Reincarnation and Karma with Richard Sutphen
Bestselling author and hypnotherapist, Richard Sutphen, discusses
reincarnation, karma and spiritual laws of cause and effect
in our present day lives.
reincarnation, karma and spiritual laws of cause and effect
in our present day lives.
posted by Beyond Reason at 5:50 AM
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Why was reincarnation taken out of Christianity?
Dear Richard,
This is a very nice podcast for those suffering from issues of karma and it is very important work. I would like to suggest a deeper understanding of karma for those more critical listeners. To say that reincarnations give us the ability of repaying the debts of prior lives, but just leaving it at that is not logical. If each of us is just trying to become who we were in a past life, before we created our own karma, then this would imply that we all were better in people in a past life. Evidence does not support this on a macro level or on a micro level. There has been a very a slow beautification of humanity and nature over the life of this planet. There have been major setbacks, like the Dark Ages for example, but the long-term trend is clear.
It is highly ironic that today the majority of Christians are lacking a belief in reincarnation and karma, when their ancestors are the only religious group who understood the higher meaning of reincarnation! Reincarnation was taught throughout true Christian believers, but not those (materialistic Christians) who belonged to the group that finally conquered them. The Romans, and their supporters. So when you read the history books today, you find very little evidence of the broad acceptance of reincarnation and the theory of “The Restoration of All Things”.
The Emperor Justinian declared in 543 AD: “Whoever says or thinks that human souls pre-existed, i.e., that they had previously been spirits and holy powers, but that, satiated with the vision of God, they had turned to evil, and in this way the divine love in them had died out (apyugeisas) and they had therefore become souls (yukas) and had been condemned to punishment in bodies, shall be anathema.”
When you have a look at the huge number “barbarians” that the emperor killed after he made their Christian belief barbaric, you will get an idea of how widespread reincarnation teaching was cherished. The inquisition did a very good job of seeking out and killing all others who dared to believe the good news of reincarnation taught by Jesus. This dark shadow still hangs over Christianity today, making it very difficult to reconcile modern Christian teaching with its roots. Only by going back to the beginning and understanding why the Roman Empire abhorred reincarnation are we able to expose the true face of the modern Christianity that grew in its shadow.
Christians did not take reincarnation out of their teaching because they feared the teaching, but rather they feared the (worldly) consequences of holding this belief. We stand at the beginning of a new age of elevated spirituality (and freedom of thought) and it would be nice to eliminate the huge chasm that lays between religion and the modern enlightened/educated mind.
Best regards, Shawn
www.origenes2000.org
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