Audrey Rose and Reincarnation

[aneaglesangel]

Everyone knows how much I love to read, so you know I got books for Christmas. One of the books was called "Audrey Rose" and I read that as soon as I had sucked down Under the Dome. Now I don't know how many of you have read it, so I don't want to spoil it by saying too much if you would like to. But what it is, is a story about reincarnation. Since I read it, I've been confused and curious about what people think of reincarnation.

I do believe in reincarnation for I have a very strong past life memory. Though sometimes I wonder if that "past life memory" that I remember so well as a small child was really the first episode of "spirit communication" I had ever experienced. I guess I have no real way of knowing, unless I can find out more and research it and find out if I can identify who I was with any amount of certainty. One thing I do know, the town that I was in during this "memory" was only one town over from the town I grew up in. So was it a past life memory, or a ghost contacting me at a young age? I won't know unless I have more facts but what I do know is that Audrey Rose disturbed me in a way.

In Audrey Rose they made the assumption that a spirit can reincarnate too quickly. And that by reincarnating too quickly it doesn't get over the life it just left, that it doesn't "learn the lessons" it needed to learn in that great soup that it's supposed to sit in until it is time to live again. And that when this happens the soul can be destructive to its new life. If this is true, then I should have been in trouble!! You see, if that was indeed a past life memory I have, then I reincarnated pretty quickly. In this life I was born in 1965. In that past life, it was modern enough that there were school buses pulling into the school driveway that I could see from inside the classroom I was sitting in, looking out the window, anticipating the end of the school day. So judging the time frame by school buses, I don't think all that many years could have passed between one life and this one. So does that make me a confused spirit, bent on my own destruction? Well, I don't know. I love life and everything in it. I find beauty in even the simplest things. I love nature and all the living things that inhabit it. I'm wild and free and when my back wasn't so messed up I was as wild as they come, riding horses like the wind and dancing all night long when the fancy took me. But on the dark side, I've been involved in more life threatening accidents than you can imagine, somehow always surviving, but suffering terrible injuries. Is this the call of my tormented soul trying to murder me? Nah, can't be, right?

And yet, haven't I also been haunted my entire life? Things that shouldn't exist have always been a part of my life. Is that the call of the other side, or was it always just meant to be? Why am I so obsessed with the haunts that trickle across this world? Is it because I never got to be a ghost? Because I rushed into a life, loving life so much, I didn't want to participate in that "down time" all souls must know between lives? Well actually, I don't know all the answers. I don't know if reincarnation truly exists, but because of my own memory, I think that it probably does. Do I think my soul wants to murder itself because it didn't have that time of learning and peace it should have between lives? Well, no. But I admit I found the idea extremely spooky for some reason. Which, if you think about what I do, it's sort of funny. I can face anything of paranormal nature, but ask me to think about a soul that has turned against its own life and I freak?? But it made me wonder what others think about reincarnation and what they think a soul does in between lives, and if there is a time of learning, and what, if anything happens if a soul is denied this time of learning. So, thoughts??

[dens]

I won't get into my beliefs about this subject but I have read some of your posts about the things that you have been through. So if I were you I wouldn't worry about being a self destructive soul - look how much you've been through, and you're still here - and you're not just here you're active, you're lively, you're passionate. I don't see anything self-destructive about you. Don't let that worry you

Of all the things I've read and heard about re-incarnation none of them talked about that possibility of reincarnating too fast. But I have seen it in fiction before. On TV actually, there was a soap with that theme for a while. If I remember correctly the woman reincarnated too fast because she wanted to correct what had been done wrong to her and she couldn't wait, or something to that effect. She had been murdered on her wedding day. It was, of course, a huge melodrama, all soaps are - and in the end her reincarneted soul had re-married the same man but both died in the end - the message was that both their souls would not have their happiness in that time and would have to wait. So yeah, fiction or not, time does seem to be important for reincarnation.

If every fiction comes from fact then maybe this soap, as your book are based in some specific line of thinking within spiritualism.

[aneaglesangel]

Why thanks dens, those are kind words! I guess maybe using myself as an example wasn't the best thing. But somehow it seemed to fit a little bit. I've always been a bit confused, ever since I was a little kid and remembered that past life. I wondered who I was and how it was all possible. I couldn't really put it into any terms that my young mind could understand and had no outlet to learn about it. Materials on this subject were very limited back then and I come from a very scientific family. My father was an electrical engineer, my mother had a PhD in Psychology. So as you can see, I couldn't talk to them about it, because those things just didn't exist. But even if it is true that I reincarnated quickly, I couldn't help myself, I don't think, for I truly do love life and find so much beauty in the world. I can almost picture my spirit grabbing, clawing and ripping its way back to Earth, just to live again and experience it all over again.

To me, I've always felt as if things happen for reasons. Even the worst, most terrible things we can imagine have some type of lesson behind them. So maybe even Audrey Rose, or a real person like her, had reincarnated not for her own lessons, but for someone else's lessons. I think it's hard for us small human beings to take things in when it comes to the big picture, but many times it's there, we just have to allow ourselves, maybe not to see it, but to experience it. The learning comes in the experiencing. Or so I believe.

But I still have to admit, the book did disturb me in some way. I don't think it's right for a soul to want to destroy itself, just as I think suicide is just not right. For me, it's one of those things that is just wrong!