I worked on my new theory of reincarnation and eternal life in genealogy, polished it all up and shared it on social media. Even one friend, Val, who criticises most things far too easily had to concede a respect for me this time, 'You are well on the way to being a guru, well done'.
Spiritual Genealogy, Reincarnation and Life Beyond Death from a Genealogical perspective. I like to present here a new perspective on genealogy, one that is not so at odds with science, but also affirms the experiences of former existences. Although I have explored traditional ideas of reincarnation I have not been convinced. I have been developing my own ideas, which is that these lives of the past, which some people appear to have a memory of, are really the experiences of the ancestors. Through families there passes a multi-dimensional thread, and not least, there is also passed, potentially, a type of eternal life. One recalls ancestral experiences because, in a sense, we were there in that very past living this. There is no separation, when one discounts personal ego, between those that have been in our family lines, and those that are to come. All that we ever are or were is in constant flow. Family lineages are a vehicle for this. Eternal life is, therefore, not a religious survival beyond death, as is usually conceived, but is that which passes along families. There is far more multi-dimensionalism to this theory, a vaster spiritual one, which is that all life is the exploration of our primal oneness, a journey of the original spirit in trillions of evolving multi-dimensional forms. Life fragments and re-merges continually, in the blending always of different family lines. And through this process we evolve, embracing new identities along the way, while being also all that we ever have been. Such flowing life is a gift from the ancestors, which we too may pass on. Beyond the oneness, each life form along the way takes on a unique and individual expression of the shared life essence. Each new born person receives, while still in the womb, a blast of spirit identity in a totally fresh and unique way, while on a grander dimension all we have been in the past is with us too. Scientifically, we see flows in families according to our understandings of what is DNA, of this lengthy flow of our matriarchal DNA and other DNA threads too. This in itself is a visible transmission by which we see a continuing presence of the ancestors. We are all a journey in the many of the one, this being how one may refer to this phenomenon in spiritual terms. This multi-fragmented Oneness travels onwards, evolving as it does so. It can be seen that all life connects in this way. This is how it can be said by the wise souls that all is one. And we are not only born of life forms, but of the earth and the elements and the Sun. Spirit and matter may seem separate, but all is interlinked. On this fascinating journey of life our humanity evolves, embracing new identities along the way, while being also all that we ever have been. And it can be seen that our own enrichment of this evolutionary essence is family related. We are handed that baton of life and pass it on, until such a line stops, which is until someone, for whatever reason, has no children. Elsewhere life continues to flow onwards, but not through the person who ends a line. If I, or anyone else, envisions an ancestral experience, a family memory, it is because this too was something we knew and has remained in every cell of our being. Each individual in a family will have awakened imprints and considerably more dormant ones. If all were activated this would be impossible to bear and would result in madness. Unless someone has activated more of that which had lain dormant, maybe through tantric development, powerful drugs, or emotional-mental overload (and a lot can be borne of later life activation if one is spiritually developed), then some traces of past existence will be realised in but some people and some in others. Inevitably some memories are shared, which is how it can be that more than one person experiences themselves to have been the same past famed character. One personal experience I have is from my choral days of singing world music, with those Georgian songs I sang resonating such an ecstatic magic in me, long before I discovered my matriarchal DNA was from that part of the world. All that we were I am. And I live onwards in my children. Ancient and tribal peoples had more of an understanding of the sacredness of family, hence they engaged in ancestral worship, which energises remaining trace energies of individual spirits which have passed away, by the honouring and appreciation of the descendants. So it has been presented that past lives align with genealogy, from back in our family journeys, which is of the past. And in the present, not only we, but our children, are of this oneness too, in newly expressed forms, with a whole burst of new identity. This is a shared journey. Those who are of my own journey, being my children, bless them, that they may continue our experiencing long after my own physical body has perished and my own individual expression has evaporated. The 'one and the many' has its own spiritual recognition in Indian philosophy, a noble effort of the Hindus in their striving to understand the divine. And so it is that this is what we all are. We are all of the divine. In every lineage will be found the many miraculous experiences of the One through the Many. Along with original essence is always to be added the new, which is a continued evolution of both spirit and matter. The elements have taken on this extraordinary phenomenon of life, embellishing what once was. There is fragility, in this reaching out always in newer ways, in our adventurous steps into the unknown. But much is achieved ultimately. We are so much more than what was, we are the same while also the new, both the essence and the developing flavours. I take onwards all that has been of my ancestors, and my descendants carry this on from me. All that is passed on is there on so many levels and dimensions, not simply in observed DNA. For instance, there is mind with its own imprints, and there is spirit which is the life force. As modern humans we all link back to an original shared black African mother. Kali is a more appropriate name for her then Eve, which simply means 'the black one'. She may smile on us all as her children, expressions of herself in so many varied and complex ways, as we play our part in this always finding of ways to embody the new and unique. Beauty manifests, ideas arise and creation flowers, amazing feats are accomplished. We are she plus more. And before Kali, the mother of all humans, was the originator of all life and all creatures, an incredible manifestation that appeared in the simplest most basic of material forms. And all comes from the essence. As has also been explored in Indian philosophy, one does have to ultimately drop ego, at least in the end (in death), ie. our individual unique expression of existence, which is what we know of identity and separateness, but all will not be, as some have said, a void. Nor is there heaven or hell. Rather there is an eternal life of sorts, which continues beyond that which we are and carries on through ones descendants. And that in itself is but a smaller fragmented, though continually converging, expression of a oneness that we always were and always will be.
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AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. Categories
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