Building on my Déjà vu house key idea, here is my latest crazy spiritual concept:
Suppose there are multiple universes, and as we advance spiritually we jump from universe to universe. Your life, who you are right now, is actually one instance in an endless string of lives you have inhabited.
It’s like playing a video game. You log into a character that has already been built, has a back story, and comes fully immersed in the game world. But unlike a video game you come complete with memories. You don’t even know when you started playing because the game play is seamless.
As you advance spiritually, and grow and learn, you play other characters. You get to live through the whole range of human experience. You get to become more advanced as you learn, overcoming the hardest hardships humans can endure, and also reveling in the greatest triumphs. You move from universe to universe until eventually you ascend.
It’s almost like reincarnation but nonlinear. You move sideways to advance. If you play long enough you could become everyone you know eventually. And people (and things) your brain isn’t big enough to imagine.
This theory answers some nagging questions for me. I’ve always wondered how a loving and caring God could allow the most horrendous tragedies to occur. How could God allow children with cancer? Well now I believe that the child with cancer is there so that I might learn to deal with the emotion he evokes in me; to accept things that are senseless, and just be. In my new belief system that child might not be real. It may be a non-player character for my benefit. It may also be someone who needs to experience what it is to be that child. There is no growth without conflict, and pain.
I have also wondered where are all of the truly spiritually advanced beings? Why do we not see anyone walking on water, or raising the dead? Maybe this particular universe doesn’t allow that sort of thing. In my video game analogy the lowest level characters do not start on the hardest levels. You need to gather experience and develop your tools and skills. I’ll meet the people who can shoot fireballs out of their hands; I’m just not ready yet.
I’ve also questioned life after death. How can the experience and deeds of one life give you eternal happiness or torment? How can our little blip of a life be enough? Now it doesn’t have to be. We could live an entire lifetime to learn patience, of a couple of seconds to learn remorse. Over and over again. Any when, any where, any how.
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OSSCastMissionStatement We are the way we experience our God- through one another. We become the trailblazers of our reality and what we find will surprise us by confirming our vastness again and again. Perhaps, in being reminded of this, you will acknowledge in yourself your ability to be the creator and the created of your reality, to choose what you want to happen and then be surprised by the way it unfolds.
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:47 am
We all want to know the truth, but does it matter if we find it? Won’t the truth happen to us regardless of our pursuit of it?
Time is better spent on the pursuit of happiness.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
As I read your post SixKiller, I find myself thinking that we do try on different skins all the time. We build them from anxiety and illusion. We tell ourselves we are scared, we are happy, we are sad, we are mad. These are emotional states that pass with time so is that who we are or are we trying on these ways other than being who we are? When I am scared, I am not centered. I am far away from who I am, and that is exactly who I am at that minute.
In fact I rarely get a glimpse of who I am. There is peace there, in that quiet place at the center of me. I don’t know if that center moves from universe to universe. If it does that is okay and if it doesn’t that is okay too.
Also, I think we do meet spiritually advanced beings every day. In fact we ourselves are spiritually advanced beings sometimes during some days. SixKiller, I see you write very spiritual posts. Posts that ask some questions that are such a deep part of a spiritual practice. Anita talks about pursuing happiness, this looks very spiritual to me. Russ creates this place where we can visit and try out some ideas about spirit. He seems very spiritually advanced.
I don’t know that I would be impressed with a skill such as walking on water or raising the dead. There are many people who can do amazing things who are no more spiritually advanced than you or me. At least in my estimation. If they are, that is their path and I cannot walk it and that is okay too.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Thanks for the responses you guys. Its nice to have a place to stretch out some ideas from the cramped space in my head.
In Anita’s reply I am reminded of a quote from Richard Bach - In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Bwhite, your reply reminded me of the tinman from the Wizard of Oz. He journeyed far seeking something he already had.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I would like to thank all three of you.
But not for ‘doing’ anything…..so much as just having the clarity, patience and persistence to come here to this little corner of the web and just BE. And allow me and possibly others to share it.
Peace,
Russ
March 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.” - Yehuda Amichai