Nay_ho_tze's Medicine Musings

yes, beyond our blindness is a treasure trove of clarification for modern day …

Did you know, for instance, that metemphyschosis is just another word for reincarnation?

And did you know that the Bible in fact clearly teaches reincarnation?

The most common of these teachings is from Jesus himself, in Matt11:11, 14-15
when he refers to the Isaiah prophecy of Elijah's return to signal the messiah’s arrival:

Jesus commands language well so there's no secret to what he's saying -
in fact what he's saying is so important that most bibles print those words in red

marking them as the actual words of Jesus

And yet the intention behind Jesus' words is intellectualized away
and his teaching of reincarnation summarily dismissed by mainstream …
why??
because of politics and its impact on public thinking/belief,

which are very timely considerations given today's headlines.

Based in antiquity, reincarnation has been known by us from the beginning 

(how could it be any other way?) that reincarnation has never been a new concept -

rather,  by being conditioned to the accepted social norms, we have forgotten -

and the more lives we've lived, the deeper the memories are buried ...
(it's no wonder mental illness is 'a thing' said she suffering lifelong PTSD)

To the early Christian fathers reincarnation was neither a new or radical concept;

Origen, for example, specifically taught reincarnation -

Take the biblical passage where the disciples question Jesus
about why a man born blind was being punished,
implying a measure of karmic retribution ... 

they asked, who did sin, this man, or his parents? john 9:1-3 

logic alone dictates that if the man had been born blind,

then how could he have sinned in this life? 

Moreover if reincarnation were a no-no,
then Jesus blew an incredible opportunity to set his compatriots straight -
Instead Jesus replies 

It is at this point that the knowing reincarnationist sees the likelihood
that, in the bardo (the 'life between life' in Tibetan Buddhism) 
the man and Jesus had mutually arranged this meeting
 to provide opportunity ‘that the works of God should be made manifest”  --

to a reincarnationist the blind man wanted to serve/help Jesus in his mission
by offering to be born blind in order to participate in manifesting the ‘works of God’ -

In Hindu scripture 5000-7000 years old
we are told that a burning to ‘glorify God’ drives all living beings – 

humans, plants, animals, the planets: all life - 

and that, dedicated to this goal, benevolent souls will, in the bardo plan for incarnations 

that allow them to offer suffering up against the debt of all…

an example of these souls are the starving children all over the globe,

they come out of the same intentions as Thích Quảng Đức, 

the Buddhist monk who self-immolated in protest of the escalating Viet Nam war …

these souls come out of love, like the man born blind in the bible

historically the ultimate death knell for Christian reincarnation came to a head

in a personality conflict between an emperor and a pope -

so that from the get-go the anathemas (curses) set against reincarnation
were ‘signed into authority’  by one with no power to do so …

in truth, historically there has never, ever been a papal edict issued against reincarnation or the teachings thereof -

and yet Justinian's illegal tabu has robbed Christians of their rightful, spiritual heritage …

in one fell swoop of corruption, very crucial spiritual teachings, 

important enough to be maintained by Origen and the other early fathers, 

 were, in modern lingo, T-boned by politics

the bottom line is this:
humankind is doomed to repeat history partly because 

we just aren’t listening, 

and partly because we’ve only been getting one half of the story  …

perhaps it’s time to seriously consider the whole story …

--  reincarnation, the west's white elephant

--  the Dalai Lama, the man who remembers

--  canine transmigration - animals and souls, a different take