RE: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem and Depression
All I can say is that I've seen it at work in my life and others. It can take a life-time and yes, bad things seemingly happen to good people, but if one believes in reincarnation there is the realization that much is carried over from previous lives that needs to be worked out. Often we don't see or understand the bigger picture. I don't believe that cause and effect are always engraved in stone but there is a basic universal law that appears to apply to all things. I could be wrong, and sometimes things just seem random but once again, it may just be that we aren't aware of the grander, more cosmic pattern. I also believe that all laws can be broken too, and that where certain laws apply, they don't elsewhere. Once again, a very complex belief to give justice to here. I largely go by my own experience and I'm convinced I see it at work. Sometimes it's instananeous, and at others it takes 50 years, or several lifetimes. Btw, I do remember some of my past lives, so that opens up an entire other area of me seeing a bigger picture of things.
That is really interesting, I am open minded to the idea of past lives and really hope that it is true as my greatest fear is death, it really paralyses me massively and if I was to really know 100% that it wasn't an issue it would set me free in so many ways, I am very open minded to there being something afterwards, my cynical mind always tells me though that it would be too good to be true, weird in a way, as it does not know. What evidence do you think exists that there is continuity afterwards? How did you find out about past lives? Do you think that some of the pain or baggage that we carry now comes from previous lives?
Nothing is ever 100%. Yes, everyone's greatist fear is death but something changed me. It's difficult to explain. I seemed to just 'wake up' one day. It was some kind of spiritual awakening -- like remembering who I am; that I always was and always will be -- in a cycle of duality and non-duality. A part of me has always believed in reincarnation. Some of it's from recurring dreams of 'other' lives, deja vu's, a sense of always being. It's a mystical experience that's hard to put into words and is indescribable really. I still question everything though. I'm very analytical. Our right and left sides of our brains are quite different. One side is the creative, more religious side and the other is the logical, more critical one. It's kind of good because they debate and often work it out between them. Did you read my new post on the Chakras? You had asked about that before. I think that will give more insights into where I'm coming from. Oh, and to answer your last question -- yes, we carry over things from past lives to work out. I do believe there are other paths beside reincarnation however. There's one where we are freed from this endless cycle and there's the others based on what we believe, ie, such as Christians go to a heaven they believe in. We create our own realities basically --all too much to give justice in just a few words here. :)