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I have another comment regarding the below from Juditha's post. It makes a lot of sense. I know I wouldn't want to come back if I were in heaven, not unless I did so for service reasons. Many people who have had near death experiences have expressed that they didn't want to return, and did so only because they had responsibilities to take care of.
One interesting thing about near death experiences is that people who are caught up in a negative way of living drop this negativity and live according to love after just one experience. So why does one have to live so many incarnations before they can learn about love?
It seems to me that Gurus from the East are partly responsible for the idea of reincarnation. Supposedly a person has to reincarnate over and over again until they finally become enlightened. The thing is I've known plenty of gurus and their followers, and it doesn't seem like anybody was getting enlightened in the manner gurus speak of.
I read something about Elizabeth Claire Prophet's group the other day. It is said that if a person leaves the group, 10,000 incarnations would be added to that person's growth chart. A similar feeling was held by a group I was with. People believed that if they didn't become enlightened they would have to reincarnate again (the number of incarnations weren't stated). They were afraid to leave guru because doing so would mean that they are off the enlightenment/liberation trail.
Has God really set things up to be so difficult? Does it really take hundreds or thousands of incarnations before a person can learn about love?
I do believe in reincarnation in a disc/I-there/soul group sense, but I believe this is quite a different thing than a particular self having to incarnate over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over... again.
Did I go overboard with the "over agains?" Reminds me of the multiple incarnation idea.
[quote author=juditha link=1160339898/0#0 date=1160339898]Hi If we have to reincarnate,i bet there is not one person on here ,in all honesty ,would want to come back to this, if they do,all i can say is that they must have had some kind of fantastic life,while they were here.
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