Living on this planet compared to living in the Astral has been the subject of many a book. Mostly books on the Astral talk about how terrific it is to be dead and finding themselves in this wonderful paradise. These folk always talk about how being freed of their human bodies allows them to be, and to be connected to all life in such wondrous bliss.
And it made me wonder why anyone would want to reincarnate. After all, here life is hard, the sense of oneness & peace is not often felt and fear is ever present. So why would anyone want to replace a joyous paradise with Earth?
This bloody question has plagued me for about forever, and often I get some book or insight that satisfies me for awhile and then I’m right back where started, why does anyone come back. Why does anyone want to be here?
Well, here’s the latest in a long line of answers. In the Astral, there exists quite naturally “being-ness”. And this is felt as soon as you arrive. Everything and everyone you meet is felt as part of you. You seem to exist within a oneness with everything while also maintaining your you-ness. With me so far.
But what you can’t have up there is “having-ness. You can’t feel any kind of possession. There is no sense of ownership. Nothing is just yours because as I have said, the all belongs to all, so ownership can’t become personal.
But on Earth it can. Here you can experience having and not having, possession and ownership. Wanting to have, struggling to have. Loss and desire to have. Up there, however, all there is of this, is a vague sense of these “having” things being possible somehow.
A little science now. Science is the exploration of the familiar, and finding the next big thing. Since everything is related to something else, [go speak to Einstein]. Knowing some things, always leads to knowing something else.
Like the simple equation 1 + 1 =
1+1 are numbers that are related by the “+”, so we that it must lead us to something on the other side of the “=”. Or take for instance, 2 sides of a triangle. We might know that there is a 3rd side, but not how big. But because all the sides are related, we can figure out what it might be.
This is how life is for us everywhere, even in the Astral. Up there where being-ness reins supreme, there is also a dim knowing of what else might be = Having.
There is also a knowing that having “having” in the Astral is not really possible, but is on Earth. It explains why people want to come back here, again and again. They want to muck about with what possessing and ownership is like.
Now I know that the idea of the Astral, and an afterlife, and reincarnation is something that is not readily agreeable to a lot of people, and as such, just about everything I’ve said about being and having might be dismissed. I hope not. It was well meant. I think I’m on to something here … at least until the next great idea comes along.
