Channeling
Healing Across The Lifetimes: You Are Creating Your Next Incarnation Now!
By Hope Bradford CHt
Nov 13, 2007

According to Buddhist goddess of compassion, Kuan Yin speaking in The Living Word of Kuan Yin: The Living Word of Kuan Yin paperback edition: The Living Word of Kuan YinClick here to go to the webpage.
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ones earthly existence can be compared to “falling into a well”. Each new incarnation allows one to hone coping abilities such as creativity, ingenuity and compassion so to finally be free of ones self-created "deeply-ingrained karmic loops". As the "Authentic Self" or soul retains memories of everything, skills and/or detrimental habits attained during this and/or other lifetimes are not forgotten. Possessing their own durability they are available for one to address at any point during one’s present (or parallel) lifetimes. Because beliefs and tendencies can be carried from one lifetime to the next, Kuan Yin maintains the essentiality of assessing whether ones belief repertoire is helpful or hindering. Such a process becomes even more compelling when understanding we all have, according to Kuan Yin, been magnetized to our present "collective agreement" involving the "not enough", "better than" and "survival of the fittest" beliefs. Indeed: “Everyone has made an agreement, then, that there isn’t enough. Wars and every other dilemma focusing on hate, fear and murder is based on “not enough” and the illusion of survival.” Explaining that because time doesn’t exist, Kuan Yin wants us to know it is our present beliefs and tendencies creating our "next" lifetime, right now.

“Little suffering”, according to Kuan Yin, is for development of humility and fortitude. On the other hand, “big suffering” usually indicates limiting "made-up stories" about oneself that must be worked out. According to Kuan Yin, any limitation: physical, mental or socio-economic is chosen by the soul for "higher reasons" and that self-imposed limitation can be an opportunity, causing the individual to perhaps develop a more ingenious and expansive approach.

Of course there is always the risk that an individual will get discouraged. Incarnating on earth requires fortitude and determination, a willingness to fully participate in the divine tension that drives life on earth. What is the source of this divine tension? According to Kuan Yin, this tension originates from a sense of isolation--when the ego self realizes its separation from the “Always” or God Self. As challenging as this process might be, the emergence of ego out of the God Self is necessary for personification of the “Always Self”:

"The God force likes intense pleasure,” expounds Kuan Yin. “However, the God force experiences itself more clearly when it can separates itself out, obtain a different point of view. Because of this separation, the personification of the “Always Self”, there exists the possibility for pain."

Experiential versus the God eye! Possessing "ego vision", a person’s view from his physical eyes is quite versatile, able to discern wide and varied visages over huge distances and/or scrutinizing the minutest of details. Ego’s very nature: its capability for a relatively expansive, detailed, and yet individualistic perspective is crucial to the entire process. Separating itself out from the God force, ego extracts from its experience infinite unique perspectives, integral to humanity’s process of spiritualizing matter. Incarnating on the earth in a physical body is therefore critical for attainment of divinity. Believing he is alone, only the image in the mirror, he has forsaken his memory of the grand plan. Momentarily estranged from his God Self, this person has forgotten he or he/she is not only his own reflection but also everything in the mirror, the sliver and the ball of light. Realizing one's mortal limitations, one shouldn't feel diminished. Taking things too personally, the narrow vision, one can become overwhelmed by pain and suffering. According to Kuan Yin:

"Further and unfortunately, wrong assumptions are made about suffering. Some individuals even believe that it is required, that suffering brings one closer to salvation. Quite the contrary,” disputes Kuan Yin, “the God force likes to play. Therefore, if all individuals could unite creating a real sense of community all problems could be healed. The God force is separate and not separate, whole and not whole at the same time. Really, it is not “sliceable”, not reducible. Even when it is sliced into individual energies, it does not diminish the total God force or the power of the individual.

"The best you can do,” continues Kuan Yin “is to live a life of integrity. Live your life with authenticity. Do the best you can and be honest with yourself and others. There is a collective agreement that this (life you live on earth) is reality. Therefore, you have to play along. It’s an interesting dichotomy”, continues Kuan Yin; “trying to grapple with one’s dilemma about being in the material world. Instead of seeing things and events separately, we should perceive them as part of the whole. Conversely, we also forget to notice the little things, a single stone or grain of sand:

"So, the existential question is: when to notice the little things and when to see things as a whole? A powerful meditation when contemplating the oneness of everything is to find something’s unique qualities. For instance, observe an island’s wholeness and then the uniqueness of a single stone. Westerners are dealing with this dichotomy on a grand scale. This meditation is simple but powerful. It’s like physical exercise. One can practice it just once a day or as often as one likes. Other examples to meditate upon besides an island and an individual stone on the island beach are faces in a crowd or a leaf on a tree. Each person in the crowd is, naturally, unique and yet, at that same moment, part of the whole. The same is true for leaves on the trees. Practicing this deceptively easy meditation helps each of us to see reality. When I refer to “reality”, I really mean truth, the importance of life. Some need to practice distancing themselves from materialism while others need to get more grounded in the material world. This meditation specifically balances these two types of people.

"People believe that death is a punishment from God rather than a natural progression, a doorway to other realities. By having such a grim perspective, they make it a fearful and painful experience. I repeat. Just don’t take everything so personally. In fact, if humans didn’t cling to events in their lives, every experience that ever was could be lived in an instant. However, it is the nature of ego to “grab” at everything. It doesn’t want to let go. The ego’s fear of letting go can be compared to a fear of falling. Humans are absorbed in “tasting” everything that shows up during the journey. However, one cannot taste everything without eventually getting a bellyache!
"Compared to the other spiritual realms, human senses are quite limited. In these other realms there are more senses, more enjoyment. However, even in these other realms the ego wants to hold onto things, situations. Our spirit knows we don’t die nor are we born. If our ego knew what our greater self knows, it would not fear disaster. In your life, you forget your “Always State” or “Always Form”. You forget everything. However, you are already always that! There is only eternity, knowledge and bliss. But you’re still terrified it might not be true. That is ego at work. Ego keeps one from being free. People want to taste all these experiences. And the ego makes it possible. Don’t curse the ego. So many scriptures curse the ego self. Instead, regard your life as about choices, experiences and desire and that you are already liberated. Don’t be afraid of desire. It is why you’re here: to taste, live.”

Just then, someone asked the reasons for incarnating into a body.

"It's just an agreement you all made when you took on an ego. You splintered off from the whole. There are those who would rather God was thought of as a person, a man with a white beard. However, for purposes of this manuscript, I will continue with this ball of light analogy of the God force. Straight slivers of light become a person who plays out adventures from his or her beliefs. When you put all the slivers together they form God. It is as if one takes a small chip of gold from a cave made of gold. The cave and chip of gold are separate. Yet, they are the same.

"Each of you has the potential for the God force potency. However, no individual can overcome the God force. There is a misinterpretation, then, that Satan is as powerful as God," expounds Kuan Yin. “Limited energy cannot live on its own. Every experience must exist and yet they (the limiting forces) can never exist on their own. Limited energy, then, is the experience of the absence of the God force. Therefore, there is no need to fear it.

"Those choosing such experiences have a need to understand how it feels to believe evil powers exist. Again, I say that those who pursue this route are taking it too personally. They believe the story they’ve made up about themselves. It is similar to a person going into an ice cream store and only choosing one flavor from many. Preoccupied with tasting that flavor for a very long time, they are probably quite sick and tired of it. Still, they don’t want to believe there are any other flavors available. The agreement, then, is to continue believing in that particular flavor. Here’s where reincarnation and its opportunity for experiencing a vast array of perspectives, “agreements”, enters in. Another life offers another opportunity, a chance to “switch flavors” so to speak.

"Taking oneself too personally, however, can cause a soul to get caught up, stuck in redundancy: in a particular (and perhaps unfortunate) flavor. In such instances, the individual is forgetting he has the ability to choose his or her flavors, lives,” contends Kuan Yin. "I repeat: ‘don’t take things too personally’. I have demonstrated the pitfalls of taking life too personally in the negative sense: to identify too much with a limiting “flavor” (belief).

"However, I want my readers to also be wary of taking even life’s positive accomplishments or identities too seriously, as well,” Kuan Yin cautions. “When identifying too strongly with a particular achievement or persona, people automatically loop into repetitious and entrapping lifetimes. Clinging to any former identity (expansive or limiting), then, acts as a roadblock, preventing one from experiencing the vast array of "flavors" available."