Why Do I Believe in the Human Spirit?
How come a rational guy like me believe in spirits (souls)? Actually I believe more in the fact that the human spirit exist than the sun rises tomorrow. I believe that you are your own spirit and you control your body like a tool and that you reincarnate when you need a new body.
Why?
Before I start I want to tell you that you don’t need to agree with me or change your believes in any way. What I am going to write in this essay are things that I personally believe in and I respect yours as well (if you respect mine).
- My mother has been remembering past lives in therapy she has gotten. She even recalled how she died in her previous lifetime. Also when she was a kid she had an accident and broke a bone near her neck. She “died” and left her body but came back about 10 minutes later after her teacher slapped her face and screamed at her to come back.
- My father has received a vast amount of therapy and has gotten in contact with past lives a lot. He has also been delivering therapy to other people that had contact with past lives memory.
- I know about 30 other people that I know has had clear contact with past life memories.
- I know about 5 other people that I know has been outside their body.
- I am fairly certain that at least 2 events in my sci-fi novel comes from my past life memory. I had a clear dreams about them.
- I have studied a book containing 52 detailed case reports of therapy sessions containing past life memories.
- I have read and studied about 400 pages with information about the human spirit and I believe much of it is true.
Unfortunately I have not myself a clear memory of past lives. I have not received any recall hypnosis and only very little therapy.
Some quick “facts” about the spirit
The common denominator of every part of the physical universe is movement. Everything moves and changes. From the planets and stars down to the atoms. The only thing static that is not moving is the spirit.
The spirit is the creator of all thought, decisions and viewpoints. The spirit uses a body to operate in the physical universe. If you decide to move your arm and do it then that decision is coming from the spirit (you) then to the nerve center (the brain) that sends an exact right impulse through the correct nerve channel to the muscle in the body and the muscle then moves the arm. A majority of these movements the spirit has been setting up on automatic. For example when you move your eyes now when you read this, you don’t take any decisions on that - it is automatic. And by the way, it is not the brain that is thinking - the brain is a center of communications to the nerve channels. The spirit knows and thinks by itself but uses the body.
The purpose of all living organisms (bodies, animals, the vegetable kingdom etc.) is survival for the organism, survival for the species of organism and serving higher organisms for survival. The purpose and goal of the human spirit is not survival (the spirit is immortal) but reaching goals that he* has established himself. These goals can be known or unknown to the person and the spirit has many of these, small or big, positive or destructive.
* The human spirit is neither masculine nor feminine, I use “he” for lack of a better word.
In the time of reincarnation the spirit goes through a process in which all memory gets placed in the unconscious mind.
The most shocking and or interesting: the human spirit (you) have been around long before even Earth existed …
What about evidence?
The human spirit is not part of the physical universe and so you can imagine that it is hard giving physical evidence on something that is not physical. But consider this fact:
I have studied about an expedition called “Mission into Time” in which people travelled to different countries to verify and dig up things that was recalled in past live memories and which the person had not been to in his current lifetime. It was success on all verifications.
The human body is taking care of many basic survival functions for the spirit such as heart beat, breathing, eye blinking and much much more. It is possible for the spirit to take control over this.
The experiment
Blink with your eyes very fast 20 times. That decision came from the spirit (you) and now the spirit has taken control over the eye blinking of your body. You will notice that it takes a little while before the body again takes over the automatic control of the eye blinking.
Credits and further reading
My studies on this has been by materials written by L. Ron Hubbard. Some years ago I was very active and involved in the Scientology religion (resource page) and this has helped me a lot in my life afterwards even if today I don’t agree with everything.
Further reading, essays by L. Ron Hubbard
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A very nice article indeed
The spirit is what is called “Athma” in india and has (is) been the centre of all “spiritual” activities here.
Though one doesnt clearly say what happens after the physical self is “dead” to the athma, there are clear indications that it lives on, possibly, in search of another “body” to occupy.
This would be a great topic to talk about when we meet, though i am sure there would be loads of others as well
As praveen said a Spirit Or Aatma is a pretty famous in this part of the world, and more people believe in them here than any other place. Although i have myself not experienced any such case but have heard of instances similar to what you have mentioned
I really do not believe that past lives could be shown or ‘remembered’ I mean look at this way, you have a well trained hypnotist suggesting you what to think and you are in a highly suggestive state and therefore your mind is free to imagine what it wants, I have done quite some research into this.
You should have seen the Penn and Teller episode where they debunk past lives transgressions. And if not then you can read an article about it here: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_287.html
Was it Battlefield Earth that put you off Scientology? =P
Hope you’ve had a great birthday Jim!
Thanks Praveen and Vaibhav. I am looking forward to meet you in Delhi. We can chat about this as well.
You talk about posthypnotic suggestion? Well, yes. You could get people to do and imagine all kind of weird stuff but I talk about non-suggestion recalls in my article.
Bulbboy,
The movie is a disaster but the book is great. I could write a book about scientology but it’s not something I plan to do ….
I will celebrate my holiday on sunday, thanks.
I find it interesting to communicate with people about dream recall in relation to their views on past lives and spirituality. Some people have a hard time discerning among what is real, what has the potential to be real, and what may simply be a figment of their imagination. How would do you describe the difference?
I for one do NOT believe in past lifes, however i do believe in spirit.
First let me say that i am a christian, and i’m sure by now most people will be thinking oh no..here goes another christian, but just let me state my views.
In christianity we believe that humans are essentially Spirit beings, we have a soul and we live in a body, the very fact that i mentioned “we have a soul” means that i have unwittingly divided the soul and spirit into two seperate entities.
I’m not Indian scholar but i believe ‘ATHMA” means soul and not spirit?
Well, what is the difference between soul and spirit?
I believe that you ARE a spritual entity (call it what you want) that operate a body. Christians usually believe that you HAVE a soul and you need to save your soul etc. but I believe you ARE it.
Anyways, anyone has their believs and it is interesting to hear the different ones.
Very Interesting.
Where did the souls come from, and where do they go when the host dies???
Hi Keith,
Well, I am sorry but I don’t know or have the slightest idea were the souls came from originally. It was even before the physical universe existed …
When the host dies (the body) the soul reincarnates and takes a new body. I don’t know exactly what happens.
And again, this is my beliefs.
Jim, excellent discussion. I love to see people discussing spirituality.
I think one of the best books I ever read on spirituality, souls and more is a kids book called. “The little soul and the son” by Neale Donald Walsh. He sums it up so simple. On the topic of past lives. I have vivid memories of some of my past lives and definitely feel very tuned into the spirit world and feel my angels and guides by my side whenever I call upon them. The first time i read “Earth Angels” by Doreen Virtue i was entralled with all the different stories, species that she has found to be on our planet. I had also thought some of the same things and found it to be great validation that I wasn’t alone. What a wonderful experience we get to create on planet earth. It’s pretty cool all the choices laid before us and that we get to be co-creators if we please or we can just sit back and allow (not recomended) for the world to create our reality for us! Jim I loved how you said at least two of your sci-fi events came from past lives. My son who is a homeschooler and an avid writer gets alot of his info from his dreams. Me and him both are very avid dreamers with great dream recall. We discuss our dreams regularly. I also have had an outer body experience once that really showed me how when your out of your body, their is no time, anything you think of is instantaneous. Sort of like the movie with Robbin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr. “What Dreams May Come”. I hope I didn’t bore anyone with my rambling. I don’t usually post to blogs. I actually stumbled upon your page when I listed my store with another site earlier. I followed your link here. Thanks! Carol
Hi Carol,
Thanks a lot for your comment and information. Yes, the best writing materials I get from my dreams. Just a few days ago I had a new very interesting dream about a “virtual time travel” that could turn into a new story.
Nice that you had out of body experience. I whish I also had that, lol
I agree with the most about what you have said about the human spirit! One of the most iportant things to me is truth! And it is the truth that we are human spirits.And the more truth we will now about the human spirit ,about the laws of life,about why we are here,about our distant past…the more we will be free!