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Most people know what reincarnation is, and many believe in the rebirth or reincarnation of the soul, but do not accept that a person can go into lower forms of life, after the human. Is it really possible for a person to acquire an animal form of a body, after a human one?

A person after reincarnation can indeed take on a lower form, such as an animal, plant, or mineral. In the knowledge based on the teachings of the great spiritual teachers and the ancient Vedic texts, it is clearly shown that a person, if his level of consciousness corresponds to the level of an animal, acquires an animal form of a body, despite having a human body.

Consider the root cause of reincarnation in this material life. Why does a person reincarnate? Creature endowed material language is the result of the desire to taste. There are ears, it is the result of the desire to hear. There is a nose, the result of the desire to smell. There are sexual organs, the result of the desire for love pleasures. Thus there is various bodies senses, in accordance with the desires of the being. Therefore, the main reason for obtaining a material body is that a person has desires associated with matter. And in this world we see all kinds of bodies. The dog has a tongue and the human has a tongue. The pig has a nose and the man has a nose. Different living beings have different types of bodies.

If one looks at these various kinds of beings in the world, it becomes obvious that material nature gives the living entities all sorts of combinations, and almost unlimited types of implements with which to enjoy. The type of nose, tongue, or other sense organ that we have is determined by our type of thinking, our desires, our previous karma, and our karmic reactions. Even if the person is now in human form, but his consciousness is concentrated at the level of the animal, namely, the animal is only interested in eating, sleeping, sexual pleasure and defense or struggle. When a person cares only about the indicated interests, then his consciousness is at the lowest, animal level. At a subtle level, this will be the determining factor in the formation of the next type physical body.

Those who deny this and say that in the course of reincarnation we cannot acquire a lower form of life after the human one, base their ideas on personal experience, which is not confirmed by anything.

Such people are not guided by spiritual authorities, and ancient scriptures. The Srimad-Bhagavatam contains amazing story Jada Bharata, who, having undergone reincarnation, changed the human body and received the body of a deer. Bharata had to live his life in a lower form in order to return to human form again. Another point confirming the presence of involution in the process of reincarnation is related to certain laws that we cannot bypass. The basic law of the human form of life is responsibility.

Animals by nature cannot choose to be responsible or not, they are instinctively forced to comply with the duties assigned to them. For this reason, any actions in animal life forms do not create karmic consequences in the future. For lower forms nature arranges it so that the personality automatically evolves towards a reasonable form of life - human, but when it receives it, there comes a moment when the responsibility of the personality, its free will comes into force. Thus, animals are constantly evolving to more higher type body.

But the human form of life differs from the animal form in that a person always has the choice of responsibility for his actions. We are responsible for our actions, which is why human form there is a karmic system and the opportunity to descend into more primitive types of bodies.

AT Western culture There are three main concepts of what happens to a person after the death of the physical body - the concept of Hell and Paradise in the religions of faith, the materialistic concept and the concept of rebirth (reincarnation, life after death).

- AT Western religions faith, the concept of Hell and Paradise has spread, according to which a certain Supreme Being (usually male and with dense facial hair) judges and punishes human souls. Moreover, in some cultures it punishes them for certain actions, in others - for completely different ones. As a result, most souls end up in Hell, where they are forever doomed to incredible torment. Only a few righteous who keep strict rules, which are very different in different cultures, have a chance to receive eternal bliss as a gift. For those who believe in this concept, the most important thing is to guess with religion - for "it is impossible to hope for the heaven of one religion without risking the hell of all others." (well, if you still don’t guess, I highly recommend you Sheol, the Jewish hell, where once a week, on Saturdays, a sanitary day is arranged, during which eternal torment is canceled. Shabbat - after all, it remains Shabbat in hell

In Western science, a materialistic concept has become widespread, according to which consciousness is a product of the activity of the brain and completely disappears after the brain dies. On the other hand, numerous studies, conducted mainly in British and American clinics, have shown that many people at the moment clinical death the flow of experiences is not interrupted even when total absence electrical activity of the brain.

During these studies, scientists were not interested in the nature of experiences (that is, whether people saw a clear light, whether they observed their body from the side or heard voices), but the very fact of any experiences at the time of clinical death, as well as the presence or absence of an electrical brain activity at that moment. When enough impressive statistics were accumulated, the researchers came to the conclusion that the presence of experiences does not depend on whether the electrical activity of the brain continues in a state of clinical death or completely stops. As you understand, if consciousness is a product of the brain, then a person cannot experience something at a time when the electrical activity of the brain is absent - this is the same as watching TV with the power cord disconnected.
In our culture, for some reason, instead of trusting own feelings, it is customary to believe generally accepted statements (dogmas - in religion or axioms - in science), therefore some people firmly believe in the idea of ​​Hell and Paradise only because their religion prescribes it to them; others believe that consciousness is a product of the brain because they were told about it many times in school and university; and still others believe in the concept of reincarnation for the simple reason that they read about it in some books " secret knowledge", which can be bought at every corner.

But such an approach is not trustworthy - after all, you can believe in anything. Another thing is if you know, because knowledge is much more reliable than faith. And, if you have an experience associated with memories of previous lives - it's like you have returned from an exciting trip to distant countries and you try to tell the inhabitants of your provincial town about your impressions, but suddenly you find out with surprise that not only have they never been to these wonderful countries, but they don’t even believe that they exist. Moreover, they also persist in their ignorance, trying to convince you that you invented all this for the simple reason that your stories are very different from their everyday reality. But for you, it's funny - you really were there, so you do not need to believe or not believe in it. You know. Just know.

This page contains statements about the rebirth (reincarnation, life after death) of people more than known in Western science, philosophy, literature and other fields, from antiquity to our time. The soul, getting into one creature, then another , thus moves in a cycle prescribed by necessity. Pythagoras - 570-490 BC e.

Once I was already a boy and a girl, a bush, a bird and a dumb fish emerging from the sea. Empedocles - 490-430 BC e.

I do not doubt the existence of what is called new life and that the living rise from the dead. Socrates - 469-399 BC e.

The human soul is immortal. All her hopes and aspirations are transferred to another world. A true sage desires death as the beginning of a new life. Plato - 427-347 BC e.

There is strong evidence that a person knows many things before birth, that when ordinary children understand numerous facts at such a speed, it shows that they are not seeing these facts for the first time, but remembering and resurrecting them in memory. Marcus Tullius Cicero - 106-43 BC e.
In early Christianity, the concepts of hell and heaven had not yet been developed, and the attitude towards the idea of ​​rebirth was more than calm. many fathers christian church: Clement of Alexandria, Justinian the Martyr, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Jerome did not consider that the idea of ​​rebirth in any way contradicts the idea of ​​Christianity. The idea of ​​rebirth is most clearly expressed in the writings of one of the fathers of the Church, Origen.
Some souls, inclined to do evil, fall into human bodies, but then, having lived the time measured for a person, they move into the bodies of animals, and then descend to a vegetative existence. Following the reverse path, they rise up and regain the Kingdom of Heaven. Origen - 185-254

Blessed Augustine himself, an outstanding Christian theologian and philosopher, reflected on the possibility of rebirth in his "Confession", which shows that at that time in the Christian environment, rebirth was not considered something unnatural.
Did I have a certain period of life that preceded infancy? Was it the period that I spent in the womb of my mother, or some other? ... And what was before this life, O Lord of my joy, was I somewhere or in any body? Blessed Augustine - 354-430

But in 553, rebirth as an idea was banned by the highest decree of Emperor Justinian.

Justinian was a good politician and a skilled diplomat, which allowed him to make dizzying career- from the son of a poor Macedonian peasant to the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At the same time, he was "an insidious and indecisive person ... full of irony and pretense, deceitful, secretive and two-faced." Thanks to his energy and attention to detail, he did a great job and was able to combine the many disparate laws of the empire into one single “Justinian Code”, and also significantly expanded the boundaries of the empire. But Justinian went further - he decided to put things in order not only in worldly, but also in spiritual matters.

At that time, Christianity consisted of separate currents, many of which accepted the idea of ​​rebirth. Justinian considered this state of affairs harmful, naturally, not for religious, but for political reasons - he believed that if the citizens of the empire thought that they had a few more lives left, they would not be so diligent in public affairs. Justinian knew how to achieve his goals - first of all, he sent a message to the Patriarch of Constantinople Mina, in which Origen was presented as a malicious heretic. Then, in 543, a council was assembled in Constantinople by order of Justinian, at which, with his approval, an edict was issued, which listed and condemned the mistakes allegedly committed by Origen. (It must be said that at all the councils that were held during the reign of Justinian, final decision accepted not by the assembly of bishops, but by the emperor himself).

After the council, Pope Vegilius expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Justinian interfered in the affairs of the Church, and rejected the imperial edict, but later, after threats from the emperor, he was forced to issue a decree in which he anathematized the teachings of Origen. However, this decree caused such strong discontent on the part of the authoritative bishops of Gaul, North Africa and a number of other provinces that in 550 the Pope was forced to abolish it.
In 553 Justinian assembled V Ecumenical Council in Constantinople. The council could hardly be called "Ecumenical", since it was attended mainly by representatives of the Eastern Church - most of the Western bishops refused to take part in this dubious event. The Pope himself, despite the fact that he was at that time in Constantinople, in protest did not participate in the final verdict, for which he was exiled by the emperor to one of the islands of the Sea of ​​Marmara.

The result of this council was a decree that more than unambiguously defined the attitude of the Church towards rebirth.
If anyone believes in the unthinkable existence of the soul before birth and the most absurd rebirth after death, he should be anathematized Emperor Justinian - 483-565

After the "prohibition" of rebirth by the highest decree, any mention of it was tantamount to signing a death sentence for oneself - the medieval church burned the author of such statements along with his books. But there were people who were not afraid to speak about their beliefs even under the threat of a fire. One of them, the author of the words "To burn is not to refute," the great Italian philosopher and theologian Giordano Bruno, said in his closing speech:
The soul is not part of one certain body and can be in one body, then in another. Giordano Bruno - 1548-1600

Then they burned him.
The times of the Inquisition began to fade into the past, which made it possible to more freely express their beliefs. Below are the statements of great scientists, writers, philosophers about rebirth. In some cases it's just inner feeling denounced in words, in others - an unshakable conviction that it cannot be otherwise.
Death, like birth, is but the transformation of one and the same animal from a lower to a higher... Having established such a beautiful order with respect to animals, it would be unreasonable that man should not be subject to it... Therefore, I am inclined to think that the souls that once become human, like the souls of other species were contained in their ancestors until Adam, therefore, existed from the beginning of things, always in the form of other bodies. Gottfried Leibniz - 1646-1716

The concept of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. There is nothing strange about being born twice instead of once. Voltaire - 1694-1778

I believe that in one form or another I have always been in this world. Benjamin Franklin - 1706-1790

The doctrine of reincarnation is the only theory of immortality that philosophy can accept. David Hume - 1711-1776

I am not a Hindu, but I believe that the philosophical doctrine of Hinduism about rebirth is much more reasonable, fair and more capable of inspiring a person to good than frightening postulates Christian doctrine about endless punishment. William Jones - 1746-1794

When I think about death, I am completely calm. Because it is firmly convinced that our spirit is a being whose nature remains indestructible and which will act continuously and forever. I am sure that I have been here thousands of times already, and I hope that I will return thousands more times. Johann Goethe - 1749-1832

In my head - offices and chambers, full of books and pictures of old times that I painted in the endless ages before my mortal life. William Blake - 1757-1827

If an Asiatic asked me to define Europe, I would have to answer: "This is a part of the world that is under the incredible delusion that man was created from nothing, and that his present birth is the first entry into life." Arthur Schopenhauer - 1788-1860

The qualities acquired by man, slowly developing in us from one life to another, are invisible bonds connecting each of our existences, which only our soul remembers. Honoré de Balzac - 1799-1850

When I go down to my grave, I will be able to say, as many others do, "I have finished my work," but I will not be able to say, "I have finished my life." The next morning my work will begin again. The grave is not a dead end; she is a transition. It closes at dusk. And opens again at dawn. Victor Hugo - 1802-1885

The soul resides in human body, as in a temporary shelter, then she leaves it and moves to a new one, thus her immortality is realized. Ralph Emerson - 1803-1882

Death is one of the steps in our continuous development. Once upon a time, our birth was such a step, with the difference that birth is death for one form of being, and death is birth into another form of being. Death is happiness for a dying person, because when you die, you cease to be mortal. Theodore Parker - 1810–1860

I think I have always existed. I see myself clearly in various times history, engaged in various trades, a man with a different fate. Gustave Flaubert - 1821-1880

I'm sure I've been here thousands of times before, just like this time, and I hope to come back thousands more times. Thomas Huxley - 1825-1895

Just like we live thousands of dreams in our current life just as our life itself is but a form of one of the thousands of lives into which we enter from another more real world, returning again and again after death. Our life is just one of the dreams in another life and it is endless as long as there is the most real life God. Leo Tolstoy - 1828-1910

When asked where we were before we were born, the answer is: in a system of slow development along the path of reincarnation with long rest intervals between them. To the natural question why we do not then remember these existences, we can answer that such memories would infinitely complicate our present life. Arthur Conan Doyle - 1859-1930

I accepted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26 years old. Genius is experience. Some people think that this is a gift or talent, but in fact it is a product of long experience of being in previous life incarnations. Henry Ford - 1863-1947

I can quite clearly imagine that I lived in past centuries. Probably many of the questions posed before me remained unresolved. That's why I'm born again, to answer all questions someday. Carl Jung - 1875-1961

Reincarnation is the most plausible explanation of reality by which Indian thinkers overcame the difficulties that baffled European thinkers. Albert Schweitzer - 1875-1965

My emergence did not begin with birth or conception. I have grown and developed over countless myriads of millennia. All my previous incarnations with their voices and images are reflected in the current me. And how many more new incarnations I have to go through. Jack London - 1876-1916

Everything about science reinforces my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in immortal soul. Science has proven that nothing disappears into nothingness. This means that life and the soul cannot decay into non-existence, and, therefore, are immortal. Wernher von Braun - 1912-1977

Friends are the souls of those we have known before in our lives. Therefore, we are attracted to each other. Even if I only know them for one day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait until we eat the proverbial pood of salt together to get to know them better. I firmly believe that we have already been together in our previous lives. George Harrison - 1943-2001

In the East, the idea of ​​rebirth is naturally woven into culture, religion and science, so over 90% of people take this idea for granted. In the West, it is customary to believe in other things, but nevertheless, the situation is gradually changing - according to the latest polls, more than half of the population of the United States and democratic countries of Europe recognize the fact of rebirth and do not consider the idea of ​​rebirth to be something strange.

Some people seek to know about their previous lives, but such knowledge is more than useless unless it is within the person himself. For example, when the Buddha was asked: "Who was I in my past life?”, he often answered like this: “If you want to know what you did in your past life, look at your life today, if you want to know what will happen to you in next lives- look at your actions in this life. "And this is more than logical - everything is subject to the law of cause and effect or the law of Karma.

The idea of ​​rebirth is well suited for people who can take full responsibility for their lives without putting it in the hands of God or fate. After all, if you understand that it was your past actions that caused what you have now, and what exactly is in this moment with every word, thought and action you determine your future, then you can take responsibility for your life and change a lot.

It is not so important whether a person believes in the idea of ​​rebirth or denies it - much more important are the changes that can occur in his life after accepting the idea of ​​rebirth. For example, as it once happened in the life of Henry Ford: "Religion could not offer anything that made sense. Work could not give me complete satisfaction. It is useless to work if the experience gained in one life cannot be used in the next. When I discovered rebirth... time was no longer limited. I have ceased to be a slave to the hands of the clock ... I would very much like to convey to other people the peace that the idea of ​​rebirth can give us."

P.S. If everything around us does not disappear, but simply passes into another state, then why should a person be an exception?

Many of those who pay attention to their spiritual development came across stories that talk about such a phenomenon as the rebirth of the soul after death.

The soul after the death of the body immediately or after some time incarnates in another. The ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, Pythagoras and Plato believed in it. Reincarnation is spoken of in Kabbalah. Many researchers studied the phenomenon of reincarnation of the soul. They describe cases where people remember their past lives and identify themselves with a specific person.

Per recent decades The number of people who believe in reincarnation has increased significantly.

The souls of children return

Often mothers who have lost their children for some reason see their souls in the newly born.

The small North Ossetian town of Beslan in 2004 turned into a territory of mourning. 186 children died. In the first three years after the tragedy, seventeen children appeared in the families of those killed in Beslan.

Zarina Dzhampaeva, who lost her son Zaur in that tragedy, was categorically forbidden by doctors to become a mother for the second time. Even after the birth of her first child, she was transfused with infected blood - as a result, cirrhosis of the liver, chronic hepatitis and disability. Three years was a real nightmare.

One morning, Zarina approached her mother in a completely different way - she was unusually cheerful, saying that a swallow began to make a nest over one of the windows of the house - which means that they will soon have a child.

Lydia Dzampaeva: " I see Zaurik in a dream, and he was such a cheerful boy. He came, stands next to me and tells me -granny, I was born again, I am yours again. I told this dream and I say, Zarina, do not be afraid, this child will be born..

After another examination, it became clear that Zarina was carrying a child under her heart. As one doctors persuaded her to terminate the pregnancy. Having given a receipt, the expectant mother refused this. The birth of an absolutely healthy boy, Alan, doctors called a miracle.

Zarina believes that she has already met with the soul of her dead son. There was a rebirth of the soul after the death of Zaur. For Zarina proof of reincarnation obvious. The boy most of all reaches for the favorite toys of his deceased brother, and when looking at his photographs, he becomes indescribably delighted.

resurrected

Together with Zaur, 14-year-old Sonya Arsoeva died on that fateful day. Smooth on the fortieth day the girl appeared in a dream to his mother, promising to return. Fatima Arsoeva, the mother of the deceased Sonya, survived the pregnancy surprisingly easily, despite her age. The girl was named Anastasia, which means "resurrected".

“Every day I find something new from Sonechka in my daughter. Nastya can play with Sonya's favorite toys for hours.”

Girls are very different only in appearance. Habits, character, and even the first words, little Nastya exactly repeats the deceased Sonya.

“With my first daughter, Sonya, I was a very strict mother - both in clothes and in everything. I really regret it” - says Fatima Arsoeva. - " If the soul of the deceased Sonya really embodied in her sister Anastasia, this time her childhood will be happier«.

Conscious rebirth of the soul after death

Do you want plan where and when you will be born in your future incarnation? It's believed that conscious rebirth souls after death are within the power of a few enlightened Tibetan lamas. On the eve of their death, they can name the date and place of their future birth. This greatly simplifies their search in the future. This is what happens with the line of the highest Tibetan lamas of the Karma Kagyu tradition - the Karmapas.

You can Learn to remember your past lives and discover many secrets of their past incarnations.

Back in the twelfth century, the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, left a letter before his death, where he indicated exact time, place and family in which he will be born next time. His followers only had to go there, find him and start teaching. Since then, he has been dying and being reborn to continue his mission. Conscious reincarnations help to preserve the traditions of this religious doctrine. The chain of reincarnations from the 12th century did not stop until today never.

In the last century, the sixteenth Karmapa was born in 1924 in one of the provinces of Tibet, where the monks found him thanks to a letter from his predecessor. After his death in 1981, the search for his next reincarnation lay ahead. For the first time in many centuries, a successor was not immediately discovered. This time they helped find him. simple people. They said that they know an unusual child, who calls himself Karmapa since childhood.

The seventeenth Karmapa Thaye George was found at the age of eleven. The monks carried out a check - they showed the boy several personal belongings of his predecessor, and the child unmistakably chose them. After that, he was recognized as the next reincarnation of the Karmapa, which allows us to speak about the reality of conscious reincarnations.

Now, looking at Thaye George, it is hard to imagine that he lived through more than one life. One day, the day will come when he will leave a prediction letter with information about where and when he will be reborn next time.
So far, the Tibetan Karmapas are reborn once a century.

How does organ transplant affect the experience of the soul?

What happens when a person real life suddenly gains a memory of another soul's experience? As it happens with organ transplants and blood transfusions.

Doctors have noticed that organ transplant patients have a change in personality. They have character traits that patients did not have before the transplant.

Knowledge of human cellular memory is closely connected with the concept of reincarnation. soul memory, the experience of all its incarnations is stored in every cell of our body. And from life to life, the soul transfers all its experience, entering a new physical body at each incarnation.

The organ, getting into another body, can lead to a change in psychosomatic reflexes that are beyond the control of the brain. In other words: together with donor organs, a person receives a particle of the donor soul.

Jewish girl Yael Aloni underwent a heart transplant at the age of nine, after which she began to play football. Thirteen became a donor for Yael summer boy Omri, who was covered with sand during the game.

Despite all the efforts of the doctors, the miracle did not happen. The boy died without regaining consciousness. Doctors persuaded the parents to donate their son's organs to other people who need them. So, after his death, the boy was able to help seven people.

In order for the rehabilitation after the operation to be successful, the girl needed to take a lot of medicines. She took them with a snack of chocolate - with a new heart she received strong love to sweet.

Passion to active species rest was also a new “acquisition” for her - immediately after the operation, she went on an excursion with her classmates.

“I have much more strength now.I now put more effort into fulfilling my desires. If earlier I did not have serious hobbies, now I am seriously engaged in dancing. I really like hip-hop, because there are a lot of sports elements.' says Yael.

The girl's mother noticed that from a closed, uncommunicative child, her daughter became the soul of the company. Any injustice could cause a fit of aggression in Yael.

“She became bolder - in good sense, began to answer me in a way that she had not answered before. It became clearer to show that she did not like something. I don’t know where she has such a character.”

According to the boy's father, Ofer Gilmour, his son was cheerful, active child. He was respected by his peers for justice and honesty. He never let himself be offended and always defended the weak.

Mother Yael Aloni wanted to meet the parents of the boy, thanks to whom her daughter is now alive. The meeting was tense, because the boy's parents were in mourning. To defuse the situation, the girl turned on the music. The boy's parents were shocked when, out of all the discs, Yael chose the one that their son liked the most.

“At that moment I realized how similar they are says Omri's father, Ofer Gilmore, even the manner of speaking and being silent is the same for them. Yael reminds me a lot of my son”.

Once, when Omri came across information about a donation in a cafe, he read it and for some reason said that he could become a donor. Remembering this incident, his parents decided that it was a kind of testament to their son.

To date, Yael Aloni has also filled out a donor card - lifetime consent for a transplant internal organs needy in the event of her death.

Transplanted heart helps solve crime

A few years ago, in one of the US cities, residents were shocked by the murder of a ten-year-old girl. There was no evidence, no witnesses, and the case was about to be closed. But a girl called the station, who described in detail the place of the murder and the killer himself. The narrator was transplanted the heart of a girl killed by a maniac.

After the operation, the child began to have nightmares in which she was killed. She told her doctor about it. After listening to the smallest details of the story of his patient, the doctor was convinced that we are talking about the circumstances of the death of the donor girl.

The phenomenon of rebirth of the soul after death allows traditions to continue, gives hope to people for the rebirth of their loved ones and meeting them.

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ABOUT REBIRTH

First published as a lecture "Die verchiedenen Aspekte der Wiedergeburt" in Zurich in 1940. Revised and published as "Ueber Wiedergeburt" in "Gestaltungen des Unbewussten" (Zurich, 1950). The translation is based on the latest edition.

FORMS OF REBIRTH

The concept of rebirth is not always used in the same sense. Since it has different aspects, it will be useful to consider its meanings. To the five forms of rebirth that I am about to list, others can probably be added if one goes into detail, but I believe my definitions cover at least basic values. The first part contains a brief overview different forms reincarnation, and the second - their different psychological aspects. In the third part, I will give an example of the mystery of rebirth from the Koran

1. Metempsychosis. The first of the five types of rebirth that I want to focus on is metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls. According to this view, life continues in time, passing through various bodily existences, or, from another point of view, there is one line of life, interrupted by various reincarnations. Even in Buddhism, where this doctrine is of particular importance - the Buddha himself went through a long chain of such incarnations - it is not clear whether the continuity personalities: it can only be a succession karma. The Buddha's disciples asked him this question throughout his life, but he never gave a definite answer to it.

2. Reincarnation. This concept of reincarnation implies the obligatory preservation of personality. Here the human person is seen as having access to memory, that is, when a person is born, he is able to remember, at least potentially, that he has lived during past lives, and these existences are thought of as his own, that is, in the present life they have that same form "I". As a rule, reincarnation involves rebirth in a human body.

3. Resurrection. This implies the restoration of the human body after death. It includes new element: an element of change, transformation and transformation of human existence. This change can be significant, since the resurrected person will be a different person, or insignificant, in the sense that only the general conditions of existence will change, as if the person were in another place or another body. It can also be a carnal body, as in Christianity, which implies that the same body will be resurrected. For more high level this process is not understood too materially: it is assumed that the resurrection of the dead is the transformation of the corpus glorification, the "subtle body" into a state of incorruptibility

4. Revival (update). The fourth form implies rebirth in the strict sense of the word, that is, rebirth within the framework of an individual life. The word "rebirth" has a specific connotation: it means the idea of ​​renewal or even correction by magical means. Regeneration can be a renewal without any change in existence, so that the renewal of the personality does not change its nature, but only its functions, or parts of the personality, for the sake of healing, strengthening and correction. Thus, even the physically sick can be healed through the ceremony of rebirth.

Another aspect of the fourth form is the complete transformation, that is, the complete rebirth of the individual. Here renewal implies a change in the essential nature and may be called transmutation. Examples we can mention are the transformation of the mortal into the immortal, the corporeal into the spiritual, and the human into the divine. Well-known archetypes of this change are the Transfiguration and Ascension of Christ or the Assumption of the Mother of God in heaven after death in bodily form. We can find similar representations in the second part of Goethe's Faust, for example, the transformation of Faust into a boy, and then into Dr. Marianus.

5. Participation in the transformation process. The fifth and final form is indirect rebirth. Here the transformation does not take place directly - through the transition through the death and rebirth of someone - but by participating in the process of transformation, which is perceived as if it were taking place outside the individual. In other words, a person becomes a witness or participant in some kind of transformation ritual. This ritual may be a ceremony, such as a church liturgy, where the reincarnation of substances takes place. Through ritual, divine grace descends on the individual. We find similar transformations of the deity in the pagan mysteries; there the initiate, also through the experience of participation, acquired the gift of grace, as we know from the Eleusinian mysteries. The case under consideration is the confession of an initiate into the Eleusinian mysteries, who thanks for the grace of communion with the immortal gift.

In Homer's hymn to Demeter we read: "Blessed is he among men who has seen these mysteries; but he who has been initiated and participated in them will never lose what he has acquired in death, in darkness and darkness" (verses 480-482). And in the Eleusinian epitaph there are the words: "Indeed, the blessed gods revealed the most beautiful secret: death is not a curse, but a blessing of man."

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REBIRTH

Rebirth is not a process that we can somehow observe. We cannot measure it, weigh it or photograph it. We have to deal here with a purely psychic reality, which is transmitted to us through the statements of people. Someone talks about reincarnation, someone believes in it, someone feels it. We accept it as something real. We do not ask the question: is reincarnation a tangible process? We must be content with its psychic reality. I hasten to add that I do not share the vulgar opinion that everything psychic does not exist at all or is a more elusive matter than gas. On the contrary, I believe that the soul is the most impressive reality of human life. Indeed, she is the mother of human reality, civilization and the wars that destroy it. All this at first glance is psychic and invisible. So far as it is psychic, it cannot be perceived by the senses, and yet it is undoubtedly real. The very fact that people talk about rebirth and that there is such a concept means that a number of mental sensations expressed by this term must really exist. What these sensations are like we can only infer from the statements that are made to this effect. Thus, if we want to find out what rebirth is, we must turn to history to understand what is meant by this word.

Humanity has recognized rebirth since ancient times. The primitive belief in rebirth is based on what I call archetypes. In view of the fact that all supersensible claims are in the end undoubtedly determined by archetypes, it is not surprising that the belief in rebirth is common among different peoples. This belief must be based on psychic events, the consideration of which is the task of psychology - without taking into account all metaphysical and philosophical assumptions about their meaning. In order to generalize the views on these phenomena, it is necessary to roughly delineate the area of ​​research. Two groups of experience can be distinguished: the feeling of the transcendent in life and personal experience transformations.

FEELING THE TRANSCENDENT IN LIFE

experience in rituals.

Under "transcendent in life" I understand the previously mentioned experience of the initiate who takes part in a sacred ritual that reveals to him the eternal continuity of life through transformation and renewal. In these mystery dramas, the transcendence of life, in contrast to its momentary concrete manifestations, is usually presented through the inevitable transformations of the birth and death of a god or godlike hero. The initiate could either be a simple witness to the divine drama, or take part in it, or he could feel himself identical with God through ritual action. In this case, reality consisted in an objective substance or form of life, ritually transformed through some independent process, while the initiate was influenced, impressed and received "divine grace" through his presence or participation. The process of transformation was not within him, but outside of him, although he could be involved in it. The initiate, who participated in the ritual captivity, dismemberment and dispersion of the body of Osiris, and then in his rebirth in the form of wheat shoots, felt eternity and the continuation of life, which is richer than all the variability of forms and, like a phoenix, is constantly reborn from the ashes. This participation in the ritual event gave, among other things, the hope of immortality, which is characteristic of the Eleusinian mysteries.

A living example of a mystery drama that symbolizes eternity is the liturgy. If we observe the parishioners during a church ritual, we note all degrees of participation, from complete indifference to the strongest emotions. The people standing at the entrance, who are clearly involved in secular conversations, are baptized purely mechanically - but even they, despite their inattention, participate in the sacred action, simply being present in this place, on which grace descends. The liturgy is an extraterrestrial and timeless act in which Christ is sacrificed, then resurrected in a modified substance, and the ritual of his sacred death is not a repetition of a historical event, but an original, unique and eternal fact. Therefore, participation in the liturgy is an experience of the transcendence of life, which is beyond time and space. This is a moment of eternity in time.

Direct experience.

Everything that the mystery dramas present and convey to the viewer can also occur in the form of spontaneous, ecstatic and mental visions outside of any ritual. noon vision Nietzsche - classic example of such kind . Nietzsche, as we know, replaces the Christian mystery with the myth of Dionysus-Zagrea who was torn to pieces and resurrected. His vision has the character of the myth of Dionysus: the deity appears in the dress of Nature, as it was represented in antiquity, and the moment of eternity is the hour of noon dedicated to Pan: "Did time float away? Did I fall? Did I fall into the well of eternity?" Even the "golden ring", the "ring of returns", appeared before him as a promise of rebirth and life. It was as if Nietzsche were present at a mystery performance.

The mystical experience is of the same character: it represents an action in which the spectator is involved, although his nature is not necessarily changed. In the same way, the most beautiful and impressive dreams do not produce a lasting or reformative effect on the dreamer. They may impress him, but they don't necessarily see them as a problem. The event actually remains "out there" as a ritual act presented by others. This, the most aesthetic form of life, must be distinguished from those that undoubtedly entail a change in human nature.

SUBJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION

Personality transformation is by no means uncommon. Indeed, they play a significant role in psychopathology, although they differ from the mystical experiences already listed, which are not so easily accessible for psychological research. The phenomena that we will now consider belong to a field close to psychology.

Narrowing of personality.

An example of such a personality change is what is known in primitive psychology as "soul loss" special condition, understood by this definition, is associated in primitive people with the assumption that the soul has gone, like a dog that runs away from its owner at night for a walk. And therefore the task of the healer is to return the fugitive back. Often this loss is sudden and manifests itself in the form of a serious illness. Such an understanding is closely related to the nature of primitive consciousness, which is not characterized by the solid constancy of reason that is inherent in us. We can control desires that cannot primitive man. He needs a long training to engage in any conscious activity for a subordinate purpose that is not purely emotional or instinctive. Our consciousness is more independent and preserved in this respect, but suddenly something similar can happen to a civilized person, only he calls it not "loss of soul, but lowering of the mental level" (Janet's term, suitable for this phenomenon). This is a decrease in the tension of consciousness, which can be compared with a decrease in atmospheric pressure, foreshadowing bad weather. The tone drops, and subjectively it is felt as apathy, gloominess and depression. A person no longer finds the courage to solve everyday problems. It feels like lead, because the body does not want to move due to the fact that it does not have free energy. This is good well-known phenomenon corresponds to the "loss of the soul" in primitive people. Apathy and paralysis of the will are so strong that the whole personality, so to speak, disappears and consciousness loses its unity: individual parts of the personality become independent and go out of control of the mind, as in drug addiction or in the case of systematic amnesia. The latter is well known as the hysterical "loss of function" phenomenon. This medical term analogous to the "loss of soul" among primitive peoples.

The lowering of the mental level can be the result of physical and mental fatigue, bodily illness, passionate emotions or shock, the latter destroying self-confidence. This decline always has a limiting effect on cash. It weakens self-confidence and initiative and, as a result of increasing egocentrism, narrows intellectual horizons. Eventually, it may lead to the development negative qualities, which implies a distortion of the original personality.

Personality expansion.

Personality is seldom at first what it becomes later. Therefore, there is a possibility of its expansion, at least in the first half of life. This expansion can be caused from the outside, by the new life content that the person absorbs into himself. In this case, a significant growth of personality can be observed. Therefore, there is a tendency to consider this growth the result of only external influences, which confirms the prejudice: a person becomes a person only by absorbing as much external experience as possible. But the more stubbornly we follow this recipe, and the more stubbornly we believe that the stimulus for growth comes from outside, the poorer our inner life becomes. Therefore, if some great idea came to us from outside, we must understand that it captured us only because something inside of us responds to it and goes towards it. The richness of the mind lies in mental receptivity, not in the accumulation of intellectual baggage. What comes from outside and what rises from within can become our own only if there is an inner fullness adequate to the incoming content. The real growth of the personality presupposes the awareness of expansion, the source of which is within. Without psychic depth, we could never adequately assess the magnitude of an object. Therefore, it can be said with certainty that a person grows as his task increases. But he must have within himself the capacity for growth; otherwise, even the most difficult task will not benefit him. Most likely, she will destroy it.

A classic example of expansion is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, who made a tragic poet and prophet out of a critic and aphorist. Another example is the apostle Paul, who unexpectedly met Christ on his way to Damascus. While it is possible that the Christ of the apostle Paul could not have arisen without the historical Christ, Paul's vision of Christ was not about the historical Christ but from the depths of his unconscious.

When the pinnacle of life is reached, when the bud blossoms and the great emerges from the small, then, as Nietzsche says, "one becomes two," and the greater figure, which has always existed but remained invisible, reveals itself forcefully into a lesser personality. The one who is really hopelessly small always provokes the revelation of something greater, great to the same extent as he himself is small, not realizing that the day of judgment has come over his insignificance. But the man who is inwardly great will know when at last the long-awaited immortal friend of his soul comes, "to take captive captivity" (Eph. 4:8), that is, to catch the one whose prisoner this immortal is, and make his life flow into a greater life. , - the moment of the most terrible loss! A rope dancer's prophetic vision reveals the terrible danger lurking in similar attitude to an event to which the apostle Paul gave the most exalted name he could.

Christ Himself is the perfect symbol of the hidden immortality within mortal man. Initially, this problem is symbolized by the dualism of twins, such as the Dioscuri, one of whom is mortal, the other is immortal. The Indian analogy to this we find in the image of two friends:

Two birds are sitting on the same tree

Two friends forever linked together:

One enjoys the ripe fruit,

The other looks but does not eat.

My spirit hid on the same tree,

Deceived by his helplessness

Glad to see how great the Lord is,

He finds sweet release from his sorrows.

Another significant parallel is the Islamic legend of the meeting between Moses and Khidr (Sura 18 of the Qur'an), to which I will return later. Naturally, the transformation of personality in the broad sense does not occur only in the form of such lofty sensations. There is no shortage of more trivial examples, the list of which can easily be supplemented by case histories of neurotics. Indeed, any case where the recognition of a greater personality seems to break through the iron ring around the heart can be included in this category.

Changing the internal structure

Here we move on to personality changes that involve neither increase nor decrease, but only structure. One of the most important forms- this is the phenomenon of obsession: some content, idea or part of the personality gains power over the individual for one reason or another. Intrusive content manifests itself as specific beliefs, idiosyncrasies, absurd agendas, and so on. As a rule, they are not available for correction. If someone wants to try to do this, he must be very good friend such a person, forgive him a lot. I am not ready to clearly distinguish between obsession and paranoia. Obsession can be defined as the identification of a person with his complex.

A common example of this is identification with the persona, which is the individual's system of adaptability to the world. For example, any vocation or profession has a corresponding persona. Today it is easy to study such things when photographs of public figures so often appear in print. Society ascribes a certain type of behavior to them, and professionals must live up to expectations. The only danger is that they identify with their personas, the professor with his textbook, and the tenor with his voice. Then there is a loss: one lives only in the background of one's own biography, as if someone were always writing down: "He went this way and that way and said this and that." Dejanira's veil fuses with his skin, and it takes a desperate determination, like the efforts of Hercules, if he wants to rip this shirt of Nessus from his body and step into the fire of immortality in order to become who he really is. With a slight exaggeration, we can say that a person is what a person is not in reality, but what he considers himself and what others consider him to be ". In any case, the desire to be what a person seems to be is great, since a person usually pay in cash.

There are other factors that form the obsession of an individual, and one of the most important is the so-called "lower" function. There is no space here for a detailed discussion of this issue, I will only point out that the lower function is identical dark side person's personality. The twilight inherent in every personality is the door to the unconscious and the road to dreams, from where two vague figures, the Shadow and the Anima, enter into our night visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of the daytime consciousness. The person who is owned by the Shadow always stands his ground own way and falls into their own networks. Wherever possible, he makes an unfavorable impression on others. Luck always passes him by because he lives below own level and at best achieves only what does not suit him. And if there is no ladder for him to climb, he invents it for himself and believes that he has done something useful.

Anima or animus possession presents a different picture. First of all, such a transformation of the personality enhances those features that are characteristic of the opposite sex: in a man, this feminine traits, and in a woman - masculine. AT obsessive state both figures lose their charm and their value; they retain them only when they are turned not to the world, but inward, when they are bridges to the unconscious. The world-facing anima is fickle, capricious, gloomy, out of control and purely emotional, sometimes endowed with demonic intuition, merciless, cunning, unfaithful, vicious, two-faced and secretive. The animus is stubborn, holds on to principles and formal law, is dogmatic, seeks to transform the world, theorize, argue, and dominate. Both have bad taste: Anima surrounds itself low people, and the Animus is driven by second-rate ideas.

Another form of restructuring concerns some unusual observations, which I will only briefly mention. I will refer to states of obsession in which it is caused by what is appropriately called "ancestor soul," by which I mean the soul of a particular predecessor. In practice, such cases can be seen as striking examples of identification with dead people. Naturally, the phenomenon of identification occurs only after the death of the "ancestor". My attention was first drawn to this possibility by a confusing but interesting book Leon Daudet "L" Heredo "("Heredity"). Daudet suggests that in the structure of the personality there are elements of predecessors that, under certain conditions, can manifest themselves. The individual thus suddenly enters the role of an ancestor. Today we know that ancestors occupy a very important place in the psychology of primitive peoples. Not only are ancestral spirits believed to be reincarnated into children, but attempts are made to "transplant" them into children by naming the child by an appropriate name. Also, primitive people try to transform into ancestors through certain rituals. I will mention especially the Australian concept of alcherigaminjin - souls of ancestors, half human and half animal, the personification of which in religious rituals was of great importance in the life of the tribe. Ideas of this kind, dating back to the Stone Age, were widespread, as can be seen from the many traces that can be found everywhere. Nothing prevents these ancient forms of experience appear today as cases of identification with the souls of ancestors, and I think I will come across such examples.

Identification with the group.

We will now discuss some of the experiences of transformation that I call group identification. More precisely, it is the identification of the individual with people who, as a group, have a collective experience of change. This special psychological situation can be confused with participation in a transformational ritual that does not depend in any way on identification with a group. Group and personal transformation are two fundamentally different things. If a significant group of people is united and distinguished from another by a special attitude of mind, its transformation has only a remote resemblance to the experience of individual transformation. Group experience is located at a lower level of consciousness than individual experience. This is because when many people come together under the flag of common emotion, the common soul that arises in the group is below the level of the individual soul. If it is a very large group, the collective soul is more like the soul of an animal, and this is the reason why the morality of large organizations is always questionable. The psychology of the crowd inevitably descends to the level of the psychology of the mob. Therefore, if I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it is at a lower level of consciousness than my personal experience. This is why group experiences are much more common than individual experiences of transformation. It is easier to achieve because the gathering and association of many people has great power suggestion. An individual in a crowd easily becomes a victim of his suggestibility. It is enough for something to happen, the assumption is instantly taken up by the whole crowd, and we also support it, even if it is immoral. In the crowd, no one feels responsibility, but also fear.

Thus, identification with a group is simple and easy way but the group experience goes deeper than the level of the mind of the individual in this state. There are changes in you, but they are short-lived. On the contrary, you must resort to mass intoxication for a long time to strengthen your faith in it. But as soon as you move away from the crowd, you become a completely different person, unable to reproduce the previous state of mind. Mass absorbed hidden involvement, which is nothing but an unconscious identification. Suppose you go to the theatre: eye meets eye; everyone is looking at each other, and thus everyone present is entangled in an invisible web of unconscious relationships. In such a situation, a person literally feels like a wave of identification with others touches him. It can be a pleasant feeling - one sheep among ten thousand! And if I feel the crowd as a great and beautiful unit, I am the hero myself, rising with the group. When I become myself again, I discover that I am a citizen of such and such, that I live on such and such a street, on the third floor. I also find that everything was very pleasant, and I hope that tomorrow will be the same, so that I can feel like an entire nation, which is much better than being just a miserable X-citizen. Since it is the lightest and convenient way to raise the individual to a higher level, humanity has always formed groups that make possible a collective transformation - even an ecstatic one. Regressive identification with lower and more primitive states of consciousness is inevitably accompanied by an increased sense of vitality; hence the rapid effect of regressive identification with semi-animal Stone Age ancestors.

With you Oksana Manoilo, hello to you long summers. Now let's talk about the rebirth of the soul after death. We will all die. This simple truth nevertheless excites the minds and hearts of people with ancient times up to this day. Why is the theme of death and what is beyond this last limit. If we accept as a fact that there is no rebirth of the soul after death, and, as atheists say, after death “there is nothing at all”, then there is nothing to argue about.

Is there a rebirth of the soul?

What if there is anyway? If this very limit is not the last one? If our current life is not something exceptional, if it, this one, is only a link in the chain of rebirths of the soul, if after death we do not die, then how?

Each person goes through the realization of this himself. There are no rules, no laws no correct and wrong decisions. If you want this life to be only what you see, this is your choice. Then you can live as you like: drink, lie, steal and fill your life with whatever abomination you want.

But if you want something more, if you accept that this life is just a step in an endless chain of rebirths, then be prepared for the fact that this life is one big test. And the examiners don't care how much money you have, what kind of car you have, or whether you have a villa in Nice. All wealth will remain after death here, where we will go after death, hardly anyone needs them.

But the soul will fly to where it will be examined in the most attentive way - what have you, man, done in this life, what have you achieved? How much love have you given to your children? You don't have children? Why did you live then? How much love have you brought to this earth? Didn't bring... But then he lived why?

Why do we come into this world?

We all come into this world for a reason. Someone then, to eat better and sleep softer. Someone then, to make this world a little better, kinder, cleaner. Someone, someone - to each his own. And they will receive - each his own. Someone will move on to the next stage of development, someone will return back, will go through the same road over and over again until they fulfill their destiny, until they pass the exam “for humanity”.

happen , but how to find your purpose now, what does it consist of?

Often we cannot find the answers to these questions ourselves. life questions. And then we start looking on the Internet, .

Or we use the wisdom of a mentor, undergoing training.

And sometimes, when we walk too long along the road that takes us away from our destiny, trouble comes to us: illness, loss of people close and dear to us. And we worry, cry and ask, “Why?”. A better question would be "why?". Why are we given this illness or loss. I, as an experienced healer, always first of all, when diagnosing, I will determine where, at what moment and what you did wrong, thereby giving a chance to correct the mistake.

The healer heals not only the body or part of the body. I have a comprehensive approach to issues, to clients and their problems. This is the doctor to whom we come with a sick stomach, he treats the stomach and only it. The doctor does not treat the person as a whole, he treats only the stomach. And the person seems to have nothing to do with it))), he can suffer further. Maybe that's why the word "doctor" comes from the word "lie", that is, "doctor" in the understanding of our ancestors is a person who lies. Another thing - . This is a person who “heals”, that is, makes a person “whole”, gathering his body, soul, destiny into a holistic harmonious world.

As science fiction writers say, every beat of a butterfly's wings can set off a storm on the other side of the world. And what can I say if this world is in the soul of one person. Then each of our actions causes not just a storm, but huge changes that leave an imprint on a person’s whole life.

Surely, each of you had to see people with an "unkind face", or there was a feeling when looking on a person that "something is wrong with him in life." But in our life, we just shrug our shoulders and pass by, while the healer, peering into the face of such a person, even from a photograph can determine where the person turned off his path, and, most importantly, how to get back there, on his own. path. On the .

Look for yourself here and now, in this being. Look for answers to questions instantly. Do not accumulate a load of unresolved tasks, this weighs down the shower, it is difficult for her to take off later.

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