May 8, 2004

• Ahh, I feel much better and thanks to everyone for their kind words and advice. My headaches and ‘other problems’ are just something I’m going to have to live with, but sometimes I feel like complaining about it. Did you ever notice moaning about something really does make you feel better sometimes? Just like grunting when you pick up something heavy helps. heh My head hurt me all day on Wednesday, and ironically it started to get better as soon as I posted here. Blogging really is cathartic! lol 

  
  

  Dosmangoes, commented about reincarnation, wondering about the selection of sex before birth. According to Buddhist teachings, in the “afterlife” you will see many things. When you are ready to be reborn, you will see men and women. Depending upon which you are attracted to, you will be born as the opposite. So when you were ready to be reborn, you saw and were attracted to a woman, you would be a man when you were reborn, and vice versa. This is not necessarily what I believe, but it is an interesting explanation nonetheless.

  
  

  But it’s not an explanation that explains homosexuals or bisexuals. I mean, if you’re a man and attracted to men when you die, when it came time to be reborn, wouldn’t you come back as a woman because you were attracted to men? So wouldn’t there only be same-sex couples for one generation? Personally I tend to see homosexuality as a natural attempt by the world to control the human population explosion. Too bad a lot of homosexual couples still have that reproductive urge. Of course, if adoption for such couples ever became the norm, maybe things would even out.

  
  

  In any event (off on a tangent I go lalala lol), even though I like Buddhism and agree with much of what it has to teach people, I do not feel their particular take on sex selection during the reincarnation process is correct. Or at least not entirely. I’m sure there’s a lot more chance involved in the process. I think sexual selection is not an active process, but is based on other plans we make for our new lives. I say this based on the fact that I have been both male and female in my own past lives, and I don’t recall ever actively making a decision to be one or the other. This is my eleventh life that I recall and the sixth one as a female, so my rebirths have pretty much been evenly divided. However since I tend to recall most of my past lives concurrent with the age in this life when I died, it remains to be seen if any others will show themselves. I am only thirty. I (hopefully) have a lot more time ahead of me.

  
  

  HGDKS asked about spirit guides and whether they follow families/bloodlines. Technically I’d say no, I haven’t heard of spirit guides which follow the same family down through the generations. Some guides might share a parent and child, but a lot of them are just between lives themselves, so eventually they’re going to be reborn. If anything, spirit guides are based on past relationships between the pair as living entities -possibly they were family in a past life or friends or some other relationship. Of course, that doesn’t rule out a higher entity that has never had a physical manifestation or one that has not had a manifestation in a long, long time from attaching itself to a human being.

  
  

  There’s a slight problem with guides that might crop up from time to time. I’ve never seen it addressed anywhere, so I thought I’d bring it up. A lot of guides were human once or more than once and probably will be again. So they’ve had past lives, just like us. That’s not a problem per se, but it is a complication. For instance, one guide could manifest as several different people, but still be the same entity. And that entity could run the gamut from practically seraphic to benign human. It makes me wonder how many people who say they have several guides, really only have one.

  
  

  Another thing I’ve noticed is that some people’s past lives can appear as spirit guides. I’m not sure how that works at all… some kind of spiritual split personality where the current manifestation talks to him/herself without being aware of the difference. Not that we don’t have things to learn from past life manifestions, but should there be some differentiation made between past incarnation conversations and interaction with outside guides? Which obviously leads to the question, if we’re capable of talking to ourselves in this fashion, how many of us really have spirit guides?

  
  

   

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