Thursday, September 2, 2021

Rebirths and Past Lives (video)

Eric Dubay (ericdubay.com); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Reincarnation and Past Lives with Eric Dubay
(Eric Dubay, Aug. 23, 2021) One of the cornerstone beliefs of many religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, and Zoroastrianism is the idea of reincarnation (or rebirth in Buddhism).
  • [In fact, all three world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam) teach rebirth. It's just that in modern Christianity and Islam, those rebirths will be in only one of two places, heaven or hell, and will number just one more. Earlier Christianity taught reincarnation, as Edgar Cayce realized, but it was edited out at the Council of Nicea, as it made the religion more useful to the imperial ambitions of evangelists like Emperor Constantine.]
Spiritual Science (Eric Dubay)
From the Orphics, Pythagoreans, and Platonists to the Essenes [like Gnostic Jesus], Pharisees, and Karaites, from Polynesian Kahunas and Brazilian Umbandas to the Jamaican Rastafarians and American Indians, the Gauls, the Druids, the Celts, the Gnostics, and even early Christians all believed in reincarnation.

Great minds like Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Voltaire, Hume, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Emerson, Whitman, Napoleon, Franklin, Tagore, and Gandhi all believed that our stream of consciousness, our "souls" [atta or atman, an impersonal process transcending rebirths], survive bodily death and continue on.

This presentation, "Reincarnation and Past Lives," was taken from a chapter in the Eric Dubay book Spiritual Science.

CONNECT
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)