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Originally Posted by tekart  So, without giving this a lot of deep thought this morning, and without coffee I might add, based on your thoughts is it that having a memory enables us to become or be Aware, Enlightened, etc? Enlightenment goes beyond the mind (again I've read), however without the mind then you cannot know that you are enlightened correct?
If you could choose to come back as something else, why would you choose something other than a human being. On top of that, why choose anything less than a human being with the mental capacity to become and understand Enlightenment. |
I believe Enlightenment is something we all already have, just at a higher level of consciousness than where our waking ego resides. There is only ONE mind in all of known existence, and the person you think of as yourself is but a small portion of it. Your purpose is to serve God/Goddess/All-That-Is by experiencing existence through your own unique perspective over countless lifetimes.
Your "mind" is also my "mind" which is the same "mind" of every person reading this forum and every single entity that exists anywhere at any time. Your perception of that mind is necessarily narrow so that you may focus without distraction on the experiences at hand. This is the best possible scenario for spiritual evolution and growth.
When your physical body "dies," you will awaken to a much larger reality in the non-physical realms where you will no longer perceive yourself as the limited human personality you now believe yourself to be, but rather a greater, more enlightened "student" of the cosmos who has lived many, many incarnations that you can recall in detail at will. It will be similar to how you feel when you awaken each day from your dreams. You don't LOSE the self you thought you were within the dream; you simply realize and remember that your dream self is but a small part of your much greater self.
Depending on where you are at with your studies in the physical realms, you will choose to "reincarnate" or not into another lifetime to further your education.
There are many possible scenarios why one would choose to reincarnate as other than a human being. Perhaps you just lived a long and bitter life engaged in negative political and business gains, and spent most of your free time blowing tiny little game birds to smithereens for kicks.
Upon death and "awakening" to your higher perspective, you understand how this behavior created much bad karma for your spirit and you need to erase that karma quickly. So, you then choose to reincarnate for a brief time as a tiny little game bird who's more than likely to be blown to smithereens by some other self-important gasbag for sport, thereby instantly creating empathy within your soul for the pain and suffering of these creatures, and ensure that in your next human incarnation, you won't be so easily persuaded into such activities. Make sense?
Don't confuse "mind" with "brain." The brain is a physical organ which acts as a liaison between the physical body and the spirit that controls it. It's the interface for our Earth Suits, as I like to call them, translating the high-frequency thoughts our higher selves use to communicate into lower frequencies that our waking egos can understand.
~ RS