Rebirth of the Soul

Death is the most feared action in life in which we have no control. Although birth is celebrated, death in the western civilization is something which is usually mourned. What's the difference between birth and death? And, which one is the most important of the two? Actually both of these acts are very closely connected: to the soul.

Francis M. Cornford quotes Pindar in saying "the soul sleeps while the limbs are active, but when one is sleeping, the soul is active and reveals in many a dream." That would mean that the sub-conscious and the soul are connected. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all believed that the soul is "the essence of being."

Aristotle insisted that the soul had four distinct parts: the calculative part, the scientific part, the desiderative part, and the vegetative part. The first two parts are of the rational part of the soul, and the latter two are from the irrational parts of the soul.

Sometimes the term soul and spirit can be interchangeable. Many religions state their faith on the soul and the afterlife as did the ancient Egyptians. Both the Egyptians and modern day religion have similar beliefs in the immortality of the soul.

With a belief in the soul reincarnation (or rebirth) seems to be quite rational. In order to be God-like anyone (even Jesus Christ himself) would have to live many lifetimes in order to be "God like."

The soul is a never-ending source of energy which only displaces. After each incarnation the soul moves on to the next step of its spiritual evolution: the next dimension. The soul moves on unless we skipped what we were supposed to experience on this dimension, then we'll probably come back and start all over again.

This is the reason why we're only able to access up to five percent of our minds in this life. In my opinion the rest of our mind (or soul) is where all past life memories are stored. If we carried all of our memories over from one life to the next our minds would be simply overloaded.

What we remember from one existence to the next is stored in what scientist call "junk DNA." This is a part of the brain which scientists can't explain. This junk DNA stores past life memory (for the soul) to ensure that we'll only be concerned with this existence; not the next life, or the last.

If we knew exactly what we were going to do next (or what we did before) which partially explains Déjà vu, we'd rush through this existence and not experience what we were meant to experience. Each incarnation is for the development of the soul and for God to experience through us.

It only seems that rebirth is the way for the soul to gain ascension (and wisdom) with each lifetime to eventually go back and join from whence it came: from God. What a horrible waste of a lifetime of struggle to go somewhere were there is no more learning to be had, and no more lessons to be learned.

Someone once stated that death was the best trip of all; that's why it was saved for the last.