the knowledge

who guided the canoe

nearby to me
and the others

across the churning

deck.

I felt a great

belonging,

so deep 

we moderns have

forgotten it.

I was part of the others,

the island we left

and the one 

we voyaged towards

together.

More a

"We"

than an

"I"

But I was there,

for that few moments:

a feeling,

a knowing,

a memory,

a truth.

No wonder then
that I look on

Hawaii
and her children

with the love of

a mother.

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Another time,

hospitalized in 1997,

with very serious

pneumonia,

I learned

how precious

and indispensible

Each Breath is.

The whole experience

was a learning one,

I saw many things,

kept company with

Others.

One night

I knew I was

leaving;

Just the second before

I began to rise.

I understood

that I was accompanied

and would momentarily see

(just before I did)

myself,

the room, 
hospital floor,

the night hillside,

Honolulu town,

our beloved island. . . 
It all poured out
below me;
and I loved it all
very much.

Then
it was the whole
Earth I knew:

I knew all those

dying,

laughing,

being born,

crying

- Right Then -
 

all the struggle

and triumph

tiny and big

all the tumult of

LIFE-

I tasted it all

kissing it goodbye

because suddenly

I knew:

"Not your job anymore."

And oh the freedom!

Earth and her fate

meant nothing to me.

I was Myself again!

I  felt and knew
and understood

that restriction was 
over.

I knew absoulute joy

and confidence,
a ruler returning
to a world of my peers.

All we chase here:

 sex and friendship,

confidence, possessions

security and wealth,
all we could lack
is SURPASSED
home at the Source!
Don;t need those
substitutes
anymore.
Our friends
and loved ones,
our fellow players,
THEY are there
more truly themselves
as we laughing
share
our earned rewards.

I knew my work

was not done.

So I came back.
Was gently SENT
back.
 

But how, I wondered

 could I ever play Earth game,
resuming my position
on the field
among the other
players?
 

now that I know

how it all ends.

But fortunately,
my knowing grew dimmer,
becoming memory.

Again it is simple
to believe in
"what if" at 3 a.m. 

So I remain eligible
to learn,
and to earn
more
 Spirit Virtue Points.

My life DID change;

I know that:
Love,

and Sharing love,

are the entire

POINT of the game.
(I'm cheating :-)

Everything else:

stage dressing.

So do Y O U
 think

that YOU have lived
 before?

Do you think

we will be

with our ancestors

again?

Glad you took the time
to stop by here first!


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