by Gabriele Conrad, Goonellabah, New South Wales
A recent article by Nicole Serafin – Creating a Life to Come Back to – reminded me of how much I used to be put off by the concept of reincarnation and more specifically, by the way people talked about it – and before I go any further here, let me also state that in hindsight, I have actually always known reincarnation to be true, but I was fighting it because the way it was presented to me did not ever make sense. And because I was relying on outside information and not ever trusting of what I was feeling, did not even know what that might mean and how it could possibly be achieved, I had thrown the baby out with the bath water.
I used to get quite riled over reincarnation because the way it was presented would either be in the form of humans coming back as cockroaches, rats or poodles (the poodles are my addition) or in a very off-handed manner demonstrated in throw-away remarks such as, “well, that’s great then, get it wrong this time and just come back to have another go at it next time”. I even heard arguments defending suicide based on this casual assumption. But what was this next ‘go at it’ to be based on? And if we can’t do it now, if we can’t have this life we so want and don’t have now, what will make it possible for anybody to do it differently that imagined next time? Different parents perhaps? Or a different country of birth? Possibly more money? A better education? A different job? But where was it all going to come from?
All I knew for certain was that if indeed there was a God, and if there was a creation and not just this bad and hopeless joke of an obviously useless existence, then the whole thing better be more glorious and astute than those man-made assumptions that felt a bit like really bad science fiction, and did nothing but project human frailties, shortcomings and hopes onto an imagined deity and assumed divine order. If this God thing existed, then he, she, it better be stupendous – or I wasn’t having a bar of it! And so I didn’t.
The other thing that used to really bug me about all this reincarnation nonsense was that its proponents seemed to all have been Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene or Nefertiti; there were apparently a few reappearances of Napoleon and I had heard of people who believed they were Jesus. It just made no sense and I used to ask people to please give me one good reason, a good explanation in favour of reincarnation to convince me once and for all that it existed – if only I could meet someone who would simply and honestly say they had been Adolf Hitler I used to think, and not all those Cleopatras, nuns and monks and famous warriors!
Enter Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The first few times Serge mentioned reincarnation, I was squirming in my seat – or falling asleep, depending on my form and food intake that day. I must have stayed awake long enough for some things to start sinking in though, because I gradually realised that Serge was doing a different take on reincarnation, one that actually made sense. Not the cockroach and poodle variety, no conventional religious take, and certainly not the shirking-all-responsibility variety that had always so repulsed me. He was talking about reincarnation as taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round (reincarnation) and me and my life then which leads to the next round… you get the picture. He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally!
I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet. But it is stupendous, that much I know for sure while I now willingly and very consciously partake of this opportunity to go around in daily, monthly and yearly cycles as does the earth around the Sun, and knowingly and willingly undo, redo, file, polish, buff, smooth and wipe the lesions, bumps and warts I keep running into and tripping over.
And the funny thing is of course that all the time, while I was waging my own private war against reincarnation – I was still coming back; in fact, hello – I was already back: just like the earth had never changed into a flat disc or swapped the going-around-in-circles-bit with the Sun, no matter how fervently it had otherwise been decreed.
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If reincarnation was explained properly and sensibly linked to the responsibility of every day life, perhaps it would not be such a hard concept to grasp, as all our past choices and momentums are with us, we also have an opportunity to re imprint how the future will be.
When reincarnation is presented as an opportunity to learn and develop towards the divine love that we are, those cycles and returns offer so much more awareness and understanding of the different choice that we have.
The thing with this “responsibility” that quiet took my attention is the fact that everything is related – everything is connected to eachother.. And that my poignant mind and I have been walking on this plane of life in superiority – individuality, thinking we are a part – something on its own. Very very interesting and truly good to come around – again, to feel, see and this time around – choose more wisely and atune to our inevatable truth – we are One.
Not only do we deny the possibility of re-incarnation, we also dismiss that this quality is inherent in our life. For each minute we are alive, each moment that we move, we have an opportunity to make a new choice, and so end or continue a momentum, habit or direction. Whilst we might like the idea of distinct points at the end of life’s spectrum, the reality is we are constantly dying and being reborn in a sense. It’s only our stubbornness that stops us seeing we are constantly offered moments to make new beginnings. This makes you wonder how many literal lives we have lived only to pursue the same patterns again. Thanks to your words Gabriele I can see that true rebirth truly comes from choosing a different quality of energy.
I have come to feel that there is nothing more real than reincarnation and the responsibility that it engenders. We spend so much time and effort trying to live in our world as it is, yet the very fact of its many horrors is simply because of the lack of responsibility many have attributed to themselves and their behaviour, so maybe it is time to do take responsibility for myself and actually be a light, a guiding light for our world today and and to reincarnate holding that same light, in readiness to do the same in my next life.
Reincarnation is simply about accepting our responsibility that we come back and go around the sun for many many many lives. And so, accepting this fact, which is actually an unchangeable act, even for those who do not believe, it stays there as a fact, how annoying we might feel it.. But so, it is much easier and simpler to admit it and work along to see and be wise of where and what we want to come back to and leave behind. As as you say it is for what your coming back to next and next and next.. We do not want to repeat all of that ill choices over and over again, do we ?
We seem to be very good at repeating what does not work, individually and as a humanity. But eventually we are bound to get it, there is no other way.
Indeed, neither the cockroaches nor the numerous Cleopatras or the irresponsibility make any sense at all, only The Ageless Wisdom does.
So often it seems we’re complaining about the mundanity of life, looking for entertainment or a break from our everyday. If we’ve all been here for many thousands of lives, well it starts to make sense how fed up we appear. But is it truly life we are ‘fed up’ with, or the type of energy we have chosen again and again, over many incarnations? God knows repeating the same craziness time after time will start to wear you down – so is it possible the time is ripe to make a new move, and take advantage of the learnings we have refused before? Thank you Gabriele for drawing out what these cycles are for.
it is interesting though to consider the fact hat reincarnation is a fact and only our unawareness or unconsciousness of this fact is feeding us a way of life that will perpetuate itself endlessly without going anywhere. Until we acknowledge and accept its existence and use the cycles of death and rebirth as a way to grow and evolve instead we are on our way back to Soul, that way of being we have stepped away from many cycles of death and rebirths.
I am wondering if there is any word in our vocabulary where we haven’t changed its meaning to fit our own version and comfort of living. Reincarnation is a great example as you describe it here, us having it made into a variety of possibilities. We can create however we want the fact remains that the true meaning of words is never been lost or inactive it is only that we fool ourselves while still being pulsed forth by the universal laws that are at play.
This is such an engaging and compelling read – amusing to the core and full of wisdom on what it is saying. We have always known what it is we know even if we fervently believe we do not know it. With willingness, honesty and humility we do remember – because of course, we have been around many a many times, and the wisdom and power we can tap into is timeless.
Great point – we have been doing this for so long, been around so many times that there is a huge reservoir of wisdom and power available to all of us, individually and collectively. But – it requites we take responsibility for our choices.
Bringing responsibility into our lives and ways of being is huge, how we move, speak, or even what we think has a ripple effect that goes out into the world, and then back to us.
‘He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally! ‘. This is gorgeous to read and feel for I have always believed in reincarnation and when truth is delivered, it is always simple with no whistles or bells, that is why it is easy for the body to ‘feel’ truth.
And once we allow ourselves to feel what the body already knows, we don’t have to believe in anything anymore and just know, plain and simple.
This topic came into conversation with my neighbours child yesterday after his religious lesson at school about God and what happens when you go to heaven. I sat and listened carefully as the child waited for an answer from me. Registering that he was given the space to feel the truth himself the reply was as simple and to the point… “You keep coming back because there is so much work to do.” A timely reminder that by offering our young the opportunity to connect to the truth is the joy we experience on a topic that is often not spoken about or brushed off in our conversations.
I love your answer – we keep coming back because there is so much work to do. Very simple, transparent and practical, like reincarnation itself.
I always had a sense that there was more than this life, and what Serge Benhayon shared makes so much sense, ‘He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that.’
Knowing that we are coming back, and that we can lay the path down now for ourselves to return is a truly wonderful power to have, because with this empowerment we have the ability to create life ahead of ourselves for everyone. So we have the choice and the opportunity to make life be about evolution and brotherhood with every cycle that happens.
Reincarnation is simply asking yourself do you want to go through that again or responsible co-create something more.
I love the simplicity you express the cycles in, we are all within and part of cycles that continue and we can either participate or continue anyhow…I would rather begin to participate and be aware of it. This includes how open I am to the fact that I live with karma from choices I have made in this life and in others….I can feel the truth of this in everyday. Watch a baby being born….they do not come into this life an empty vessel.
Reincarnation brings balance and is also about taking responsibility right now, so that we don’t have to re-live our errors and repeat our aimless wandering around.
Yes, aimlessly wandering around on the so-called “many paths to God” – best avoided and relegated to the dustbin for good.
True Gabriele! Perhaps that’s the reason why we deny reincarnation and make life ever so complicated because it gives us the excuse to not get on with it? Once reincarnation is accepted in its truth, there is no hiding and no escaping our choices making it much harder to be irresponsible. The only choice left then is to get on with it as you say!
Being brought up in the belief you only live once left me feeling very confused about life… it simply didn’t make sense. I began to open up to the possibility of reincarnation in my late twenties, early thirties , but never studied any particular religious views on it. I was just fascinated by TV documentaries about the topic and about people who had a sense of their previous incarnation. I remember a statement from a child who asked his mum, ‘why do I have white skin when last time my legs were brown?’ Serge Benhayon opened up the topic and my understanding of reincarnation in such an easy way that made complete sense and is exactly as you describe it, Gabriele.
Yes, The Ageless Wisdom does make sense and answers all our questions – life makes sense then and all we have to do is to commit and get on with it.
I always believed in reincarnation but this blog has added a whole new dimension of understanding that there is no wow factor but a steadiness in each day to build the foundation to which we can return.
Yes, that is the irony of it – whether we believe in reincarnation or not, it is what is happening all along. And those who know it to be true, live the responsibility of coming back, over and over again, in their daily lives.
Yes it is because we know the truth about reincarnation that we react to false stories about reincarnation or react to life completely because the feeling of life without reincarnation and the bigger picture feels not as enough.
Even though I have always believed reincarnation to be a part of our cycle of evolution, I can really feel the love within these words here Gabriele, Reincarnation is a law of love.
What I love about this blog is that reincarnation is the process of returning time and time again yet the choices to get real and keep life simple is the quality that is offered on our return.
I once got asked in regard to reincarnation, what about a child who is born with cancer, but perhaps if we remove the emotion from how we view illness we can see it for what it is, a removal of an energy we have allowed in our body from the life or lives we have lived.
If we don’t go into reaction but stop and feel, we can easily discern what is truth or not and life becomes very simple and starts making sense.
When we consider that how we live is setting a foundation for the ode we come back to – then it puts a lot into perspective. Reincarnation is now something I know in my body because I look at this life as ‘what is there to heal from before – what is being presented to me to clear from the past life and learn for the next life. Then life can be looked at as a cycle and not a lineal thing.
If I consider reincarnation, and ‘one life’ then I am immediately reminded of responsibility and accountability for the life I am living, for the momentum I live now will carry into the future.
The simple truth is that we do not like the simple truth and that is – we are here to do it all again, over and over until such a time that we do not need to do it at all once we have restored the level of energetic integrity and energetic responsibility we each in essence have but shelved long ago. That is to say, we are in form until we learn how to be responsible with it and only then will we be able to return to formlessness, the true Oneness we come from. If we cannot look after one simple planet of form and all of us that live upon it, why would we let ourselves loose to wreak more havoc in an entire cosmos that knows only Universal order and how to move in absolute obedience with this?
Yes, in the universe we stick out like a sore thumb, like a bad smell and an atomic explosion of emotions, strife and warmongering. And it suits the many to pretend that death is the end of it, but not so.
What a great line “I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.” we don’t have to always fully understand something to actually feel the truth of it.
Very true Adam, I was talking with someone on the weekend about this – it is so clear there is something that is enhoused by the body when we are alive, that is not there after our death. Yet we turn the other way rather than take that conversation further. The more we ask the more we might realise how much more there is to us than we have chosen to live till now.
Mmm I really get what you have shared here. No matter how hard we deny it, such as the world being anything other than flat or the reality of reincarnation, there are certain truths that will keep presenting themselves regardless – we will get with the program at some point.
One of the many great points in this article is how you point out at the beginning Gabriele that you always knew reincarnation to be true but denied its existence because of the nonsensical reinterpretations that bombard us from young. This you have shared on behalf of humanity as a whole, and not solely on the topic of reincarnation but on so much more. We do all know the innate truth that there is to know, about all things, the order of life, the truth about life. The mystification and the doubt is man-made, and a deliberate ploy at that to crush our intuitive knowing and therefore our power and ability to see through the miasma of lies we currently live in.
Which is why I will always cherish to the very end, the teachings brought forth by Serge Benhayon. Teachings that re-ignite the knowing we all have within us, so that one by one, each of us in all our natural might does away with these lies, and lives from the clarity of this inner knowing once again.
Thank you for putting this into its bigger context – the miasma of lies and reinterpretations about anything of true truth to keep us small, despondent and lacking of true purpose.
Hearing stories of people having been some famous person in history always confused me, especially when there were several claims for the same person, i.e. Cleopatra – hardly anyone said they were a peasant farmer. Then I heard Serge Benhayon present on reincarnation and things started slotting into place and make sense. The presentations brought our irresponsibility into the fore, and highlight that everything we do, say and think actually does have an impact, not only on ourselves but everyone else.
I so know what you mean here. I used to think that if ever I met a person who said that they’d been a petty criminal, then I might give more credence to reincarnation. All that changed when I heard Serge Benhayon present on the responsibility that reincarnation presents.
It is very convenient that we don’t remember our past lives, this does foster a lot of irresponsibility. This allows us to not have to be responsible for our choices in this life, that everything we do does and will impact on us and everyone around us in this life and the next. But we don’t want to feel that, myself included. I have a deep awareness about reincarnation and can feel the responsibility that we hold to ourselves and others, this is a continuing work in progress to make more responsible choices knowing it affects the whole.
By ignoring the truth of reincarnation many are avoiding being responsible in this life.
I can’t honestly say I have been considering my next life, and thinking about what I’m doing now which will effect then.. but I can say when I make truly loving choices and am in full commitment to This life, it feels as if the future is all there.
Absolutely brilliant blog – what a joy to read and you make the point so clear and absolute Gabriele – we can deny, shirk and reinterpret the laws of love we all actually know and keep going with that for as along as we choose to. But the fact of the matter is that we’ll still be going around and around and around all over again, until such time that we choose to remember what we already know.
It feels like you are describing the way from a contracted life where it is all about self to one that is all-embracing (to the best of our ability and continually learning), a much vaster and richer experience and one that answers the question “what is life all about?”
I couldn’t agree more … the universe is no coincidence, accident or random event.
One of the joys of reincarnation is that we cannot blame anyone else for anything that has happened to us. So no more blaming parents for the way we were brought up or anything like that. What it does is to put everything into perspective and gives me a much greater understanding about life. It also means a lot more things make sense like surely children would not be born disadvantaged like say with a illness or disease for no reason other than just genetics. There is so much more at play then purely what we have been told or what the eyes see and the more we choose to be aware the more everything makes sense.
This is such a great article on reincarnation. I love what you say about the fact that whether we believe in it or not we are still going to reincarnate! Our beliefs are powerful but they do not change the facts! Reincarnation feels to me like a very loving universal law. It makes too much sense to be denied or dismissed.
I have witnessed people vehemently deny the fact that reincarnation exists, but return to seriously question and begin to accept the possibility the closer they get to death. It is those moments where we feel like we’ve done this before that reincarnation becomes increasingly obvious.
Regardless of whether we ‘believe’ in reincarnation or not, we are all coming back – as we are all subject to universal law, regardless of beliefs.
The desire to be Cleopatra, Jesus or Napoleon speaks of our all-too human desire for recognition – one of the very foibles that keeps us all too busy reincarnating!
Good point – we take what is true and turn it into a convenient means of recognition for self, sprinkled with a bit of titillation and a lot of guess work, make-belief and deliberately chosen ignorance.
Reincarnation is a divinely loving endless loop… until (on this planet at least) we don’t need to return because we’ve all taken enough responsibility for ourselves and each other that there is no need to… and we can all take our place in the starry fields of the non-physical universe.
Something that I have experienced is getting stuck in making life right or wrong it is such a strong ideal that can mean we make choices based on fear and end up judging ourselves harshly. It leads to an awful cycle helplessness. Understanding that there are choices and consequences and these last for lifetimes has helped step back and make truer choices for myself making a huge impact on all those around me.
The acceptance of reincarnation is actually a very true and beautiful one. Once we accept that we are going around the sun, keep returning to our cycles, coming back in another body in life, healing and return to who we truly are, we know that we are already one step closer to home.
It is definitely rather funny that we can rile against the laws of the universe and deny them and refute them but there they are all the same, being the laws we are inextricably aligned to whether we acknowledge them or not.
Well said. We find it easy to use words to deny the truths we feel, could it be though that these words are delivered with a great tension in our body, a tension there because we are speaking against what we know to be truth. A tension that becomes a disease or illness?
‘I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am’ – this feels so amazingly loving Gabriele and can also be felt in my heart. There is no recognition, comparison or titles required here, nothing to be proved, just the responsibility to fold the essence we hold within.
I have also heard a few different versions of reincarnation in my life. The versions seemed to change depending on what the teller was wanting from reincarnation; a good rest in heaven after a difficult life, peace and quiet as an animal, an escape from humanity, or a past life tale to justify where they are stuck in this life. Serge Benhayon has made sense of reincarnation for me. It has a grand purpose, it brings the ultimate responsibility and has the beauty of the cycles of the universe.
As I read this article, I could sense myself pondering on a level of commitment that I know I am ready to live with, one I can palpably feel, yet one that old patterns are influencing the effectiveness of. This brings me to the understanding that what is shared here is about each of us noticing any patterns we live by that are dulling or stopping us from living how we know we want to. The choice is ours to make, stay dominated by our chosen patterns, or having the strength to let these patterns go for the beauty of living the life we know we can.
This is evolution and the purpose of reincarnation. To step out of the comforts and hindrances we have fostered over many lifetimes.
Beautiful, simple and clear, I love this simple and truthful explanation of reincarnation from Serge Benhayon: ‘He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that’. Each life lived is an opportunity to return to the love that we are and which we separated from, and each person will return in their own time given the free will aspect of life.
Ha ha yes true Gabriele, not only were you coming back, you were back already. And so we are, until the last of us gets to where we all need to go.
Despite being raised in a Christian family, I have always felt that reincarnation is true – and when I have listened to Serge Benhayon speak about it, my whole being just says ‘Yes, I know this to be true’. Somehow, this awareness is simply in me and beyond question. What is more, it makes sense to me that we return to this plane of existence over and over again until we have learned what we need to learn and have accepted responsibility for our choices. There is a deeply loving equality in this responsibility – even if we don’t like to accept or admit it.
Absolutely, reincarnation is about building on each life not wiping the slate clean. Simple but incredibly empowering.
Gorgeous! “reincarnation is a law of love” that it is and it also asks me to be responsible rather than blame my life on everything I was ‘given’. We can change so much when we step into our lives and see them as an opportunity to live more love, to come back to who we are.
We are cyclic beings and nature is governed by cycles. “What goes around comes around, quite literally!” That says it all very simply; we are living our future now based on the quality of our movements in life.
Reincarnation has always been about responsibility – coming back to the same lessons, opportunities to release the baggage which isn’t who we truly are. I’ve resisted reincarnation, felt it to be claustrophobic in it’s asking of me to let go of my ill ways that I’ve believed made the cycles of reincarnation bearable. I’ve wanted to run away or have someone miraculously save me without any effort or evolution on my part. But what if there is no need to run at all? To discard what doesn’t belong. To feel the beauty of my essence, getting to know it more, so each incarnation is a joy and an embrace of greater responsibility?
‘reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am’ beautifully said Gabriele, and we very much have a part in how we come back as how we are now dictates how we are when we come back, there really is no magic wand with this, just our willingness to be love and or our lack of it and we’re offered the chance regardless until we choose the love we naturally are.
“… we are offered the chance regardless…” is a beautiful and the true way of putting it – God does not judge us for our choices and thus, there is always a choice.
A very refreshing look at reincarnation, not a random game we play but the responsibility we take.
Yes, that’s the beauty of it – nothing random about reincarnation at all, just cause and effect and the law of love.
I agree; I have never been able to buy into this “nurture vs nature” controversy, as it is both factors that influence and make us, to a degree.
that something so inevitable and obvious and natural should be denied flatly… Reminds one of the flat Earth paradigm that was all the rage once upon a time.
I like your last line which actually says that if we like it or not we are reincarnating and on this constant cycle of learning. Being aware of this and knowing this though can speed up this process of learning immensely so.
It’s a bit like the earth which was always a sphere, no matter how flat some said it was. Truth is Truth.
Reincarnation brings responsibility and accountability to the way we live – it’s no wonder some prefer to pretend it isn’t true.
We have so many pictures of what life is like, it is very healthy to step back and philosophise on life to get a grander picture and to see how these pictures impact on how we are in life. I recently observed how I had measures in life that I wanted to achieve and I measured myself against these. When I stepped back I could see the falseness of these measures and that life was much more than this.
Its up to us from now on to take responsibility for our return life and now with more knowledge and understanding make better choices than we have in the past. As you have mentioned Gabriele we are coming back to what we have left behind!
That’s great – straight lines must be an invention of the mind that is trying to avoid responsibility; only thing is, it doesn’t work and what goes around, comes around – literally so.
There is so much more accountability with our choices when we begin to understand reincarnation. A big ouch of how we have lived and what potential we have said no to time and time again.
‘I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.’ -this is a beautiful understanding and also feels true for me. Today I am returning to all of who I am and sharing that return journey with all others – this brings purpose to every moment and every movement we live and each moment is very precious. I have come to realize that this has not always been the way I have lived. Thank you Gabriele.
Completely agree, reincarnation is all about love and responsibility. The other thing is really it is all one life – we benefit and grow from our loving ways and have to clean up any mess we make!
Great sharing Gabrielle, so many of life’s mysteries have been unfolded for me by the presentations of Serge Benhayon. Serge simply makes sense and his sharings are that we can all do the same thing.
I always thought until this morning I was fine with reincarnation, then I read the word in another blog and something triggered in me, hence I came to this. I have been one of those people who’s been like, oh well you’ll come back to do it all again till you get it right’ which shrieks lack of responsibility. This is what I have not been wanting to feel my past lives, and the actual lack of responsibility I lived and chose to live.
The knowing of reincarnation is in every body, the expression of divine love. How beautiful is that. We can live in a responsible and at the same time joyful way appreciative of being a divine being living in cycles on earth.
Yes, Gabrielle, the way that Serge Benhayon presents the understanding of reincarnation exposes the falseness of the generally accepted perception of it and makes it such common sense and natural process of life.
This is brilliant Gabriele. I also felt the truth of reincarnation my whole life but until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I was not able to articulate what I felt as I had no theory to confirm my feelings and I was too scared to go it alone. One thing I always struggled with was letting go of the concept of heaven i.e. if we were reincarnating forever then we would be forever trapped on a planet that quite frankly didn’t feel like home. Enter the truth of evolution and our return to our divine nature. The truth is easily recognisable and truly stupendous if we allow ourselves to feel it.
Well said and thank you for deepening the discussion here; when we can feel truth, we don’t need any theories or fancy footwork, it is how it is and this knowing is unshakeable.
Hear! Hear! I believed in reincarnation from very young when my father died when I was 9 and there was an open family discussion about the fact we reincarnate. Like Gabrielle and you it was not until I heard the present by Serge Benhayon that it was possible for me to joint dots.
I really like your playful approach to this subject and then the super beautiful clincher, “that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am”. How much longer can we keep on avoiding such order and beauty?
We live the life we have chosen, in knowing this that we have a choice and a responsibility to do life differently, reincarnation gives us the opportunity to come back and evolve in the love we have developed in this current life.
Love your light hearten approach to reincarnation here Gabriele. How we live today is what we meet tomorrow. There is a relationship between responsibility and reincarnation that we cannot escape, even if we are Cleopatra. It is a “law of love” as you say.
We are here to evolve, and reincarnation is the next round to embody our evolution from the past life. I am seeing it in children that come in with with so much knowing, clarity and love, deeply wise beyond their measured years.
While reading your exquisite blog Gabrielle I had to laugh as I was also a person who find reincarnation as it was presented a bit weird. Since I met Serge Benhayon this changed as it made so much more sense how he presented it. Now I can feel the responsibility I have for myself and the way I live my life and honestly that is very empowering!
Even though I was raised in a Christian family I always felt there were a lot of things that did not make sense and there were many unanswered questions. In my early 30’s I attended a philosophy class and from the very first moment that the concept of reincarnation was presented I thought “at long last I am hearing something that does make sense”. Of course, looking back now, it was another form of knowledge – all in the head. I did not embody a full understanding of the huge responsibility that came with it.
I was amused when I read your words: “in hindsight, I have actually always known reincarnation to be true” – because it occurred to me that if we all do keep reincarnating (as we do) then at some level everyone must know it is true whether they acknowledge that to themselves or not. Denying or not believing in reincarnation does not stop us reincarnating!
Reincarnation for me asks me to be responsible as it brings with it consequences. I never thought it made sense that we were here for 1 life and that was it and then if we were good we went to Heaven and bad to Hell! It just did not make sense to me The fact that we are here to learn to return to the love we are and the fact that we get many lives to do it is a real blessing and one we should use wisely. I know for me I have wasted many lives being irresponsible and have for most of this life. However, now I have a very conscious choice thanks to Universal Medicine.
What an interesting topic, I have also always known, however I used to doubt it too because of the way it is presented in society.
If we are keen to remain in ignorance of the Divine precision of karma and reincarnation so be it – our learning continues as do we return again and again. It certainly supports us to realise we are but students in life’s classroom rather than attending class with our fingers in our ears and our gaze out the door and even believing we are the teacher..
I love your choice of words here – ‘divine precision’ describing the Law of Cause and Effect and as such, the reality and ultimate free-will of reincarnation.
From believing that the world revolves around us and is there to serve us to understanding that there is a greater Truth, a Universal Order, Divine Will and Divine Plan that we are here to Serve..
A superb piece of writing and wisdom – dispelling the myths and breaking up the Cleopatra brigade in one succinct sharing. Reincarnation is Absolute Love and Responsibility and should we find issue with it, we need firstly examine our relationship with both Love and Responsibility for there-in lies many answers and much learning.
The Cleopatra brigade – I like that, very funny.
Cycles make so much sense and are natural. The ‘coming back’ notion of reincarnation is so unacceptable to so many because we do not understand that everything we do has an impact and a responsibility attached to it. Hearing about reincarnation from Serge Benhayon comes in this context. It then becomes part of the ever present cycles we live within. This has been a revelation to me and as stated, feels natural now.
Would we live differently, make different choices and approach our end of life care differently if we embraced reincarnation as a humanity? Would we be more aware of caring for each other, loving each other? Would there be less focus on nationality and differences? I reckon there would. Why wait?
Why wait indeed; it can feel as though we have an attachment to struggle and to prolonging the struggle. Time will tell.
The fact of reincarnation makes so much sense to me. It also made a lot more sense to me when I could feel into long held patterns that did not stem from this life but were simply brought through. Until this is really a known from the body the idea of reincarnation simply remains an idea, but once felt can’t be denied.
Reincarnation some people embrace, some make light of, some deny and most choose not to truly understand, possibly because they are choosing instead to avoid taking full responsibility for their lives. Doesn’t really matter for we are all coming back to go round and around again back to what we have left behind, this is karma, it’s not a pay back, it’s simply universal law – the balance of cause and effect, as you say Gabriele what comes around goes around and this in fact makes perfect sense, until we evolve back by choosing to live responsibly with love and truth as our true service to humanity shedding and discarding that which is not true and what is not love. “somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet”.
A lot of people I’ve heard speak about reincarnation do so in bitterness about others, that the person “will cop it next life and hope he does” kind of thing. When we truly understand the big picture and the love we are all from, then the system of reincarnation must also come from that same love, so it’s not a punishment or a payback. With returning to the love that we are as the purpose for everything, this then changes how and why things happen to us as part of karma and reincarnation.
‘Reincarnation is a Law of Love’ – this is beautiful Gabriele and confirms the patience, allowing and holding that is God and part of our return to who we truly are. It means that we will learn to know what being responsible for all our choices means and how the outcome of these choices translate into actions in the world. Every choice we make flows out to interact with the choices and actions of others and so whilst we are not responsible for the other person’s choices we are responsible for what we contribute, the ingredient that affects the end result.
What goes around comes around, this is so true. We go round in cycles/circles and it is up to us to learn from and change the momentum we live in, to heal ill beliefs, ideals, patterns and behaviours. As you so rightly say ‘And if we can’t do it now, if we can’t have this life we so want and don’t have now, what will make it possible for anybody to do it differently that imagined next time?’ … if we don’t learn, heal or change then it keeps repeating until we do. So much has been bastardised and the truth about reincarnation is one of them. Thank GOODNESS for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who live from a truth and knowing and are dedicated in living, holding and presenting this .. clearing up the mess we have all created … We all now need to take responsibility and join in doing this. And yes reincarnation is about Absolute Love.
That always makes me laugh too, whether I believe it or not, I come back to do it again! It reminds me of how we can wipe a memory of trauma but the body remembers it and we can have irrational fears and behaviours that play out in this life. If we can expand our understanding to consider the cycle of sleeping and waking as similar to the cycle of death and life then we don’t see a start and an end and we might not live without considering the consequences of our choices.
yes just as we breathe in and out, watch the sunrise and set, enter and leave this life, there is a continuum…our life in every aspect is governed by natures cycles. What future are we bringing towards us?
It just makes sense that this life is because of the life/lives lived before, and the next life will be the consequence of this life.
In this learning playground of us called life, the fact of reincarnation confronts ourselves with our choices (past and present) all the time.
Reincarnation is part of the religious views of the world and of us.
If the religious views of the world on offer are not of our like, we will have a problem with it. The one vision proposed by The Way of The Livingness makes perfect sense to me.
Our relation with the concept of reincarnation reflects how much we accept the beauty of the order created by God and how much it makes perfect sense or not.
“reincarnation – taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round (reincarnation)” and so forth. I am only now really feeling the consequences of our choices and that every choice it important- will it evolve us or hold us back; are we saying yes to our soul/ God or to something else? This life is all about laying a true foundation for us to then come back to when we pass over, so that humanity truly evolves and true brotherhood will eventually reign.
Wow love your analogy Sarah of putting off things, day to day things like exercise I currently am doing that- so love the bringing back to reality!
Yeah it is a crack up that we play the ignorant game and all the while everything ticks over and over again, around and around we go.
“While I was waging my own private war against reincarnation – I was still coming back … no matter how fervently it had otherwise been decreed.” So true Gabriele we can resist it, fight it ignore it, but we will always come back for another round with an even bigger backpack when not taking full responsibility.
Gabriele, what an refreshing blog on reincarnation. I love how you describe the “mañana” approach to reincarnation and how irresponsibility is the main factor for either having this approach or negating reincarnation. What are we waiting for? Going around and around in circles waiting for someone to make a difference next time so we don’t have to be responsible? Reincarnation starts now, any time the present is the future.
I enjoy the frankness and humour in which you express Gabriele. And I loved this question – “And if we can’t do it now, if we can’t have this life we so want and don’t have now, what will make it possible for anybody to do it differently that imagined next time?”. I know that to be true in this lifetime, for example if I put off exercise in the morning and feel very confident in that moment that I will do it on my way home from work so it will still be done but not just now, but come the end of the day, 99% of the time, the exercise in the evening does not happen because really all I wanted to do was not do it and the ‘next time’ was just an excuse. I think this applies for that approach to reincarnation – not bothered to do it now? What is really going to make you more bothered next time? Great question.
“What is really going to make you more bothered next time?” Great question. How much do I care? It’s an uncomfortable answer when I am being absolutely honest with myself.
You bring this to a point here – why do we court delay so much and what are we getting out of it?
I love how you have described reincarnation as ‘the law of love’ – the opportunity to return and be ourselves. Like you Gabriele i did not really get reincarnation, but the way Serge Benhayon has presented it, makes so much sense and I really am drawn to certain periods in history where I know them because I’ve been part of it. And if we consider that each life is an opportunity to get closer to who we truly are, then it does make us accountable for every moment, especially when we pass over, so that the next time round we’re supported.
Reincarnation is a gift, and shows us we have full responsibility for how we live our life. Nothing is coincidence we are here to learn and develop the love that we innately are, and we get endless amounts of times to learn this in full.
The difference in opening up to the truth of re-incarnation rather than being closed and skeptical was partly in how Serge Benhayon presented the topic as part of a whole. We live in cycles, not straight lines. We come back around and around to be offered ongoing opportunities to evolve and that evolution is returning to the oneness we chose to separate from. There is a plan from a source of immense love allowing us the space to choose what we will, bear the consequences and choose again. Through embracing this plan it becomes clear, bit by bit, that we indeed do all know and feel the truth of reincarnation but avoid it because we do not want to feel the truth that we are creating the need in the first place to come back and do it over and over again to set things right.
“I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am.” Even if one doesn’t know reincarnation to be true, why not live your life as if it were so? Reincarnation isn’t about retribution – but about us all evolving to a higher state – a law of love, as you mention Gabriele.
‘reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.’ Accepting not knowing the destination, or even if there is one, makes us let go of the need for there to be one and focus on the present moment. The quality of this moment is the starting point for the quality of the next one and so it goes on in an ever-expanding way.
It is indeed funny to consider that while we are debating on reincarnation being it this or that, or if it even exists or that we have only this life, the fact is that we are all in the cycle of reincarnation all the time as that is our way in our human form to return to who we truly are and where we belong to. Therefore it is such a blessing that we have Serge Benhayon with us who brings the truth of reincarnation back to us, something we always have known about but deliberately have bastardised because of our addiction to our self created way of living in which we tend to avoid to recognise who we truly are and truly belong to, to the divine order the whole of the universe is governed by.
“reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am” and so we continue coming around and around living another life with the opportunity of claiming being the sons of God that we truly are.
And the beauty is that we build on the many lives we have already lived on this planet and in every reincarnation we bring all those lives with us which means that we are never unexperienced when we are a baby but come with the knowledge and experience of many lived lives lived before.
Thanks Gabriele for your insights. I loved this line so much I felt to repeat it . . . “. . reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am.” Beautiful, that just about says it all to me. We go around and around like in the movie Groundhog Day repeating the same old day with the same old patterns until we wake up to the simple truth that everything is about energy and everything is because of energy and begin to understand that we have a choice of two very different energies. One is fiery and loving and one is damp, cold and very loveless . . .and then eventually we begin to make everything about love.
The truth of reincarnation is the key that has unlocked me from the imprisonment in which I was living. True responsibility. Free will. Evolution. All factors/cycles/energies that were never part of my lived way (despite the fact that they were of course still absolutely affecting my way). And now, as I slowly learn to live with these ‘elements’ in my life, the whole thing begins to make absolute sense and I am freed from the prison of it all being about this one life – a confinement which was adversely affecting every single one of my choices. Reincarnation is my key-stone.
Reincarnation was a word that I hardly even knew when I was younger! Literally. It was so miles off the radar of my family, my schooling, my friends. We never even considered it. It was all about the now. All about making this life as good as we possibly could. The disdain with which my parents discussed anything like death, what happened to their bodies, funerals – anything like that – left me with the very firm belief that it was this life, and this life alone. Looking back on it know it is actually absolutely mind-blowing. Almost amusing? I went to what is considered to be one of the best schools in the whole world and they didn’t even mention the single most fundamental and important issue about the whole of life!! I say this with no reservation because, since discovering the truth of reincarnation, there isn’t one single movement of my body that isn’t affected by this fact.
“He was talking about reincarnation as taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round (reincarnation) and me and my life then which leads to the next round… you get the picture. He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love……..” I must admit that I never really looked at reincarnation in detail until Serge Benhayon presented on this subject. What Serge presented made such sense to me. Once I understood what reincarnation truly was, then so much fell into place for me in understanding why I am here on this earth, what purpose it might serve. I now understand that I am here in each incarnation to learn how to live as I was meant to be living my life. Learning to truly love myself, then take that out to loving all other humans on this earth, see that we are all equal in our essence, and to love all that exists on this earth that God provided, in the natural environment. It is amazing when we truly connect with ourselves, treat ourselves with loving care, that an amazing care for all others then develops, the beginning of knowing that we are all meant to be living in equal brotherhood. We are given the opportunity each lifetime around to learn more and more deeply all that living this way means. Now this all makes sense to me, shows me my true place in this world. I am here to be a shining light for all others to see, to be another role model for how we are to be living, so eventually we can all move on together to the next stage of our development elsewhere.
I always wondered about re-incarnation. I never wrote it off as being ridiculous but also never found anyone who I felt actually knew anything about it that wasn’t hearsay or written in a book somewhere. When Serge Benhayon talks about re-incarnation you get the feeling he knows what he is talking about. It simply makes sense. Now I know that I always knew re-incarnation was true, but like you Gabriele, I just hadn’t found anyone who could communicate it with any truth until Serge.
For as long as I remember I have felt reincarnation to be true, because it did not make sense to me to have one life and then it was over. What would my body say about reincarnation. The word that comes up is preparation – this life is a preparation for our next, and more precisely, every step we take in each day, month and year towards love is preparation for our next steps and next cycles and the next levels of awareness.
‘Reincarnation is a Law of Love allowing me to return to who I truly am……..’ this is beautiful Gabriele and a true Gift, an opportunity to take responsibility for the life we live – evolution.
The two big “R” words: reincarnation and responsibility, intrinsically linked but continually denied by so many, for to accept responsibility for one’s actions and fact that if needed these actions will come back to be addressed in the next life, or the next, is way too scary for many to accept. So the responsibility is placed out of sight and the truth of reincarnation is denied, but the simple fact is, we are all coming back and what will greet us is all that we have spent so much time running away from! How easy would it be then to take responsibility for own our lives from this moment on – surely much less exhausting, especially once the running away is at an end?
‘He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally!’ This makes sense to me and has also been my experience thus far. It also makes sense and feels true that we make the choice to build on the love that we express and in so doing are at the helm of our next life- in this life.
It makes sense to live a life knowing that we come back, it makes us more responsible for our choices, our behaviours, our ills and woes and it makes sense to lovingly address those things that are not loving within us so that there is more love within us when we do return.
Yes Gabriele , our innate knowing is there all the time , a constant flow of universal wisdom.
Yes Katie, self responsibility is the key.
Love your title Gabriele – ‘Reincarnation – Taking Responsibility for the Next Time Around’ – Says it all.
It is crazy Richard when you put it like that ‘Negating our sixth sense is like blindfolding ourselves and then tripping over all the obstacles in life’ – that we don’t fully consider and explore this possibility of a sixth sense, means we are missing out on the truest guide and navigator we could possibily ever have, and its free for our choosing.
That’s right Kelly, and responsibility can be felt and unfolded within and lived as a joyful thing, not a burden. Simply the responsibility to bring all of ourselves in full to every moment – to the best of our ability.
that’s right Alexander, there is no room for excuses, as we begin to realise there are no excuses – as we have created everything we are now living – by our own choices.
I hear you Gabriele, and it’s a sobering thought and a strong feeling to make more responsible choices, without perfection.
How true Alexander. We are quick to make those excuses, but as you say, our time is up!
This is beautiful Gabriele..”reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet. This feels so true to read.
Living with Christianity most of my life, I really did not give reincarnation a thought until one night after attending a concert in Thailand I experience a very real past life happening. From this experience I had no doubt about reincarnation. A few years later I came to Serge Benhayon’s teachings, which put it all together, making perfect sense of this law of love that has been given to us.
And not forgetting that there are millions of people on earth for whom reincarnation is part of life, part of their religion and part of their everyday normal.
I agree, it works well in English, makes it clear that it is a passing over from one state to another, from the physical to the non-physical.
Yes, the same way that we learnt (even though we had always known) that the earth wasn’t flat, we will one day, in our own time, rediscover that we live and pass over, live and pass over as many times as that is needed to evolve.
Yes, the bitter irony for anyone who doesn’t consider the possibility of reincarnation carefully is that, whether you believe it or not, if it’s true, it’s true and you’ll come back to replay what you didn’t learn regardless of whether you believe you will or not. It’s not about adopting the concept as a quasi insurance policy but rather that if we don’t even contemplate the possibility of reincarnation and its ‘recycling’ component then we can conveniently overlook our responsibility for the results of our actions on subsequent generations – and so it means we can live out a life in total disregard and irresponsibility. But if we consider that we might just come back to the world we chose to create and leave behind, then suddenly the goalposts shift and our perspective widens.
Great point – reincarnation in the context of responsibility, not just for ourselves but in the greater scheme of things where we come back to what we left behind, even if we thought we wouldn’t have to face it (again).
I remember hearing similar things in my childhood but these admonishments came always with a veiled threat and menacing tone of voice, so even though there is of course a nucleus of truth in them, they don’t engender the awe and appreciation that the truth of reincarnation deserves.
I absolutely love the fact that there is reincarnation because it feels like it is such a loving way to support everyone to evolve back to the love that they already are.
Reincarnation is the only thing that makes sense in the bigger context of making sense of life and how come and why we are here.
You describe it beautifully and simply –”reincarnation is a law of love.” We are given multiple chances to develop ourselves back to the loving beings we naturally all are.
Your heading, Reincarnation – Taking Responsibility for the Next Time Around, says it all really Gabrielle. Personal responsibility and choice; in this life and the next if that is your belief, is indeed up to each and every one of us. Self-loving choices benefit ourselves, each other and humanity.
Yes, Gabriele, life becomes so much more simple when we start to feel the truth for ourselves. I used to buy every book that promised to give me the answers to why we are here on this earth. Now I buy and read very few books that are not by Serge Benhayon, I find that I have most of the answers there in his books and his presentations, and also now within my own self as I develop my sixth sense. I used to have shelves and shelves of books for most of my life. They now cover just a very few shelves now, just the growing number of Serge’s books, together with a few by aligned authors.
Absolutely agree with you, Katie, everything that happens to us is never by chance, yes, ‘it’s all an accumulation of choices’. I guess that is why so many of us are not willing to even consider the fact of reincarnation, once we understand it, then we have to take full responsibility for ourselves, can no longer look to others to blame for everything. That can be too much for many people unfortunately, who always blame someone or something else for their tribulations.
“He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally!” That is the understanding that I also have regarding reincarnation Gabriele, and I just love it. How wonderful that we have the opportunity, now that we understand it, to approach life in this beautiful loving way, being willing to work on ourselves, and build a body of increasing levels of love, taking full responsibility for every little detail of how we do and say things each day. Yes, it takes time, has its little pitfalls, but we deal with those, gradually building a consistency in our lives of love for ourselves and for all of humanity. Thank you for introducing such an important subject.
It is an amazing opportunity to understand that responsibility engenders more responsibility and that each life – divided into decades, years, months, weeks and days down to each single moment – is a step by step process of discarding what we are not and getting back to the love that we truly are.
Absolutely agree, alexander1207, I feel such a high level of responsibility now that I understand how important it is to get my life on track during this lifetime. I am working on building a body of love, to the best of my ability before the time comes for me to pass over. As you say, everything we say, do, do not do, matters. I understand that the state that I am in when I pass over is the same as I will bring back into my next life, so who would not want to work on themselves during this life? I have had enough of living irresponsibly, it is just not worth it, it is so miserable. I have come to a point where I feel so joy-full, building a body of light, it is such fun. I want to be light and free, and be very loving in my next incarnation, able to help others to see there is another way to live.
By chance! (Haha?) I have spoken with a few people this week and have discussed reincarnation. They said they didn’t believe in it and weren’t coming back. I understood that this was just a complete lack of responsibility in that they don’t want to face even the remote possibility that how they live now will affect their future lives. However even if one doesn’t ‘believe’ in reincarnation, taking responsibility for our everyday feelings, words and actions seems a truer way to live to me. I know for sure that I have lived here before for many lives and that my current choices affect not only my day to day life but my future ones as well.
Taking responsibility for how we live now, in the present. Regardless of whether we ‘believe’ in reincarnation or not, this makes so much sense and surely ensures a ‘better’ life for oneself and everyone around.
I have found this as well – taking responsibility for my present choices leads to more responsibility and greater joy and that is regardless of whether we take future lives into consideration or not.
It would certainly bring responsibility or the lack thereof to the fore.
Agreed Gabrielle, connecting to our sixth sense within our bodies allows us to tap into the vast wisdom innate to us all.
Stupendous and fascinating, and makes so much more sense when see lives as one continuum and an endless opportunity to learn and grow.
I totally agree, the alternatives just don’t make sense as do the falsified versions of reincarnation don’t make any sense.
As you describe Gabriele, with reincarnation comes a very high level of responsibility. Everything what we say, do, not do – matters. We commonly accept that in a family siblings can be very different from each other even opposite ends of the spectrum in personalities. Human nature can be so complex that it is not possible that we come in as a clean slate. The science of reincarnation gives our lives true purpose and meaning.
Yes, everything matters, down to the smallest detail, incident, gesture, thought – it makes me realise how stupendous is what we are a part of.
My parents don’t believe in reincarnation, but they do admit that me and brother were so different as babies that there had to be some other influencing factor. Some people could argue that this is genetics, but when you understand that each of us keep coming back and have all lived countless lives it is then clear why every baby is unique in their own way. There is no such thing as a baby being a blank sheet, the only thing that is ‘new’ about it is the precious body that it has come back into.
That makes sense, we do not come in as blank slates and everybody can feel that, whether they ‘believe’ in reincarnation or not.
Great blog Gabrielle. Just like you I always had a strong feeling that there was some truth in reincarnation, but it wasn’t until hearing the teachings from Serge Benhayon that I fully understood it. The science of reincarnation gives our lives true purpose and meaning. When we finally get that we keep coming back, life can no longer be seen as time to be wasted, but another opportunity to evolve so that maybe we don’t have to keep coming back so much.
I agree in that the true teachings about reincarnation give our lives purpose far beyond one little life with an assumed physical beginning (birth) and ultimate end (death). We are far greater than that.
Absolutely Michael, if we live a responsible and loving life it is never for us alone, but shared with the world.
Reincarnation, an undeniable pill one day we will have to swallow or, as this blog says, it doesn’t matter if we don’t swallow the pill because that won’t change us coming back.
Yes, that’s the beauty of it – call green blue or yellow or pink, it is still blue and like it or not, believe in it or not, we are all coming back.
Reincarnation and responsibility go hand in hand, I love the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who have made us so very aware of this universal science. We have as a society got ourselves in a complete mess and one of the main reasons is because of our lack of responsibility. Reincarnation teaches us the enormous responsibility we have every second of every day to choose love. With out love nothing evolves.
I really enjoyed this blog Gabriele. Reincarnation is something that I have always felt to be true but was also put off by all the fantasy and other rubbish that undermined the whole subject. It’s something that I hold as a guide post as I recognise that some of my patterns of behaviour and emotions feel very old and so it helps me to commit to sorting them out now rather than carry them with me to the next life and so on. I also feel reincarnation is supportive because it helps me to accept that perfection isn’t the aim. Building a steady awareness is something that will take time and that I won’t always get it right but there will be more opportunities for me to work on whatever needs to be unravelled.
When you say that some of our “behaviours and emotions feel very old” I can only agree; there are things we do that definitely feel like concrete and as though they have been a default pattern for much longer than just this one little life.
Reincarnation as a subject for contemplation has to be considered in the context of our overall purpose, why we’re here and what life’s all about. Otherwise it becomes just a thing of fantasy or of enhancing our self-worth on some level. But seen from a much wider perspective, it can lead to an understanding of why integrity and responsibility are the very best choices we can ever make in any moment.
So true Cathy – without its true purpose and innate wisdom, reincarnation becomes a plaything of the mind, an entertained subject without sincerity or depth. Thank God for the Ageless Wisdom.
What dawns to me after reading Serge Benhayon’s book “Time” is that I am not moving or traveling from life to life, from body to body, but that body after body is given to me and I stay at the same spot. Just the space that I occupy grows with the responsibility I take.
The other day I was talking to someone about children. She said to me that whilst raising her kids, she held them in the fact that they have lived hundreds of lives in the past, and therefore how can we treat a child with the ignorance of not knowing anything. In how she raised her kids, it was in appreciation of the fact they know it all, and her support was to see them for the fullness of who they are. I absolutely loved this – it showed me how real and tangible reincarnation is – and how we are simply here returning to ourselves, here to understand the depths and truth of love, of where we come from and of true responsibility.
That is a great example of taking responsibility and raising children in the honouring of their past and with responsibility – a true role model.
Brilliant Suse, I love the level of responsibility that you inspire us to connect to. We are presented with opportunities to clear our own mess – no one else can do it for us. It’s ultimately our responsibility to clear our past choices that were not loving and to make news ones that are.
And responsibility being the key word here – is this why many people don’t want to know about reincarnation even though it is in our bones and in every cell of our body; is it easier to think that we have one life, muddle through as best we can and that’s it, the ultimate disappearance act and God help those who are left behind?
Absolutely Adam, it would be. I can imagine a lot less irresponsible behaviours and crime being committed because every choice we make we have to eventually clear and if we choose not to take responsibility in this life we will come back time and time again until we do. Reincarnation is a true blessing and opportunity for us to evolve.
I was aware of reincarnation as a child and from that it helped me accept a lot about my life instead of running away, I took responsibility to understand and to learn. Reincarnation makes so much sense to me, like why we are here and our true purpose in life. It is indeed a very loving way for us to keep returning to learn to take responsibility, to connect to who we are and to God.
Taking responsibility feels like the key factor, not only as far as reincarnation is concerned but also in regards the step by step choices of everyday life. There just isn’t a way around it, whether we like it or not, rebel against it or accept and live it.
Being presented with the responsibility of reincarnation is what made the difference for me too Gabriele. It makes so much sense that the way we live this life will determine the quality of life we start off with in the next. I say start off with because every moment we have a choice to change the momentum we take forward with us – to make life about love and not survival. Thank you Serge Benhayon for opening my eyes to the truth.
Exactly, what a great confirmation of the fact that we choose what we take with us as our momentum, whether that be the next few seconds or minutes or our next life/lives.
Carmin, I equally related to this line “because I was relying on outside information and not ever trusting of what I was feeling”, this has been a pattern my whole life. I would feel it, very clearly, if something was true, was it right for me etc, then would not back myself, act on what I was feeling, due to a variety of reasons. This a constant and evolving unfolding, to listen to my inner wisdom, trusting that, acting on that and not rely on outside information.
I know what you mean – it can seem so easy to just cave in and go against what we truly feel, but we don’t do anybody any favours, not ourselves and not others. We might buy a bit of time or not rock the boat, but everything catches up with us in the long run.
Raegan this is an over-ride pattern that I feel is very predominant in humanity.
To me reincarnation makes so much sense and I love the thought of coming back again and again. We are all so loved to be continually offered lessons lessons that keep going until we get it!
Reincarnation explained this way means that life is one great school where we get to stay back at times, leave early other times and generally repeat what we need to repeat over and over again until we have re-imprinted everything with the love we come from and innately are.
I have had a few moments where I have felt yes and absoluteness that there is reincarnation. I have become aware that for me to say yes to reincarnation meant I would naturally have to be responsible for everything that has ever occurred and all of the choices I have made. This was what was holding me back. I can feel that it is a truth and I can see the law of reincarnation occur within my own life and I observe it occurring in life. I feel like there is an increased depth in my understanding, through my openness, to the possibility that I have been here before in a different body. I am beginning to learn the responsibility that this brings.
I feel you have gone to the crux of the matter and exposed why so many cannot and will not be open to the possibility of reincarnation and that is the fact that reincarnation is the ultimate responsibility; not only for ourselves but for all and the all that surrounds us.
I think its awesome we are talking about something that few want to talk about and that most dont want to acknowledge will happen.
What goes around comes around, quite literally, thus giving us an opportunity to take responsibility for our next time around! Wow I am feeling the depth of responsibility, thank you Gabriele.
l love your description of what it truly is to you .. “reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what l truly am.”
Having an understanding about reincarnation, really does take the action of ‘responsibility’ to a deeper level.
It certainly does Jo and this responsibility is not only for ourselves and our own lives but for how we contribute to the all. Ultimately, and no matter how much we don’t want to believe it, responsibility is the foundation that underpins our entire cycle of life and thus is an integral fact of life. If deep down we know this fact and that we can’t hide from our responsibilities forever why do we still fight and resist living in a fully responsible manner so much? Are we not simply making it harder and more complicated for ourselves?
I too have always known the truth of reincarnation in my body but have not always understood it until I came to Universal Medicine. The level of responsibility we live in this life directly impacts on how we reincarnate in the next life and that death is a passing from one life and awaiting the next. It makes so much sense and is the purpose for our existence.
Reincarnation in its truth answers the question of why we are here and what the reason for our existence is.
Hear hear to that simonwilliams8. However much the truth of reincarnation may make us squirm or wriggle or hide, the wise move that can be made is to be open to living the responsibility it truly asks for now. And hey whether it is real or not, if we take such responsibility now our lives can only get better and far far richer.
My thoughts exactly Joshua. Whether the way Serge Benhayon approaches reincarnation or any other subject he touches upon is the truth or not, ‘our lives can only get better and far far richer’. Everything Serge Benhayon teaches is for the good of mankind.
I agree Ilja. Serge Benhayon lives this in a true way. I have come across many organisations in the past who have a will-to-good intention behind them but have not been truly serving or at least not to the level and simplicity that Serge Benhayon lives and reflects to us all. He shows that it is not just about serving others in full but also being full in oneself, the two must be in balance.
Thank you Gabriele, your blog on reincarnation is great to read, and brings understanding to me that there is a continuous thread between all the lives, which is simply truncated by periods of absence. To me, I see this continuous thread as the feeling of love and truth – it is the same consistent constant in each life, and in each life we have many opportunities or choices to reconnect with it.
The simplicity of reincarnation is quite breath taking – it is the macrocosm of the daily and minute by minute microcosm and the choice is always ours.
Beautiful Suse, clearing our mess so we can be more love, and show the world love is possible and that responsibility is joy, it’s the way we come back more and more to the love we are.
Alexander I feel the beauty of what you share, it’s such a load off not to have that pressure of one life and me and my version on that ‘getting it right’. As you say when we stop and feel we are part of a larger cycle, there is such a joy, a humbleness and an absolute liberation in that – it is space, and it is grand and we are a part of it.
Gabriele, thank you. Reading it I clocked my own previous discomfort with reincarnation and how it was described, it put everything on that next round without any real effort or understanding that there are steps to be taken in this round if the next one is to be different. And there’s an ouch here as I can feel where I can leave things to be dealt with later and somehow expect them to be different without me making any real attempt to change my approach, this life and I can feel how this also extends out into the next and next. And what I feel as I write this is how reincarnation is really an extension of taking responsibility now, of addressing what needs to be addressed and not putting things off or putting something out there on something or somebody to rescue us or somehow change things for us. It’s the ultimate love and responsibility to be embraced right now.
And that is the love I can feel in reincarnation Monica. The fact that our life as a human being is a continuum in time, although spread over different lives and times of earthly evolution. When considered as a reality we can consciously build on our return to the love we originate from and are part of, while if we are unconscious, every new cycle of life continuous in giving us the opportunity to connect back to God again, our origin we finally all have to return to.
I love the word ‘continuum’ here – it emphasises that we are so much more than one small life.
I love this Nico, the continuum you talk of that we are part of one big cycle with all our lives, and each one is about building back more and more to the love we are.
Great point – reincarnation in this light is really just the macrocosm of the daily and minute by minute microcosm of all the choices we make, no more and no less.
You put it very succinctly when you write that “there are steps to be taken in this round if the next one is to be different”. We do accept that premise when it comes to preparing to give a speech or training for a sporting event, but somehow we like to delude ourselves when it comes to the everyday step by step affairs that somehow and magically things are somehow going to change for the better, of their own accord. We choose to be the recipients of life in some instances and go out and are very pro-active in others and that somehow doesn’t make sense, it is after all, all part of this one life.
Yes, you describe it really well – reincarnation is just a much bigger step compared to the smaller steps we take every day, but the mechanism is the same: one thing leads to another as one life leads to another, whatever the steps we end up taking.
Totally agree, great summary – and delay tactics and procrastination do stand in our way as we unravel what got us into this mess in the first place; a bit like rolling back the carpet on our past.
Once we start to take responsibility for the way we are living in our current cycle the true understanding of reincarnation naturally becomes part of our ever expanding cycles.
So true – reincarnation provides the bigger context and is the bigger cycle of all the smaller cycles that we continually experience, from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, night to day and on it goes.
My grandmother used to talk to me about reincarnation but not in the way Serge Benhayon explains it. It make so much sense to me now and I love the way you are polishing, buffing and altogether taking great care of your life Gabrielle.
The relationship between reincarnation and nature is key here, and obvious to the fact that everything in nature has a returning cyclical rhythm of life that is right there for us to see every day, month, year.
Gabriele, I LOVED revisting this blog and could so resonate with your sentence “I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.” Reincarnation for me is an absolutely glorious topic, especially the way it is presented by Serge Benhayon. I am always glued at every word that is said – finally life makes sense and there is purpose to all that we are doing, and of course, in the quality that we do it in! Just beautiful to read this again – thank you for sharing it Gabriele.
Thank you Donna and I couldn’t agree more – what Serge Benhayon presents makes life make sense, for the first time this time around!
When everybody is made aware that reincarnation is a part of our evolution and that all our actions and choices have karmic consequences then maybe a higher level of responsibility would occur
I feel to add that responsibility starts with each and every one us and that we can only be responsible for our own level of responsibility – it might just inspire another who can then see that taking responsibility is immensely rewarding and leads to some truly miraculous changes in one’s life.
Great point – as we change everything around changes and there are certain situations and circumstances that are just not part of one’s life any longer.
I love this Gabriele, I would not have even known about our ‘sixth sense’ unless otherwise told by Serge Benhayon back in 2010. Since then, over time I have been doing the Sacred Esoteric Healing workshops and have come to recognise and fully accept that we do indeed have a six sense and this sixth sense is absolutely amazing. The abilities that we have when we stop connect and feel, truly surrender to our inner hear and allow ourselves to ‘be’ which means living without the motion, drive and achievement aspects of life .. we can celebrate so deeply the true qualities of our six senses.
It certainly would Adam!
Finally an explanation of reincarnation that makes sense!
… thanks to the Ageless Wisdom and Serge Benhayon who brings these teachings to us and has reminded us that we innately know what is true and what is not true.
Gabrielle you paint a humorous picture here. I have encountered some funny suggestions about past lives too, heard of many Cleopatras and when I first heard of the concept- perhaps as a girl I remember it was presented with glamour and about having an important past life identity. Thank you Gabrielle for bringing to the fore reincarnation, what it is really about and the responsibility, blessing and opportunity available because of reincarnation. The way this is written left me to feel that responsibility and what is chosen is only ever about what is chosen right now, not what has or will be chosen.
When we try to glamorise reincarnation and become identified with it to seek recognition it takes away responsibility and we can easily lose sight of the true purpose of reincarnation.
ouch and there is such a truth in this ~ there is no more excuses because it is only those that make excuses that are still choosing to be irresponsible and with irresponsibility comes the inability to try and connect and be loving on a really deep and beautiful level.
It is ironic Natasha because then we miss ourselves so deeply, when we don’t take responsibility and we yearn for love from the outside. Then this pattern gets repeated next time round.
This makes me want to cry in the response to how I have chosen to live my life up to this point now. But the beautiful essence of reincarnation and of life is that you can always change within every moment and create and set a new foundation for yourself that will have remarkable differences in the future quality of how our lives will then be lived.
and so reincarnation is going to support us as a community and as a species to learn what is needed to not be so horrible to one another, to not be so violent towards one another and to stop turning on ourselves, as we are beautiful beings all deep down inside behind all the ugly behaviours. Reincarnation is actually the most beautiful creation there is because there is no escaping what we create in life and it is our responsibility alone to make choices that are as loving as possible.
re-incarnation is a loving gift that is set up in a way that will not allow us to not learn from our past choices and behaviours. how beautiful is that !
I agree Natasha, we have the opportunity to re-imprint our passed choices that were not love and build on the ones that are, to eventually return to who we truly are.
Gorgeous Diana, and so simple. It’s a strong reality point in realising we can re-imprint our past choices and not be run by them. Life and the world and us all can all be supported to live more love than ever before, we just have to be willing to choose another way.
Exactly Natasha it also helps us to understand that we are not powerless victims and that we make choices that determines the quality we live our lives in.
So true, and this quality supports us to continue to deepen the level of love we have for ourselves as well as for all of humanity
Yes Natasha, life after life after life, until such time that we have completed the cycle and returned to who we truly are.
A beautiful cycle, such a clever design.
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#Reincarnation, something ‘out there’, #mysterious, #unkown… It’s not. It’s a matter of choices. To let go to the point that we’re ready to live Our #Divine #Love here on earth. Which is to be felt by and through Our vehicle of Expression, our #Body. Reincarnation just tells us that we’ve got life after life the opportunity to choose Loving choices. Whether we choose that is up to us. Obviously, the non-loving #choices catch up with us at one point. Not as a punishment, but as a way of asking us to come back to our #Tenderness, #Fragility and #Love. To me personally, it’s a Beautiful #science.
Gabriele, thank you for raising many important points about reincarnation, and the consequence of it such as karma- an opportunity for humanity to re-learn from unloving behaviours, beliefs and ideals taken on, and return to who we naturally are- love, tenderness, joy and harmony.
I love your style of writing Gabriele. I smiled whilst reading. I can relate to what you’re describing. So many people talk nonsense about re-incarnation. Like re-incarnation is something outside of Ourselves. As if this life doesn’t have anything to do with re-incarnation. When Serge Benhayon mentioned ‘the wheel of re-birth’ in which he describes that we get offered, lovingly so, to come back over and over again to start living Our Soul on earth = Our True Love, it completely made sense. There’s knowing now inside that Re-incarnation is True, also based on a handful of experiences. Yet, completely surrendering to the fact is still work in progress. In which I am learning that this is okay. That the only way to embody it in full and surrender to it, is by allowing myself the space to connect more and more to my own body. Thank you for this piece of writing. I simply Love it – will there be any more on this?
‘…reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity.. ‘. When I reread this statement Gabriele, my body released a level of ‘trying’ that I had not realised was there. It is responsibility that is key and I appreciated the support this sharing has given me – again.
Good point – all the trying and striving and wanting to get somewhere: sounds pretty crazy when I look at it from what you are sharing here, thank you.
I agree Bernadetteglass, it is very healing to read. I know that there are many people who do not believe in Reincarnation, but I don’t see how you can separate the two. To know there is a God is to also know that there are cycles of life that we are all a part of, choices and opportunities to grow and evolve. All of this leads us back to who we are and of course to God.
Yes Donna it makes total sense to me too! And I so appreciate that whilst we are already divine in our essence, we make choices that separate us from our divinity so we must return to it because it sure is not going to leave us!
Gabriele what a simple yet powerful definition/interpretation of reincarnation as “a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am”. Beauty-full.
Connecting to the knowing and truth of reincarnation and the energetic laws it entails would certainly make the world a different place. I consider all of the people that fear death as if it is the ‘end’, when really it is the ‘beginning’ of something much grander.
Just as I have never doubted that God was real, I always knew reincarnation was real too. Nothing to do with the nonsense that the new age was presenting about it, just a clear feeling that we come back to what we have lived before. It is a very reassuring thought that our evolution does not stop with our last breath out, but continues until we all come back to knowing who we truly are.
While I didn’t have this same experience or knowingness as a child, I certainly have it now… And it makes sense that we are living the lives we come back to, and much more empowering than to consider that life and our experiences are a series of random events…
Life being a series of random events does not make sense, it leads to a sense of futility and an overall lack of purpose which are very debilitating, if not devastating to the human psyche.
it is empowering and it is also something that we can not get away from so there is no point ‘giving up’ or ‘drowning in our sorrows’ as the day will come again where we will be asked to be more.
There is a lot of nonsense about reincarnation in circulation and all it does is to stop us from being honest and taking responsibility for life and how we live on a daily and moment to moment basis.
agreed Gabriele, there is actually a lot of nonsense out there about many different scriptures and doctrines and religious associations. It is only by being able to discern energy and discern the quality of energy coming though persons that I am able to adequately understand and feel if what is being said is true or if it is barstadised. It is actually quite amazing science.
I also have always believed in reincarnation and felt I’d been here before. It was just something that I have always innately known. So when there is talk or challenges made about this topic, I used to go into the convincing and the trying to explain. I don’t do that anymore, I often have a giggle that they will be coming back no matter whether they believe it to be so, so I choose now to meet people where they are at.
Reincarnation is a very sensitive issue for a lot of people because when we come back we have to face everything we left behind; not the exact same scenery and stage props of course but everything we didn’t attend to and resolve in ourselves and with others is still there and will be presented again. A beautiful opportunity but only when we are willing to be honest and take responsibility.
Reincarnation is a sensitive issue for many, and it is often described as a ‘way out’ for those who don’t want to face death. But reincarnation is certainly not a ‘way out’, as the wheel of rebirth teaches us great responsibility for all our choices.
One of the biggest obstacles to accepting reincarnation for the truth it is and offers is the matter of responsibility – how much responsibility do we want? how much of it are we willing to accept? and what does this responsibility entail?
The belief that when we die that is the end of ‘it’ never made sense to me but reincarnation as was generally presented never truly made sense either, that there was piece missing. The Ageless Wisdom and the Way of the Livingness, however, presented by Serge Benhayon offers missing piece, which shows that reincarnation is really common sense.
I agree, reincarnation is common sense and it makes sense; and we come back whether we believe in it or not, that is another amazing factor very much in its favour. And knowing it is even better, it changed my life.
We were driving past a nearby cemetery and my son wanted to go in. We would drive past every now and then and he would keep asking to go. I asked him why and he said because he wanted to find himself. So we did and looked at the names on the gravestones, it gave me tingles as he was very committed and persistent to find himself. So I re-introduced the topic of reincarnation to my kids when they were still quite young. We’ve had some great conversations and jokes about this, especially from a child’s perspective and it has been great to make this normal and It is now an everyday conversation much like ‘dad what is for breakfast’. It’s been great to break the ideals or at least talk about them openly to establish that they have had other lives and will have more.
I am very inspired by the normalcy you have brought into your family on the topic of reincarnations – after all, it is a normal and everyday fact for millions of people around the world.
Breathing gently and breathing harshly with push and drive are, as you say, two very different energies and experiences that can demonstrate immediately that there is a choice in the way we live and that we return and will return to what we have chosen.
Very true Gabriele. It is in accepting that we can feel what is true and not true that we start to make sense of our world. Negating our sixth sense is like blindfolding ourselves and then tripping over all the obstacles in life.
Being brought up in a Christian family meant that reincarnation was a no-no. The belief is that we just get one go at this and then it’s either heaven or hell – no second chances. Despite this teaching I always had a deeper feeling that this ‘one go at life’ notion was not sound and was entirely open to the possibility and even the likelihood that we live many many lives. Like you Gabriele, being reborn as a cockroach didn’t hold sway for me but returning as a human being with purposeful evolution does. What Serge Benhayon teaches feels very congruent in my body and therefore something I am able to willingly accept as truth. For me, a truly loving God gives us as many ‘second chances’ as we need. No judgement, no punishment, just an absolute knowing that we will all ‘get the message’ one day.
‘Reincarnation- Taking responsibility for the next time around’… the choice is ours for which time around we actually choose to be step up, be responsible and clear the ramifications of what we have created in the past.
Great point here sylivianbrinkman that I had not considered before! Why is it that in this view of reincarnation, we are happy to consider that we were Cleopatra or the likes, but not someone like Hitler?! Does this not simply expose the commonly accepted view of reincarnation for what it truly is, a reason or excuse to avoid being truly responsible for the way we ‘have’ lived, the way we ‘are’ living, and the foundation we are setting for ourselves ‘to’ live in the next life?
It is fascinating that so many of us have overrode our own knowing and truth felt because we trusted outside sources and believed they had the answers even though we couldn’t connect with their theories. If we had all claimed it as a true knowing and not assumed others knew best we could have really shifted the consciousness of many ideals and beliefs around the topic of reincarnation.
The really great thing about reincarnation is that we don’t have to believe in it, we come back regardless – ultimate love and justice.
Yes it is one of those immutable universal laws that we cannot escape from even in our disbelief of such laws.
The universal laws surrounding reincarnation finally make perfect sense thanks to Universal Medicine. I never truly understood or knew the topic and blew it all off as I never connected with what was stated on the subject. Thanks to the presentations from Serge Benhayon I’ve learnt reincarmation is a law based on love and responsibility. Knowing what I now know gives me a sense of ease and purpose and helps me to understand my behaviours and patterns and why things tend to happen that don’t make sense. I love the idea of reincarnation and love feeling the truth of it in my body.
It’s all very simple when we can feel the truth of something and leave the complexity of theories and mental constructs behind.
The state of the world exposes that we have made things complex and mental and this has been a successful tool to disempower humanity. It’s great that people are now expressing truth and that people can feel this in their body.
Totally agree Tracy! The Universal Laws surrounding reincarnation as presented by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon are to me, the only thing that have made absolute sense on this subject. I might squirm at times – simply in wanting to avoid my own responsibility (or irresponsibility as the case may be) in my various choices and experiences – but it still is the only thing that explains everyone and everything, and which I beginning to appreciate more and more is the divine nature and order of God and the Universe.
Living in a way that embraces and accepts reincarnation has probably been the biggest game-changer in my life. It brings a level of responsibility that I had never previously considered. And it brings a deeper wisdom to my understanding. An understanding that clicks, that adds up. It has been my experience that everything makes sense, when reincarnation is accepted as a universal truth.
My feelings exactly – having reincarnation presented in a truthful way was a real turnaround for me and a major contribution to beating my longstanding depression: life finally made sense and wasn’t a sick joke anymore.
“Life finally made sense” – exactly how I feel about reincarnation Gabriele. When we are presented with truth it just falls into the body like a deep knowing. I really enjoyed your light-hearted account of your understanding of our natural evolutionary cycles.
This is a VERY great point you make Angela. 100% with you. You are so right. Everything makes sense when looked at through the truth of reincarnation. And the more that people, doctors, scientists, conspiracists, and religious leaders flail around trying to make their versions of it all make sense, then the more the truth of reincarnation shines out in it’s simplicity, absoluteness and purity.
I love that Gabriele – regardless of what you believe your coming around again and again. We might as well accept it and make the next round worth coming around too!
There is certainly nothing lost in at least considering reincarnation as a possibility, if that is as far as one is prepared to go. Nothing wrong with looking at the next moment as a continuation and logical follow-on of the present moment and study what is thus revealed.
I agree and also, what is actually truly lost when choosing to live responsibly, to the best of one’s ability? Nothing as far as I can see and the changes it has made to my life are truly amazing.
Ah, what a great point Gabriele “What is actually truly lost when choosing to live responsibly…?”… Perhaps what is lost is actually being responsible! And what is to be avoided in ‘being’ and ‘living’ responsibly… except perhaps just responsibility which includes being responsible for our choices?!
I agree Vanessa, and by making the next round worth coming around to, we are living that quality in the present.
Great point; from what you say I can see that by taking responsibility and making different choices we can actually live that future now and keep building on that foundation; and the more we live that future now, the more expansion, vitality and joy there is – all very simple really.
It truly is Gabriele.
I grew up in a Catholic Family and going to a Catholic school. So the idea of reincarnation was not something that I came across till I was a teenager really – but I have always had a sense of universality, of knowing more deep in my self. I have always felt a strong affinity with other places and countries, and sometime people. These things are easy to dismiss under the impression of what is suggested by modern western society and Catholicism.
But If I really consider things, reincarnation makes sense and once I was open to that idea – the feeling I have ad all along makes much more sense.
One thing that was not touched on here is how the awareness and understanding of reincarnation may change our relationships to everyone around us. When reincarnation is accepted in any way there can be a scramble to get ones own life sorted out to prepare and take care of the next one. A kind of pulling up of ones own socks, yet even though this is sensible and necessary I can’t help but feel that it’s still in protection of the self and based on survival. To me it’s basically a focus on self and self only. However I feel that reincarnation is also about the effects we have on everyone and everything, and that it is not just about us but what our fellow human beings are also experiencing on those cycles alongside us. If we each were to look at our fellow man through the eyes of one that understands reincarnation, would we be more compassionate, more understanding? Would we each be more supportive knowing we are all in this together and our collective purpose is to evolve? Would this bring greater dignity, unity and brotherhood since it is a commonality we all share? And how would we then view differences of religion, gender, race and so on? Would reincarnation also unify humanity again in the knowing that we ourselves had experienced and lived as other races etc? And going beyond the casings of each life, wouldn’t then reincarnation point out solidly that we are more than the body or materialism, but that there is a living essence that we have in common, that is beyond physicality, and is eternal and divine? How would that transform personal and global relations? For me it looks like reincarnation is an essential part of brotherhood, and would potentially eliminate the many issues that currently prevent us from living in a unified way, as a “one humanity”.
You make some very valid points here – as we all reincarnate we have mainly all lived as men and women, we have been poor and we have been rich, we have spoken many different languages and been born into various races; as such, as it is about all of us and the fact that we are in it together, with all and for all.
I couldn’t agree more; when you write “Would we each be more supportive knowing we are all in this together and our collective purpose is to evolve?” it opens us up to the fact that with so many lives lived, we would have all been speaking a lot of different languages, been part of different cultures and religions, been rich as well as poor and so on and so on. And thus, reincarnation also shines a different light on this so-called ‘tolerance’ and replaces it with something much deeper and more pertinent and truly evolving: understanding.
You raise a number of points here, all underscoring the ridiculousness of our present state of cooperation and brotherhood on earth, i.e. the total lack of it in most instances other than when it suits us somehow.
I love what you write here Melinda, we would treat each other much differently if we knew that we might be that person in our next lifetime. The world would be much different place, the rich might help the poor knowing that they might be the poor next life time, racism could slow right down if not halt if we knew we could be that colour next time. And this list of examples could go on and on and on.
I love this Peter. It’s also true for me in my every daily cycle and gives me the feeling of being held, cared for and loved in every detail of my daily life and the greater purpose it holds to return me to all that I truly am.
Alexander1207 maybe this is why some people dismiss reincarnation because it allows them to continue to live without the responsibility that everything they do and say matters.
I agree and would go so far as to say ‘avoid’ and outright ‘deny’ reincarnation (in the case of many institutionalised religions it would be against the church teachings to suggest reincarnation as even a possibility). I count myself as one who had been raised in the consciousness that reincarnation does not exist, and although many things didn’t make sense as a result, it was a very ingrained consciousness that I had also learnt not to question, and the traditional view of reincarnation and coming back as a cat, flower etc didn’t offer any confidence on this subject either. Serge Benhayon was the first person that talked about the responsibility of reincarnation and this is when everything started to make absolute sense and why I began to understand why so many avoid understanding reincarnation in its true form because it asks us to take responsibility for the way we are living.
And I feel that this is where all the stories of coming back as a turtle or flower come from; a rejection of the deep responsibility that is a scientific fact of reincarnation. There is nothing woolly or fantastical about reincarnation.
That is a great point Melinda, as denying reincarnation gives them the opportunity to continue and justify a life without taking responsibility.
As a teenager I had an understanding and awareness that I had lived before and felt like I had memories of those times. I had certain phobias and fears as a child and teen which I consciously registered as coming from another time and place – I realised something had happened to me and I was in this life carrying the emotional scars still. I feel there is a knowing in all of us about reincarnation, as we are all part of those same cycles it would be impossible to not truly know unless it was more convenient to dismiss it.
Thank you, Gabriele. I love the sub-title – Taking Responsibility for the Next Time Around – this makes me realise this ‘next time around’ could be the next incarnation, next year, next month, next week, tomorrow… I was getting very close to going into overwhelm because of the enormity of the whole thing, but actually, this means that if I take care of this very moment, it guarantees the quality of the next moment and it just keeps building and whether to perceive it by day/month/year/life time, what I have to do becomes just very simple.
We feel that our next incarnation is a huge and mysterious step, yet we are part of those same cycles right now that this is based on, going around past the same points and being presented with opportunities to choose differently and live more lovingly. Based on that my next incarnation is not that big of a deal if I’m taking care of each cycle/day to continually live more of the love I am.
I feel the same way, reincarnation is nothing but the continuation of every daily lived moment on a bigger scale, nothing more and nothing less.
That makes so much sense. There is no mysteries, just a continuation of where we left off.
In this way of focusing on the quality of this life reincarnation becomes no big deal if not even something one would want to embrace. Having come across Universal Medicine in this life I can see that I have before me years to set a new foundation for the next life. However this doesn’t mean that I can sit back and rest on now having a ‘better life’ and the next one will ‘all work out’ it has to keep building.
Thank you Fumiyo. If we build on the consistency of how we are currently living then reincarnation is just part of a bigger cycle and thus no need for overwhelm. I can feel how for me going into overwhelm has been an indulgence in the past and a way of not taking responsibility for my choices.
Yes, I love how Gabriele brings it to an opportunity to be more and more loving with ourselves and each other.
I’ll take the Serge Benhayon described reincarnation any day. Gabriele I love this piece of writing on this aged old topic.
Its in our choices in ‘the here and now’ that we come back to in the ‘here after’ again and again and………….
It is always a topical discussion this one, in fact was having this exact conversation with some work colleagues just yesterday. We were talking about teeth and I mentioned they hold our karma, then the conversation moved quickly onto reincarnation, which I spoke a little more about. This one man did not really have a bar of it, using the phrase ‘well each unto their own’, I just replied, yes very true, we all have the free will to make our own choices in life, just leaving it at that. But what struck me was how quickly he jumped to defence and made it all about me, it was almost like he did feel something, but was wanting to make out that it was me who had these ‘beliefs’ that I was entitled to. It certainly does bring up a lot for people that’s for sure.
Reincarnation certainly does bring up a lot, especially because it is the ultimate form of responsibility – no more blaming it on fate, bad luck, God or the universe, nowhere to turn but have a good look at our own personal choices and how they have shaped our life.
That’s the thing Gabriele. If reincarnation is accepted as the truth that it it is, then there is nowhere to hide.
I met some people who reject even the idea of us having choices let along re-incarnation. It is easier to say “Life is too short, we all die one day” and do whatever you want then to take responsibility, knowing that you are coming back to what you left. Maybe that’s why in countries with no reincarnation mentality people don’t have respect for life, planet, each other.
I agree, Gabriele, reincarnation does bring up a lot for many people, and for so many, that is just too much, they no longer have the relief of blaming others for their situations, there is no more hiding from the fact that they have to take responsibility for themselves, all their choices and actions. But how freeing it is when we do begin to take responsibility. I spent years blaming my husband for much of the stress that I used to live under, but now realise just how responsible I was myself for how I was. Our life together could have been so much more joy-full if I had taken full responsibility for myself during all the years we were together. There is no point in beating myself up about this, but it is great to now understand how important it is for us to take full responsibility for ourselves and our choices. I feel that I will take that knowing with me into my next reincarnation, as well as the much more loving self that I have been building.
With the amount of past lives we’ve had its no surprise it brings up so much for people. Thousands of years of not connecting to the truth is a big ouch for people and myself included.
Life makes so much more sense when we consider reincarnation, especially the way it is presented by Serge Benhayon. Which is, however very challenging, as it asks us to be ultimately responsible for all our deeds and even our moves and thoughts.
Challenging maybe, but ultimate responsibility for everything we do, say and think leads to the freedom we all hanker for, in one way or another.
Love it Gabriele. And I get to choose what i come back to.
I have been interested about the topic of reincarnation for some time. My sister used to strongly believe in it and I was never sure, until I met Serge Benhayon and started attending the Universal Medicine workshops. It all makes sense the way Serge speaks about it and although it still scares me a little I am understanding the truth of it all now.
I find what you say very interesting; the version where we just disappear into a sort of nothingness after death, never to be seen again, was always very scary to me and seemed like an incredible waste of any kind of progress or wisdom that might have been achieved in one life. Reincarnation as presented by the Ageless Wisdom and Universal Medicine via Serge Benhayon has been a true liberation for me and greatly contributed to getting rid of being fed up with life.
Yes I too used to get frustrated with people saying its just one life and I will go screaming into my grave, and with that take no responsibility for my actions etc. How many people today live like that. Also that it is fine to go so hard on the body as they are not coming back, and impacting the world around them.
We have an opportunity to plan our next life now so we return to a loving way of being.
I always knew this all on earth couldn’t be only for this life so when Serge presented it as the law of love of God I knew this to be true. It is about living the responsibility of how we live now and it will go on, lovingly so till we get it and as you say Gabrielle no one can escape, that is really the funny thing about reincarnation. Don’t believe in it, well you will get another go to discover what it is all about.
A lovely blog to read again Gabriele. When I just hear the word reincarnation it lights up my soul – if you can light up something that is ‘light’! Like you I had pondered on reincarnation before I met Serge. It made so much more sense than anything else I had been presented with – I could feel my life changing and if it just ended when I passed over it just didn’t make sense. What did make sense was that I would keep coming back until I had accepted that maybe the way I was living life was not one that was working – and that maybe this time it was an opportunity to choose differently. As I continue to embrace more the opportunities that I am offered – the more amazing my life becomes.
Great summary and account of how what Serge Benhayon presents has changed and clarified your outlook on reincarnation. And we don’t even have to resort to past incarnations in order to know that what we haven’t resolved travels with us and gets presented to us again, just in a different setting – there just is no way to get away from it. And who would want to get away from it when it is presented as it truly is?
Reincarnation is not the punishment I used to believe it was. Not the “I can’t make a mistake or otherwise…..” It is the stupendous love from God to give us another go and to learn and grow. Serge Benhayon presentations on reincarnation make so much sense. Just like you wrote, Gabrielle, it makes you realize you already knew the truth about reincarnation inside.
Reincarnation makes so much sense to me. It explains an old familiar feeling that I have always had that I was here before and will be here again, that loves lives on and that death is not the end.
Hi Gabriele – I have always known there was something more to life than what meets the eye. It made no sense to me that you live and then die and never come back. When I met Serge and he explained reincarnation I just melted and felt how true his words were. It was as if someone had explained the key to life and given my all the smaller keys to unlock and do away with the old patterns and beliefs I was still running as a way to cope with life. Reincarnation is a return home to truth and love – something I will always commit to and something I absolutely know with no doubt at all comes to us all whether we choose to see it or not.
I agree – reincarnation in its truth brings home the enormous responsibility we all have individually and as a one humanity and not everybody is willing to face that (yet).
Like with God I always had an inkling that reincarnation in some form must be true because the lack of such a thing in life simply didn’t make sense, nor did the idea of no God or the types of God and reincarnation talked about. But never did I openly share this with anyone as it seemed that everyone else was only interested in their version of both topics. After hearing what Serge Benhayon has presented on reincarnation it makes the subject more enjoyable and now after reading this blog I can see how it can be used in everyday life as well. Because if I experience a moment of confirmation, feeling in my body that I am love which lately has come in the form of my body standing more solid, steady and warm. I can take that and say “great! that is now something that will be with me in the next cycle”So when situations arise like they did this morning where I felt completely off centre I reminded myself of what is already within me in this cycle. It’s like a reminder that no matter what comes up, as you say Gabriele wiping off the bumps and bruises that we have accumulated over time, we do have the experience of meeting these unloving situations with the love that we are because we have done it before.
Gabriele, I love what you’ve expressed here. Just now I’ve come to understand that I’ve loved the idea of reincarnation but now truly have been living what that means. And rather than take my old pattern of dismissing it as too large or overwhelming I’ve stopped and got that how I live each day, each moment takes care of it all. I’ve recognised that God really is in the details, and taking care of them is taking care of the larger picture, my day to day rhythm is the foundation of my life now and my lives to come. What a gift.
I love this Gabriele and Joost, it’s like we rage at the sun for shining and still it shines no matter how much we might wish it otherwise or what techniques we might try to ignore it (vampires and living in caves here come to mind!) – so it is with reincarnation, we come back and each and every time we’re offered an opportunity to be more love. Only now am I truly beginning to embrace that gift.
Growing up we never talked about reincarnation but a lot of discussions on life after death, so I could never get around how come you were born and then never came back but stayed in the after life – it just didn’t make sense to me. Serge Benhayon has taken the mystery out of reincarnation and explains it in a very practical sensible way.
Wow…”we come back as a subsequent generation of human beings to face what we have left behind”. That statement leaves no-where to hide does it??? No-one to ‘blame’ but ourselves really….and the trick is then not get overwhelmed by that fact and to actually go, it stops with me….right here, right now….that is quite empowering and very real and also very possible – thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
Reincarnation is a law of love. Love that line. Somehow I always had the feeling there was more to life. It became very clear and apparent to me when I was very depressed. I wanted to step out of life. Just a cry for: I can’t take this life anymore. The woman I was seeing back then asked me, if I believed in reincarnation. I said Yes. I just knew there was more to this life, always had. By saying Yes, I connected back to my responsibility. It just didn’t want to leave stuff for the next life e.g. moment. So that’s when I decided to take responsibility of the now, the situation I was in. A turning point for me. And not so much because I believed in Reincarnation. More so because I have a responsibility for my life now. That is love.
Thank you for sharing that – I also found that reconnecting to the truth of reincarnation is a great support when faced with depression and a general feeling of wanting to give up. Reincarnation just makes sense and it takes us away from the narrowness and confines of one life, one birth, one death, good bye and that was it.
Yes when I heard Serge present on reincarnation it totally changed my idea of what happens after we die. I was brought up a Christian so I though that when you die you go to Heaven or Hell but the way that reincarnation was so clearly explained in a way that makes absolute sense… I cannot deny that, that is the truth.
It is very different when you can feel the truth of something (in this case reincarnation) rather than having to believe in something in the absence of its truth.
That is beautiful Jeanette.
Yes Gabriele, totally and utterly different. Belief is something that we do in the absence of feeling what is true.
Since attending Universal Medicine events I too have changed my relationship with reincarnation. It has given me a greater sense of responsibility for how I live now and the effect I have on a world to which I will be returning.
So do I want to come back to the earth full of landfill sites or could I make the effort to recycle more of my rubbish this time around?
I too always knew reincarnation was true, but the finer details of the concept never made sense until now. Honoring the feeling of knowing, feeling it to be true in my body I can see has been with me through my life, but just not trusting it enough as I am learning to do now – trusting this feeling, even if everything around me is telling me otherwise, is a great realisation.
Yeah, the concept, or rather fact, that everything happens in cycles, like the moon and the sun orbiting, the days, the weeks, the months and years coming back around, the seasons repeating over and over. It just makes so much sense that we too will be back again to repeat life and based on how we lived it this time will be the foundation for where we take off the next time. I am still a bit confused about the ever expanding population though.
Elodie, I’m not sure how the population thing works, but trust that it too has its peaks and cycles, and that there is a responsibility for humanity in there somewhere. As a child I was terrified of the eternity aspect of death, and my mum eased my fears by describing how flower bulbs bloomed, died and bloomed again the following year. As I garden, I know that if I want my flowers to be strong, healthy and beautiful each year, I have to treat them well, right soil (foundation), right food and water, and proper rest. A bit like us really.
I love your humour and candour Gabriele with what has been a very misleading topic in the past. I felt reincarnation to be true but not until I too heard Serge Benhayon present on reincarnation did I feel confirmed in what I felt. I also did not like the glamour that came with conversations of who one might have been in a past life as it seemed irrelevant. This life has always seemed the most important one as this is what I am living now however understanding and feeling into lives past helps me see where I may have slipped up and lost my way and gives me a deeper understanding of patterns that I keep repeating that do not feel are from this life. There is also a quality I emanate that transcends this life and feels as if it has been lived in many lives in service which is a joy to reconnect to and know in truth that I never lost my way, I was simply delaying what in my heart I have always known to be true and allowed myself to be distracted by the bright lights of illusion.
I agree, it is very liberating and confirming when the truth of reincarnation is presented so truthfully, clearly and lovingly as provided by Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom.
This quote popped out at me as I felt there was something very valuable held within it: “I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it.” I have had this experience in all areas of my life, through commiting to honour how I feel more consistently in my day. Through this consistency I have become aware that ‘somehow I had already known it’, as in I have a strong awareness and connection with love that has always been there and the only reason that I suffered in the past was because I had stepped away from it. This awareness brings another quality; it brings a ‘knowing’ of the purpose of life. As you say, “reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am’. I can feel this within my life and I can see how choosing to live with love can alter the patterns and cycles that we live within. This has been my experience.
Yes, choosing to live from and with love is the game changer here and everything then falls into place and – no more mysteries.
Great article Gabriele. I loved what you said about reincarnation being an incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop – how gorgeous is that… and what a blessing.
YES!! Brilliant comment. Which is the science fiction? I’m imagining the film pitch meeting with the studio executives in heaven (there are NO studio executives in heaven!!). A writer comes in to pitch their film – a science fiction film – and proceeds to describe life on earth. The meeting is cut short because it’s far too extreme, far too far away from what they know to be the truth. I can imagine one of them saying “the best science fiction must maintain some kind of relationship with the truth so that the audience can still relate – your film is a million miles from any truth.” The writer doesn’t get the backing. That said, the best science fiction (in my opinion) is when the audience or reader is taken on one, and only one, big step, after that and from that, everything else makes sense. Which is in fact exactly what has happened on earth. We have taken one big step away from ourselves, from our truth, a separation from our essence…after that everything else makes sense.
Absolutely awesome – once that first step away from truth has been taken, all the ensuing madness seemingly makes sense in a wicked kind of logic, as long as this madness (the so-called normal) is tethered to that first step away only and NOT to what it was that we stepped away from.
Ottobathurst I so enjoyed reading your analogy. You are so right it was just that 1 step that has brought to us all of our stuff. That step away from our essence. I wonder what those film directors in heaven would say, if we presented to them that we have finally found that love is the way to live. I can see puzzled looks on their faces, with their reply being. What do you mean you found love? You have always been love, how is it you have just found it?
“reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am” – hard to imagine a more powerful sentence! The acceptance of re-incarnation has been the biggest game-changer in my life. It re-defines responsibility and purpose, whilst at the same time dissolving time.
I agree wholeheartedly – reincarnation as presented by the Ageless Wisdom and Serge Benhayon changed my whole life around, it was what I had been missing without knowing it so.
Loved your lightheartedness Gabriele in how you express what reincarnation means to you.
I was very confused about it because of my catholic upbringing.
Only until meeting Serge Benhayon did the word reincarnation feel right and make sense, from his explanation.
To know that the quality we choose to live in this life follows onto our next life makes self responsibility very important.
Yes, responsibility is huge and it can’t be avoided or circumnavigated, sooner or later we all have to face it.
So true Gabriele – that what we leave behind is exactly what we come back to. No different to leaving a mess behind when we leave the house. Upon our return – there it is. Conversely if we lovingly tend to things before we leave then that is there to greet us.
The bad dream or the science fiction as you put it has to be the way we think life is to be and then live it; it is also a self-inflicted and unnatural creation that is further entrenched by the bandied about and somewhat menacing word ‘normal’.
I feel the responsibility, but also a huge inspiration that the ‘seeds’ we plant in this life will flourish for us all in the future.
Gabriele, I totally love your style ! It’s fun to read and makes sense. All those versions of reincarnation……. I had a time about 8 years ago where I seriously considered suicide, hoping that next time I would be better equipped to deal with life. Then Serge smashed that illusion by saying that I would come back the same and with even more to deal with. Ouch. Now I understand how it works, and I am so grateful to have woken up to the opportunity to expand in love, joy, harmony and truth in this life.
Yes, I learnt that from Serge Benhayon as well, suicide does not work. We come back in the same state plus having to deal with everything we have inflicted on others by taking our own life; and this makes sense to me, why would it be any other way?
Most of my life I never thought about reincarnation, I assumed you were born one day and dead another day, the end. My attitude towards life was we are only here for a short time so let’s make it a good time, but my idea of a good time was filled with self abuse. I know now as I feel it strongly that this is how I have chosen to live for many many lives. I am grateful to now know that reincarnation is a fact and how we choose to live now dictates how we are going to live later.
I agree, the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon in its simplicity and unfathomable depth makes sense and confirms everything we have always known deep inside but have allowed to be overshadowed and clobbered by the mundane and ‘normal’.
It feels to me that reincarnation is the ultimate form of responsibility – it leaves no room for blame. After all, we might have been instrumental in creating situations and conditions we complain about today, thinking they happened on someone else’s watch; and even if we hadn’t been instrumental, by not speaking up we still condoned what was never right and submitted to what was never true. There really is no way out, it is the ultimate leveller and supreme justice. Justice in the sense that we get many opportunities, over and over again, to address and redress what we turned a blind eye to or even supported in the past.
Agree 100%. And would add that reincarnation is also the most joyously empowering thing to accept into your livingness. If accepted, it brings you all of you into an absolute presence.
I love this blog Gabriele, had to laugh so much about all this poodle and Jesus reincarnation. I grew up with the knowing of reincarnation, but never understood how it worked and it felt like I had no say in it. So I decided to wait till death and imagined to find out by then. What a revelation was the simplicity to reincarnation I got to understand by the presentations of Serge Benhayon, even though it took me a while to fully grasp it. It is so empowering to know that we are in charge of our life and that the responsibility of our present and future lives lays within our way of living now. Very awesome.
Rachel, I think what you say here is great. “I knew reincarnation…decided to wait till death and imagined to find out by then.” I think that this is so true for so many. We have a strong sense that there is something else, more, a bigger picture – but the vast majority live their lives without taking any of the responsibility that comes with the truth of reincarnation. It is like they know it deep down but aren’t prepared to step up and make the changes to their lives that they would have to, should they fully embrace everything that comes with a lived acceptance of reincarnation.
I love the way you wrote this Gabriele, it is so funny. Indeed, everyone was Cleopatra once! I love the serious part, too. Thank you for the reminder; “He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally!”
‘What goes around comes around, quite literally’, it can not be any other way. To take responsibility for how we are in our cycles make for the coming around to be not a complete shock or surprise.
Gabrielle I was chuckling at the many ways we choose to not truly accept our own responsibility in coming back. It never made sense to me that we would come back as ants or butterflies and I definitely had a sense of coming back – for when things got rough I used to say its fine the next one will be better. Not realizing until I also heard Serge Benhayon’s presentations on re-incarnation that things don’t change unless I take responsibility for all of my choices.
Reincarnation is not an escape from this life but is a way of taking true responsibility for the life we are living now. Beautiful blog.
Indeed Amelia, knowing that I will be back is a huge responsibility – I cannot just shrug my shoulders and go like “let the next generation take care of this” because eventually I will be the next generation. And I will come back to the energetic imprints I left behind. This also places the importance on the quality I lead my life in as all the worldly achievements (money, accolades, prestige) will stay behind and won’t necessarily be there next time.
Even down to the nitty gritty of how i handle my waste, recycling or landfill, realising all will be there to greet me next time around brings a greater responsibility.
Reincarnation is indeed something very beautiful, it is the loving way of continuing building the love that we already are. An opportunity to come back to who we truly are, each live we have the responsibility to work on ourselves and make a supporting space to come back in and continue learning.
Reading this blog made me reflect on what understanding I used to have of reincarnation which was similar to what you share Gabriele, and how far I have come in developing a truer understanding. I always had a sense of the interconnectedness of our lives, past and present, but the information that was around me lacked sense. What I have come to understand is that, as you share, “talking about reincarnation as taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round (reincarnation) and me and my life then which leads to the next round”.
Gabriele, your blog and the dry humour in it made me laugh – thanks a lot.
Having the truth of reincarnation re-presented to me (because, yes I already knew it) by Serge Benhayon has changed my life in every single way, crook and cranny. And even though I haven’t fully understood or embodied the full depth of the truth, the absolute knowing that it is a truth is a rock on which my life is now built and it is an ever present influence on my choices, in this life.
Thank you Gabriele, I also am aware now of the responsibility we take in this life will have it’s affect on a next life. And how it is important to focus on this life to live all of who you are.
It makes sense, doesn’t it – responsibility and being all we are need to come from somewhere, from a foundation we have already built, and no better way than to start now and make what we know is true a lived and tangible reality .
Great topic Gabriele, I was a firm believer in reincarnation before I’d ever heard of Serge and Universal Medicine but Serge made it more real so to me it’s now a fact and not a firm belief
Yes, who needs beliefs when you just know? Know with every fibre of your body that something is true because it feels true in the body.
Kevmchardy – love how you have differentiated between a ‘fact’ and a ‘firm belief’. Ace. It’s so fascinating reading your comment because I could actually feel how wobbly a ‘firm belief’ is – and it’s exactly the same for me when I use that exact expression. We use those words, when actually there is nothing firm about it at all. In fact the foundations on which it is built are nothing more than quick sand. But the way you claim ‘fact’ – that is totally different.
Yes, I agree and great point you make here. The only firm thing about a firm belief is the fact that we firmly wish to believe in something. But there is nothing other than that to prop it up.
Otto (and Kevin before you), I really love how both of you have outted a firm belief for the falseness it is, thank you. I can feel that this knowing will support me greatly. Letting the fact that what I feel from my body be the truth that it is.
“I was still coming back; in fact, hello – I was already back”, this line is a ripper Gabrielle.
I agree, I had a chuckle out loud when I read it. I love your humour Gabrielle
Thanks Gabrielle, I can very much relate to what you say here… I always knew reincarnation was true without really ever thinking about it, just somewhere in my bones (as I would have expressed it then), but whenever I heard the ‘come back as a grasshopper’ type versions, just couldn’t connect to it. Hearing Serge Benhayon speak of it many years ago was the first time it woke something up in me that finally made real sense… actually it made so much that I hadn’t before made sense about life.
Gabrielle, I recognise when you say I have always known reincarnation to be true but it was surrounded by so much new age stuff that I never bothered to really feel what reincarnation is about. Serge Benhayon and his teachings have made me connect back to who I am and where I am from and in that reincarnation is a very logical part of our live(s) on Earth and our returning to the divinity we are originally from.
“But it is stupendous, that much I know for sure while I now willingly and very consciously partake of this opportunity to go around in daily, monthly and yearly cycles as does the earth around the Sun, and knowingly and willingly undo, redo, file, polish, buff, smooth and wipe the lesions, bumps and warts I keep running into and tripping over.” – I love the way you put this Gabriele.
I cannot but laugh out loud while reading this – so light hearted. I know what you mean about throwing the baby out with the bath water – I have reacted to a variety of things that are presented without truth – and thrown the whole thing out lock, stock and barrel. I didn’t ever quite do this with reincarnation completely – from young I would read about reincarnation and know we were coming back even though none of the descriptions felt quite right. As the years went on I too got irked by the multiple ‘Cleopatra’s’ and ones coming back as stones and similar… and it was only when Serge Benhayon first presented basically that reincarnation = responsibility for the energy I am in in this moment that it all ‘came back to me’ and made sense in full again. Holding my three new-born babies there was certainly no doubt this is not their first time here – there is a cycle that can be felt that they are coming back into – hence never treating kids as less than adults – but sharing great equalness.
I love how you say Kate about never treating kids as less than adults – but sharing great equalness. Very wise words. I have often felt unsure on how to be around children, even though I had two of my own. I realised this was because I needed them to like me. To feel inside my love and innate knowing, holding me so tenderly and truly accepting of me, there is no need for this to come from an other. Leaving me free to lovingly enjoy children again.
Gabriele, thank you for sharing such a joyous blog on reincarnation. I have always felt the truth in reincarnation and that it really is another cycle in our life. That sounds pretty awesome to me.
I had little understanding of reincarnation before the subject was presented by Serge Benhayon. I knew it was true, and I definitely knew I had been on this Earth before, but what I didn’t have a sense of was the responsibility I have in this and every life. If I ever had thought I could wipe the slate clean for next life – I was seriously wrong! Every single thing I do matters, and affects every life I have had, am having and will have. Amazing wake-up for me.
Reincarnation:like you Gabriele, I have heard about it throughout my life, but I had never felt any resonance in me because of how it was explained. I grew up in Germany with a Serbian background and had friends and school mates from varying cultural and religious backgrounds. I had a view of the different religions, and what they explained, on a daily basis. I was not pulled to any of them as a truth for me. I even did not feel really connected to the Serbian religion (Christianity), maybe because my parents told me that it is not important what religion one has but what is inside the person.
But I knew for sure there is a God and He is the same for us all. And I knew from deep within that it does not make sense that He shall choose who can live happily and who not. So, when I heard the teaching about reincarnation presented by Serge Benhayon, I could feel the truth in it, because it resonated in me. And I was not at any mercy of any God, but actually I was the one who ‘played the game through my choices’. I learned what responsibility in its true meaning is. And it explained so much the suffering I could see and, at times, that I also went through.
Without reincarnation life makes no sense to me, and it is easy to give up on life when it is bad and thinking, ‘oh, I am glad when it is over.’ It’s not over; it just comes in the next round again to deal with it. So for me reincarnation is not a mystery – it is my daily responsibility and the choices I make, for me and for all.
I love this honest and light-hearted blog around Reincarnation. I too had similar feelings around reincarnation, I believed in it but I was often confused by people’s version of it. When I finally heard Serge Benhayon present on Reincarnation, it made so much sense to me. If we take responsibility in this life and live with a certain quality – how this all contributes to the quality in our next life. Thank you Gabriele.
This is gorgeously written Gabrielle, love the fun you have had with it.
As a child I knew I had been here before so it never felt like any big deal to me, though I understand what you say about the resistance to the common interpretations of reincarnation, I had that too as I got older, as they didn’t fit with what I felt. Now I feel the beauty and the responsibility of reincarnation. It is elegant, practical, amazing and such common sense. The way it is presented by Serge Benhayon always makes complete sense. Try as we might to avoid or dodge out of knowing that we come back, we do, time and time again. Might as well attempt as best we can to do it lovingly and well this time round because what we come back to IS what we leave behind.
I agree Jeanette, Serge Benhayon definitely does a ‘different take on reincarnation’ and it does make sense for it is not complicated or confused by the glamour, illusion and ideals of soul mates and that life is made of fake fairytale happy ever afters but rather that life is all about living energetically responsibly and lovingly contributing to and inspiring the whole.
I always felt reincarnation was the real deal; but until I heard Serge Benhayon’s presentations I did not realize the full depth of its importance in our evolution and the huge role that responsibility plays.
The point I missed with reincarnation was responsibility. I would get annoyed with myself for doing, making choices when others appeared to be having a much better or comfortable time. Knowing very well that it was not true but it bugged me. Others work ethic or lack of financial and personal responsibility irritated me because it appeared they had more time to do whatever they pleased.
Knowing that all I do now and this life is leading to my next life has changed what used to annoy me to really seeing what is going on. It makes sense to me that when people think they can get away with ill choices because they have the time to get them out of the trouble they got themselves into is not true. The big picture is that this present life comes with the responsibility of the next life and this can’t be escaped. This fact creates a situation of us all being equal. Rich or poor this life we are all responsible for the way we live this life leading into the next.
What a great subject Gabriele and I love your sharing of how your understanding of reincarnation has evolved. For me it always made sense that we needed to have reincarnation – looking at one single life for everybody just did not make any sense to me. But how Serge Benhayon presented on reincarnation has brought a much deeper clarity how it all works and how the quality we choose to live this life will impact on the quality we will be born with next time round. We are forever evolving and growing – to be more of who we are – heading back to where we originally have come from; going round in circles and learning how to “undo, redo, file, polish, buff, smooth and wipe the lesions, bumps and warts I keep running into and tripping over”. Thank you Gabriele.
Dear Gabriele,
I love your honesty about how you used to be with reincarnation. I too always knew that it was real, as I have had deep feelings of other lives. However I used to think that those lives were better and grander than what I was living at the moment, never once seeing that they were with me now in this life, influencing how I was actually living now. Hearing Serge Benhayon’s take on reincarnation, I now understand that those lives also held within in them many of the same way of living that I was doing this life. Through what Serge presents I have come to understand that each life is there, giving us opportunity to return to and live our love. Our next life has the quality of how we have lived this life. This makes so much sense to me. It is not about getting to our next life to escape this one. It is about living the quality of love now as doing so then guarantees this next time around. As you say the responsibility is for me to live lovingly, joyfully and honestly now.
As I come from a christian background. reincarnation did not exist for me. My childhood experience however told me differently. So I constantly felt in a conflict. Serge Benhayon confirmed what I felt as child, that we have past life’s. He gave us the revelation in bringing harmony into our present life we prepare our next life being more harmonious as well. Hearing this was very healing for me.
I always felt there was more than this one life but as you, did not know exactly what this meant. I felt how pointless only to have one life – why would we be here for that? Over the years, I have realised how I live my life now, will determine what I come back to in the next one and so on and so on, around and around we all go, even if we don’t believe it. The presentations by Serge Benhayon have clarified what it really means to take responsibility totally in how we live and how this will affect what we come back to in the next life. For me, it has been about deep healing through my body in ways I would not have ever imagined. This has been painful and at times I have wanted to give up when the going got so tough I did not know how I would get through. I have been supported in so many ways by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners and this has helped me see how much I can clear from this and all the lives where I have lived in total disregard of myself and others. As my body heals and releases, so too do the old patterns that have held me for so long. Amazing, is all I can say and such a blessing to be able to clear and heal so much this time around.
Thank you, Gabriele. This is an honest account that I feel many could relate to. I always knew reincarnation existed but it wasn’t until I heard Serge Benhayon speak of it that I knew what the truth of it was. It makes so much sense that the quality we die in is also the quality we reincarnate in. For me, this brings about a level of responsibility that is not often spoken of and I feel it is one of the most important and essential parts of reincarnation.
What a level of responsibility your writing is asking of us, in the subject of coming back again to another lifetime, thank you Gabriele for your honest reflections. You have inspired me to have a deeper look at my daily actions, and how much do I bring the amazing loving tender man I am to all these acts.
Thank you Gabriele for your article on reincarnation. I must admit I always felt confused and didn’t like the idea of coming back as a bug of any description, but Serge Benhayon has given me an understanding that the life I live now will have an impact on the next life and the next.
Coming back as a cockroach or some other kind of bug is just one of the many distractions and lies we are fed to keep us away from what we truly are, obscure the truth of reincarnation and make it superficially unpalatable.
I really enjoyed the lightheartedness you bring to the subject of reincarnation Gabriele. I have always felt the truth in the continuum of life although I had never really considered the way we are living now is creating our future lives and we don’t actually wipe the slate clean and start again when we pass over. I have a fuller understanding now of how reincarnation works, thanks to Serge Benhayons presentations. We are continually evolving and love is our guide.
So true Victoria, beautifully said.
I love the notion that reincarnation is an expression of divine love, an opportunity to be more joyous, loving and harmonious. And within this is the gentle reminder that all our choices and actions are our responsibilty. Thank-you Gabriele.
Your eloquence continues to inspire me Gabriele. Thank you.
I too have always felt reincarnation to be true. We know that when someone dies something leaves with them; some sort of inextinguishable essence – we certainly know the body lying there is ‘not them’. Scientists have even weighed the bodies of people just prior to and after death, and they are discernibly lighter after death. So where does this extra weight, this ‘something’, then go? It must go somewhere and it must do something, even if it is to only ‘hang out’ with other somethings. Or, might it decide to return to physical form once more? Either way, there is some sort of existence after death.
I have always felt a deep knowing that reincarnation is a fact. But I gave little thought to the logistics of who becomes what in the next life. However I have definitely used the idea of reincarnation as a way out and as you described I have thought “next time will be better, easier” and also usually always thought I could choose to be a free, peaceful animal.
After listening to Serge Benhayon I knew his words to be true words, that reincarnation is an opportunity to balance previous choices and learn to make loving choices meaning we have less karma to clear in the next life. After understanding the true purpose of reincarnation I realised my ideas of coming back as a free, peaceful animal were actually me not wanting to take responsibility for my actions and instead escape, looking for the ‘easy’ route of no responsibility, which does not exist. I now enjoy taking responsibility for my choices and I feel I have MANY past choices to re-balance in this life and future lives.
Thank you Gabriele for your considerations about reincarnation. I can relate to what you wrote about the time before I met Serge Benhayon and that the reincarnation theories did not make sense to me. The way Serge presents reincarnation is making sense and I can feel the truth of it that in fact that reincarnation is a law of love that helps us to return to who we innately are. And indeed, as you describe so playful, we can deny the existence of reincarnation while we live in these cycles over and aver again. That is true love, we do not have to believe in it in order to be part of it.
Gabriele, I was kind of into re-incarnation and was pretty comfy with an ‘idea’ that i was once a dolphin (I really like swimming!) and coming back as an eagle (you know coz they are cool). Enter Serge Benhayon and it just makes sense that it is about responsibility in this life – not about other creatures. I love the conclusion “And the funny thing is of course that all the time …. – I was still coming back; in fact, hello – I was already back:”
Self responsibility and loving choices – not so tough and not left to chance. As humans we are such funny creatures.
My back ground is Christian and while in this place I could never understand the shocking unfairness of the world. I used to argue with my Christian friends about those saved and those not saved because they did not turn to Christ… I would say but you have been born into Christian families it is easy for you to take this road, but what if you were born into families who were not Christian or had been persecuted by the Christians…are they all lost because they won’t believe what is so easy for you to believe? I couldn’t understand accidents and why good people and innocent children were brutalised by crazy people. Why loving women (myself being one) seemed to attract disastrous relationships. Why some people were born into beautiful families and why others were not. I remember looking at all the little babies in the nursery in the hospital when each of my children were born and thinking that this will be the only time things will look the same for them…when they leave here each of them goes on to experience a different life to the others. Life was clearly all about luck and chance, or more likely ‘bad luck’ and ‘no chance’ That is of course until I managed to put my Christian beliefs to one side and examine the idea that reincarnation might be true. Suddenly it wasn’t fate, luck or chance. It wasn’t about life being unfair but the opposite. It was a loving way back for every human being equally valued no matter what they had done, who they had been or where they were now. Suddenly no more despair but the opportunity for true equality for all regardless of their current station in life.
I love your observations about the babies in the hospital nursery, going out into their different lives – some seemingly to lives of seeming ease, others to lives of cruelty. Without a sensible understanding of reincarnation none of this makes sense. It is makes life feel random, cruel and as though it is out of our hands to have any real impact on events at all. We place ourselves in a state of victimhood, pitched against life. Even when we are going well, in such a random setting there is a fear it could be stripped away at any time.
Life becomes a constant battle against uncontrolled, unexpected events.
Understand reincarnation and the whole emphasis of life shifts. The seeming randomness is exposed as not so random. Luck (good or bad) no longer calls the shots. Responsibility is no longer an attempt to control overwhelming circumstances that push and pull us at its whim – in fact we are equal to life, and there are consequences to our actions and our inaction.
All of the events that take place show us that there are aspects of ourselves that we need to look at, address, heal in a sensible, gracious cycle.
I never really considered how reincarnation could be used as the ultimate form of procrastination! Oh, the arrogance in that.. “oh well, better luck next time. Wait…you mean reincarnation is about NOW?! And taking responsibility?!” No wonder we have been so resistant! I love how you express it as an opportunity to “knowingly and willingly undo, redo, file, polish, buff, smooth and wipe the lesions, bumps and warts I keep running into and tripping over.” What’s to resist in that? So much Divinity on offer all coming from within, not a poodle, cockroach or vengeful God in sight. Love it! Thank you Gabriele.
Such a different orientation Liane! Truly, we are like children having a tantrum when we fight reincarnation – in fact we are fighting ourselves, fighting grace and love and the opportunity to be who we truly are.
I had heard about re-incarnation as a child from my father and I also had a knowing of something much bigger at play than just living one life. I too had some weird concepts of re-incarnation as I explored different new age books etc. What Serge Benhayon presents on re-incarnation makes sense as does everything he presents. I had never considered that taking responsibility in this life was the key to returning with that same energy next time around. No more sitting around, wishful thinking, and waiting for it all to just happen. I now have a choice to return to who I truly am.
This makes so much sense Gabriele. I was always squirmy about reincarnation for the same reasons. It sounded ridiculous to me. Serge Benhayon presented reincarnation as responsibility and cycle. That made more sense. That actually makes complete sense to me. I agree with everything you have written here!
I first heard about reincarnation from my grand mother. Although it was not talked about in my family it felt right to me but I never encountered the concept again until I attended Universal Medicine workshops. I fully accept that what goes around comes around.
I often wondered where what I understand actually came from … when I think of this in terms of reincarnation and revisiting past choices I consider that all the great and true things that I have lived are also coming around again and again too as a support – and not only the ‘bad karma’ that needs re-imprinting.
I have always felt reincarnation was a given and was slightly puzzled that this was not the same for those I grew up with. It seemed a very logical and simple concept to me. I never had the full answer though of how it worked or why it was as it was. But through the presentations of Serge Benhayon it became very clear to me and as you say so well Gabrielle, reincarnation is an expression of divine love, giving us endless opportunities to learn and unfold back to who we truly are.
Reincarnation is a bit like one day leading into the next, really enjoyed your blog Gabrielle.
Thank you Gabriele. I, too, felt the quackery around reincarnation until I attended Universal presentations (someone told me I had been a snake in a past life – I did some reacting to that comment!). Serge Benhayon’s take on reincarnation made sense but gosh, did that mean I had to take responsibility for this life, the ones before and the ones after? I have to say, like you, that it had me squirming in my seat, and sometimes I still squirm specifically when I have abdicated responsibility: a process in progress!
Gabriele your post is so wonderful and light hearted yet serious on the issue of reincarnation. I agree a life being carelessly lived on the proviso that we come back again to experience a ‘different or better life’ only gives licence to the abdication of responsibility of the current life. The truth as you share, is that we come back to the same quality as what we left that last life in. So all the more reason and motivation to be as responsible as we can in this current life then. And your words sum it up beautifully… “that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am”.
I came to a point in my mid forties where I realised that reincarnation made sense. I was beginning to make changes in the way I lived my life and so I began to wonder where I would end up. It just seemed to follow on from there that the only thing that made sense was reincarnation. I may not have used the word but there was a knowing that this was not the end. It was so confirming when I heard Serge Benhayon speak about reincarnation – as I already knew that what he was presenting was the truth about life and all that I had pondered on for so long.
I suppose it is a matter of time (however long that may be!) for everyone to realise (or feel) we all reincarnate. As written by Gabriele, the most important truth is “taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round”. Thank you Gabriele for writing this.
After hearing Serge Benhayon talk about reincarnation it just makes sense and I have known it to be true but never claimed it. I now know it to be true and it makes so much sense.
Yes Gabriele I always had a sense that reincarnation was true and have met people that I don’t know – but do, or places I had not been too but felt I had. Serge Benhayons presentations made it clear to me and made absolute sense of what I had been feeling “that reincarnatioin is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am …..”
Thank you Gabriele for the simple revelation that reincarnation is a very loving way for us to learn responsibility for every thought and action or activity that flows through our human frame. It’s not about having a go at playing different roles through different lives. Only in Hollywood do you get to be; Cleopatra, Jesus, Gandhi or the bad guy, Adolf and we all have an idea that the movies are a fantasy and a way of life that never asks you to be responsible for the way we live or present as a loving human being.
I love your writing – most particularly your honesty, Gabriele. Serge Benhayon’s presentations on reincarnation have confirmed something I’ve always deeply known to be true, yet there has indeed also been some ‘squirming in my seat’ at times in regards to this subject. For Serge has presented the whole truth of reincarnation – that basically, via this most deeply loving process that we are all held in, we cannot escape the ramifications of our choices and our actions.
For me, it is an ever-deepening process to accept responsibility for all that I am and all that I do… and how potent within one’s own self-exploration, and understanding of humanity, to allow the truth of reincarnation to settle into one’s being – bit by bit as we are ready to truly understand and live in a way of absolute responsibility for our thoughts, actions and words.
Thank you for sharing your how you came to remember what you already knew Gabriele. Reincarnation simply makes sense to me too. It’s absurd to consider how we may have all been here before, yet we greet each other as strangers meeting for the first time. Accepting and embracing the fact that I feel re-incarnation is true has meant I’ve started to see everyone I meet as a brother or sister, from some life time or other…”Hi, it is lovely to see you again :-)”.
Well explained Gabriele. I haven’t really put much thought or consideration about reincarnation or religion before attending a Universal Medicine event. Reincarnation makes sense as sometimes things feel so familiar that they are older then this lifetime. It gives us a great responsibility for ourselves and something to come back to as well. Nothing feels meaningless either, as with what Serge Benhayon has presented for you and it all counts.
Yes Gabriele, you’ve said it all! I too have known reincarnation to be a fact, it made sense to me that we must be accountable to our choices. For me, it was the only way of making sense of all the suffering and pain in this world; the starving people, homelessness, disability and birth defects, children dying from cancer so young – how could this all be if we only get one chance at this?! Reincarnation makes sense and Serge Benhayon is forever expanding my understanding of this.
I have always known reincarnation to be true. When I first heard Serge Benhayon present on the truth behind this science it was a beautiful affirming of a truth I had always known.
Many accounts of reincarnation make it sound so convoluted and fear inspiring. My understanding of it now is that it is actually beautifully simple and something which is very much within our control. We can choose the life we will come back to by the level of responsibility we are prepared to take in this life and the level of love with which we treat ourselves and one another.
I also have felt that reincarnation was true but in the past tended to glamorise the concept. It really made sense when I heard Serge Benhayon talk about the subject at a Universal Medicine workshop I attended. It has made a big impression on me as I often stop to consider choices in terms of what I want to create for my next life.
I have always felt that reincarnation is a fact. However as you have shared with us here Gabriele, Serge Benhayon has brought the deeper understanding to it for me also…. ‘reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet’
In every moment I am blessed with this opportunity to return to my true essence.
I can relate to this blog, having always had a strong sense of having lived before. It’s really great to see articles like this are being made open for all to read.
It really is the ultimate form of responsibility – coming back to all that you left behind.
That is so true, Ben – and also just a little disturbing when I think of what I thought I had put behind me forever and it’s actually already waiting there ahead of me!
So true Ben and the fact that we come back to face what we left behind is most likely the main reason many prefer to think that reincarnation is not true.
I love what you present here Gabriele, as this has indeed been my experience of reincarnation prior to meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine. I too had always known deep within that reincarnation just made sense, of course we came back, there could be no other way. As you have written though, it was the introduction of us truly taking responsibility in the present, that the quality of the way we live now, will in fact impact on the next life. It feels like this addition to my understanding (while still developing) brings another quality to the way in which I choose to live.
I really enjoyed reading your blog Gabriele, and I loved your playful humour that shows us how we have been held back with an incomplete understanding. I remember that I had thoughts about living former lives when I was young, but they were not confirmed as a deep knowing until I was presented with the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon.
I no longer feel apprehensive about growing old and death, as I am living now in harmony with rhythms and cycles to prepare for the next time around, knowing how I live affects everyone else.
‘Taking responsibility for my reincarnation’…. wow, Amita, this line really stood out for me for the simplicity and sheer truth of it, and reminding me, there is no such thing as it being an accident where you were born or the parents you were born too. And that we create this life and the next life with every single choice we make in every single day we have.
Love to read this blog this morning Gabriele…it was easy to read and follow as reincaration is a biggie…Two words jumped out at me; ‘at present’. For example, when we talk about reincarnation, the talk is usually based around past lives, do past lives exist or not… then to read the simple explanation from Serge who speaks of responsiblity in ‘this life’, and learning to love more in this life:
‘Serge talks about reincarnation as taking responsibility for me and my life at present which then and only then leads to me taking responsibility for the next round (reincarnation) and me and my life then which leads to the next round… you get the picture. He talked about reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that. What goes around comes around, quite literally!’
Makes so much sense and feels very practical too!
This is so very interesting Gabriele – I recall myself growing up and wanting to get to the end of life quickly in full awareness that I was coming back – but not the awareness that I had made choices that had got me into this life in the first place! Responsibility & learning to love me for who I am is developing a different foundation for which I can move from this life into the next.
I too have always felt reincarnation to be possible although it was not my religion’s teachings. All I can say is that it feels right to be responsible for how we live now, it is something you just know and from there you just trust your knowing.
While I had delved into reincarnation long before I met Serge Benhayon and it always felt like a known truth in my body, I never quite got the whole picture. Although I was convinced that I would come back again, I still held a fear of death and dying. Since hearing Serge present what feels like the full picture – that reincarnation is a law of love, which allows me to return to what I truly am – I no longer fear passing over and will welcome it as a glorious opportunity to come back “to learn and develop, be more loving myself, live more fully, joyously and consciously – and build on that”. Yes indeed Gabriele, I know for certain that “What goes around comes around” – bring it on!
Like you Anne, I had also delved into reincarnation well before I met Serge Benhayon, and come to accept that happened, but did not have any understanding of how that might be. I don’t think I ever thought I could come back as a cockroach, but probably did not think very deeply about it otherwise. The Way that Serge has presented reincarnation, over the past 8 years since I met him, was one that completely made sense. For many years I have had no fear of death, I have felt in my body, that there was nothing to fear there. But Serge has presented it all in a way that just completely makes sense. And the big thing is that once one realises what reincarnation is all about, there is such an amazing realisation of the huge responsibility we all have to really look at this very very deeply. It shows us that the WAY that we live is what has to be really looked at. I am here to learn how to live on this earth soulfully. We return again and again so we can learn more each time around, and hopefully put into practice what we have learned. As you say, Anne, “What goes around comes around”- bring it on!
Like Rosemary, I never had a problem with reincarnation. There were ways that I felt as a little girl that seemed to be ancient as time itself. Certain people have felt deeply familiar to me, as we were old friends even on a first meeting.
Certain belief systems about reincarnation seemed impractical and unhelpful. The silliness of coming back as a bug never made much sense. Neither did the fact that someone could have a pretty cruddy life then magically come back to something spectacular, like lives are handed out as a reward for suffering.
The 1000’s of Nephertitis and Cleopatras were off-putting too.
When we just come back to the simplicity of life and an understanding of cycles within cycles, why would we not return?
This understanding brings a new appreciation to life and rich meaning to responsibility.
Thank you Gabriele, for writing about this topic so graciously and simply.
I know that feeling – where you meet someone for the first time or even just in passing and the feeling of familiarity is absolutely unmistakable, and slightly unnerving if we discount reincarnation as an explanation.
I never had a problem with reincarnation, as far back as I remember it always made sense to me as I felt there had to be more than just this one life, but it wasn’t until listening to Serge Benhayon speak on reincarnation that I came to understand it’s true significance. Along with the responsibility to make loving choices moment by moment comes a joy in knowing that these choices are changing your life and the lives of those around you in the present but are also creating that which will come next, how beautifully empowering is that?
Reincarnation never made sense to me as – like for you – it was presented in ways that were just ridiculous and never felt right or complete.
The way Serge Benhayon presents reincarnation made absolute sense for me from the beginning. I was quite stunned – as with most of his presentations – because before I always used to question everything and rarely found something that felt like a possibility let alone a truth. I still check things for myself before believing them, but with Serge Benhayons presentations there is this simplicity, honesty and clarity in what is presented, which makes so much sense and causes a feeling of relaxation in my body. It is like I had always known all of this and now there is someone reminding me of it.
Loved what you have written here Gabriele and I giggled & chuckled my way through. I felt like you were writing for me….as I too knew that there had to more to just 1 life. Why do some places seem so so familiar, why do some people seem so, so familiar – why do some patterns of behaviour feel ancient, and why do some kids act a certain way from a very very young age when they don’t see that modelled – the list could go on.
And all the other presentations about Reincarnation made me want to fall asleep or leave the room…( and I’ve met a few Cleopatras in my time as well 😉 ). But Serge’s presentation of reincarnation made perfect sense – so simple and no judgement involved – do something and there will be an effect – basic laws – and to take responsibility for your life NOW not next month, next week, next year, next life. Whilst I railed against it at first (and still do some days) my life has improved immeasurably since taking responsibility. Which will feed into my next life as well.
This discussion has invited me to reflect on ‘reincarnation’ in my life. The moment I heard the word I felt that this is ‘true’ and all of what I felt without calling it ‘reincarnation’ about being on earth to experience, fitted. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has brought a depth to this that I had not experienced before. It is not only about coming back to grow what I am continuing in this lifetime but every moment is being repeated, everyday, every month etc and I can make powerful choices now to live out and come back with. Thank you Gabriele for making it all more real.
I never bought into the heaven /hell story and one life only and always felt that reincarnation was the truth . Even though it was quite confusing with all the rumour / weirdity of coming back as a insect or animal (that didn’t make sense).
Definitely, responsibility of our choices, or free will, and its effect on clearing or stacking up karma, makes way for learning to live life more consciously and in harmony with oneself and others.
I laughed when I read about your annoyance about how reincarnation had been presented to you prior to the understanding through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, because that was my stance too. Most of what was put forward as an explanation was frankly ludicrous and did not make sense. Now as I am learning about responsibility and how my choices, thoughts and actions impact every next moment for myself and for the all, and as I accept the love which allows me the grace to make mistakes and find my way back to the love that I am part of, realities such as reincarnation hold a totally new meaning and make complete sense.
Reincarnation made sense to me, (in the most simple of understandings of what it truly means). From the time I started to take responsibility for myself I felt that being born, living a life with as much comfort as possible and not dying an unhealthy death couldn’t be the reason we are here. There is a huge universe around us and being born once and then ‘that’s it’ doesn’t match the amazingness of the universe. Like you Gabriele I’ll keep taking responsibility for my contribution this and every life time to come.
Through the way Serge Benhayon presents reincarnation – I lost my fear of coming back again. Instead I feel joy and I embrace the possibility of spending more lives here with brothers and sisters in a loving way – as I live now!
I always had the nagging sense that reincarnation was indeed a fact – however the get out of jail free variety that you write about here, Gabriele, was indeed a smoke and mirrors distraction from the enormity of the truth about the relationship between responsibility, karma and reincarnation. Now ask me again about the meaning of life …
From young I felt reincanation was a fact – and looking into the wise old eyes of my newborn children brought the undeniable fact that this is not the first time they have been here. Even with this knowing, I feel I have only just begun to scratch the surface of supporting my tomorrow with the quality I choose rignt now. Reincarnation = responsibility/accountability – and for me – what am I building towards? I saw a hilarious cartoon recently that sums it all up for me – pictured is a settee with an old chap and a young boy sitting side by side. The speach bubble coming from the young boy said – “Yeah, well, I didn’t believe in reincarnation when I was your age either”.
That’s hilarious Kate! But so interesting. I think it’s the responsibility factor that some don’t like to think about when it comes to reincarnation. That what they come back to is what they left. Possibly hoping that we can start from scratch with a clean slate OR that we die and that’s the end of it.
What I’ve noticed is that when you start to live more lovingly, reincarnation is not so scary or a mystery, it’s simply what you make for yourself by how you are living now.
It’s interesting too Rebekah, that I’m somehow okay on the whole with seeing the parts of life that feel like a not so great hangover from ways I have gone about ‘coping’ over perhaps many lives, but the amazing parts of life, like my incredible insightful children and the fact they chose me to parent them in this life, I tend not to appreciate as also being a result of the ways I have lived before. Responsibility and appreciation such key ingredients to life hey.
Lovely Gabriele, like you most of what i heard about reincarnation did not make sense so I paid no attention to it. The way Serge Benhayon explained it made perfect sense of it, and as I observe people young and old his explanation is confirmed to me.
We return to the energy we leave behind.
God is not punishing us, it’s the way the natural law of the universe, what we have done comes back to us like gravity.
What a brilliant summary of what I too have felt about reincarnation.
My ‘Christian’ upbringing had me thinking that reincarnation was only for ‘the Son of God’
I now realise that we are all the equal Sons of God. Interesting how a little play on words by the church can have millions of people separated from the truth
Thanks for this Gabriele. It’s also great reading what others are saying about the subject. Growing up I’ve always been told that you only have one life. If you do good in life you go to heaven and if not you go to that ‘really hot place forever’. I have always had a feeling that I have lived a life before this one so surely that couldn’t be right. I recently asked a Universal Medicine student about reincarnation, she shared her understanding of it and it made sense to me. Thank God for the opportunity to relive and take responsibility.
Thank you for sharing Gabrielle, ‘reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am’. By accepting reincarnation it gives me an understanding on why I am where I am today, along with helping me to take responsibility for all my choices. It is like we are given an infinite amount of chances to make loving choices and by doing so return back to who we truly are.
This is a great read Gabrielle , thank you. I have always known about reincarnation. When I started to listened to the presentations of Serge Benhayon this brought truth to it. What he said made real sense. I am responsible for every choice and decision I make, this affects this life and the next, brings me more in connection to the love that I am or further away. Every moment is an opportunity for me to choose love.
Reincarnation and the knowing of it changes everything and simply makes sense of life,
great article Gabriele thank you.
This was a powerful line in your article for me – “I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.” This shows how we all are walking around with much more wisdom than we care to admit or appreciate, and are feeling the truth of things all the time. The whacky explanations of reincarnation being a random return to another life (whether as an ant or human) without any sense of evolving or responsibility never made sense to me, and Serge Benhayon sure filled in the missing blanks for me regarding the Truth that reincarnation and the life we live next is based on how much love we live and express in this life.
A great article that has got me pondering…I appreciate how you write of Serge Benhayon suggesting that it is all part of the ‘Divine Plan’ and that we have the opportunity to learn in every moment. I also appreciated the way that you communicate how you felt you knew all of this before and that you are coming back to it.
I have just heard a conversation where one person was reading a newspaper article to another about how more animals will become extinct like the dodo. The other person said to them, ‘yes… and so will we humans’. What I realised when overhearing this conversation, is that the vast majority of people in the world believe this; that there is honestly no true purpose in us being here. Which then brought me to another realisation, if this is the ill-conciousness that the majority of us have, then no wonder so many drugs, drink, abuse with food and tv is used and the general numbness in life – what is the point if there is no real purpose? If we do not have an awareness of this? Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of having articles in the newspaper about animals becoming extinct we had articles about reincarnation and our true purpose from someone who knew what they were talking about. Maybe then people could start to have a different perspective on life, break ill-consciousnesses that have been holding them and see their true purpose. That would be very inspiring.
I, too, had always felt reincarnation was true but all the standard arguments for or against it did not make sense. Then when I heard Serge Benhayon present on reincarnation it was and is just common sense.
What an awesome clearly expressed article about reincarnation, I love what you wrote there is such an honesty; and I loved reading “reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet.” Thank you. Reading your article I could really relate to what you are saying. I have always known and felt there is more to life than what we currently see and live, but like you, the stories and comments of reincarnation I used to hear would be very flippant. There was no true responsibility taken with it. From meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, apart from bringing a greater awareness to me regarding life, how we have lived, choices we make (and so much more, the list could go on), the key word that eventually came to me throughout all this is… Responsibility. To be responsible for how we live now knowing that, yes, this will affect our future (the next time we are here) – but not solely for that reason… more as a responsibility to all; humanity. Serge Benhayon has helped me to have a greater awareness and to remember the true meaning of the word reincarnation.
“I learned and yet didn’t have to learn, because somehow I had always known it, that reincarnation is a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am, even if I have no full understanding of what exactly that might be yet”. Reincarnation simply brings integrity in our living forever.
I love all that you have shared it feels amazing and powerful – thank you Gabriele.
I can see why reincarnation never really made sense for you, nor me either Gabriele, but looking at “reincarnation as an expression of divine love, the incredibly loving opportunity to learn and develop” is a lovely way to take the negative connotation of ‘Karma’ away.
What a great article and it is one thing that most people don’t talk about; so a much need topic to be started. I also had a very strong knowing that this one life on earth wasn’t it – there is a universe that we are apart of and we are very key to the whole. It was Serge Benhayon’s presentations that clarified and made the whole ‘unspoken’ topic of reincarnation to start to fall into place and make complete sense to me. Yes of course everything I do, say and feel has an impact on all those around me including myself. Taking full responsibility to the best of my ability and learning along the way will have an ultimate effect on the whole. Absolutely there is karma and what goes around comes around – and sometimes sooner than you would like to think.
I loved reading this Gabriele, very much and the great simplicity and reality of what you say and how things seemed to be.
The amazing gift we all have of reincarnation to take responsibility for ourselves and by that everyone else, is really beautiful when we can see this.
A great insight presented to us by Serge Benhayon of what is living truth and what we all know inside but keep searching for. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Gabriele, I loved reading this and enjoyed your sense of humour immensely. Yes, it makes sense that reincarnation isn’t just a random happening of repeating one’s life but a gift to all of us so we can step by step undo all the things that keep us from whom we really are.
In reading this I have realised that I am only comfortable talking about reincarnation with certain people. That I perceive that by holding it as a claimed truth for myself that I will be judged by others. Thanks for the insight and something to ponder.
I too have always had a sense that reincarnation was the only theory that made any sense but could not relate to the versions of it that were on offer to me in the past. It is indeed beautiful to see it as a cycle of responsibility and an opportunity to have many goes (if necessary) at learning how to be more loving with ourselves and each other.
This is a great blog Gabrielle. I had always been indifferent about the subject of reincarnation with, as you say, generally stating that someone was coming back as a slug or something similar. Serge Benhayon then presented reincarnation in a way that changed my view totally. For me, I had a reason to feel that reincarnation does happen and that reason is ‘Responsibility’. I feel reincarnation is the ultimate responsibility and to know my next life will be determined by how I live this life certainly got my attention.
I too had a bit of a squirm to come back as a cockroach issue with reincarnation. But the way it is presented, through Universal Medicine, makes sense not to my mind and what I’ve heard before, but to my whole body. An ever evolving cycle that there is no point delaying. Though I know there are still areas of delay in me because it’s easier to think that I’m not the creator of my own mess, reading this article, and the responses is a loving reminder of a much bigger picture than just this life.
Thank you Gabriele for writing so simply on reincarnation which helps to make this subject a normal part in the cycle of life on earth rather than a mystical something that only certain people ‘believe’ in. I too grew up with a sense of past lives. I knew reincarnation to be true but what I hadn’t grasped was ‘why?’ until I heard Serge Benhayon talk about it in a very matter of fact way and that taking responsibility for my past and present choices made sense as this will have an impact on my future lives.
Thank you Gabriele Conrad for a great blog and like you I was not content with all the things I was told that re-incarnation was, because they just did not make sense.
Serge Benhayon presented re-incarnation to me and that made sense and it is without any doubt the ultimate Responsibility whether we want to align, subscribe or believe it or not – this is true and I can feel it.
How I choose to live today and every single choice I make does and will have an affect when I re-incarnate so this is why it feels like I never wanted to really know and understand what it was in the past. I was living a very irresponsible lifestyle and thought I was getting away with it.
Gabriele, I too shared your scepticism about this subject, often mentally filing
it under the category of “mystical mumbo-jumbo”. However, the simple logic
behind the ideas of UM, really explain it intelligently.
I feel that I am choosing to deal with things in this life that I may have avoided for several life-times. I feel this will have an impact on my next life. This is happening because I am taking more responsibility in how I look after and care for myself and love and express myself. I don’t remember hearing that “reincarnation is a law of Love” before but that just so rings true and makes total sense. Thank you Gabriele.
I think Serge Benhayon’s description of reincarnation is the most logical
and plausible that I have ever heard. If we are constantly refining ourselves
so that we become closer to the real us each time we reincarnate, does that
mean that we can carry over certain things from one life to another?
From my understanding, everything we do affects our next life. For example, if you do not drink or stop drinking alcohol in this life and renounce it within your body truly for you, in your next life you will come back not liking alcohol… so not drinking is enabling you to evolve further to who you truly are.
The way Serge Benhayon described re-incarnation is different to anything I had heard before. The way you live in this life would logically be affected by how you were in your previous life and carried on in the patterns of your next life, as has been said, this is ultimate responsibility and not a freedom to do as you please as some seem to view the idea of re-incarnation.
Re-incarnation to me explains how our actions and reactions seem much older than from the one lifetime and could only possibly have been formed by having lived before.
A beautiful and easy to understand sharing on reincarnation, and the myths that surround it. Like Gabriele I always had an awareness of reincarnation. But only saw part of the picture, which was that my past lives had an effect on my current life. It is only since attending Universal Medicine presentations that I became aware, that how I live this life will have an effect on my future lives.
Thank you Gabriele. A great reminder that reincarnation brings responsibility without judgment.
Gabriele, your playfull touch makes light of reincarnation, a much bandied about subject-brilliant!, thank you.
This is brilliant, I so enjoyed reading what you have written Gabriele. It makes such sense, and is so humorous. I too had also always known deep down that reincarnation was true, and yet I fought it, was afraid of it, and probably laughed at it. Gradually over time and after hearing Serge Benhayon speak about reincarnation I too simply just accepted what I had always known; it wasn’t a big deal at all, there was no decision to be made, no question of ‘did I or did I not believe in it?’.
Like you I had always known reincarnation was true, felt it, just knew it. And to me it makes perfect sense. Ultimate responsibility!
Thank you Gabriele, I love the journey you express from being in a stubborn place in reaction to what you could see was not true, and then the beautiful opening up you had once you heard something that did feel true, and then the dedication and the self responsibility which followed.
So refreshing to hear you talk of reincarnation in this way. Without doubt I know that we come back again and again. This Law of Love you have described allows us all the opportunity to learn, how awesome is that! In these recent years with Universal Medicine I have come to the understanding of the enormous love that is in karma and reincarnation. We are given so many opportunities to get it right and through the presentations of Universal Medicine I have seen how my responsibility and how I am right here and now, affects my future and gives me the opportunity to re imprint the past. Now that’s what I call love!
I like to consider the fact that we are likely to return in a different race, gender, location and culture, so there’s no point judging another person as you may have been exactly like them in a previous life.
Oh absolutely Carmel, we know from our Heart that reincarnation is true so judgment becomes pointless.
You’re right Gabriele, there is so much responsibility we need to take not just for the life that we are living now, but for the many more to come and even for lives before this one; taking responsibility for previous choices is just as important as making loving ones in the future.
This is so simple and presents beautiful points to ponder on, Gabriele. Kind of like the notion that there is no other Life except on Earth. Since I can remember, I had felt that there was more than just this one life, but I never really bought the common image of Heaven – pearly gates, formidable man standing there, clouds and mist etc.
What I’ve been really connecting with lately is this fact that reincarnation is True Responsibility and that this true and absolute responsibility really is True Love, and nothing but love. It’s taken me a long time to accept that true responsibility is NOT being a sinner, paying a penance, or not being worthy because of the choices we make. That it is in fact the opposite of all those things and that we are always held in love!
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. Oh! wretched mortals open your eyes!” Leonardo da Vinci.
Thank you for sharing Gabriele. As a young child I could never shake the feeling that I had done this all before. It makes sense to me that we get more than one chance at life and that karma isn’t a punishment but a way of correcting things that we have done that were not about love. We are here to learn to be all of who we are. How I lived yesterday affects how I am today and how I live today sets me up for tomorrow. Why should it be any different when it comes to reincarnation?
Really enjoyed your post on reincarnation Gabriele. Try as one might, there is no getting away from self responsibility. (By the way, I was Cleopatra… but don’t tell anyone).
You too?
You two made me laugh out loud. Rod – I can so see Cleopatra in you. 😉
Thanks Nefertiti… good to hear from you again!
Oh, dear – the cat is out of the bag now. Have you noticed how I’ve kept the same figure (size 0) after all those aeons?
Rod you are a star – I laughed out loud on and off for good few minutes.
Gabriele, you bring some sense to reincarnation when you talk about it the way you do. So many of us were taught similar mis-truths, no wonder it is a subject that is not commonly understood.
This is excellent Gabriele, thank you for being so honest and matter-a-fact about how you viewed reincarnation for a very long time. Thank you as well for then simply explaining how you feel about reincarnation after hearing about it from Serge Benhayon, “a law of love which allows me to return to what I truly am”. So I have choices and I make choices every day that either allow love or not. The choices either bring me closer to who I truly am or take me away from that. Nobody else makes my choices – the responsibility is all mine.
Gabriele – I love this, it is very affirming, written with graceful and gentle humour, and feels so TRUE!!! It’s something I want to read and re-read over and over again, there is so much being said here for me/us to ponder upon. Thank you!
Reincarnation means taking personal responsibility for all we do and accepting there are consequences that follow on. Feels like this is why lots of people don’t want to consider the possibility that it happens.
Well said, Judy. Yes, you can see why people over the years have come up with more fantastical versions of re-incarnation or simply don’t want to go there – to avoid being held accountable. But Gabriele’s article expresses beautifully the grace of God’s love in not letting us get away with being less than we truly are, and how cool it is to be able to come back until we are fully polished up and pristine again.
I agree Judy, the idea that everything in life is our own responsibility can be hard to take but how glorious to know you can prepare, by living lovingly now, in order to take that way of living with you into your next reincarnation.
I really love how through this blog, you get that glimpse of appreciation for the sheer scale of true divinity. How through this expression from Gabriele, that I get a “crack in the doorway” feeling about the responsibility I carry in my living of this life. I used to practice Buddhism, not too religiously but just because some of the views made a lot more sense to me than other religions. But in truth, the one view that I definitely got was about reincarnation. I had an absolute feeling that we were each responsible for this life because of what would come around the next time. What I feel Serge has presented to me in addition to the truth on that subject, is also that I am a reflection of the lives I have lived before. When you pause to consider and appreciate that, I feel I find myself having a much greater appreciation and understanding for myself, my flaws, my imperfections and boosts my love for myself…because boy oh boy, must I have been on an adventure! No wonder I feel tired sometimes, 2000 years will do that to ya.
Awesome Phil, and I, like Mary, was taken by – that “I am a reflection of the lives I have lived before”. Having that as one of your truths I can feel the deep wisdom and knowing that I can offer, and that I really do have a lot to offer to the world. As you say Phil, we are not perfect and are learning all the time, which is cool. I can’t help but want to live responsibly when it is so clear that what I have lived previously will be what I bring to all my relationships and life.