Reincarnation
What’s It All About?
Reincarnation is the belief that each of us goes through a series of lifetimes to gain spiritual growth and soul development. We get to look at our current life and learn insights about its purpose…and we all seem to all be looking for our purpose in life! So we focus on practical ways of dealing with life in the here and now—by living, growing, and being of service in the present.
Edgar Cayce, known as the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the early 20th century, explained that “when we die, the next life does not occur immediately, for our soul is given a chance to take stock of all it has come to know. Then, we decide for ourselves what lessons we need to learn next. If we are to return to the earthly plane, it is likely that our soul will choose to be among people we have known before—this is referred to as a soul group. We can choose to be born male or female in any given lifetime or, incarnation. The choices made are such that our soul might best fulfill the specific purpose chosen for a particular lifetime. We select surroundings (parents and family, location, time period, etc.) that will best allow us to learn those lessons we need for completeness.”
Philosophers and thinkers like Cicero, Virgil, Caesar, Hugo, Oliver Wendall Holmes, to name a few, also believed in reincarnation.
It isn’t nearly so important who we have been so much as it is how our past actions affect our present conditions and what opportunities and challenges, we face because of it.
Edgar Cayce
In the studies, then, know where ye are going…to find that ye only lived, died and were buried under the cherry tree in Grandmother’s garden does not make thee one whit a better neighbor, citizen, mother or father! But to know that ye spoke unkindly and suffered for it and in the present may correct it by being righteous—that is worthwhile!
Edgar Cayce
Reincarnation means evolution— the evolution of the spirit of man through many successive lifetimes on earth—sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman, now as a pauper, now as a prince, here belonging to one race, there to another—until finally the spirit has reached the perfection enjoined on us by Christ. The soul is like an actor who takes different roles and wears different costumes on different nights, or like a hand that puts on the glove of a material body for a little while, and when the glove is threadbare, slips off and later dons another glove. Any number of men of intellect in our hemisphere have accepted this idea and written about it. Schopenhauer thoroughly believed in it, So did Emerson, Walt Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Tennyson, Browning, Milton, Longfellow, Goethe, Giordano Bruno, Plotinus, Pythagoras and Plato.
Morey Bernstein,
The Search for Bridey Murphey (1956)
The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer,
Like the cover of an Old Book
Its contents worn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gilding,
Lies here, food for worms,
But the work shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed, appear once more,
In a new and more elegant edition,
Revised and corrected
Benjamin Franklin
On what his epitaph should read
I hold that when a person dies,
His soul returns again to earth.
Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise:
Another mother gives him birth.
With sturdier limbs and brigher brain,
The old soul takes the road again.
John Masefield
Poet Laureate of England
lf reincarnation is indeed the law of life whereby man evolves and becomes perfect… Surely it is worth the attention of serious-minded men to investigate a possibility the establishment of which could be so clarifying, so lifegiving, and so transformative. If indeed the soul of man has many mansions, now of all times, is the time we need to know that truth…
Dr. Gina Cerminara
Many Mansions