Monday 17 June 2013

Post No. 453 - Afterlife and reading

Recently, The Wild Hunt had a post asking what happens in terms of an afterlife from a pagan perspective. Well, my understanding is that Druidry includes a belief in reincarnation - as does the Tel'Ennyn Asur and some other specific paths. Fortunately for me personally, I've not only been a pagan: I've also had experience with Spiritualism, which I consider the premier religion / faith / path when it comes to consideration of the afterlife - experience which is also consistent with sources such as Near Death Experiences [2] - see also http://iands.org/home.html, and a range of New Age authors (e.g. see here). So, I am a pagan who DOES know what happens after death, and it is more complex than just having one single level of reality that people all go to: there are multiple levels of non-physical existence, and we go to possibly more than one as we heal after our most recent incarnation, until we eventually get a level where we make, with BPF Guidance (mostly from our own Higher Self), about whether we return, move on, stay a while and then return / move on, and so on.

Maybe that uncertainty around death is a flaw in those forms of paganism that the post author has come across or follows, but not so for all pagan paths. Still, it is s topic and post well worth thinking about to determine what YOU believe (or know!) ...

And here's a few other links to hopefully help the thinkin' along ...



[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings



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(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

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  • One size does NOT fit all. 
  • May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
  • A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
  • The secret to being (financially) rich is not to have lots of money: it is to have an income above the poverty line, and then make whatever sacrifices are necessary in order to live within 90% of your means.  
  • Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
  • Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. 
  • The means shape the end.  
  • Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
  • Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE

Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

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Tags: death, discrimination, gender, prejudice, reincarnation, sexism, society, youth,

First published: Sunnudagr, 17th June, 2013

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