by Kevin Lamb

Created on: December 21, 2010   Last Updated: December 29, 2010

One of the most feared acts in life which we have no control over is death. Birth in this world is celebrated, however death in the western civilization is mourned. What’s the difference between birth and death? Actually both of these acts are very closely connected to the soul.

Francis M. Cornford quotes Pindar in saying “the soul sleeps while the limbs are active, but when one is sleeping, the soul is active and reveals in many a dream.” That would mean that the sub-conscious and the soul are connected. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all believed that the soul is “the essence of being.”

Sometimes the term soul and spirit can be interchangeable. Many religions state their faith on the soul and the afterlife as did the ancient Egyptians. Both the Egyptians and modern day religion have similar beliefs in the immortality of the soul.

With a belief in the soul reincarnation (or rebirth) seems to be quite rational. In order to be God-like anyone (even Jesus Christ himself) would have to live many lifetimes in order to be “God like.” If the soul is in fact immortal then of course it must be reborn in hundreds of bodies.

The soul is a never-ending source of energy which never dies, it only displaces. After each incarnation the soul moves on to the next step of its spiritual evolution. The soul moves on unless we've skipped what we were supposed to experience on this dimension, then we’ll probably have to come back and start all over again.

This is possibly the reason why we’re only able to access around five percent of the mind in the third dimension. The rest of the mind (or soul) is where all past life memories are stored. If you carried all of your memories over from one life to the next the mind would be simply overloaded. With all of these past life memories this life would be overshadowed by past life encounters, and memories.

What we remember from one existence to the next is stored in what scientist call “junk DNA.” This is a part of the brain which scientists can’t explain. This junk DNA stores past life memory (for the soul) to ensure that we’ll only be concerned with this existence; not the next life, or the last.

If we knew exactly what we were going to do next (or what we did before) which partially explains Déjà vu, you would hurry through this existence and not experience what you were meant to experience. Each incarnation is for the development of the soul, and for God to experience life through us.

Jesus Christ himself stated in the bible that he knew us before we were born. This statement should lead anyone to believe in a life before birth, and also an afterlife beyond death. In order to be more "God like" any soul would need several lives or incarnations in which to accomplish this single act.

It only seems that rebirth is the way for the soul to gain ascension (and wisdom) with each lifetime to eventually go back and join from whence it came: from God. What a horrible waste of a lifetime of struggle to go somewhere were there is no more negativity, and also no more lessons to be learned.

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