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Why We Don't Remember Past Lives
Mar. 8th, 2020 11:03 amQuite simple really: What good would it do each of us do remember all the crappy, stupid, and even downright horrifying things we have done in past lives? No good at all, quite the opposite! If one thinks that mental illness based on this-life memories and experiences is bad, just imagine that with all the horrible memories of past lives. Eek.
Contemplating the wisdom of the Masters on this issue deeply enough has simply reinforced the idea (not my own, of course) in my mind that the universe is supremely good and just. Memory-wipes-upon-rebirth are for our own benefit and with great spiritual maturity, effort and attainment, those memories will come back to use when we are mature and ready to properly process that sort of data. We can think of the memory-wipe as the great reboot which washes away all of the irrelevant and unhelpful mental and emotional debris that accumulates during each lifetime. Think of an elderly person that has been stuck with the same rigid belief and habits for the past 40 years or so; that 40 years might seem pretty awful, but imagine that state persisting for the next 5,000 years. Yeah, that would clearly be a hellish condition. By this, we can imagine death as being the great liberator. The great legion of Grim Reapers out there is the universe's sanitation crew. We know quite well that Father Time and his employees don't get much respect, but their dirty job is still a job that needs to be done.
Contemplating the wisdom of the Masters on this issue deeply enough has simply reinforced the idea (not my own, of course) in my mind that the universe is supremely good and just. Memory-wipes-upon-rebirth are for our own benefit and with great spiritual maturity, effort and attainment, those memories will come back to use when we are mature and ready to properly process that sort of data. We can think of the memory-wipe as the great reboot which washes away all of the irrelevant and unhelpful mental and emotional debris that accumulates during each lifetime. Think of an elderly person that has been stuck with the same rigid belief and habits for the past 40 years or so; that 40 years might seem pretty awful, but imagine that state persisting for the next 5,000 years. Yeah, that would clearly be a hellish condition. By this, we can imagine death as being the great liberator. The great legion of Grim Reapers out there is the universe's sanitation crew. We know quite well that Father Time and his employees don't get much respect, but their dirty job is still a job that needs to be done.
