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From what I've read, a spirit fears being born into physical life even more than we as physical beings fear death.

"O Death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory," wrote St Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: 54-57.

Let's look at this whole fear thing from another perspective.....the earth was rotating around the sun for billions of years before any of us were born.  And since our physical lives are like a grain of sand on an endless beach, why do we have such fear when we contemplate their ending?

Seems to me that fear acts as a block in terms of our own fulfillment that we could otherwise have in this short existence. Why do we give fear such unnecessary power?  After all, it has no existence unless we allow it to exist.

Nanna,

Woody Allen said he really liked the idea of an afterlife but hated having to die to get there.

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