by Dragana Brown, London, UK
I was brought up in a family that was not involved in any religion, yet I remember as a young child feeling that I wanted to meet God. As a 7-8 year old I had a friend who talked a lot about God. She spoke about heaven and hell, who ends up where, doing good in order to go to heaven, God punishing us for our bad actions – the entire religious cliché… and pretty much that there was this grey, long bearded, big guy somewhere up in the sky, who sees and hears everything and acts upon anything we do, say and even think – so no negative thoughts about any deranged family members!
I didn’t believe a word she was saying and I vehemently denied the existence of such a God. Even as a young girl I was able to feel the flaws in these and similar statements and raise a lot of questions in regards to her claims; if we are ALL the children of God, how can HE love some more and some less by way of rewarding some and punishing other?
I used to frequently ask my mother who she loved the most out of her three children. She always gave the same response: that she could not but love us all equally. She would say whilst pointing at each and every finger on her hand: cut this finger, it hurts, cut this finger it also hurts… Being the youngest in the family I used to persist asking if the little pinky would hurt a teeny weenie bit more than the others, to which she would give a smile and say, “still hurts the same as any other finger”. Being equal rang true even in my quest for recognition from my Mum.
Another thing that required explanation was that if adults mess up and have to ‘pay for their sins’, how about a baby born with a disease? I would hear replies like – that’s God punishing parents for their wrongdoings etc, but I accepted none of it. There was a huge part of me that wanted to believe in God, but what I was presented with by any of the ‘believers’ didn’t feel true.
That was not the God I wanted to meet.
Because I could not explain true God and had no way of knowing how to get to know Him, I decided it was best to be anti-God. But reality kept bothering me – from a very young age I could not be convinced of life being ‘it’ – just us human beings – we get born, we die and that’s it! It made no sense. What also nagged me was that there had to be some greater meaning/reason for our existence on earth, otherwise – what is the point? I could feel that there is a lot more to us than meets the eye, and that the physical cycle – birth/death – is only a part of the whole, but not the whole itself.
One sunny day in July in the Eighties I arrived in London for the first time in my life. The moment I landed there was a certain familiarity that gave me goosebumps! The family I was to stay with had said I should get a taxi from Heathrow and they’d pay for it, but I was drawn to take public transport – underground and buses. It was a glorious day and I looked around with the curious eyes of a little girl and the feeling that I had known this place all my life. The family was shocked when I arrived and no taxi to pay – needless to say they were thrilled I had saved them a considerable amount of money – but they were amazed that I could do that on my first ever visit and with limited knowledge of the English language. I shared that to me it felt a very familiar journey.
Every time in the first couple of years when I went back to former Yugoslavia, where I was born, I could not wait to go back to England, and I kept saying I was going back home to London, yet I knew nobody in London and I had no home in a physical sense. There were even periods when I was homeless!
One day a few years ago I was in a Japanese restaurant having a meal. When the Japanese waiter brought my bill he hesitantly (and with lots of ‘excuse me-s’ and ‘forgive me for asking-s’) wanted to know if I had ever lived in Japan – I said never, then added – in this life, and we both laughed. He asked if my husband was Japanese. Again I said he could not be more English and no, nobody else in the family was from Japan! I asked why? He explained how the way I was eating, and not just the way I was using the chopsticks, but my entire mannerism, was so very Japanese, that he had not seen people outside of Japan eating in such ‘Japanese way’, even those foreigners who spend a long time living there! He wanted to expand on this but struggled for words – although his English was very good – and he just kept nodding his head in disbelief that somebody who never lived in Japan could have so much of Japan in her! I shared with him how I disliked going for Japanese meals with non-Japanese people, because of their clumsiness. There is a certain elegance and order in eating in Japan that I must have remembered from my past, and I am often tempted to go over to those eaters and explain how to eat Japanese food. I have always felt strong affinity towards Japan, yet I have never been there. Almost all my crockery at home is Japanese – not even from other parts of Asia, but exclusively Japan. I even had a kimono. And the entire family including four children, since they could hold a chopstick, have been eating with chopsticks at home for the last 25 years!
To me it makes sense that we do not just vanish into the thin air, but perhaps the way many feel about reincarnation (not being possible) is a reflection of our inability to take full responsibility for all our choices. We often hear people say: ‘Ah, it’s just one life, so make the most of it’. What if it is not just one life? What if we do come back? Would we then think of our actions, decisions and choices in this life more carefully? I was talking to someone about big changes that the British government plans to introduce in secondary education by 2017. His attitude was: he had no more young children to be affected by any of it so it didn’t matter. But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US? Would we think and act differently now? Most of us assume that we leave this planet to our ‘future younger generations’ – but what if instead we are ‘borrowing’ the planet for a lifetime for something much greater that we all return to again and again and again?
It does seem strange that the Dalai Lama gets invited and so openly spoken to about reincarnation by most of the world’s major TV, radio stations and newspapers – and that none of these establishments think he is a ‘barking loony’ claiming to be the 14th re-incarnation of Tibetan Lama. But when Serge Benhayon says to an interviewer that we do reincarnate and that he can feel connections to his past lives, there is a snigger.
I can understand society being cautious of any such claims or statements. I too have always approached this subject with extreme caution, but do we have to completely dismiss it? Even ridicule it? What if, through getting to know ourselves, we get to know our deepest essence and where it comes from, and then by the virtue of knowing ourselves, we get to know if what Serge is saying is true or not? What if in doing so, maybe, just maybe, more light could be allowed to shine on this fascinating topic?
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
I love that feeling of arriving somewhere you have never been to previously, and yet you feel so totally familiar with the space and get a sense of being at home. This happened to me when I landed in Australia many years ago – a country I had never set foot in previously and yet the moment I landed I had tears and felt a relief and recall thinking ‘finally I am here/home’…An inner calling that was heeded allowed me to come to Australia and that same inner calling lead me to the Ageless Wisdom, the real reason I feel I came here to live.
I too recall moments in my childhood where time stood still and I could feel such a deep joy and connection in my heart, a time when I could sit looking out at the surface of the lake, feel the sun shining on my back and know that there is and was a God and that I was not alone, and that everything is and was exactly as it needed to be. I did not allow these moments often enough though, and as I grew up those moments of feeling so deeply became further apart and became forgotten. But this was revived in me again and so much more deeper when I came across the Ageless Wisdom and its work. Something I knew to be true and had existed for eons and and was forever there waiting for my/our return.
Dragana – thank you for an awesome sharing on God, his existence and re-incarnation. I love the examples you have given which I too can relate to and how there are certain aspects or ways of being that we know have come from somewhere else and could not be from this life. This may not be proof to an evidence based approach but there is an inner knowing that supersedes an knows more deeply and widely.
I like wise felt in my younger days what is the point of us being here on earth, there has to be more, ‘What also nagged me was that there had to be some greater meaning/reason for our existence on earth, otherwise – what is the point?’
Dragana you have raised a point here that doesn’t make any sense to me either
“It does seem strange that the Dalai Lama gets invited and so openly spoken to about reincarnation by most of the world’s major TV, radio stations and newspapers – and that none of these establishments think he is a ‘barking loony’ claiming to be the 14th re-incarnation of Tibetan Lama. But when Serge Benhayon says to an interviewer that we do reincarnate and that he can feel connections to his past lives, there is a snigger.”
The premise of both people is that we should be more loving towards ourselves and all others. I personally cannot see the harm in this and I feel if it was put into action we would find ourselves living a completely different life. The students of The way of The livingness are a great examples of living a more loving life, so it can be achieved.
Good point about the Dalai Lama and how the media leaves him alone but attacks Serge Benhayon about his presentation on reincarnation. It feels like they are having a self-worth issue and thinking such tremendous love of God known as reincarnation is only for a selected holy few.
I agree Fumiyo – and other cultures such as the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia have their beliefs of different lives this is deeply respected – and yet if one were to speak against this or make fun of it then it would be seen as racism and one could be prosecuted for this.
So many people can recall ‘being there before’. I remember on a visit to Greece and sitting in an amplitheatre I felt like I could see clearly the place buzzing with life, people watching the stage, vendors selling foods, the smoke from their small fires burning and the sounds and smells of ancient Greece. It could have been my imagination but it was that sense of familiarity that you describe. To me reincarnation as presented by Serge Benhayon makes sense.
All of the worlds major religions have re-incarnation as a teaching. For some this has changed over time to reduce it. Having said that what does it matter that some believe in re-incarnation. No-one should be condemned for it or judged for it.
I love how you have exposed the hypocrisy surrounding the Dalai Lama and Serge Benhayon
It’s a very insightful question to ask. Actually it is more than a snigger it is down-right disbelief and vile abuse and I do wonder who these people are that feel they have a right to dictate to me what is right and what is wrong. I feel that I am perfectly capable of making up my own mind without any help from their biased point of view.
The key question of reincarnation opens many other crucial questions about life and living.
Death has always been placed as a mysterious ending, and when we introduce the relevant truth about reincarnation life becomes simpler and death is looked forward too and when it arrives for those left behind the feeling of being in completion with nothing left unsaid means there is no need for any sympathy or regrets, just love for what they have shared. So being open and transparent in all our conversations brings a full-fill-ment to our lives that brings a loving joy to all we connect with, so expressing in life will be felt as we explore the love that is there when we open our lives to this endless journey reincarnation offers.
It does seem crazy that everyone accepts and revers the Dalai Lama when he talks about re-incarnation but when Serge Benhayon talks about it he is told he is a cult and ridiculed. There is so much evidence to say that reincarnation is a possibility, but the bottom line is that until we are willing to take responsibility for our choices in life, our behaviours our ideals and beliefs and the need to criticise and blame others for our failings, we will not want to embrace reincarnation because it exposes the ill and unloving ways we run our lives.
How many people have had deja vu then feel more connected to a past event?
We ridicule what we don’t understand and when we feel threatened for being exposed that we don’t understand we encourage and manipulate others into ridiculing as well. There is nothing big, intelligent or clever in that.
What a beautiful personal real experience of reincarnation shared here Dragona that is so expansive and can be felt as the truth we know inside. I have gone places that are so familiar and known to me like coming home also and it makes sense that we have been to places in other lives before us and the responsibility and open ness this brings and offers us in connection and oneness in the world.
We are also responsible for what we leave behind, as we will be returning at some point. So it is a big responsibility for our contribution.
I have travelled to a few places and had a very strong sense of the familiar. The Middle East is one area for me and have very strong feeling of what life was once like in these area, which is nothing like we hear commonly now. I have also met people in life that I know without doubt that I have met before and yet I also know in this life I had not met them before. How do we explain these things? How do we explain the behaviour of children things they say and do and simply how they are in many situations when they have never been exposed to anything like that before? I was having a conversation yesterday with someone and she was talking about her young daughter. We ended up discussing reincarnation, because really it was the only thing that made sense. To me this is one of the greatest travesties in part of the world today that this is not part of life or even a consideration. For life makes so much more sense when we not only know that this is true, but live in a way where it is true and alive for all of us.
Its so simple – if everything else is going round and round, day after day, year after year, then life after life naturally follows. We need to stop being afraid of the unknown, and feel those moments when we go yes… I have been here before, spoken this language, met this person – just not yet in this life.
How can we vanish into thin air – even science acknowledges that things are never destroyed, and so why this unifying principal that makes me me, or you you? Amazing how logic can get over ridden simply because we cannot measure or prove something. There is a natural order and flow and you just have to follow that.
I like to come back to this blog as like you Dragana, I have always felt there has to be more than this one life, otherwise what is the point? Even though it was never a topic we discussed in my family growing up, I have always felt a deep knowing ( without needing proof), that when we pass over, we do come back and continue where we left off last time. Maybe different parents, different country etc, but wherever we find ourselves born into, is always perfectly constellated for the lessons we have come back to learn.
When all the pieces about reincarnation and the way we die are put together what do we find? And could it be when pieced together as is presented by Serge Benhayon the whole that will fill the hole that modern day religious teaching are missing?
Yes… One of the advantages of teaching in India, is that at least this… That is reincarnation… Is considered normal in the fabric of society.
There is so much Love that is shared when we understand the True meaning of reincarnation.
It’s so true Greg… It feels so incomprehensible to live life without a deep knowing that reincarnation is simply a fact of life, and course of death, and to live with the responsibility that this awareness and knowing brings.
Life brings us so much when we open up to a deeper understand of reincarnation and it is with a complete Humble Appreciative-Ness that this level of Love is open for everyone.
It just makes sense that we come back but I also understand why we avoid reincarnation as to fully embrace it brings a whole other level of responsibility to life. If we truly lived knowing we borrowed this place lifetime after lifetime we would act very differently for even those who say they believe in reincarnation (me included) at times live in a way that does not honour that truth. Any form of attachment or wanting things to stay the same, or wanted to be more or less than others doesn’t fit with reincarnation and how each of us is here to live and be us and to evolve back to living and knowing the fullness of who we are.
I hadn’t thought about approaching life as if we were borrowing the space and as such I can now see we live as if we own it.
Spot on Monica and Lucy – there is an arrogance in the chosen ignorance about re-incarnation and a total lack of respect of the space we hold.
The fact of reincarnation brings greater self-responsiblilty in ones life and an interesting slant to ‘family trees’ and genealogy. The latter being very linear, while reincarnation allows for a forever expansion and deepening of awareness.
Deepening the fact that this life is an accumulation of many.
That sort of God – a physical being living in a vacuum who spends their time looking at everybody – that was too preposterous to consider.
Love hearing about your connections with Japan and London, I know when I visited Egypt I was sure I had been there before, I was blown away by the familiarity of the place, I loved the language and was surprised at how much I could understand.
To me reincarnation makes lots of sense and nothing confirms this more to me then spending time with toddlers – they come already very much their own person and what makes this – their experiences and choices from other lives.
Toddlers and children are very much their own person and when we treat them as the small adults they are ( with many past lives), they are very wise and understand so much, and they already hold this quality of learning. For example, when they fall down while learning to walk, they pick themselves up, and keep trying until they are walking… they do not have right or wrong, but an amazing curiosity about the world around them.
So true Dragana, it cannot be ‘we get born, we die and that’s it! ‘ It makes no sense and there is no purpose for life if that is the case. Reincarnation does make sense when we understand ourselves on a deep level and feel our own essence. That is the journey for everyone, and then there is no need to talk anyone into anything, I know deep within me I have been on earth before and I will return.
Reincarnation is about us learning about love and making everything in life about love. This makes sense rather than thinking that it either does not exist or that it is some random allocation. This however puts us front and centre in the way we live our current life, for everything matters in the choices we make.
” Ah, it’s just one life, so make the most of it’. What if it is not just one life? ”
But funny enough for me its just one life , but my ” life force ” so to speak is the aspect of me that is the continuation of one life. When I physically die , my life force lives on and re-incarnates again if necessary for the purpose of more life lessons on being the full power in my life force.
If we knew that every mistake, purposeful harm, unintended harm, error of judgement, regret followed us until we resolved it.. we would live very differently.
And that’s a sobering thought! And if sat down and pondered on further, the word, responsibility pops up, in relation to taking responsibility for ones, thoughts, actions and deeds, as the old saying goes, what is put out, must come back.
I never considered that our cut and run mentality with how we often are with ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and our environment has it’s seeds in ‘there’s only one life’ … and when we consider and see it this way you can see that it engenders an irresponsibility in how we are and in how we live. We literally think we can cut and run, and that we don’t have to deal with it, but if you consider the fact of reincarnation then it shines a light on it differently and shows that everything has an impact either harmonious or not and that there is a balance and we are offered endless opportunities to bring back balance where we may have introduced disharmony, and that is such a gift for all of us. So rather than dismissing reincarnation why not look at it?
It makes perfect sense to me that we reincarnate into a new life, because there are so many feelings of having been certain places before, or a feeling of having had certain experiences which without reincarnation are not explainable.
Yes, it is entirely logical when you get your individualised self out of the way.
Humans humanize the relationship with God. If you do embrace him (in faith confirmed by your acts), he loves you. Otherwise he does not. So, he is said to operate on a TIT FOR TAT basis. The fact that humans cannot help it to try to humanize everything makes clear they have no true appreciation for the wonders of life and their relationship with God.
I too knew God as a child, but lived in a home where God was not talked about, and when it was it was in relation to a religion. As I grew I found life very difficult to live, as how I felt to live did not match what the world was living, and I went with the outside world. That is until I too found my way to Universal Medicine.
Its interesting how so many people associate God to a religion rather than the truth of connection to ones own inner truth. God is within us, we are with in God, it has nothing to do with any religion.
“but what if instead we are ‘borrowing’ the planet for a lifetime for something much greater that we all return to again and again and again?” Most beautifully said and it highlights the great service planet earth is giving us. Something that is to be deeply honoured and cherished.
Some things are so clear and so obviously true that the veil that is clouding and restricting so many people’s awareness becomes more and more visible, and when it is exposed in this way it must eventually go.
Thats so true once the awareness becomes more visible there is no space for the cloudy veil.
The idea that we disappear into thin air never made sense, the idea we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again always did, so many things feel older than this life and places and people feel familiar beyond what we physically remember and know – there is no other reasonable explanation but that we’ve been here before. And of course the question with that is what do we learn from each time here and are we repeating ourselves or evolving?
Reincarnation makes so much sense of the question, ‘Why are we here and what is our purpose?’
Sometimes there is simply no denying that we feel a very strong sense of familiarity either to a person or a place, and there are too many aligning factors for it to be a coincidence. I was recently visiting a friend and she was showing me around her 3 storey, 17th Century house. On the top floor was a small door which led to a very narrow, steep, wooden spiral staricase that led straight down to the kitchen. I had no idea what was behind the door, before my friend opened it, but when she did it was literally as though I had stepped back in time. There was no doubt that I had used such a staircase at one time on a daily basis to get from my attic bedroom to go to work in a big kitchen downstairs, and it definatley hasn’t been in this lifetime!
For a lot of us, it’s a big stretch to step back and see the patterns at play from day to day. We go ‘aha!’ when we grasp that the same behaviour we had when we were 5 is still playing out. But surely it makes sense to see our many lives in the same way. It would certainly be shocking to comprehend ‘I’ve been doing this for 6 lifetimes!’ but what a blessing to finally put to an end this cycle. Thank you Dragana for this sharing – much to ponder on here for me.
Reincarnation is not a belief, but a whole body knowing and because of that, a Way of Life evolves that embraces true purpose and responsibility.
Exactly Jenny, as Dragana explains, the knowing feels so true from the body, no-one is making it up, it simply is a feeling that is known and felt to be true. There is a depth to it that passes all mental thought and understanding but it is true science and wisdom of the body that one day shall be fully understood.
Absolutely it is a full body experience a true knowing from within, true wisdom that speaks from our body.
Well, it is either true or not (or true in an unexpected way) and believing or dis-believing might just be saying that we don’t want to find out but want reincarnation to be the way we prefer it.
There is a science to life in addition to atoms and molecules we see, that explains every step we ever take. Reincarnation is not an escape into fantasy but a waking up to true family – and responsibility. For if we have all been women, men, chiefs and slaves in different continents, how can we continue to war and withdraw and pretend that we don’t know the way that life works? We surely cannot. So our only move as you show Dragana up until now is to hide our head in the sand and say to reality to go away.
“What if it is not just one life? What if we do come back? Would we then think of our actions, decisions and choices in this life more carefully?”- This statement is the real kicker, as it shows how easy it is to avoid the responsibility that would come with believing in reincarnation as a fact and how every action in this life will effect the future lives of everyone else, including ourselves. I have met so many people for the first time with such a deep knowing of them and instantaneous deep connection that I could not explain this any other way than via a past life relationship. It’s felt like we were just picking up where we left off last time!
I could never understand others thinking that we only live once, this to me just did not make sense at all, I mean what would be the purpose of that?
” cut this finger, it hurts, cut this finger it also hurts…” Its so lovely and simple in how wise your mother was in explaining about her love for her children.
I love this Dragana and your style of writing. If we say this life is the only one, it gives the perfect excuse to live irresponsibly.
Nikki it sure does, there we have to understand that this life is of many we live, hence we have a responsibility of what we leave behind.
I too have heard many people say you only have ‘one life, so make the most of it’. But what if that particular perception and understanding of the term one life was short sighted and that one life actually includes all our lives and we just take off from where we left off from one incarnation to the next.
Is it possible that reincarnation and the love and responsibility it entails is just too vast for many at the moment?
Possibly the love and responsibility it in entails might be too much for people to even think about, let alone start to live it.
Love this blog. We are the future generation and we will be coming back to what we created. We have been doing thus for thousands of lifetimes already. When we shake our head at ‘the way the world is’ we are shaking our heads at the choices we have made – nobody else is to blame.
It has never really resonated with me that we come back as a frog or a butterfly but that our spirits return in another human body does make a lot of sense and certainly explains the kind of experiences that you share with us here. I have also visited places where I feel a strong connection and at times experienced reactions in my body which could also be coming from a sense of familiarity with former lifetimes.
Reincarnation is denied because it’s a convenient way to deny the responsibility we are endowed with by being in incarnation – and in denying the fact that we return, and return again, we deny life itself. We reduce life to a straight line with a beginning and end point – and this is an anathema to the human being who deep down knows there is no end-point, only the evolution of itself in the grand cycle of life and death that does not have an end point.
There’s lot of things that would make sense if we were only to accept reincarnation in full. And in that ‘making sense’ we have no choice but to become aware of the responsibilities we did/didn’t take and how powerful we actually are. I didn’t realise keeping life a mystery and accidental was actually a very limiting choice.
We need to be fully aware of all responsibility and know that we are actually very powerful people.
Reincarnation makes so much sense and explains so much in our current life. I work in a maternity hospital and you can feel and see the different personalities of even newborn babies.
I always knew there was something more to just this life, even though my up bringing did not confirm this in anyway until I was in my teenage years when my mother started to seek truth which was explored in different new age avenues. Once i listened and felt what Serge Benhayon presented on Reincarnation it made complete and total sense to me and it was like I was sitting there going finally someone is speaking the truth.
Beautiful thing is we know when truth is spoken as we cannot deny the truth felt and shared.
Around the age of thirty I asked very similar questions about life: “there must be more than being born, living with the best you can make of it, and then dying”? The start of re-connecting back to the essence of me and discovering reincarnation simply makes sense, plus having reflections and responses to many life scenarios that confirms it makes sense.
Reincarnation is something I have never doubted. To hear Serge Benhayon speak of it is pure confirmation of what I already know within me – despite my Christian upbringing and the doubts of others. To me, it would be very strange if we only have one life on Earth considering the experiences some have of dying when they are very young or being abused or of starvation whilst others live long lives of absolute luxury and opulence. No, I am certain that we live many many lifetimes and that there is a Divine purpose to the fact – one that supports our return to the innate soul-full essence we emerged from in the first place.
The bottom line is is that if we are not liking ourselves and life and want to escape from it in some way reincarnation is not one of the things you want to hear of or embrace. But if you have healed your hurts and fully enjoying being you in life then it is an entirely different story.
Personally I too feel and experience moments where I know I have lived before. For me reincarnation is very real and knowing this brings to me a level of responsibility far greater than I had before considered. How I live, the quality I choose matters, for what I leave behind is what I will return to.
Beautiful “How I live, the quality I choose matters, for what I leave behind is what I will return to.”
Being from Ireland its funny chatting to people about re-incarnation , as most people would be indoctrinated by the ideals and beliefs of the roman catholic church which is totally against any idea of having lived before.
Whats funny is that , every child is born with ” original sin ” as the teachings of the roman catholic church presents. So the question I pose if we have never lived before how can a new born child have ” original sin “
It’s a great point that if we all knew reincarnation then the systems we create, the way we care for the planet, and the policies for communities would be done with much greater care due to the understanding that we return to experience it all again. And, that these factors can all support us to speed up our return to soul, instead of delaying it.
I agree there would be more care taken if we all knew reincarnation
It never made sense to me as well, that “we get born, we die and that’s it!” When someone said that it always felt that there was something missing; surely we come back and do it all again. Now I know that what I felt is true; reincarnation is a fact. So just imagine that a child was raised to know this and to know that they will be creating the world they come back to, wouldn’t they then have a very solid reason to bring responsibility to all that they do?
We are so limited in our ideas of what life is by the way we are brought up, or by our religious ideals. Stepping outside of the norm allows an understanding of a greater world of energy and what might be true when the shackles of societal norms are put aside.
I agree we are limited in our ideas as we have been brought up with ideals and beliefs.
Thank God for reincarnation because at least we get to learn from our mistakes and be able to do things differently each time we return.
The only reason why people do not want to know about reincarnation is because we want to avoid the responsibly that it calls us to.
I had a similar experience when I landed in London, having been raised in Australia and also when I went on a holiday to Egypt. I felt such an affiliation with the city, not only the pyramids, but the valley of kings and surrounding areas. There was a definitely sense that I had been there before, a feeling that I know to be absolutely true.
I loved reading this blog Dragana I never ever doubted reincarnation as it simply makes sense. It certainly has never made sense to me that we live once and then die . . . people who believe this must have a great fear of death as after dying they in their minds are nothing . . .gone . . .never to exist again.
Great blog Dragana, the funny thing is whether we believe somethings or not they still happen so really all we are doing is digging our heads in the sand so as to avoid responsibility. And sneering at those who can see clearly is ridiculous if your head is buried in the sand.
Most of the world’s population believe in reincarnation and yet we act as though we are not coming back once we pass over – i.e complete irresponsibility. Your blog allows me to feel that although I know reincarnation is fact I do not live as though this is the case. There is a disconnect between what I know and what I live.
I loved to read your sharings and experiences Dragana, and what becomes so very clear is that we find our truth by our own lived experiences. Like you I have always believed in reincarnation and have never doubted that we do come back. It has not been something I have read or been told, it is just a inner knowing.
It is surprising how often you will hear people make passing comments about a familiarity and joke with the saying ” I must have done that in a previous life”. This is often said in jest but underneath the meaning remains true to the actions and the memory as many people I know have shared this in regards to phobias,fears of water and familiarities of countries that they have visited.
Yes hearing about reincarnation it was like a light bulb moment. Everything that I was feeling growing up started to make sense. Although I am a woman I could feel that I had lived lives as a man and these feelings where felt often, but I chose to bury them due to it not being talked about in society.
There are those that are actively not involved in religion. There are those who believe that are involved in religion, and according to every single image they are, but are they really? What does having a religious life mean? These, taken for granted questions are not to be taken for granted at all.
We’ve tried so hard to figure out the minutae of our life, the details and science of ‘being wise’ and yet when you look at our society, the bombs, illness, war and disease we see, you surely would have to conclude we’ve until now failed to heal. So is it possible, I hear you say Dragana Brown, that if we step back a 1,000 steps (or lives) that we may start to see the bigger picture and understand the ‘why?’ And ‘how. Like someone searching for their glasses only to locate them on our head, it really is absurd we ignore reincarnation as we do. But when you consider the irresponsible, crazy way we have been carrying on – it adds up that we would like pretend we don’t have many lives but one.
“What if it is not just one life?” Reincarnation just makes sense and it also comes with the realisation of the responsibility we have in the way we live in this life.
Often as kids we are more in touch with our knowing than adults… In your example as kids we all know that the image of a vengeful vindictive god is not one of truth of even possibility. However, as adults we begin to rationalise and compromise until we are in touch with that innate knowing no-longer.
I am in awe of the fact you could be so discerning about the fact of God, but rejecting all those images and ideas around you about what He was and represented. It is so easy to reject or renounce the fact of God when there is nothing around us that reflects the truth of who He is, and what He is to us as a humanity. Organised religion has a LOT to answer for, as well do we for providing the numbers that have kept it all alive and well as a so-called true representation of divinity.
By believing that there is only one life it gives us the permission to do what we like without taking any responsibility for what we leave behind. By being open to the possibility of reincarnation it automatically means that we have to take full responsibility, as it means we come back in the state that we left. Perhaps this is why people ridicule it. It is a way to stay comfortable and get away with any kind of behaviour.
We know and lived so much more than everything that is presented and experienced in this one life we live right now. I have no doubt that our souls have lived many lives in many bodies and situations. I have had moments when I have felt this in my everyday experiences and I can feel through self devilment and commitment to learn from life that I am returning to something (relationship with and expression of God) rather than having a life with no purpose.
If Humanity believed they were coming back then responsibility for every aspect of our lives and environment would be considered.
Yes, let’s talk about it as much as we can. Would we live differently if we knew we were coming back to the footprint we have left? So what are we leaving behind us for others to walk in?
I suspect we would be more responsible if we fully understood that there is more than one life and all the implications of this, ‘ What if it is not just one life? What if we do come back? Would we then think of our actions, decisions and choices in this life more carefully?’
Exactly, it made no sense, there had to be more, ‘that there had to be some greater meaning/reason for our existence on earth, otherwise – what is the point?’
I agree with your Dragana, it is such a fascinating topic. I used to ‘sit on the fence’ about reincarnation as I did not quite believe you came back as a cockroach, and did not believe this whole heaven and hell, but knew there was something more to life that what immediately surrounded me. And that there had to be explanations for things about why you could walk down a street in a foreign city where you have never been and it seem so familiar, or why some people have such an affinity to animals, the sea, books etc…
I distinctly remember the first time I heard Serge Benahyon talk about reincarnation, he asked the audience to be open to the possibility of what he was saying was true, not that we had to take it on, or believe it, but just to be open. So I opened up, and gosh so much of it made so much sense. It really struck me that if we stay open to things, and then feel for ourselves if it feels true or not, and if it does not, then just leave it, walk away without putting it down, it is simply not for you. And if it feels true, then how awesome is that because you have an opportunity to connect to the truth.
There have been many times in the past I have heard myself saying that I am not coming back and this reflects to me that it is a cycle of returning that is a part of life. If this was not such a natural understanding of life then it wouldn’t even come up. If humanity accepted the ‘truth’ and that is that we are coming back then more responsibility would be taken in the choices that were made. The feeling of knowing something even though there is no evidence of having the experience in this current life would be a part of life. Accepting the fact that we will return causes people to look at the life they are living and the energetic responsibility and integrity in which it is lived. Many may snigger but the question needs to be put out there as a maybe whether they like it or not.
You make a great point Dragana about why is it that the Dalai Lama is able to talk about reincarnation but not Serge Benhayon. This is totally hypocritical. People from all walks of life/cultures/religions etc have a knowingness and sense of reincarnation. This knowingness is not exclusive to those born into a particular religion or part of the world.
Thank you Dragana. Your simple and very real description of reincarnation is wonderful to read and I doubt that there would be many people out there that could deny having similar experiences. We may be keen to explain these things away but the truth is always there staring back at us.
“Ah, it’s just one life, so make the most of it’. What if it is not just one life? What if we do come back? Would we then think of our actions, decisions and choices in this life more carefully?” – Great questions and love the whole of what you’ve shared here Dragana, thank you. To me it makes complete sense that we do come back and I’ve experienced similar ‘unexplained’ familiarities in meeting people, places and mannerisms.
Reincarnation just makes sense in my view. Once I learnt about it through the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon so much of life that hadn’t made sense before, did. Now it is as clear as day that it exists and that there is a cycle of life and death we are all part of… until such time as we aren’t, but that’s too big for this comment.
I am struck by how absolutely short sighted and irresponsible it is to believe that anything that affects another ‘does not affect us’. Slavery, war, racism. If any person or group is persecuted then there will be consequences for lifetimes, not just for direct perpetrators of abuse but for bystanders also.
Stunning topic and great article around this stunning topic. I have always seen life in reincarnation but to be honest I couldn’t nail the feeling I had put too much in the way. We say and confirm reincarnation in many ways for example as we look at a baby, “Ah they have been here before”, “wise beyond their young years” etc. We confirm it and yet don’t want to walk deeper in the knowing we have all always had. We even control who and how we talk about reincarnation if the Pope says something we allow that, the Dalai Lama that’s ok as well but if a man, a man of the world like Serge Benhayon explains it deeper then anyone has prior we ridicule him, why? Perhaps he went to close to bringing us all to the responsibility and feeling we have always known but couldn’t catch. Like it or not, believe it or not, trust it or not reincarnation is a fact and our denial is only us turning away from the responsibility of this truth so we can continue to look after just ourself. This attitude or belief doesn’t serve us or support anyone. I’d rather get on with living as though I am on an ever changing roundabout and the only way off is to see the roundabout and step out of it. Or we can turn a blind eye and then we just keep going around and around.
The fact of reincarnation makes so much sense to me . There are so many things pointing to the truth of our return here on earth. It would explain how a small child can have an amazing talent in music or art or mathematics and many more subjects. Also your own amazing experiences Dragana! To me the truth is very evident.
There is no way reincarnation cannot be true if we have such ingrained patterns and behaviours starting for most of us at a young age that feel so familiar and safe and in many ways age-old. Is it just DNA or from our family that we pick up these traits or is there more to it than this?
Oh yes. The fact that we do and will reincarnate – again and again – is connected to take full responsibility. That’s why society is not embracing it. But embraced or not – we will do it again. Reaping what we sow.
So true Sandra, what a bitter pill to swallow, we don’t want to embrace the responsibility that would be called for if we were coming back life after life, if we had lessons to learn.
Yes – dismissing it is in not an option. Simply because when we dismiss anything in life become numb. So, nothing better than just to feel what is being presented about reincarnation and sense for ourselves what feels true. No ra-ra, just in a real and true manner.we can observe all there is and deal with it.
I like very much how this article raises the reality that what we organise and plan and build this life is what we return to next life. So even if we are purely thinking for ourselves, does this not trigger the responsibility we have. Let alone allowing ourselves to consider that every single person returns, and what we leave behind either supports or hinders everyone. Now there in lies the true responsibility we all have, whether we want to believe it or not.
I really enjoy returning to this article. Personally, I feel an affinity with outback Australia, I have spent some time living in the outback this life and it feels very familiar to me, very much like I know the lifestyle and understamd living there. Also I have memories of living in Greece, though I have never travelled overseas. Without a doubt I know that we live way more than one life.
Ignoring that we are from God and to deny we are connected to a grander whole is dismissive to our humanly life and in that we keep ourselves imprisoned by the wayward mind.
In relation to all these strange ideas that people have about what God is, I can highly recommend Unimedpedia God – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-god.html – which provides a beautiful set of audio and quotes showing a whole other understanding of who or what God is and what that means to each of us in our day to day life.
This is a great read and listen, I agree! And I would like to recommend the book ‘Time’ (1) from Serge Benhayon – which is a great reflection for us to realize again that time (from seconds to lifetimes) is there for us to learn to live who we are (what is true Love, Harmony, Joy) again.
(1) https://www.universalmedicine.com.au/about/shop/books/time-space-and-all-us
Love, Love, Love that book – totally life changing – I second your recommendation and also add Book 2 Space after having read Time 🙂
The end-of-life Heaven / Hell / Purgatory scenario taught in my Catholic upbringing never felt quite right to me and I always considered this to be Earth School, but I never quite understood the purpose of reincarnation although I felt drawn to it as a concept. Only when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about reincarnation and how we re-experience our choices over and over until we learn to make different choices, did it make sense. Now I am aware of energetic responsibility, of the imprints we leave behind that we ourselves will come back into. It helps me to take a very different view of how I am living in THIS life, which is simply in preparation for my next life, and the one after and so on . . .
“What if, through getting to know ourselves, we get to know our deepest essence and where it comes from, and then by the virtue of knowing ourselves, we get to know if what Serge is saying is true or not?” That’s beautiful. How many of us allow ourselves to get to know who we are and what our essence brings?
I can relate to your sentiments about everything Japanese – I used to get lost everywhere but I never did in Japan, even though I could not decipher the signage. And great point that the Dalai Llama can freely speak of reincarnation including his own but that, for some reason, a different measure is applied to Serge Benhayon. And that measure is ridicule and derision. Why is this so?
So many parents have chosen to blame themselves if their children are born with defects or grown up with challenges and mishaps. Many parents also blame God if this happened to their children. This is due to a belief that children belong to the parents and are a product of the parents solely. And thus parents hold onto a superiority and in that take away the responsibility of children on their own choices, not just in this life, but in other lives.
Our future is what we are living now and what we will return to. We are our own future, To think that someone else can deal with what we leave behind is not only naive but also arrogant.
Reincarnation makes sense of so much that in our world would otherwise make no sense at all. But the world religions have either rejected and denied it, or else reinterpreted it to reduce the power of the truth that it brings.
Very true Annie C. Reincarnation always made sense to me also. It is the only thing that would explain why some places seem so familiar when I visit them for the ‘first time’. It also explains why some people are born into poverty why others are born into wealth and some born into disease etc. On top of all of that it means that those who abuse and exploit others this life do not ‘get away with it’.
I agree Dragana and Katie, there are so many pointers to reincarnation being a part of our cycles, young children remember past families and lives and the houses they lived in, and we sometimes have a sense of a deeper familiarity with things that do not make sense unless we have lived those experiences before. The presentation of reincarnation by Universal Medicine brings a deep sense of order and understanding of how it fits into the whole, no judgement, but rather opportunities to reimprint that which is disharmonious to universal order, the opportunities to return to the love we know we are from.
I have read that the early Christians actually followed reincarnation. What is interesting is that if you take reincarnation out of religion, then you take a large section of responsibility out of the equation, and it is interesting how the Catholic Church changed things so that you could absolve yourself of all of the ensuing consequences of your life’s choices, simply by confessing on your death bed. If only it was so simple.
What a great blog that invites us to ponder deeply on a subject that makes a lot of sense when we delve into our actions and mannerisms that we often can’t explain, or interest in topics that seem far from the way we are living now.
It has always felt right to me since I read about it, that we reincarnate back into this world. After all it seems like a pointless exercise to only have one life to become all of who we truly are. What would our purpose be here if not to evolve ourselves and with that humanity.
I agree Dragana, it is only through getting to know ourselves by the essence of who we are that we will be able to recognise and understand the truth of our origins and the wheel of reincarnation and karma we all are part of.
This is a beautiful article Dragana. If we were to accept the fact that we do come back again an again, we would definitely have a very different attitude towards life. quite simply, we would take a lot more care, and lot more responsibility in the knowing that what we leave behind this time will be right here waiting for us when we come back.
Institutionalised religion works based on the same principle as education: performance based on the doing. If you do well, you go up, and you did not you stay where you are or go down. Both contribute big time to the enormous pressure people learn life is and to the unhealthy ways of living that this inspires.
Dragana you make me realise that despite all the similar religious indoctrinations I heard shared around me about God being a grand being up in the sky hearing everything and judging us as sinners, about going to heaven or hell etc. that I bought into none of it, not a word. My parents were quite atheist on top, but nothing in me rejected God or a greater being either. I can see clearly now that I already knew the truth of it, just nobody had presented the truth until meeting Serge Benhayon, at which time every cell in my body resonated and ‘woke up’ to the truth he shared.
If you look at how the world is, with all its problems, and then equally connect to the higher nature within us all – that of love – then it is hard to come to terms with the duality of our nature. Thus why so many religions and diverse fields of thought, from atheism, through to christianity. For my mind, if you are to consider that love is intrinsic within us all from birth, then the only religious philosophy that stands to make any sense of the world we live in, is that of reincarnation and karma. Then, when you look at how the world plays out in detail, you can very easily make sense of how things are.
Dragana, I absolutely love the analogy your Mum gave about loving your siblings and you equally. After all, just as each finger has a different purpose and strength they still work together support the whole hands function, so do we humans.
Reincarnation for me is a deep knowing inside that we come back time and time again, I have no doubts it makes so much sense.
That one believes, or not, in Reincarnation, does not alter the energetic fact of its reality.
With reincarnation being the founding principle of so many religions and therefore a belief held by so many millions if not billions of people, it seems almost ridiculous to ridicule those outside of those religions who speak up about it and choose responsibility, unless of course it makes for a better headline. In the end however a life lived responsibly is deeply rewarding in this life let alone the next and regardless of whatever the truth may be, that cannot be denied.
I was raised with the threat of hell there wasn’t much talk of heaven when it came to me growing up in my family but deep within knew the truth I knew what they were presenting wasn’t true all the little miracles that happened for me to survive I knew there was more to life.
It’s so easy to dismiss especially when we may feel and even know there is something there to see. Many of us can do this, in many situations and reincarnation is but one – for me I can feel the truth of it, but I do not fully live it’s responsibility to know that what I do now ripples out to lives is huge, and something to embrace.
We all know exactly where it is we come from but we ignore it because the pain of knowing that we are every moment choosing to live in separation to this is too much for us to feel if we want to keep living a life based on temporal successes. We come from love, the Body of God that is the Universe that enhouses us. We are his many Sons that re-incarnate over and over again, learning what needs to be learnt so that we can free ourselves from the illusion that prevents us from seeing who we truly are. Each life that is lived on this great spinning orb in space is an opportunity for us to either return more swiftly to our divine origins or simply root ourselves in blindly to a false way of living that has caused us much illness and dis-ease. One need only look up to the stars to know we are only living a blip of the true magnitude of us. Another gorgeous blog Dragana, thankyou x
There is a part of us for whom this makes eminent sense and it requires no belief or acceptance of something contrary to science.
Just as a young child does not question who God is, so too do we when connected with our Sonship light have the absolute knowing of who we are, where we come from and what it is we are here to do. That so many of us are uncertain and are waiting for science to come up with the answers that prove we belong to a universal intelligence far greater than what we are currently accessing en masse, shows us the degree to which we have drifted from our true and soul-full selves.
I agree – basically everything that we feel doesn’t make sense makes a lot of sense if we accept the fact that we do reincarnate. I can’t imagine how hard it must be for scientists to do research and not embrace the fact of reincarnation. It must be like trying to get a whole picture from just a fragment of all the pieces.
A blog that challenges our thoughts of how the world is, and asks if the Dalai Lama is able to reincarnate, then why is it not the same for all?
I loved reading this, it’s so playful!
This is a great read Dragana, I agree it is bizarre that people make such fun of Serge Benhayon about his sense of his past lives as if it is ridiculous and even arrogant. Rather than pondering what if he is… what if what he is sharing is true, what would we do then? Listen, watch closely and put into practise the ways of living, perhaps and then things would change and like you said their is responsibility to come face to face with of all our ill choices that we reincarnate back into – including the school system!!
Thanks Dragana, when I first heard Serge Benhayon talk about reincarnation my whole body sighed the hugest sigh as it was the first time someone spoke on the topic in a way that resonated with every cell. From that point on I have been completely at home with the understanding that we come back, and a great deal that happens in life (including babies born with crippling illness or disability) made complete sense. Rather than it being a case of ‘an eye for an eye’ type punishing retribution, it is the most sensible, sense-ical and reasonable understanding of who we truly are, what we are here on earth for and our responsibility to live that.
Thank you Jenny Ellis for sharing your experience when you first heard Serge Benhayon talk about reincarnation. I too sighed with relief to hear the truth that I was always feeling inside was being spoken aloud with others. Being raised as a Catholic this was far from what was preached and we were encouraged to think this was the one life that would either lead you to heaven or hell. This didn’t feel right for me and I am so glad that I have been given the gift of finding the Teachings of the Ancient Wisdom and Universal Medicine.
Yes Natalliya, it is a far cry from the sort of fear-inducing idealogy that says our choices this life will determine our elevation into Heaven or our descent into eternal hell. There is nothing about that that makes any sense to an all-loving God, nor any sense to what life is really about. Nor does it ask any responsibility towards others beyond what is self-serving to ‘get yourself into heaven’!
Very much a cycle of responsibility, not only for ones self but also for all the others who will feel the marks left behind during your time. The realisation then for me is – For just how long have I contributed to the sorry state society is in now?
Yes Dragana if the masses accepted the fact of reincarnation and that all our actions have karmic consequences I’m sure a greater level of responsibility would be lived
Brilliant subject, brilliant examples that you have given Dragana, for us all to observe that wihtin our own bodies. And yes , more light needs to be shed on this topic, as by accepting ourselves and past lifes, we do understand everything about our current choices and circumstances. Thank you very much Serge Benhayon for bringing this subject alive again. This supports everyone to step out of their comfort and now to really go for it and let go of the past and evolve in what is here now, with all that we bring.
‘..perhaps the way many feel about reincarnation (not being possible) is a reflection of our inability to take full responsibility for all our choices.’ BINGO! And there it is – the reason for the sniggering, the ridiculing, the outright suspicion dished out by some to those who know, and have felt the truth of reincarnation.
Yes Dragana, imagine a world of no critique, of no judgement and attack, no right, no wrong, and no vindictive pursuit of revenge. For this would surely come when we absolutely comprehend that we have lived here thousands of times. And each time we are shown exactly what we are to learn, as a person and as a race, we each participate and have our place. So let us throw away the lie that this life is just ‘the one’ only and embrace that life is about Love, what you give in each moment, not where or what you get at the end of any one day.
‘what if instead we are ‘borrowing’ the planet for a lifetime for something much greater that we all return to again and again and again?’ – I feel the profoundness of these words Dragana, how there is so much more to us, to our lives and this planet than we often allow. Reincarnation has always made sense to me – I see it very clearly in the eyes of many children the feeling of meeting someone very old and knowing who had been here before, and I feel it in me the knowing that I’ve been here before – years ago on my first trip to Australia I landed in Sydney and my first feeling was ‘I can’t believe I’m back’ and yet this lifetime I’d never been there before, it felt both strange and very familiar.
I was brought up as a Christian and believed in God but could not accept that he was responsible for everything he was being blamed for – anything and everything that went wrong in people’s lives was usually blamed on God. From the first moment I was introduced to the concept of reincarnation – it made total sense to me. It was the missing piece of the puzzle.
Reincarnation is something that deep down makes sense to us all, yet as a child I was raised with Heaven v Hell. At first I was hesitant around the topic as my first introduction was also based on do bad and come back as a bug, I don’t like bugs. So when I started hearing from people about re-incarnation in full and in truth, about responsibility and what we come back to it confirmed everything I felt inside, that this life does not end but continues through the cycle of re-incarnation. How we live today affects us lifetimes from now. How empowering? Thank you for sharing Dragana as I felt goose bumps as I read your post this morning and felt my deepening understanding of Reincarnation.
You only need to feel that instant knowing and connection with so called strangers to know that there is something far greater than the belief of having just one life.
Yes Aimee Edmonds and when it is felt by both parties there is a potential to just continue from where you left off. I remember vividly feeling this connection with a new staff member in my work place. As soon as we met it was all so easy and familiar. There was none of the pleasantries that are often exchanged when we first meet another and there was no protection in how he would perceive me. Years later, we are still great friends and my understanding of reincarnation has been confirmed by this man and this blog.
I was also brought up without practicing or involved in any religion as such. I don’t remember ever really talking about God with my family. I had a sense of their being a God and far more, that no religion at the time growing up came close to what that sense was. How God, heaven and hell was portrayed I didn’t want a bar of it… not in a judgemental sense but it was like I was waiting for the truth to be told. Reincarnation is one such truth for me that has not only made sense but has resonated deeply, and like you Dragana, I have many ‘unexplained’ by society’s standards, experiences of past lives.
I didn’t even want ‘not a bar of it’ – it was like painting garden gnomes, of at most fleeting interest.
If we live on a planet that keeps moving in circles it makes sense that we are reincarnating as there is no exit. The quality of this movement is what brings the quality of life or lives we live.
I don’t think there’s a way to prove reincarnation is true, but I love what you say about if you connect to who you are and live that every day, you can’t help but know the truth that we are ancient in who we are, and we know way too much wisdom for this to be our first and only life.
Great article Dragana, and I agree that our existence is so much more than one lifetime
I really love what you’ve presented here Dragana and can relate so well. I have always known reincarnation was true, l’ve just never known how I knew. What you say about needing to find a place in ourselves where we can feel if something is true or not is absolutely correct… there is no other way in the end as we cannot ever irrefutably prove it by so-called scientific means.
As a society we have become disconnected from our bodies and have lost the ability to discern the truth of all that is even if it is presented right in front of our eyes we choose protection, distrust and sometimes attack as accepting the truth would mean us taking responsibility of all the choices we live with.
I loved reading this blog Dragana. I have quite a few grandchildren and one of them has spoken to me about his past life, just previous to this one, with the details of what happened leading up to his death and directly after his death. He, totally unprompted, just went into a serious state and started talking in a very mature matter of fact way. This was well before he went to school . Another at about the same age, old enough to talk but too young for school spoke about who her mum and dad were in a past life, even nominating what gender they were and their relationship to each other in the tone of voice that suggested we all should of known what she was relaying.
I never considered re-incarnation as a possibility before I came across Universal Medicine, and generally just thought life was about the things we do, like get a job, play music, eat food, watch movies etc. When I considered these teachings it brought a whole new element to life, one of responsibility – and this makes a huge difference. All of the things we seek like vibrancy, energy and love are all found by practising responsibility.
“Most of us assume that we leave this planet to our ‘future younger generations’ – but what if instead we are ‘borrowing’ the planet for a lifetime for something much greater that we all return to again and again and again?”
This certainly would put things into a totally different perspective and I am sure we would behave very differently in life if we knew that to be true.
Reincarnation is a great topic of discussion as we are coming back whether we like it or not and deep down we all know it is true as how can we explain those age-old behaviours that we go to when things get hairy?
I love the fact that reincarnation is an opportunity to take responsibility of my life and let go of the what is not and be the son of God that I am.
If we feel we’ve met someone before, why do we so often dismiss it? To me this is proof of lives lived before. It’s not happening for no reason and to accept this is to deny what is so clearly being shown to us.
I like the point you are making about the Dalai Lama, it shows how much we believe that there is more than one truth. But how can there be many truths when truth is truth. Reincarnation is not something reserved for the Dalai Lama. If we believe/know that reincarnation is true for the Dalai Lama then it is a truth for everybody.
I love the example with the fingers on one hand all hurting equally when cut off for demonstrating how there can’t be any difference between loving one person and another. When truth is spoken to us we simply know and it is a blessing to receive this as a confirmation, as connects us to who we are.
A fabulous read Dragana, a discussion on reincarnation, thank you. It certainly does place a piece in the puzzle (fill the gaps) so we get to see a fuller, bigger picture and have more understanding about ‘life’. And then we feel the responsibility that comes with it…
When I was in year five, I was in an Anglican religious education class and we were asked to draw a picture of God. Most people drew a picture of an old man with a big beard. The kid next to me did a very impressive and detailed drawing. I simply drew a circle around the earth. I still look to that drawing as the most accurate representation of God I know.
As for the Dalai Lama, it is easy to be enamoured by his beliefs in reincarnation, because one can simply put him on a pedestal as being different and somewhat detached to the material world. But when a man lives amongst you, has a mortgage, runs a business, and deals with all the same stresses you do, but shows that one can still live with the same detachment and level of simplicity as the Dalai Lama, but never have to travel to Tibet or Kathmandu in order to have such an Epiphany, then that pushes button. For it offers the reflection that we have no excuse for our own lack of disconnection.
I suspect part of the problem is that there is a form of glamour associated with reincarnation. Everyone wants to claim they are the reincarnation of Cleopatra. If you seriously want to consider reincarnation, then the best explanation I have heard comes from Serge Benhayon, who says, if you want to know your past lives, look at how you live today, and it is pretty much all there. It is as non-glamorous as that. You struggle in this life with relationships, so you did last life and the life before. You have no problem getting on with people in this life, then you have never had an issue before. What this teaches us is that reincarnation is not about glory, but rather about responsibility and that is not something people like to hear. So better to criticise such a view and be attracted to the version of reincarnation that allows you to imagine you were whoever you would like to be. It is much less challenging.
This life, I was born into a catholic family, yet I have always felt a strong knowing about many things and a strong sense of having been here before. There are people I know that I was instantly comfortable with and people who I had an instant aversion to, before personalities were known. There are places I know and felt very familiar with having never visited there before. I felt that there was more to life than just this one and had no trouble accepting that reincarnation was entirely possible. When Serge spoke about it, all that he said rang true for me and made total sense. It surprises me when people have a problem with it as I just presumed we all felt this way. Maybe they don’t or maybe they have convinced themselves that this is it because we wouldn’t like to appear silly by believing something we can’t immediately see. There is a lot in the world that we can’t immediately see (like germs) yet we accept because it has been explained and it rings true.
What is essential here is that humanity acknowledges the energetic interplay and fabric of the universe, understands the true evolutionary path of what we are all here for, and then it will be a no-brainer, reincarnation?… totally logical!
Recenty I had an experience in the South of France, walking through a stone castle town and feeling very much I have lived this experience before. It is a very curious feeling, not deja-vu but just familiarity in the body that makes one very present and a sense of feeling at home as Dragana shares.This is a great blog offering the truth that we can all know for ourselves as our awareness develops, many things about life that may not be taken for granted by others and to not have to be put off by others who may use what is normal or commonly known to impose their point of view.
Dragana, I shared many of your questions as I was growing up but it wasn’t until I listened to presentations by Serge Benhayon on reincarnation and the purpose of the cycle of life that it all started to make sense. There is a responsibility that comes with knowing that we all reincarnate life after life to learn and return to the Divine beings that we all are. All have the free will to be denyers and ‘flat-earthers’ but that doesn’t alter the truth of reincarnation.
When reincarnation is accepted by the mass population and that we have to continually come back and re-imprint anything we did that was not in love, then a greater sense of responsibility would prevail.
Reincarnation is one of the most controversial topics I have come across with regard to religion. Some believe in it, some don’t. And some believe we come back as animals, while others don’t. This separation feels like a massive excuse to avoid the responsibility the one truth brings. There is only one truth and believing in one version and avoiding the discounting any of the others does not change the fact that we as a collective are not embracing the one unified truth
‘Reincarnation is a gift, offering the opportunities to heal and return to whom we truly are’, beautifully said Katie. I feel it’s an incredible gift as well.
Great topic to bring up Dragana, I always find this it’s something many choose no to believe in. For if they did accept the truth of reincarnation they would have to feel the level of responsibility we hold in our lives.
“It does seem strange that the Dalai Lama gets invited and so openly spoken to about reincarnation by most of the world’s major TV, radio stations and newspapers – and that none of these establishments think he is a ‘barking loony’ claiming to be the 14th re-incarnation of Tibetan Lama. But when Serge Benhayon says to an interviewer that we do reincarnate and that he can feel connections to his past lives, there is a snigger.” Good point Dragana. I enjoyed reading about the nuances in your life – having so much japan in you! Knowing reincarnation exists enables me to understand karma and how we will keep returning to earth until we have evolved sufficiently to no longer need to, and to all return back to where we came from.
Dragana I am touched at the depth and wisdom of your mothers response. I imagine it is a question that most parents are asked because until I was a mother I did not know I was capable of such equal love. What I have since learnt is the practice of that equal love and regard for all of humanity, it is still in development. Your mother’s physical example is just gold and what a fantastic foundation to grow up with.
I really enjoy reading this blog as there is a deep wisdom that Dragana is writing with. What I keep getting as I read, is that there is more. More to us and more to life than we have allowed ourselves to really see and feel and acknowledge. Perhaps if we took more notice, human life would be very, very different.
I love the personal experiences you share Dragana. It made me reflect on nuances and signals i have connected to in different situations and environments. This is what i love about life and about living. There is a constant magic in the air of our imprints, past lives lived and constellations.
To deny or snigger reincarnation is to reject ones own divinity.
Really interesting article, Dragana. When we find ourselves asking ‘What is the point of it all?’ about life, then the notion of reincarnation starts to take on a different perspective. One that’s away from ‘loony spiritual’ but instead brings us to consider deeply the profound effects of all our choices, decisions and actions on humanity and the world around us. In other words, we get to feel the responsibility of Responsibility.
Thank you Dragana. I absolutely loved reading all you have shared here. Reincarnation is the only thing that has ever made sense to me as I have felt my past lives from very early in childhood. In fact I had very adult expressions on my face as a baby and it made me realise what attitude I took to my grave in my last life (fearful, judgemental, given up etc).
Now I know without doubt that there is a heavenly order to absolutely every thing that occurs on this planet. This is very confronting as there is much horror that occurs, children are abused, lovely people are murdered, babies die or are born sick. I can certainly understand why many people react to the truth of reincarnation. It shows the truth that we are not victims, simply the result of our (lifetimes of) choices.
For me the denial of reincarnation is far more confronting than the truth of it. It does not make sense that some people appear to literally get away with murder, the sexual abuse of children, rape, corruption on a huge scale, the list could go on forever. Burning in hell for eternity seems a little too harsh too as there is no opportunity for growth and the people who make these choices always do so as a result of their own pain and loss of connection to who they really are.
Loved coming back and reading your blog again Dragana, it made complete sense to me. Until we are able to accept re-incarnation as an absolute fact, we are never truly going to take responsibility for this life. Knowing we come back to what we left behind and the choices we have made becomes an instant wake up call. Knowing that I have a choice at every moment to change my life and this will then affect my next is huge and takes the word responsibility to whole new level.
To me reincarnation is a no brainer, you only need to look at small children to see some of the traits and mannerism they come through with was not learnt in this life. Reincarnation explains so much and in a world that does not make sense it would bode well for us all to consider we have been here many times before and what you see before you today is a direct result of lives lived and choices made.
Gem of a blog Dragana, thank you.
I agree Samantha I have observed behaviours in my own children that I did not teach them! This has convinced me that there is truth in reincarnation.
lt’s great to start the conversation Dragana.
Also, l too wonder how we accept it for the Dalai Lama but cannot accept it being true for us and applicable to our lives.
It seems we accept it from the Dalai Lama in a disconnected way. We accept he can believe that but because it’s from another religion that’s acceptable. We don’t have to take it on, live it or claim it as a truth because it belongs to another religion. It’s like we keep it outside ourselves at a safe distance.
Fascinating read, Dragana! It was like reading my own story. Even with eating habits I had similar experience in Russia when my friend’s wife asked me:” How is it possible for the girl from the lost Siberian village in the middle of nowhere (me) to know what olives or sea food taste like and LOVE it?” Back then I didn’t know the answer. But I did love olives and sea food. The only reasonable explanation would be because I used to live in Mediterranean or Japan in my previous lives.
To me there is no question-we do return again and again. And I can see the benefits of introduction of reincarnation to the wide population for reasons you mentioned in your blog. We need to start living responsibly because we do come back to what we left behind (so to speak).
This is great blog Dragana, awesome expression as alway 🙂 Having also been brought up in a non religious family, I was really interested in finding out about religions and different belief systems as I was growing up. What was clear to me from the word go was that there was something else out there that had a influence over everything. And as I got into Star Wars, I used to call it The Force. It was only later that I knew what i was feeling was God. I also remember when I started hearing about the possibility of reincarnation, that the stories felt so right to me. How can we not keep coming back giving it another go again and again? Living just one life in one body feels completely pointless, and yes, a great excuse to not live responsibly.
Reincarnation is fascinating. Thanks for sharing your
experiences.
Thank you Dragana for sharing your experiences. Some 8 years ago on a visit to Thailand I had a very strong past life experience, but at that time I had no idea about reincarnation, and no feeling one way or the other about it. Since then, and coming to hear Serge speak, I have come to a greater understanding that this is a Law of Love, an opportunity to grow and make different choices , as we come back to do life more lovingly next time.
It makes total sense that we return until we live and align to the truth of who we are Jill – LOVE.
I had the same feeling in Egypt Gill, when i went I knew I had been before, everything was so familiar. I also found the language easier to pick up then other languages I had tried learning before.
I have also travelled to countries and felt very connected to them as if I was returning home with a great familiarity to the culture and customs even though they were vastly different from the culture I was raised in.
Well summed up Jill, reincarnation offers an eternal opportunity to evolve
‘ … if we are ALL the children of God how can HE love some more and some less …’ Dragana these words echo that of my childhood, teenage years and twenties. I could never understand it made no sense. I searched high and low in different religions trying to find the answer. It is was only when I came across Serge Benhayon that finally someone was talking my language and made sense! What was/is different about Serge though is that he not talking airy-fairy, idealistic language but from something he knows inside out is True.
‘But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US?’ I’ve never thought of this before Dragana. I would have answered similar to the man, but if reincarnation is real, and I feel it is, then, yes these decisions made about education now may affect me as a student in my next life. Taking responsibility now for my next life is very important and one I haven’t really considered or pondered on.
I had many of the same insights and questions you did Dragana as a child. I felt religion was hypocritical and logically it didn’t make sense. That there was some guy in the sky making decisions seemed ludicrous since I felt something all around me and in nature that was grand, intelligent, loving and personal and was definitely beyond the confines of human life. I felt it was reflecting something about me that was beyond the human form, yet religion seemed to do it the other way, making God a reflection of humanity’s lower aspects especially since we were made in His image. Wow, what a reinterpretation! A God that was vengeful, selective and favouring certain groups. Not much to strive towards there! To me it feels like a collective agreed upon lie to bury the truth, avoid personal responsibility and justify living in comfort and involution – the opposite of evolution which is to live with greater love everyday connected to our divinity.
Brilliant article Dragana, I really enjoyed reading this. I loved hearing about your strong conviction from such a young age, and the conversations you and your friend had about God. It just goes to show for me how much children know, and the absolute gold that comes from their mouths, and deeper wisdom. Past lives may seem odd to some, but when felt cannot be denied. It is by no one telling us that we can believe this, it is only by feeling it to be true for ourselves. And yes with that does bring great responsibility, as we know our souls are coming back again and again to this world that has been created. Though it is not just for self-interest and protection that we can take this responsibility. Why would we allow a world to carry on for a day further in the misery it is, if it does not have to be? This counts for this, as well as any future lifetimes to come. By seeing our lives as something we just need to ‘get through’ we miss out on the amazingness of connecting to what is possible otherwise.
Yes Dragana, it is so true, if we get to know ourselves we can be far more discerning about what anyone says. For me, reincarnation is responsibility, it is a pleasure and a joy to know that the decisions I have made in my past life are with me now and the decisions I make now are laying a foundation for my next life. Yes, all of them, the good the bad and the very seriously ugly. I cannot say everything is easy or will be easy, there may well be pain, illness and sadness, but there will also be joy, harmony and freedom to choose. I accept it all and embrace reincarnation of the lessons we have from life to life – no judgement just reflections of my choices playing out with more love than I can sometimes fathom.
‘What also nagged me was that there had to be some greater meaning/reason for our existence on earth, otherwise – what is the point’. Dragana this nagging was in me also – it felt there must be a purpose bigger than just living day to day. So when Serge Benhayon presented a clear explanation of karma just being consequences of our actions that gives us the opportunity to make a correction it just made sense. Of course, earth is our classroom, we are more than our body – a deeply felt fact, and we are here to heal and grow ourselves and each other.
I was the same hartanne60, I would ponder on the meaning of life for ages as a young teenager. There had to be more to it than being born, getting a job, paying taxes, having kids the house and 2 cars. Why were some people rich and the majority not? I thought the rich people were living the life, they could have anything they wanted. So what was the purpose for the rest of us if we’re not rich – why are we here? Attending Universal Medicine and reconnecting to me and listening to my body has provided many answers to the questions I had as a teenager. We are all here together, to be unified as one, to live equally and lovingly with one another.
If everyone in this world was raised to know that everything they do, everything they say and everything they think impacts not only on their life today but on lives to come, and that the world that are creating today is the one they will come back to, I am sure that there would be an amazing turnaround in the way we are currently living. I remember as a teenager thinking “I don’t want to come back and be a teenager again. It is just too hard”. But now at 65 I know that how I live today will impact on those years to come and so I am committed to making many life changes and to making a difference in this world so in my teenage years in my next life I will be saying: “I love being a teenager”!
Great point Ingrid. Being of a similar age I am very aware that this latter phase of this life is an important preparation for the next. No such thing as retirement as there is not a moment to waste!
Yes it would certainly make everyone a lot more responsible and accountable Ingrid if humanity accepted and embraced the fact of reincarnation.
So true Deborah. lt’s never been an issue for me. From the moment l understood reincarnation, it made so much sense to me and l thought , wow, what an awesome idea, what a loving God we have, we get to practice again and again till we get it clear and loving. Cool! My understanding keeps evolving as well. Now it’s focused on the realization that l am responsible amd accountable and every action has an effect on all. lt’s truly incredible how loving it is.
Awesome sharing Ingrid – to take on board that how we live our lives impacts on everything in life and the return would be effected by those choices, the enormous ‘turnaround in the way we are currently living’ would indeed be felt. Taking responsibility for our choices would be the subject matter.
Ingrid I can totally relate to what you are saying. Sometimes I get totally involved in the physical and monetary things in life and then I stop and ask myself if these concerns or problems are helping me evolve, and the answer is always no.
Awesome!
Love it Ingrid! Perhaps reincarnation is not very deeply considered because it ask us to be responsible for our choices now and commit to our life now, for everything we do now will impact on our future.
Oh i can so relate Ingrid. I too have lined up my next teenage years to be years of wisdom based on the solid knowing of who i am from within. There will be no checking out with alcohol or drugs – only love, purpose and service.
that many millions of people take reincarnation as an absolute and fundamental aspect of their religious understandings, seems to be irrelevant when someone with a deep and abiding connection to the most ancient wisdom states that reincarnation is a part of everyone’s life-cycle, and that this understanding is Crucial and essential for our evolution.
Reincarnation is the one thing for me that makes life make sense – the moment I heard Serge Benhayon present this I knew it to be the truth and it gives life purpose and meaning – that we are here to learn and evolve. I love that you’ve opened up this topic for discussion Dragana. It’s time we realised and accepted the responsibility we all have because the choices we make now are what we’re coming back to.
It is a fascinating subject, and I can feel that it is true for me. I never have been that aware of traits of me that are from a certain country as your example, but I can feel that I have lived before, as I have so much lived wisdom within me already, which never could be attained in only this lifetime.
It is so true how we don’t want to know about reincarnation, because if that is true, then everyone would have to take more responsibility in how they live, how they treat others and the earth. We would have to take more responsibility in the world we create, not for our children, grandchildren, but for us. It is convenient to not understand reincarnation, imagine if feeling and letting go of the hurts that complicate and diminish lives, this time around meant that we had less to deal with next time? Maybe a life more full of love and ease would be possible, so living that now makes perfect sense.
Well said Mark. Being accountable for our actions is a big responsibility. There’s lots expected here but not much truly lived from this principle.
Yes Mark to believe we only have the one life is one of the greatest illusions of our time, and a convent illusion as many do not want to feel the responsibility they have. When we start to live today knowing this will effect our future lives and the lives of others it brings in a grandness and connectivity to the all. Taking responsibility opens us up to greater levels of love, and in that case it is crazy that many of us are running a million miles from responsibility.
Lovely what you say about reincarnation bringing an understanding of “a grandness and connectitivity to the all” It does enrich, deepen and give life a truth and purpose that is a joy. Being and feeling aware that we are all linked and have something to learn from one another offers us the big picture and the ‘self’ begins to stop being the priority.
“What if, through getting to know ourselves, we get to know our deepest essence and where it comes from, and then by the virtue of knowing ourselves, we get to know if what Serge is saying is true or not?” This is a great question Dragana worthy of study and deep investigation, without a doubt the answers to so much more than reincarnation lie waiting within us all, if we but care to look. Within us lives the truth of all things.
I had never really known what to believe about reincarnation, if others believed in it great, but I wasn’t sure myself. But now I know, without a shadow of a doubt that we do reincarnate, that our choices now affect our next moment and our tomorrow and so definitely affect our next life as our choices in the last life did the same. Thank God for Serge Benhayon for reminding us of something that is held deep within our bodies, once connected to, it cannot be refuted.
As a child I did not hold a certain belief about God, we were not indoctrinated into anything in my immediate family, and I didn’t have any reactions to others trying to convince me of their God, all I remember is that when people talked about this God up in heaven, and hell down below, and sins etc, it all felt pretty horrible, I wasn’t interested.
I have never doubted the possibility that we reincarnate. For me the responsibility is much more immediate that just talking about leaving this planet to future generations. Somehow this mindset doesn’t quite cut it and is probably what is causing so much delay in bringing to light what we know in our hearts is a true way of living in this world. When one talks about reincarnation as a lineage as the Dalai Lama and Serge do this beomes a very powerful tool to understand your own development and what you are here to bring in this life. This is the difference these men share about reincarnation. It has nothing to do with the glamour of being someone who is well known, it is about what you bring to lift humanity out of the quagmire it is in. A lot of people’s reactions to Serge’s past lives is based in the fact they are still caught up in the glamour of fame and notoriety and so that is all they see. To take responsibility for your lineage and walk the truth of what you are here to bring as the Dalai Lama and Serge do is incredibly powerful for this responsibility rests with us all.
Thank you Dragana. I have always loved the subject of reincarnation. It just made sense to me but not only that it felt like a very loving thing. I remember as a child trying to make sense of why some people suffered a lot while others did not. It felt so unfair. The first time I ever heard the word reincarnation I felt that it was true and explained a lot of the questions that I had about life.
That is a very great point you make here Dragana. If we knew for certain that we will indeed return to this planet, would we care more and be more involved in everything around us even if it isn’t something that affects us right now. I believe this is a great wake up call for people that consider reincarnation to possibly be true. It means that the consequences of everything we choose and shape will be there when we return. So there is no time like the present to start contributing to the kind of society and planet we would like to return to, let ourselves be heard and make a change.
I can liken what you’ve shared here Dragana to when we leave a job, relationship, situation etc. It’s quiet common to leave a job believing that all the issues we have now are suddenly going to be gone in this new job. This seems to then give us permission to do whatever we like under the belief that ‘it doesn’t matter’. But job or relationship issues can repeat on themselves and generationally we don’t appear to have escaped those issues either. Each generation has war, rape, murder to name the obvious ones and they don’t appear to be going away, only getting worse. So what if this ‘it doesn’t matter/yolo’ style of thinking is actually making what we complain about and clearly see as a wrong continue by not addressing it?
great blog, There are so many signs that we didn’t just have this life, as you describe. It is interesting to look at life in this way, this makes that not only the choices we made last week or last minute but also the choices that we made in our last lifetime have an effect on our live today.
What an awesome read! I love the reflections you have given here Dragana. It just makes so much sense that we have been here before – it totally feels like a cop-out to say we live then we die because, as you suggest, it provides a platform from which to live with little responsibility in this life to believe everything we do does not matter and has no repercussion. Since taking on full responsibility for all my moments and decisions my life has bloomed – I love taking the responsibility to place down new footprints for me to re-walk and also my fellow brothers in mankind also.
Beautifully explained Katie; I want to repeat it once more because it is so perfectly said: reincarnation is a gift, offering the opportunities to heal and return to who we truly are!
What a great contribution about reincarnation from you Dragana. For me life make so much more sense since I have opened up to the possibility that we all have to come back to what we have left behind in our last life and that responsibility and love are the way how I live my life to the best I can.
Reincarnation is a fascinating topic and one that it seems people are desperate to sweep under the carpet. We champion living longer and being able to revive an ailing human, but what if what we are creating is in fact more delay? We fear death, but if we truly accepted the cycle of life, it would be easy to pass over – ready for the next time around 🙂
So true Jo, I also find it ironic how much we celebrate the birth of someone but get all morose don’t equally celebrate their death.
One of the saddest things about being a human being is that most of us don’t remember our past lives. Because if we did, the world wouldn’t – Couldn’t – be in the state it is in. Nobody could treat the environment with the carelessness that they do; nobody could treat themselves with the recklessness that they do, if they felt they would be coming back.
Your point about it being okay for the Dalai Lama to claim himself being the reincarnation of the previous 13 Dalai Lamas is very pertinent. On some level we humans are prepared to accept reincarnation as a possibility, but only if it means we don’t have to change the way we currently live our lives. It’s okay for someone else to believe in it, but it becomes far too scary to look at ourselves and our irresponsibility for it to be true.
Great points Suzanne. All of this to me points to the fact that many of us simply don’t want to accept the responsibility that being aware of, & living by the truth of reincarnation, brings… because it means we are responsible for the choices that led us to this life, and also for the choices we make in the current life we are living and the one we will be in next…
I love the feeling that we have been here before and the possibility of reincarnation, in fact I have to say it feels so true to me. When you see little children of 4 years old playing the violin like they have been doing it for 50 years you begin to wonder! There is actually so much evidence around that its interesting we do not live like we know this. This opens a whole new topic on responsibility and what leave to we come back to next time around.
I agree Kate, I love the feeling that we have been here before and when groups gather that feel all so familiar. I have recall of past lives and it feels perfectly normal to me that it is discussed openly and freely without fear. It is also true that it opens the lid on the responsibility we all have, not just for this life.
Great topic of discussion, reincarnation. I have grown up with hearing about reincarnation, some like you felt true and some distorted truth. I feel those who completely dismiss and choose not to understand reincarnation are often those who choose not to take responsibility of their everyday life choices. When one starts to remember and understand the true meaning of reincarnation then they would also understand the importances of taking responsibility for all their choices.
Reincarnation certainly is a subject that divides humanity, often based on religious beliefs. I remember as a child feeling a sense of knowing, that somehow this young girl was not all I had ever been and I was very curious about the bigger picture. Both my parents believe in reincarnation, so I was surprised to find out in the world that people were adamant that this life was it. I agree Dragana that some have difficulty accepting reincarnation because of the huge responsibility that comes with it. What I see coming to the fore now are many many examples of young children describing in detail their memories of a previous life, and reincarnation could also explain a four year old child playing a perfect piano concerto to a bewildered room of adults.
Reincarnation has never been a struggle for me to accept although the depth of what that actually means in terms of how I live my life over the course of this lifetime hadn’t really been considered until I started to attend Universal Medicine workshops and to hear Serge Benhayon present information on the topic. The significance in terms of responsibility is huge but one that I relish. In fact, I find it inspiring when I consider that I have the opportunity to correct some old, old patterns and to know that what I am building will be taken forward to future lives.
If reincarnation is real, which I feel it is, it requires us to live in a way that is all about integrity, all about truth and honouring everyone equally. Regardless of whether you accept reincarnation as a fact or not, this way of living is simply one that makes logical sense. The same beautiful sense your Mum knew when she was talking to you about her fingers Dragana.
I can remember vividly asking an adult as a kid, what happens when we die? They responded honestly by saying they didn’t know, but most likely that it was just the end of it forever, ‘full stop’. I knew then, like the author of this blog, there was more to life than meets the eye. I sometimes would speak about what I felt was the case, but infrequently had the resolve to say this out loud, when others told me how it was – like teachers and family members. To reflect on that impulse: of knowing what’s being taught or said on the fronts of God or religion etc isn’t true, I find is super important; for if we can feel what’s ‘not the case’, then we must know innately ‘what is the case’.
I can also feel and know , Dragana , that we all reincarnate many times. I have met people who I can feel that I know but not in this life. Nothing else makes sense to me. I agree with Penny that we would be a more responsible society if we understood that we are coming back to whatever we have left behind. Such an awesome way of living, I feel.
Reincarnation is an acceptable belief if you belong to certain major religions that hold this as one of their tenets. Outside of that you are scoffed at, ridiculed or politely put up with for being a bit ‘out there’. Reincarnation in not a belief for me but an undeniable knowing, that comes from what I feel now and what I have experienced before. This knowing brings with it a level of responsibility and understanding life that for me is the key to great change. If we were to all live knowing that we come back to what we leave behind then I know that as a society, as a one humanity, there would be a radical turnaround in the way we treat each other and the level of love we are willing to bring to every area of life.
Absolutely Penny. If humanity at large were able to accept the responsibility of reincarnation instead of trying to discredit the fact, I believe it would bring about great change with the understanding and and acceptance that what we leave behind we come back to. One day it will be how we live, and it sure will be a radical turnaround!
Its beautiful to hear your childhood reasoning with what the outside world is saying and the inner you knows & feels Dragana. Equally its refreshingly honest to come to re-incarnation from lived moments rather than the justification of the intellect. Your goosebumps, the pull that brought you to the underground these deeply felt moments that many would relate to are indeed the remnants of your return journeys. The sooner we begin to live in a body that validates these moments rather than allowing them to slip into the unknown we will begin to appreciate the grand purpose of our return.
A great topic and a great vision to live someday in a world, where reincarnation and the responsibility of coming back to what you leave is a universal knowing. What a beautiful view to imagine, to how many areas of life this will bring a change. And how this change will have an effect on living and relationships. I am also careful to talk about reincarnation and I feel always the possibility of a deeper encounter, comprising more than the moment or this life, when there is an agreeing about this elementary point. I am looking forward to that time, when reincarnation will be an unquestioned fact of the human life.
This was awesome Dragana and I too have always been fascinated by reincarnation. I love how you can feel drawn to certain parts of the world or places it just rings back to the fact that we are indeed all connected and everything we express makes a difference now and for generations to come.
Wow dragana? I loved reading this blog and was completely hooked by the recollections of your past life. I find it all really fascinating. “But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US? Would we think and act differently now? ” such a great point.. What are we living for them I wonder? This made me realise that if I am to see something that is not true to call it out- otherwise I’m just going to come back to it.
As a teenager I had many distinct memories of living in other times, and how those moments were continuing to impact my body and emotional state in my current life. From within me I grew to understand that we are one continuum of energy, that inserts itself into a physical body to continue to work on living from our heart.
This is my first time reading this blog and I must say I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is colourful and alive, I feel I have tasted and lived everything I read in this blog. I have had many undeniable experiences that can only amount to the fact that I am not a first timer on this planet. It agree that society on a whole finds the concept of true reincarnation too big a responsibility. As what I have heard Serge Benhayon present has no glamor or punishment or coming back as strange animals, it is simple. It makes sense that the choices we make in this life lead into the next, you can either set up supportive foundations for yourself or leave a trail of destruction and emotion hurt to return to and walk back through, either way there is no judgement as it is free will and I choice only you can make.
Dragana, I really enjoyed re-visiting your blog as I too have always felt a sense of having been here before. Reincarnation is something I have always related to, having strong ties to certain cultures. What I really loved was your stance on reincarnation and the responsibility we all have in considering the impact our decisions and choices may have on those yet to be born. I feel so much of society lives for the moment, not in the true sense, but in a way where we don’t need to be responsible for the effects our choices and decisions may have on others. Since re-connecting to the Ancient Wisdom through the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have found I am learning to be more aware of the way that I live and that in each moment the choices we make do leave an imprint for others to feel. It brings a greater sense of responsibility to the way we live, knowing that our choices today may in fact effect the lives we may live in the future.
I have always known reincarnation to be true. There has never been any doubt whatsoever and visiting places confirmed this for me… I simply knew I had lived there before. Reincarnation is a topic I love to talk about… it’s just a shame I don’t get to talk about it very often.
Awsome what You are writing and sharing here 🙂 and love the part about the Dalai Lama and Serge and reincarnation. That really says it all! Your last questions asked are so wise and really worth considering for everybody. After the last two years and taking more care about myself…going to the workshops and listening to Serges presentations..to Michaels and Mirendas wonderful music…enjoying singing with Chris James…True movement with Natalie and Curties getting a few treatments it really makes so much more sense. Yes we do come back and our choices matter…all of this and the journey will go on…now I have a different perspective and I really chose to deepen this one and be more aware and making more and more true choices that really serve us all. Thank You for sharing and asking so clearly. With love Nadine
Reincarnation is the simple explanation for feelings, knowing and being familiar with places and situations that otherwise would need books to explain in complicated length why this is the way it obviously is.
When we consider the bigger questions in life, like why, what is this all about, re-incarnation is a topic that allows us to connect to a much deeper aspect of life. Whether we are open to it or not, really only shares our willingness to explore what true responsibility is really about.
I have never doubted reincarnation…to me it has always felt true. Thank you for sharing your story.
The fact that you started in childhood to denounce the views of institutionalised religion, Dragana, indicates to me that you were born with a knowingness of truth that could not possibly have come from this life, since this life you were urged to take on constructs that were totally alien to you. Therefore, YOU are the living truth of reincarnation….as, indeed, are so many others.
I love your point about the Dalai Lama apparently being offered exclusive access to reincarnation by the world media and its devotees. I feel sure he would have a good laugh about that, too!
A lovely read Dragana, thank you. It does amaze me how when a baby is born, you do hear people say things like …’ Look at those eyes…he/she’s been here before”… or “he/she’s a wise soul”.. which is I feel, basically acknowledging or just entertaining the possibility of reincarnation. Feels like deep down we do know there’s more to this life.
I find it interesting too johannebrown17… we often make these comments like this with babies or young children, so as you say, there ‘is’ a knowing, and yet at the same time, it seems that although we’re willing to accept this on the level that suits us (i.e. when it obviously appears complimentary or explains karma (i.e. something negative happening to someone who hasn’t been that nice)), that we do seem (as a very generalisation) to avoid accepting this on the deeper level of responsibility and / or how we may have lived in a previous life (i.e. in explaining why exactly ‘bad things happen to good people’ and why children are born with diseases, illnesses and certain mental and physical limitations etc)… It seems while we’re willing to look at our more supportive choices, we are not always so willing to take responsibility for those which are not (or ‘have not been’) so supportive or loving…
It’s true Johanne – my mother used to say to me “you’re an old soul”. She’s since passed over but looking back now it would have been great to have conversations around this because I feel she may have been an old soul herself.
Brilliant blog Dragana. I was raised in a family that spoke of reincarnation and I watched a lot of movies as a child that accepted this too. I didn’t feel I was watching or hearing lies. It felt true and from that my childhood experiences seemed to make more sense when I connected to the possibility of reincarnation. It gave me a sense of responsibility, familiarity and clarity to the hurts I was experiencing. For me reincarnation felt very true and it guided me to a deeper level of responsibility, understanding and acceptance. What Serge Benhayon presented just confirmed what I had felt to be true all along, it wasn’t new or outrageous, it just rang truth.
I love what you share, Dragana, even when I attended church, it never made sense to me that we are born, live & die, and then that is it, it seems such a waste. My children confirmed reincarnation for me – around the age or 2 or 3, before they were TOLD that it was or wasn’t true, they said things such as, “Mommy, mommy, I was on that bridge when I was a big man” or they related stories in great detail of what had happened when they were big. Admitting that reincarnation is true requires one to live responsibly, so it is often easier to rather deny or ignore it.
Dragana, you raise so much here about the fact that we know we’re older than this life. For me I only have to look a baby to see, aah you’ve been here before, and that feeling you had arriving in London, I have had on my first trip to Australia (I had this feeling of not quite believing I was back) and I’d never been there before seemingly. And what you introduce about responsibility is huge, we bandy the word around so much but imagine how we’d be as a society if we knew we were coming back, we’d stay engaged until our last breath, retirment and wanting to opt out of life would change, we’d be engaged with life, for all, not just for us and our families but all, knowing that as we have no idea where we’re coming back to, we need to take care of all, that would change everything and is the gift of reincarnation, that we get to learn that we’re all in this together and that we do return. Simple and yet revolutionary.
Yes indeed reincarnation is a wonderful blessing for us humans, Monicag2, and just imagine how amazing this life on this planet would be if everyone would look after their responsibility and acting with each other knowing that all comes back to us sooner or in the next life later. This brings a total different picture to work, family life, living with friends and being with our neighbours. I love this and the best thing with it that it is true – life is about installing love in all we do and who we are with – and to that degree of love is where we are coming back to. A win to win situation, first I look after my self -love and then how I act this out in my daily livingness and sharing the love I am with others. This is love in evolution!
This blog has some great examples of how we really can feel so much older then we are and there are parts of us that know things, religions, mannerisms, cultures so well that it has to stem back lifetimes. Thank you for sharing this descriptive blog.
Along with religions, and cultures and other things that feel really familiar, is also the feeling we can get with people who we have not met before, that somehow we know them. This familiarity with people was one of the first clues I had about reincarnation, and the beginning of questioning everyone who would listen about the fact that this couldn’t possibly be our only life!
A fascinating subject indeed – this would keep the TV’s off for a while and bring back conversation to many a family home.
Yep, you’re absolutely right Dragana, How can it not be a considered possibility. I’ve heard stories of young children talk about their other life, stuff that can’t be made up. It’s a fascinating topic that definitely requires more conversation.
Great blog Dragana. It is unfortunate that the concept of reincarnation has been twisted by many to suit their own needs and beliefs. Reincarnation is based on the absolute responsibility of all that we say, do and feel and this eternally accumulates . In a world where at present many people are holding others responsible for their own choices, or are not considering the long and short term effect of their own choices on another, of course there will be many that oppose and resist the concept of reincarnation.
Dragana a really interesting article on Reincarnation that poses some great points I had not considered. What I had felt from young is there is something more to this life than was being shared by the catholic schools I went to. Reincarnation is actually the only thing that makes sense and with that it does then bring up the fact that how we live and what we do in this life not only affects everyone else but it affects us for all our lives to come.
That’s right David, it would also raise a whole new level of awareness and responsibility.
To personalise God I feel is our biggest mistake. Because we are “in person,” so he must be: The bearded man in the sky, judging right and wrong, opening heaven’s gate or sending to hell…who invented that crazy picture? It might be helpful to those who can’t imagine anything bigger then the Empire State Building. And could that be caused by looking outside? I can feel the warmth of God inside me – bigger than the galaxy we have discovered yet.
It’s true Dragana, there is a great inconsistency in that at least 2 of the major religions, buddhism and Hinduism have reincarnation as a central tenet of their philosophy and yet when Serge Benayon presents an understanding of reincarnation in light of the bigger picture and in a way that makes complete sense of the whole, it is attacked. Is it that people are reluctant to accept the absolute responsibility this brings to them – their lives, and their choices, and the outplay of those choices.
I agree, Annie. It is the sense of absolute responsibility and accountability that people rebuke in then true concept of reincarnation because that requires change across the board.
Interesting that the other view of reincarnation still has the father god in charge of whether he deems we are good or not……that also avoids the matter of responsibility, too.
Hi Coleen, this kind of god did never make sense to me – if we are ALL the children of God, how can HE love some more and some less by way of rewarding some and punishing others?
I could never understand the concept of heaven and hell. That you had to be baptised and live a certain way, to get into heaven never felt right. What if you were born to a remote tribe that worshiped other gods? Did that mean you would be damned to hell? I couldn’t be a part of any religion that made such division. But reincarnation made, and still makes complete sense. God loves, he does not judge, and gives us free will to lay the foundation for our future lives.
Yes Annie, yet when Serge presents it – it is offered as a very natural and simple fact which it is. It is no longer disguised under ‘buddhism’ or ‘hinduism’ – it just is. This means that we are all held accountable regardless of religious or non religious standing. We are all one and the same and so of course we come under the same immutable divine laws.
You certainly bring more light to the subject of reincarnation, Dragana and expose how inconsistent people can be, as you rightly present that the Dalai Lama can ‘reincarnate’ but for everyone else it is not possible.
Great point, it seems that there are different standards depending on who you are as to what is acceptable or not. This inconsistency is obvious and awesome that this blog is opening up the coversation and bringing more awareness to the topic.
If the Dalai Lama is outwardly claiming he’s reincarnated, then for those who are able to open their mind to this, surely it begs them to ask if they too have reincarnated? It’s not to say that everyone wants to accept this level of responsibility, but surely the notion cannot be completely denied with such ability to speak openly in this day-and-age.
Great points it is quite ridiculous, that it is ok for Dalai Lama to mention he has reincarnated and that’s ok but for anyone else it is not true. If one chooses to believe in reincarnation it is there choice who’s is any one to question or ridicule their beliefs.
Indeed a fascinating topic Dragana! I love how your mum taught that Love is equal for all, and I agree that those who vehemently oppose the idea of re-incarnation (in my life and experience) have been and are those who also display an ‘inability to take full responsibility for all [their] choices.’
I have experienced memories and awarenesses that are inexplicable based on only this lifetime!
I really love what you present here, Dragana. A concept of reincarnation is widely accepted in Japan. There used to be a TV series where celebrities get their past lives read, and many people have fascination about who/what/where they themselves might have been in their past lives, and asking a couple whether they would choose to be together again when they are re-born is a classic question – but that really is about as far as the most people are willing to go, and so was I until a few years ago. Until I heard Serge Benhayon presents on reincarnation, I couldn’t see the flaws in the very lopsided understanding of the subject that I grew up with. I never even considered my own responsibility in the kind of world I would like to come back into, and the kind of life I would have as an individual.
This is a great topic for blog discussion. The whole idea of a judging God who either sends us to heaven or hell is an integral part of us being able to go through life with little to no responsibility for our actions. If we choose not to prescribe to this Christian belief we are let off the hook to commit terrible acts against humanity. It’s interesting because, on the face of it, the belief is placed within our lives to stop us from committing such acts, but it doesn’t stop many people that subscribe to it. Because we live in a world that is based on a ‘what you see is what you get’ mentality, the idea of reincarnation is unfathomable to most. Learning about this science has allowed me to appreciate how as individuals we play a huge part in the collective of humanity. The sooner we accept it as a matter of fact part of life, the sooner we will be on our way to living, not just in peace, which is temporary, but harmony. It would be impossible to start a war once harmony is experienced.
I love reading this blog as it asks us to consider more. To consider whether there is more to life than what we see … to pay attention to those feelings of familiarity. Maybe if we looked deeper rather than dismissing them many of the things we can’t explain in life would start to make sense.
I love this sentence: “What if, through getting to know ourselves, we get to know our deepest essence and where it comes from, and then by the virtue of knowing ourselves, we get to know if what Serge is saying is true or not?” The point for me being, if we make a commitment for ourselves, to ourselves, concerning the quality of our life and how responsible we are in it, we will gain true clarity for ourselves. Reincarnation is a controversial topic for some and yes it is great to expose how the Dalai Lama is accepted and sought by the media and yet Serge Benhayon is attacked. This choice by the media does not indicate who is more ‘true’ or not, it merely indicates a choice to create different versions of a sensational story, one is a hero and the other a villain. Neither of these narrow portrayals are true, but at this time it is not the media’s general concern to be truthful. Which is why it is so important that we choose for ourselves.
Love what you have shared here Dragana, I especially enjoyed what you shared about your own feelings of connection to other cultures that may once have been part of your previous lives. Reincarnation is such a fascinating topic and just makes sense to me. I found what you shared quite thought provoking and made me feel the great importance of the quality with which we choose to live our lives.
Beautiful Dragana – it makes so much sense of the bigger picture. I wonder how much different it would be if reincarnation was introduced as a concept, how much more responsibility would we take of the world, ourselves, and each other, seeing as we will have to come back and grow up with parents all over again. How would we want our family to be like? and how would we want the world we return to to be like also? People may start to reconsider how they are living now.
Today re-reading your awesome blog Dragana like so many others I was inspired to feel more into ‘reincarnation’ and those little things we come across in life to experience that “I’ve been here before’ feeling. It could be in the vibration of sound (music) that triggers off a memory of remembering, meeting people once connected you just know that you’ve met them before, travelling to different locations in the world, an aroma of food even, or in those beautiful still moments – just remembering. What are we remembering is it a past situation or energy that we tune into. Reincarnation for me is how I’ve lived life before (so many times) and what I did or did not experience/learn I have brought with me now to reawaken to more knowing/living of who I truly am – love. A beautiful start to my day and yes I’ve been here before.
Thank you Dragana for a great blog, I lived as a christian for a large part of my life, and re-incarnation was a topic little thought about , until visiting Thailand about 11 years ago, where I had a very emotional past life experience of living through troubled times there. So from then on I knew it to be true. What a blessing it is to know that each re-incarnation is an opportunity to reclaim more and more of who we truly are, claimed sons of God and reflect that light in a much greater way.
Wow Dragana thank you for sharing this great blog, reincarnation makes total sense in a world that does not make sense with out it. Why do we poo poo this truth so easy could it be we don’t want to feel that we are responsible for the world we live in and the choices we have made and continue to make are laying the foundation for this life and our next life to come.
I like how you finished off the blog, this topic is fascinating – maybe it could be explored more? Are you are experiencing many coincidences or chance kind of moments or is there a bigger picture at play that we cannot just see with our eyes (by similar physical features) or hear in our voice but we need to feel if it’s real? Do we feel older than just the years we have lived on earth? Are some things just so familiar that we can accsess and know so much about a place we’ve never been to or a site we’ve never seen? There is much to explore on the topic of reincarnation.
Dragana what you say has such truth. I have always believed in reincarnation but have not always understood why or how it works but it is the only thing that makes sense. I have been with many people who have passed over and know and feel that the essence of each person is no longer in the body after death. It must go somewhere so reincarnation is the only answer. I remember Serge Benhayon saying once that it doesn’t matter whether you believe in reincarnation or not – you are still coming back!
When we connect to the fact of reincarnation, life starts to expand and we can feel the true purpose of it. I grew up with the knowing of reincarnation, but through Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I embodied it and embrace the universality of it. Reincarnation connects us to the responsibility we have in human life. Negating reincarnation is negating evolution.
Taking full responsibility for our choices – that says it all. If there was no consequences to anything we do or choose then clearly there would not be reason to consider, what if there is no end point, what if we are all just going round and around?
You really approach this from a very interesting angle Dragana. It got me thinking about when I was 30 and I went to Egypt. It was my first time. I went with a group of people and for one of the first times in my life I felt very confident and really came into my own. I didn’t spend all of my time with the group and it was like a light came on inside of me and I felt so graceful and elegant whenever I walked. That grace stayed with me for a long time and actually every time I connect deeply to my essence that same graceful quality is re-ignighted in me. I’ve spoken with friends about my experience of being in Egypt and pondered on whether I have been there before. I think there is definitely something in staying open to reincarnation.
Thank you for sharing this feeling here Shevon! It is truly precious and so lovely to read.
Growing up in a family with generations of Christianly behind me, fire, hell and damnation was a common perspective in my Schooling and used to control the choices one made. l have always felt that there was more to life and could feel the importance of the quality of every choice l made and the gift in every opportunity that came to me. Reincarnation makes sense and feels so true. lt is empowering and incredibly loving. How beautiful to feel the lives lived before and bring to this Iife all the amazing gifts learned. Thanks Dragana, I loved this blog and all it has opened up for discussion
Beautiful tangible sharing of those moments we sense we’ve been here before, through familiarity with a place, or mannerisms, or similar. Love the questions.. “What if it is not just one life? What if we do come back? Would we then think of our actions, decisions and choices in this life more carefully?”
There it is, the 60 million dollar question not many of us are that keen to look at because of the enormous level of responsibility and choice and consequence that lands squarely in our own lap.
A fascinating topic and equally fascinating read. I loved what you wrote about those that feel that reincarnation is not possible may be due to an inability for them to want to take full responsibility for their choices. As we seem to live in a world where most tend to do whatever they want, in whatever quality, in total disregard to consequences to others, this is a very exposing comment worth considerable consideration. Thank you for sharing this Dragana, or should I say Dragana-san.
Great blog Dragana. There must be a greater purpose to us being here than living and then dying. Unfortunately people avoid the responsibility (for ones choices) that is necessary to truly embrace the concept of reincarnation.
Dragana you raised something very beautiful in your blog – so, what if what you wrote in your blog is true???? What if we are all coming back again and again – is it not that life would be more spectacular if so????? Imagine that every choice you choose will affect you forever!!!! For me that would change my whole way of being . . .
Fascinating topic indeed! The possibility that there is reincarnation changes everything. It changes how you behave, what you do and what do not, what do you allow and what you fight for. Recently, in a visit to Turkey, I could feel very clearly that Turkey (a place I had never visited before -in this life-) felt terribly familiar to me. It was in the air. To my astonishment, every cell in my body confirmed this. How do we otherwise account for this and for what you have shared in this beautiful blog?
Like you Dragana, I have also often found it strange how a much loved public figure such as the Dalai Lama ‘gets invited and so openly spoken to about reincarnation by most of the world’s major TV, radio stations and newspapers – and that none of these establishments think he is a ‘barking loony’ claiming to be the 14th re-incarnation of Tibetan Lama. But when Serge Benhayon says to an interviewer that we do reincarnate and that he can feel connections to his past lives, there is a snigger’. Like you, I approach this subject with caution as there are many in the western world who ridicule it. And like you, I have an innate connection to Japan, having had a feeling of deja vue when visiting a village near Kyoto, the feeling was too strong to be denied. I am all for more light being allowed to shine on this fascinating topic.
It is definitely the responsibility people don´t wanna feel, why they are denying reincarnation exists in my opinion. All our actions have an effect and it is too huge for most of the people to accept and live in accordance to that. It is more comfortable to live a life that is obviously ticking the boxes ( having a partner, house, dog, children, job ) , than one with responsibilty.
Thank you Dragana, great sharing about reincarnation, which to me has always been so obvious. Serge Benhayon has added true revelations about reincarnation instead of the ideologies setup by religious organisations. One aspect of your blog that is too divine to not mention, is the example your mother gave about cutting off her fingers, all would hurt the same, so love for all was felt equally.
It makes so much sense to live our lives feeling the responsibility we have towards ourselves, others and future generations. We lack this sense of responsibility and yet we don’t seem to understand that it is the most lovely and fulfilling way to live your life. I am not interested in people believing in reincarnation or not, I am interested in every one understanding that we are all connected and share an equal responsibility for everything and everyone.
It doesn´t seem to be a big deal that the church is preaching that people either go to heaven or hell after death, actually only good christians can go to heaven, but as soon as reincarnation is mentioned by a non-indian-tibetan-asian person it seems to be taken as an offence or absurdity. Could it be that the way Serge is presenting reincarnation clearly brings to the fore the responsibility factor and that it might be quite challenging to accept the magnitude of what it all entails and hence the resistance?
Dragana. It is just a matter of time before the majority come to realise that what science has proved in telling us that “everything is energy and that energy can never be destroyed” is that reincarnation is indeed a proven fact.
Travelling abroad this year I had some strong feelings of having been in a couple of places and situations that were extremely familiar – as if I were reconnecting to a lived experience. These were not flights of the imagination but sensations and felt ‘memories’ in my body, difficult to describe it in any other way. I feel that reincarnation makes perfect sense and also allows us to potentially contribute so much more to society by way of our sense of purpose and responsibility to the whole.
With (apparently) over 60 % of the world believing in reincarnation, it really is a big topic for us all to talk about and discover more as we evolve.
I know that I have a strong affinity to certain parts of the world even though I have only visited one of them. Like Jill, having been raised Catholic, I hadn’t considered why I might feel like this until I was an adult. Over the years many ‘familiar’ experiences in places and in meeting people has convinced me that reincarnation does happen. I really like your point Dragana about the possible difference it would make to people’s choices if they were open to the possibility that they would come back through reincarnation. You also make a strong point in noting that the Dalai Lama can raise the topic without a murmur but yet there is dismissiveness when Serge Benhayon talks about the same subject. Thank you.
This is just lovely and really lays out the possibility for us all to consider reincarnation and what it might mean. I do wonder if we shy away from it as we feel its responsibility, in that everything we do, we can come back to; and if we truly lived that, that would change how we approach so many things. I do know I’ve always had the feeling of being here before or going to places and them being so familiar, yet I’d never been there (in this life). As I write this I can feel that I’ve not truly taken that knowing into account, as in how I live – if I lived knowing I’m coming back, what would I choose? So there are two levels here: accepting reincarnation; and then living knowing that it’s true.
Thank you Dragana, I really enjoyed you sharing. I was brought up a Catholic and never considered reincarnation until 10 years ago when visiting Thailand. I had an experience of long ago being part of the life there, I then knew that I have had many lives with the opportunity to evolve from one life to the next.
Thanks Dragana, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this blog and your relationship with God… also you make a very strong point about reincarnation, particularly using the Dalai Lama as an example that the concept of reincarnation as presented by him is accepted, yet when Serge Benhayon mentions it it becomes such a ‘big deal’, like he has done something wrong? RESPONSIBILITY is the key here in relation to reincarnation and maybe that is what we may react to rather than to reincarnation itself?
Isn’t is interesting Dragana that, as you say in parts of the world re-incarnation is very accepted and part of life, but in others it’s hidden and not talked about or included as part of our lives. It really has the potential to bring great understanding to the way life is and to bring great responsibility for our own part.
Dragana, I have read this blog before and to read it again is lovely. The simple straight forward understanding that you have with your connections to your past lives is very refreshing to read, it also shows me deeply that what we have already lived is here with us now.
Wow I enjoyed reading your article Dragana and can relate to what you share here. I have always felt there is more to who and why we are. I have met people for the first time in this life and felt a deep past connection with them – very clearly. Also my oldest granddaughter when she was three years old told me she remembered when she was in my belly (I had a miscarriage in my second pregnancy). This same young woman still talks about her past lives.
I grew up in a very catholic household in a very catholic country so as you can imagine no one ever mentioned the word reincarnation. When I was 13 years old I had an experience where I knew, without a shadow of a doubt that we had lived before. Given I had never heard of such a thing up until that time it was just something that I innately knew as a result of my experience. A few weeks later I heard a gentleman from India use the word reincarnation and I remember turning to my mother and announcing to her that what this man was saying was true. I knew it because of my experience a few weeks prior.
I suppose some people can feel their past lives and some cannot. I fully agree with the last paragraph especially “through getting to know ourselves, we get to know our deepest essence and where it comes from, and then by the virtue of knowing ourselves, we get to know if what Serge is saying is true or not”. Thank you Dragana for writing this.
Great point Dragana, a large proportion of the world’s population believe in reincarnation yet when Serge Benhayon mentions it somehow it is deemed unacceptable. Ironic isn’t it?
Dragana, this is beautiful. So lovely to be open and explore these feelings. My young Son, who is now 4 often talks about past lives. He asked me a few days ago how he came to be little again as he was just a grown up not long ago. He also tells me what he did when he was the mummy.
There is so much of my life that reincarnation helps to make sense of, behaviours, traits, patterns, people I meet and instantly connect with.
‘His attitude was: he had no more young children to be affected by any of it so it didn’t matter. But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US?’
It’s interesting, isn’t it, how self-interested and short-sighted we can be in our focus on the ‘now’ and the ‘me’. Ironically, reincarnation is also about the ‘me’ – as this blog points out, we’ll be reaping what we sow, regardless of whether we’re worried about others or not!
What a great point you make in such a beautiful journey of a blog Dragana, that of the fact of re-incarnation. I have often thought that if we did actually consider this as a possibility we would, I am sure, take much more responsibility and be more accountable for whatever we did, knowing that we would come back to whatever mess or loving impression we left behind. We ought to worry about future generations because, when you factor in reincarnation, ‘they’ will be ‘us’! :-).
Beautifully expressed Dragana, I can completely relate. I have always felt that I was part of a greater whole and that whole, being round and spherical by nature, does what spheres do best – goes around and around – no stopping or starting, just the illusion of it within an eternity of cycles; of sunrises and sunsets. The sun does not forget to rise just because we might forget to notice. It answers to a rhythm and responds accordingly. We are no different. We walk upon a sphere. Just try walking a straight line on a sphere and tell me you don’t end up back where you started!
Thank you Dragana. I love how you shared about your childhood, the sweetness and openness of wanting to meet God and your ability to discern things that didn’t make sense to your innate knowing of God.
This is a great article Dragana, I love that you have felt the living memory of a place and how so many of us would carry these familiarities inside us to support us as we return back again and again.
An inspiring and thought-provoking read. Why do we reject reincarnation? If I sit and consider my feelings with this I have always felt that there was something before this life and could feel connections to other times and eras, but what I wasn’t considering was that how I am now in this life has an impact on how life will be next time. Once this became an understanding for me, after meeting Serge Benhayon, it has changed how I see getting older, in that, rather than thinking life is ‘over’ so it doesn’t really matter how I am anymore, now every moment and choice has become important to me, until my last breath. So, is it not wanting to take responsibility for our self, or be willing to connect to something deeper within ourselves, that makes us reject reincarnation?
Just love revisiting this awesome blog, Dragana. Yes, yes, yes to reincarnation completely ‘making sense’. I have had many experiences along the lines of those you’ve mentioned, many ‘knowings’ that simply cannot be explained otherwise.
And to be very bold here in print 🙂 … one of these unwavering inner-knowings is that I have no doubt that I know London like the back of my hand also, even though I have not visited there (yet) in this life. So looking forward to the re-experience of the place…
To ridicule Serge Benhayon for references to reincarnation, most especially in the (lack of) context that certain clearly biased journalists have done, is pure ridiculousness. That he is a man who is not afraid to speak of such a subject, regardless of such puerile derision and attack on his reputation, speaks to me of someone who values the truth way over any such sensationalised derision, that offers no context nor understanding to what is a truly fascinating subject. A subject that was even well accepted in the early days of our Christian cultural history, until certain powers that be chose to conveniently hid all reference to it.
One has to ask, why does so much of the world accept reincarnation as a reality, whilst in the west, it is seen as something only the New Agers and Buddhists consider a possibility and/or truth?
Why do we reject reincarnation? True there is much responsibility for us to take in all the choices we have made in the past, yet there is also a lot of learning which allows life to make so much more sense than just the day in day out toiling from birth to death and it’s over perspective.
Life is always a wonder and there is always more to go deeper – I love how you shared that you have never been to Japan but simply know how to eat in precision with chopsticks Dragana; while someone like myself may be born in Asia, but cannot hold chopsticks the correct way, life is fascinating because there is so much more to what meets the eye – we are here to learn and evolve to return to where we are truly from.
Yes this responsibility is probably a major cause why many people shy away from even considering reincarnation to be possible.
“There is so much more than meets the eye” – how beautiful and true you have expressed this, Adele. There seems to be no limit to all these amazing things inside and around you once you choose to see and feel them and let love into your life again.
Absolutely Michael life is truly amazing because it is so amazing to take responsibility and to evolve together.
“. But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US? Would we think and act differently now? Most of us assume that we leave this planet to our ‘future younger generations’ – but what if instead we are ‘borrowing’ the planet for a lifetime for something much greater that we all return to again and again and again?” This makes so much sense to me. I don’t feel that my life this time is a one-hit wonder. A great article Dragana, thankyou.
Beautiful questions and sharing, Dragana. What I find interesting is I feel whether you believe in reincarnation or not, you come back anyway. It’s as simple as that.
Dragana I love how you write, how you present and take us on a journey, it’s beautiful and as I read I feel me considering more deeply how I feel. Your mother’s way with fingers is just brilliant what an amazing way to explain equalness. And for me reincarnation has always felt real but it’s only been in the last few years that I’ve really considered the responsibility of it, that I come back, we all do; and that this is a huge gift, imagine someone loves you so much that you can have another go and keep doing so until you fully live the love you are, so every little thing matters and we come back to deal with that which we ignored so we can be all of our love. And with this understanding I’ve truly been able to embrace that God is real, and loves us absolutely.
That’s gorgeous, and everything I wanted to say too.
Thank you Dragana for this awesome blog. You highlight our resistance in society to reincarnation.
The term YOLO (you only live once) is very common and when I hear it being used all the time, especially by our youth, it makes me wonder how we can be so arrogant about such an amazing concept as reincarnation.
I always say that the fact that you are not completely shocked and in awe of the sky, the ocean and all of nature … tells us that perhaps it is more familiar than we realise.
Reincarnation makes practical sense and in time all will be revealed.
I loved how you invite people to consider the topic of reincarnation through this article by sharing how familiar you feel with aspects of your life that if it was only one life lived would not make sense. I could feel the English and Japanese lives you have lived as you shared these stories and I was wanting to hear more.
Such an interesting subject that of reincarnation which leaves me pondering and asking what are my thoughts on this subject. As long as I can remember, I have felt I don’t ‘fit in’, or belong in this family, but if I sit with this now, I can feel some thing much deeper; the bigger picture of not fitting in or the not belonging that I felt as a child is more connected to; I don’t belong here, I am not from here, I am not from this place… is it possible that we all do not belong here… but we are here because of the choices we have made in our past lives, and the choice we made to separate from God? And so we keep returning life after life until we we find our way back to our true and original essence: to the God who resides in me, to the God who resides in you and every single person on this planet?
How beautifully expressed Jacqueline. I agree: we keep returning life after life until we find our way back to our true and original essence: to God who resides in me, to God who resides in you and every single person on this planet
Awesome Dragana, I love talking about reincarnation – it actually makes me feel free. I remember the day when I thought about reincarnation. I’d had some time of struggle giving both myself and my then girlfriend a hard time. There was so much emotional turmoil going on inside of me and the confusion was that there was no way that what I had experienced in life could be the cause of that. Let’s say that I had a pretty smooth ride while growing up, more or less, but nothing that could cause what I felt. I remembered the second I considered reincarnating all of the tension left. It was like I understood that what I felt was past life issues, perhaps coming up to be healed. I was standing by the mirror and my immediate vision that accompanied the feeling was when you put two mirrors opposite each other you get an endless depth. That’s exactly how I felt myself at the time. Myself present but who I was was the product of all the things I’ve been through and experienced throughout all the lives that I’ve lived. What if this was to be considered by psychologists and psychiatrists, so much would change and we would be freer to knowing ourselves in a much grander way.
This is awesome Dragana. It reminds me of a question I always had when a friend was explaining that if you did not believe in his God then it was eternal damnation.. and I kept asking him about the uneducated goat herder in some far off country who would just never come across his God… it just made no sense.
As Einstein proved, ‘energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another’. Now that makes alot more sense.
A great article Dragana. Indeed if we accept reincarnation, in the knowing that what we leave in this life we return to in another, would we all adopt a greater level of responsibility for how we live and as you make reference to, the systems we implement? It is a great point and one to consider. If I do this (what ever it may be) in this lifetime, what will it look like if I have to live it in another in the future? I feel sure we would take more care of how we choose to live and what we choose to create if we had the knowing that it is also for us to return to and not something that others will have to put up with. It is a familiar take that people think “Oh well it won’t happen in my lifetime” yes maybe not this one but what about the next one?
I’d never given much thought to reincarnation before I listened to a Universal Medicine audio presentation, what I heard made a lot of sense to me, and there was nothing sensational about it. It just rang true that many of my learned behaviours and feelings ran deeper than my experiences in this lifetime.
Beautifully expressed article, and here I feel you have really got a point “but perhaps the way many feel about reincarnation (not being possible) is a reflection of our inability to take full responsibility for all our choices.” I very much agree with this possiblity – it is a reflection of our inability to take full responsibility. It seems many are ready to leave the planet in the way it is because they think it won’t affect them when they are gone; but what if we knew differently and it was in fact what we return to? Would this awareness then change how we live/d? It is also a very interesting point that you raise with regards to the Dalai Lama who is known to be the 14th re-incarnation of the Tibetan Lama as being accepted, yet when lived past lives are mentioned by another this is deemed as silly or stupid. Selective thinking and memory is a term that comes to me regarding this. We have much to learn here.
Brilliant article Dragana. You pose great questions. I have had the feeling that I have lived other lives from other cultures. It was the presentations of Serge Benhayon that pieced it together for me, what he presents makes so much sense and the responsibility/or lack of in this life is carried through to the next.
I completely agree with what you share Amina, we all have had amazing experiences as a child that confirm us in away that cannot always be explained, but at the same time it does not need to be. The key thing here is to not lose our connection; with the support of Universal Medicine we now have the support to deepen our connection.
This was such a pleasure to re-read Dragana. You ask many of the questions I asked about God and as a young girl. Your sharing about lived, known experiences of London and Japan that present the possibility of reincarnation are fascinating.
Thank you Dragana, I great article about a subject that I have contemplated warily. I remember talking frequently to a Christian friend, when I was very young at school (who remains a close friend), we used to talk about religion, God and Hell, {where I was going to end up because I was not a Christian}. I never believed it not for one moment, I felt God would not relegate me to Hell because I had not been baptised. It reminds me that I had an awareness about what I felt to be true as a very young child, before so many beliefs and habits became the norm. Being open to a natural law in the universe that is a cycle is beautiful.
Great blog Dragana and a good point you make that despite what our feelings may be on reincarnation there is a lot that cannot be explained with our current model of one life only. We could at least be open to the possibility and not ridicule it.
Andrew. I love your comments on one’s feeling about reincarnation, and having an open mind, and not just casting aside the possibility of reincarnation.
There is no doubts for me, reincarnation is for real. It makes so much sense about taking responsibility over our actions and everything that we do say or think. Something for all of us to ponder on.
Very well expressed.
For me it was always somehow clear that I’ve had other incarnations before although I was not brought up with this notion. The familiarity with certain places and people and the ease with languages I’ve ‘never’ heard before was enough for me to know that as a fact. Challenged at times by Christian family members, I always quoted that even the bible tells about Jesus being the re-incarnation of Elia 😉 – The only phrase about re-incarnation left in the bible, as the facts about it were taken out in council because it appeared to serve the catholic church and their politics – evoking fear and leading people to believe we only live once.
What a richness is there to connect with when we allow ourselves to feel our past lives. To me it feels very empowering and truly joyful.
Great article Dragana. I have been in lots of situations where I am aware of a strong sense of familiarity and having been there before, when I haven’t (in this life anyway!)
You are right Dragana in that this is a fascinating subject, it is easy to ridicule but many of my mannerisms and feelings go way beyond any experiences I hold from my time alive this time around. I really enjoyed reading your story and how you have explained and opened up the possibility around this. The responsibility we have would be far greater if we knew that our actions are carried over, it also feels true that we should look beyond the insularity of the common meaning of family and see that decisions made affect us all and we are all in this together.
I so enjoyed your blog Dragana. I have always believed in reincarnation all my life. It is like a knowing that I have always felt inside of me to be true without a doubt. I have had different experiences to do with past lives, that have definitely, confirmed it all to me ……reincarnation is very real. What world do you want to come back into? Wouldn’t it make sense to start now? Imagine a world filled with love and connection, equality and brotherhood. Wow…what a beautiful world that would be. It all starts with us now if we choose….
You bring up so many salient points Dragana, relevant to life and our responsibility. Maybe people would look after planet earth better if they were of the opinion that they were returning? My understanding is that just under 2/3 of the world feel that reincarnation is true and I have always liked the idea of recycling, what goes around comes around. It felt very obvious to me from a small child that there was more than this life, I would look up at the magnitude of the stars and know there has to be more. Serge Benhayon presents this and I now have more understanding.
When I was growing up, I would often have very strong feelings that I have been somewhere before, that deja vu feeling, to which my parents would confirm I have not. How could this be if it is not from a previous life?
Perhaps we need reincarnation to give us that sense of responsibility about our decisions, choices and what we leave behind?
I loved reading your article Dragana, and can relate to what you share. I have believed in reincarnation for some time, it made sense to so many things, but then listening to Serge Benhayon has brought a greater depth of understanding and clarity to this subject.
One time I asked an elderly gentleman I knew, if he believed in reincarnation. He replied ‘no’, when I asked him why, he replied ‘because I have never thought about it’. This is amazing because it shows to me that we have a free-will choice to consider reincarnation as a truth or not.
How incredible that something so profound and which has the potential to deeply develop a person, just sits quietly by, allowing life to be as it is.
A great discussion Bina as we then would bring in the big R word responsibility which is definitely a very important factor.
I love this blog Dragana and thanks for being open and sharing about a subject that is not really spoken about. i have heard time and time again that we only have one life so make the most of it. I feel great now that I really know and can feel re-incarnation is about the ultimate responsibility and how you live now does affect you. What goes when you die is your body but that spirit is coming back. I now have a ton of answers that I was always wondering about and Serge Benhayon made sense.
As Tim Bowyer says above – would people live their lives differently if they knew their actions in this life had a direct impact on their next life?
A question well worth pondering on.
Yes, when we consider the planet we are leaving to the next generation, perhaps we should be considering the planet we are leaving to ourselves?
If we pay attention its easy to see that our current actions effect our next moment; that we are constantly feeling the effects of our past choices & momentums…it is only common-sense then and a great responsibility to live according to the fact that every thing we do effects the future and matters to everyone who will be there; be it us again or others like us…
When we understand that each person is just like us or when we can feel that “others” ARE-A-PART-OF-US as a whole, it is very clear how important our choices are!
Great blog Dragana, I agree this is a fascinating topic and should be discussed more openly. You used the word ‘responsibility’ which is what I feel it is all about. Reincarnation is the ultimate responsibility. Would people live their lives differently if they knew their actions in this life had a direct impact on their next life?…. I know I would.
I love all the comments made about re-incarnation, but I have a problem with it.
I do believe that when we die, there is a place we call heaven, and that we will meet God.
What I cannot get is that with re-incarnation we come back at some stage, in what form who knows. Why would we need to come back, when we look at the world and the state it is now, with wars, famine, corruption. May be I am missing something that has by passed me along the way.
Thank you Dragana. I was very confused about God. I always had an unquestioning knowing that God was there but could not understand all the rules and beliefs that I was taught through religion. I chose to not question it openly but felt confusion about how all the different religions could have such differing beliefs and each be so adamant that they were right. Listening to the presentations from Serge Benhayon suddenly it all started to make sense and reincarnation made sense of ‘why am I here?’ The choices I make in one life are influenced by choices I have made in previous lives and the choices I make in this life set the path for my next life and will affect me and everyone around me. This is an enormous responsibility and opportunity to contemplate.
Lots of food for thought here Dragana! Like you, I would like to see more light
shone on this fascinating topic.
Hello Dragana and thanks for a beautifully expressed blog. I was born into a very catholic family with nuns, priests and missionaries on my father’s side of the family with a family tree dating back 12th century France. They don’t believe in reincarnation and after life you either go to paradise or you go to hell. As a child I always had a strong connection to God but it was not a “religious” connection (religious meaning here of a particular religion). I had to go to church and do what catholics do but I felt that all these rituals were too restrictive and naive and not true. There was more to life than one life. I felt that there was a bigger plan and I had to find out (and I did). So many times I have met people I know I have met before and so many times I have been to countries where I know I have lived. When it happens there is an immediate intimacy with those people or places. These re-unions are always beautiful to feel.
Great article, great subject. Although I don’t really have any strong feelings of where I’ve been or what I’ve done in past lives, London has always felt like home, even though I was born and raised in New Zealand. Reincarnation has been a known for me rather than a belief for a very long time. No other explanation of what happens after we pass feels true.
Thanks, Dragana. I have a “Japanese Story’ as well: when I lived there for 9 months I never ever got lost when I used to get lost everywhere, even in places I ‘knew’ well. I did not learn any kanji but took 2 buses to work from day one, knowing exactly where to get off, navigated the ATM to draw out money and used the Tokyo underground without once having to retrace my steps. Yes, I know – in Tokyo stations also have English names openly displayed but then, I used to get lost in places I was very familiar with. Maybe there is more to this ‘one life’ than we have been led to believe? Has reincarnation simply been ‘censored out’ of our conscious awareness and our history?
And in whose interest would that be?
Before Universal Medicine I gave reincarnation a wide berth as it had always been presented in a very irresponsible way, as in “get it wrong this time, just come back and do it again.” I now know that yes, I come back to do it again – in fact, I come back tomorrow, the next hour or minute to do it again, but that has nothing to do with a flippant irresponsibility but a deep sense of responsibility to myself first and foremost and of the love I now have for myself.
Great words Dragana. Great questions. Whenever I talk about reincarnation to others I am always surprised at how ‘thin’ the arguments against it are. It’s pretty easy to ask questions that get past the defence. That is one thing. But what is more interesting to me, is how people (and I include my old self in this) just don’t go there. Don’t think about it. Initially I thought it was because it was just “too huge” a topic to even begin to commit to, to even begin to try to fathom, understand, work through. Simpler just to not believe and continue with whatever was in front of them.
But I have since seen (and felt in myself) that there is more to it than that. Responsibility. If you are to truly embrace the notion of reincarnation then that comes with immense responsibility and honesty. Way, way, way more than most of us can, or want to, handle. Which is why even the thinest of arguments against reincarnation is enough to keep people in the comfort of their one-life existence.
But what it is important to also know, see and feel… and I am a young student of this and am still very much feeling my way and playing with it… is that also reincarnation, and everything that stems from it, also brings immense freedom. Freedom from one of the most imposing and contracting forces of our lives. Time. Time eats me! It really does. I definitely haven’t mastered that one…
And the duality of those two things; responsibility and freedom is something that I am really pondering and hanging out with…
Much, much, much more to learn and see.
Thanks Dragana.
(I loved the little girl and mum’s fingers!!)
Wow, Dragana. What you’ve shared here, and the comments that have followed, are ‘music to my ears’. I very much resonate with your words, and the familiarities that certain places, cultures, and indeed people, can bring – at times in my life, this has brought me to tears, with the depth of ‘knowing a place’ for example (even if seeing it on the TV!). And I agree absolutely, that whilst the notion of reincarnation brings with it great responsibility, it also “allows our amazingness”, for we DO know so much about this place we live, and regardless of how lovingly we have lived in the past (or not), we can make very clear choices now, as to how we’d like to steer the way ahead (with a LONG “way ahead” in mind & heart!).
So thank you for confirming something I’ve always known to be true also. Just awesome.
Dragana thank you for very simply sharing some everyday occurrences for you that were deeply felt, so deeply felt that it does pose the question, why, how and what if?
For me I know that I have met certain people during my life that I feel very connected to. How is this possible if we have never met this lifetime? Is possible that we have met in previous lives? I believe so.
Loved your post Dragana! I was raised in a traditional religion where re-incarnation was not even considered a possibility (and where in fact the thought or any notion of this would have been shunned as contrary to the Bible and its teachings, and/or seen as evil). I knew many things, such as those you have raised in your post didn’t make sense, (e.g. Why do babies die? Why do bad things happen to good people etc? Why are places and certain people familiar when you’ve never been there, or met them before?), but this was always explained as it being God’s will.
In my 30’s and 40’s I began to question this a little more and began to consider and embrace the possibility that reincarnation ‘might’ exist. However the idea I had of reincarnation was of unrelated lives – that is, that we reincarnate, but that 1 life does not impact the next, and it was just made up of different opportunities to experience different things. So while my view of reincarnation addressed the issue of familiarity with people, places and having certain skills etc., it failed to address or explain the individual experiences within any one life (e.g. why tragedy etc. occurred) other than it being an ‘experience’ to add to one’s life bank.
It was only when I was introduced to what Serge and Universal Medicine presented, that reincarnation finally made sense and absolute truth. There have been times that I have resisted this, because understanding reincarnation is about taking responsibility for ‘everything’ I do, past, present and future. I now understand that my experience in this life is affected by how I have lived before and the choices I have made, and equally so that the way I choose to live in this life, will affect how I live in the next life. It is such a big level of responsibility not only for each of us individually, but for humanity as a whole, so as you pose “What if… this were a possibility? …How differently would each of us choose to live? And is humanity ready for this level of responsibility?
Yes, Angela, it is interesting how a vast number of people around the world questions in the same way that you and I and others here do, yet at the same time we spend a vast amount of energy not wanting to believe our own feelings. It poses a question: What is it that we have allowed to have the upper hand over us and keeps us capped so that even when we know deeply that there is something in what we feel in regards to past lives or certain experiences from past lives we shut it down as ‘unreal’ ‘impossible’ ‘paranormal’ mumbo-jumbo? Whatever it is, when arrested, amazingness is allowed.
Hear hear! Could not agree more Dragana!
Very true Dragana, and adding to that True Beauty also.
This was so beautiful to read Dragana thank you. I loved how real and open it is – your free thinking on re-incarnation begs the question for us all… ” what if ???” and if it is true ” what does that mean for how I live my life now and what do I leave behind for others and for me to return to???”
great point Kate, having grown up in a catholic background we have a deep knowing something was not true about it. It’s been a real blessing to be offered an opportunity to re-connect to what re-incarnation is really about. It makes so much sense but your point about “what does that mean for how I live my life now and what do I leave behind for others and for me to return to?” hits me with responsibility – something I’m going to ponder on further and shows why I’d found it easier to think of this life as the only life as it suited my ability to get away with things – or so i thought! How deeply confirming to feel the truth.
I was born in Germany but my parents come form the same former Yugoslavia. I grew up in two cultures. Once on a holiday in Yugoslavia I visited with my cousin in her school. When the teacher asked who believes in God, I was the only one who put the hand up. After the lesson my cousin asked if I am crazy, because it is forbidden to believe in God. Anyway I saw the people celebrating their chruch holidays secretly.
In Germany on the other hand the kids were forced to visit the religion lessons many times. Today it is different. And in Germany there are taxes on the income for the church if you do not sign off – 10% not less.
I had my own feeling of how the thing with God functions. And as Dragana says it all did not make sense to me how people believe in this one life and a punishing God withhout mercy. There is so much pressure in it and no wonder people are collapsing or giving up.
I heard of reincarnation before of course, but until that point it was presented by Serge Benhayon, I could not really feel it and it made no true sense to me.
Come on… who does not know the feeling you meet a person and have the feeling you know each other deeply and for so long?
… who does not wonder that he or she has certain skills where others need to work hard on?
…who does not know a place you feel home at, but never have been there before in this life?
Just little examples but what if we know that person from a previous life, what if the skill I have is one which I have used so many lives before. What if I have truly lived or been to that place once in other lives?
Reincarnation is always made so airy fairy when we talk about it, mysterious, but it is not. It is actually very simple. We come to this earth again and again. We make choices and leave imprints behind. When we re-born again, we just continue the footsteps we left behind.
So I ask myself, did I live in truth and responsible? And how do I choose to live this time around now? For what I decide today, has a response tomorrow -not only for me but for us all. And that’s it.
We get the chance to correct our irresponsibiltes towards us and others. We meet people and situations again and again until resolved in harmony and love.
And looking on our world today… we have a lot to do and reincarnate until we can call it nearly harmonious. No wonder people don’t like reincarnation. But if you take it as a possibility… lives may change.
Hmm déjà vu, have we met before, I’m sure I know you – that strong sense of having done this all before, attraction to certain cultures and lifestyles. It does suggest that we don’t just get one bite at the cherry but come back repeatedly until we get it.
And good point why is it ‘normal’ for the Dalai Lama but crazy if another speaks of it?
You have a magical way of writing and sharing your truth. You have put into words some of my feelings, some of my childhood questions about God and so much more. When I went to Japan, it felt very familiar. Thank you Dragana for your unique way of expressing, I love it!
Being here before, in another life, (in spite of my initial catholic upbringing and that religions belief in there not being reincarnation) – has always been a normal thought for me and one I never even questioned or doubted, it just was the case and no-body even spoke with me about that subject, and in fact I always had a felt-joy about this/past lives since childhood… This is often simply confirmed for me through the smell or temperature of the air of a particular country (that I have no blood connection with), and ‘feeling at home’, or a sense of affiliation towards certain cultures, dress, customs, types of foods consumed, periods of history, musical instruments, dance movements, languages, architecture etc etc. To deny the past, is to deny feeling the present and so the future.
Thank you, Dragana, for your open words. I could follow very well your experiences and have had similar ones (grown up in an extreme catholic family).
Can we think of things or have thoughts about something, what and which are not existing?… except making stories, which are useful for our interests as for example religious systems and organisations, which killed and still are killing people because of their disagreement and difference.
By the way, in me is increasing inner peace and a different understanding of my responsibility since I believe in and know about reincarnation. This feels good.
This is great Michael, and shows us how simple life can in fact be with a little more understanding of what has been before. What I have observed with reincarnation is that I can let go old behaviours that are no longer supportive to where I am today, letting them go with simple, truthful exercises.
Beautiful Dragana, I too have connections with other cultures I can’t explain through experiences in this life time. To start to seriously explore the realm of re-incarnation and what it means to return again and again to life, picking up where we left off could help us to understand many, many things that we experience in each life time that lack a clear explanation. What a topic that would be!
The possibility of reincarnation is the big one for lots of people I feel and there seems to be a general fascination about it in western society. It’s as if deep down people know there is a truth in it, especially as so many in the world already accept it as a given.
Thank you for sharing your experiences of recognition and familiarity on your arrival in London and connection with Japanese culture, Dragana. I live in Australia and I know how my heart sings when I am in England! There is also a part of me that feels homesick for the glorious flowers and country scenes of Europe – a possible explanation for my love of all things botanical.
Thank you Dragana, a beautiful discussion on Reincarnation. What if WE are in fact ‘our future younger generations’, that it is US that will be those people; if people would just consider that as a possibility then the integrity, dedication and love we will approach the worlds’ problems with might be very different. If we knew the harm we caused would be there to meet us in our next life/lives would we be so careless, cruel, ignorant, un-appreciative and non-loving to ourselves and others? Probably not!
The ‘one life’ theory is very convenient, but also very ignorant and irresponsible; when humanity embraces Reincarnation as a truth we will see a great shift in responsibility, then as a race we will be on the true path of our evolution.
Hi Dragana,
I Loved reading your blog, it was very insightful. As a young child I remember knowing there had to be more to the picture than what I was being told, as what I was being told, like you did not make any sense. I was brought up very religious and everything seemed back to front. I remember pleading with my Dad as a teenager to tell me there was more to life than being born, growing up, dying and going to heaven, he would reply that was all that is to it and it is not our place to question this… his reply would result in me choosing to get very angry. We all know deep within that there is a purpose to this life, maybe then we need to explore what this purpose may be???
Awesome I love your inspiring words Dragana
I too have had experiences that suggest that I have had lives prior to this one. Several years before meeting Serge Benhayon I experienced being drawn to the life of a catholic nun who died many years prior. I had no connections to Catholicism in this life and had not been brought up in a religious household. I considered that the idea of being a nun to be quite ridiculous and was dismissive of such religious concepts. I therefore found it quite profound at that time to be drawn to this persons life which was a life which in so many ways was very unappealing to me and which I would never have chosen ( so I thought) .
Thank you Dragana for your letter. When I was very young I remember my sisters talking about things they had seen or done and when I asked where I was when these things happened they would say you weren’t born yet and I used to say but where was I.
And they would laugh and insist that I hadn’t been born and I was nowhere. But it didn’t feel right, how could that be, I must have been somewhere and it made me feel very lonely and sad and unworthy. How could that be I was nowhere and nothing. I now realise that was probably the very beginning of me leaving (disconnecting) from my true essence. I am feeling very sad now but at last I have expressed how truly awful that was and not left it buried.
Deidre.
Thank you for sharing Dragana, I could strongly feel the confusion and sadness you felt as a young child, what you questioned as a young child makes so much sense, so why is it that children question things from such a point of common sense, but when we get older we no longer question life in such common sensical ways? Is it we forget to think in certain way where common sense makes absolute sense?
The questions you pose are magnificent ‘But what if we do come back and these changes do affect our children and even US? Would we think and act differently now? Most of us assume that we leave this planet to our ‘future younger generations’
What if we do return?… it would certainly change a lot for all to know this is a fact when so many believe ‘its just one life’ yet frequently claim ‘I want to live forever’… it appears possible that we do know within that this is actually the case but as you present – perhaps we aren’t yet willing as a race to accept the responsibility of this fact and the knowledge that we are responsible for each and every choice, let alone each and every life? Your own experience is beautifully expressed. How is it that life can feel so much older than us? that we can feel connections with others and with particular places so deep and familiar yet without any other explanation?
If we were to take responsibility for our choices and accept reincarnation as a possibility our entire way of parenting would change as well. Rather than live a life however we please and let the next generation deal with the fall-out from this we would be working together with the young, raising them to also know responsibility and the effect our current choices will have on others… equipping the young (rather than dumping our mess on them to deal with) with the true knowledge of life’s cycles, how to work with our planet and not against it and how life truly is and can be – ensuring the future is built responsibly with the love, harmony and support we would all like to live and return to.