Nay_ho_tze's Medicine Musings

yes, that great ancient belief of ridiculousness is a treasure trove of clarification for modern day …

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

And did you know for instance 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
and his teaching of reincarnation then summarily dismissed by mainstream …
why??
because of politics and its impact on public thinking/belief

Based in antiquity and known by us from the beginning (how could it be any other way?)

reincarnation has never been a new concept -

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

and the more lives we've lived, the deeper the memories are buried ...

Neither was reincarnation a new or radical concept to the early Christian fathers;

Origen, for example, specifically taught reincarnation -

How else to explain this biblical passage where the disciples question Jesus
about why a man born blind was being punished ... 

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 on the matter -
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's point of view the blind man wanted to serve/help Jesus with 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…

for an example of these souls, look to the suffering children all over the world

these 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

there’s more money to be made if people believe they live only once …
it was an easy take-down -

historically the ultimate death knell for Christian reincarnation  boiled down 

to a personality conflict between an emperor and a pope -

further, few know that the anathemas set against reincarnation were ‘signed into authority’ 

in truth and historically there has never, ever been a papal edict against the teachings of reincarnation – 

and yet how tabu the idea is to Christians who were robbed of their rightful, spiritual heritage …

in 545AD Byzantine emperor Justinian, as in the Justinian Plague, had it in for Pope Vigilius in Rome-- 

so Justinian had the pope kidnapped and with the pope imprisoned,

the emperor then convened an unofficial session of the Fifth Ecumenical council -

it was during this time, with the Pope imprisoned, 

and Rome too far away for the Pope's bishops to reach Constantinople in time …

that Justinian held this unofficial session and with utter disregard for the teachings of Origen, a church father, 

put forth the "anathemas [curses] against pre-existence"
which were then ratified by the only bishops present: his own! …

in one fell swoop of a corrupt politician, these very crucial spiritual teachings which Origen and the other early fathers considered important enough to maintain were, in modern lingo, T-boned by a mere politician … 
and the true teachings of Christianity forever subverted.

proving: there’s one constancy throughout history: money and politics talk …

make no mistake: it was  Justinian’s illegal anathemas which have brought us to today’s ugliness

because here we are, folks, 1500 years later looking at eerily similar headlines 

that carry the same self-serving greed as would’ve been during Justinian’s time -

for those seeking juicy corruption stories check into Justinian and his Empress Theodor – 

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