THE SPEAKING TREE
All This Has Happened Before
By Rock Furtado
ritana at vsnl.com
In an interesting conversation with a spiritually evolved friend, the
sharing revolved around the purpose of life on this planet where is it
coming from and where is it going ? Of the many thoughts shared, ,the
one that struck a chord was the story of a new-age guru who saw his own
death scene being played out he knew the date, time and place of his own
death. Was this an out-of-body experience? How does this work.
We are born of our parents and our parents are born of their parents and
so it continued over generations in time. Extending this further, it
could be assumed that future generations will come forth from us, and so
the chain of physical human experience will likely continue, all other
things being equal. However, in this model, the future generation is
already in existence somewhere in the cosmos and the chain would ensure
that the existing generation perishes in order for the next to take over
physical body and space.
Here’s one explanation: The cosmos has a major influence on all life on
earth. Since the influence of the sun and stars that make up the cosmos
take a certain time to reach the earth, it can safely be assumed that by
the time the next set of rays and other influences of the cosmos reach
earth the in-between period is history and is already concluded or in
motion.
The story of the earth of our generation and many more generations after
us keeping the cosmos time in view as Mahavira says, is as follows: ”
Whatever is happening has already happened”. Visiting the death scene of
a physical body of any particular lifetime does appear to be a
possibility. This concept takes a little time to understand but seems
quite plausible.
Many renowned authors of metaphysical works have hinted at this
possibility. Similarly, several Zen masters allude to this possibility.
There appears to be a significant number of people who can help others
to walk through this experience. Research on Past Life Regression and
Future Life Progression work is therefore gaining in popularity as a way
to possibly get a firsthand view of this intriguing phenomenon.
Did Abraham Lincoln see his own death? There is a story about Lincoln.
In a dream he reportedly saw that he was murdered and his lifeless body
was kept in a particular room in the White House and surrounded by
mourners whom he readily recognised. He woke up disturbed and narrated
the contents of his dream to his wife. They both had a good laugh and
went back to sleep. Three days later, Abraham Lincoln was murdered and
his body was in the very same room he’d described to his wife from his
dream with even the sequence of mourners matching what he saw in his dream.
Is it good to know the future? Will progression to the death scene make
us better human beings? Would we see the futility of living a life
created by greed, control and fear. Will the fact that from nothing to
nothing is how physical life ends, enable us to experience a new
realisation to live a balanced life on earth. Would human suffering at
the hands of other human beings be a thing of the past? I wonder! (ENDS)
Ask your news vendor for your copy of The Speaking Tree newspaper @ Rs
2.50, published every Sunday from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune,
Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
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First published in The Times of India - March 22, 2012
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