Reincarnation And Other Rubbish – Making the most of your life now
The Kabbalistic tradition does believe in reincarnation, but the real question how are you going to use the information you find out about yourself and your previous lives and incarnations?
How are you going to live your life as a result of the idea of reincarnation? If you are going to say to yourself; why worry about my spiritual development, I’ve got a myriad of incarnations to come back and perfect myself, then you’ve got the wrong end of the stick.
If you’ve going to use the idea of reincarnation as a way to undermine the immense importance and sacredness of your life then reincarnation is a load of rubbish!
The great Urban Gurus stress that you have to live your life, as though this was in you’re your last-ever incarnation.
See your life as the totality of all your previous lives, as the highest rung of enlightened self-realisation, that in this life you can achieve ‘Moshiach consciousness’, the kabbalistic equivalent of Buddhahood. Now in this life, this lifetime, this incarnation, in this very moment, not only you are able to achieve true enlightenment, but you are already truly enlightened!
So this is your last incarnation, this is it! You could be easily temped into believing that because this life seems to be so very short, you’ve got to cram, and pack as much stuff in it as humanly possible. You might think that living life to the max implies living dangerously, on a perpetual adrenaline rush of experiences, but this is not the case.
There is another idea, which is meant to work in partnership with the idea ‘this is your last incarnation’, and that is the idea/belief (yet to be fully realised in less than a handful of people throughout human history) that you are going to and will in fact live for one thousand years! That’s right, at least 1000 years.
Now however wild that may sound, the Urban Gurus believe that every human being, if they achieved personal redemption and lived in a perpetual utopia could and would naturally live for a thousand years.
It’s like the natural ‘best-before’ date on a human being is 1000 years, but it’s just because of other, social, educational and spiritual factors which rapidly increase the aging process therefore reducing the life expectancy to less than 10% of its natural (utopian) shelf life.
The bazaar and twisted irony is that if we stared to live our lives as though we had a thousand years to live, we might just begin to live a lot longer. But the trick to starting to live and experience your own personal utopia is to combine the two ideas together:
1. To realise that this is your last incarnation and
2. To live as though you have a thousand years to live it.
