Reincarnation: A friend's Joke

A Personal Joke

I was talking to my friend wondering if he had 'hidden memories' of a past life within him.   I didn't know if it was just a 'taboo' subject that people didn't talk about out of politeness for the sake of society - or - if some people did have past lives while others were brand new to the world and didn't have past lives. 

One day my friend grew excited and told me,

"I think I have it.  I think I have found a memory that comes from a past life."  

He went on and started telling me rich vivid detailed description of some sort of fantastic life from ancient times.  I found myself getting jealousy  because I had been struggling with the recall and it was like pulling in a barracuda in deep sea fishing.  It seemed to come so easy to him, which should have been a hint to what was coming. 

After he finished telling me this fantastic story he asked,

"Of all the people I figure you would be the one who believed me. I wouldn't have told this to anyone else.  You believe me don't you?"  

I told him I did and he said,

"Your a fool then.  I made it all up.  The point is...how do you know when someone is feeding you a line of fact or fiction when it comes to such a claim.  You can't prove it. It is not real for that reason." 

I got his point.  I had to look at it from other people's blind point of view.    I couldn't understand if this was just a subject that was kept silent within.  I wanted to know if other people had ideas, revelations, insights, dreams and visions where the 'theme' was coming through loud and clear within.  

Later, when the spirits of friends who passed away started showing up in the middle of the night sitting on the edge of my bed looking for a conversation within my dreams - I didn't know if I should believe what they were telling me. 

It was a dual type of communication.  Part of it was in a 'higher form' where the spirit morphed into an orb of light. When the conversation took place on this level - a part of me within (my spirit) would have to morph to this level to understand the chatter.  The problem was, my human worldly mind would be left behind. It was like a little brother who was tagging along with his older brother and his older brother's best friend.   So - I would ask the spirits to communicate with me on a worldly level.  When they did we interacted with one another and my state of mind would be such that I could tell if they were trying to pull the wool over my eyes just as my living human friend had done when he told me the joke and pretended he had sight of a past life when it was all fiction. 

I would wake up the next morning with a slight memory of the revelations that had came to me through the spiritual contact with the spirit of a deceased friend - but my doubts would linger and I wouldn't be able to put all my faith and belief in their statements as if it was 100% true.  I asked the spirits what the difference was between them and my living friend who had pulled the wool over my eyes.   The spirits would always tell me,

"We come to you in God's name and with God's authority in reply to your prayers.  This is being done in silence and in secret to prepare your mind for what God has planned to manifest before your own eyes for the sake of your own mind and understanding in the future." 

It was a hard subject to wrap my mind around while walking with a worldly mind.  If anyone asked me if I believed in reincarnation - I would have stated I had 'blind faith' in it because I felt I had no other choice.  I felt 'God' had reveled the tip of an iceberg and from I could see of the tip there was plenty of truth hidden below the surface.

It was hard for me to reconcile the fact that I was growing up in a culture and society that frowned upon this theory and opposed it as if it was a 'teaching' that came from the 'devil' more so than God.  I felt the majority rule applied.  If 90-80% of the population looked at it as fiction rather than fact - then there was a worldly 'truth' to that view that had to be followed in order to fit into the herd mentality of the pack you were running with.   My thought was that if you stood up and opposed the majority view - the herd would have no mercy and run you over.   There was a bullying effect that was in play about reincarnation.   You would be looked down upon as an 'outsider' and shunned from the 'in-crowd.' 

In the few months after my 'near death experience' - this is the attitude I walked with.

Maybe, maybe not.   At the age of 18 I didn't know for sure one way or the other.  My understanding was that if my spirit had past lives - then the idea of that, the knowledge of that and the understanding of that belonged to my spirit.  If it didn't come out and give me factual knowledge of it - then I had no choice but to view it as a possible theory.   A theory that was constantly given weight to it by spiritual and mystical insights.