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So even while Rose is a little child in Africa, her higher self is also Rose in the "Ether" at the same time...
As such, our higher self is really a combination of all our incarnations then no? Meaning, our higher selves name isn't really Rose, that was just one "avatar" it played. ...
This also leads me to my original question. Why do we forget? ...
My wife is afraid of death... she always asks "Then how come I can't remember anything from any of my other lives?" QUOTE]
It just struck me that we do not forget, as infants and toddlers we are very busy and we are trained to not remember. (Someone mentioned children are told to stop fibbing or pretending when they are remembering something from previous lives. PL Travers gave an example of this in
Mary Poppins when she wrote about the baby character.) Then after a short time, for most of us, all of what we knew from before gets covered over with the new life experiences, training, and information.
When I was younger, I used to be terrified of the idea that I would die too. It kept me awake at night. As I've gotten older, the fear has diminished. Now, in my sixties, when there is cause for that little tingle of fear about my own impending death, I see it's simply a part of me that feels it hasn't finished everything I want to accomplish.
I'm not 100% convinced of reincarnation but do believe, something remains after the body is gone. I remain open minded and am very interested to see what really does happen
. E.Tolle has an interesting theory about what happens when we die. He talks about it toward the end of
A New Earth.
It also occurs to me that perhaps the higher self is not the totality of one persons experiences and 'reincarnations' but the whole of humanity (and maybe beyond). We are all connected - we are one...
Peace,