Do you believe in reincarnation or do you think we are only here this one time? Do you even believe in the afterlife or do you think that once we die there is simply nothing?
It's a hard one to get our heads around alright but the older we get the more we feel the need to understand it.
I definitely "know" I've lived many lives before although only one or two come to me as shadowy memories, in dreams or when I'm meditating. Some people claim to remember many lives but I'm quite glad that I can't because it would really be confusing trying to decide which memory comes from which lifetime!
Over the last few years I have read many books dealing with this very subject but I still can't truthfully say I know what is going to happen when I shuffle off this mortal coil. The one thing I can say is that I am no longer afraid of death. I now have the certainty that my consciousness will live on once I "drop my robe" as the Native Americans referred to passing away.
I believe there is the One Supreme Creator and that all the messengers that were sent to teach us over the ages are now Ascended Masters who are still available for us to contact. Their wisdom is still with us as is their love for us and we just have to accept both into our hearts to feel at peace with ourselves.
Reincarnation is not a punishment because we have "bad Karma", it is the chance to learn the lessons we require for the evolution of our souls. We won't be forced to come back if we aren't ready but eventually we will want to because we still have lessons to learn while in a physical body.
The difficult bit is that we usually won't remember which lesson it is we have come back to learn! This is why we live lives that constantly present the same situations to us until we recognise that that situation is what we must deal with. For instance we may keep getting into relationships with totally unsuitable partners who abuse us and make us feel unlovable. The lesson to learn here is that we are totally lovable and that we should learn to love ourselves above all so that we never allow anyone else to hurt us. Once we love ourselves we give off a different vibration which can only attract people who will know this and will love us too.
Eventually after probably thousands of lifetimes we will have learnt our lessons, travelled our path and reached the end. Not the end of our consciousness but the end of the cycle of birth and re-birth when we can finally go back home!
