{"id":10474,"date":"2009-02-01T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:17:05","slug":"the-eternal-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-eternal-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The eternal soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Eric,<\/p>\n

Do you believe we are eternal soul energy, and that when our physical bodies stop moving through this earth life, we are still intact?<\/p>\n

My grandmother passed away a few weeks ago, very peacefully, at 90. She wrote letters to each of her seven children a few months before she died, and wrote one more communal note to them the morning she left to go into the hospital.<\/p>\n

She walked to the hospital, her heart was beating irregularly, went to sleep, and died a few days later. (I can only hope I take after her!) Anyway, my 70-year old mother is having a crisis. She is convinced that my grandmother is “gone” and this has really shaken her.<\/p>\n

I believe we exist “before\/now\/after” all at once and that my “grandmother” still is. I received copies of the letters she wrote in today’s mail. Reading them, I have been filled with a sense of peace, deep appreciation for kindnesses I’ve experienced, love; I wish my mom didn’t feel so afraid. So…my question is: after staring off into the stars for so long, do you feel more or less inclined to profess that we exist within and without the physical limitations of our bodies living on top of this planet?<\/p>\n

Enjoy your day!<\/p>\n

Victoria<\/p>\n

Dear Victoria,<\/p>\n

In sum the answer is yes — though I am uncertain how it manifests. I think that part of why we see things about other levels of existence so differently owes to the ego distortions we live with here; everyone with their own model and mythology. We are looking out the cracks in the barn from different points of view. A few of us go out for a walk every now and then, and what we come back with seems incredible.<\/p>\n

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I work closely with certain key past lives. I’m doing this not so much out of curiosity but of necessity, as part of a healing process. Those lives are real, I feel them, and I need to be aware how they impact me now. However, through my work with Book of Blue, I have encountered a teacher of Tibetan tantra, who has proposed something which at first was very strange. She suggested that my job is to be the most effective, clear Eric Francis I can be so that when I leave this particular form, the next person to inhabit it and be Eric Francis will show up and find the lights on, the laundry done and the kitchen in good order.<\/p>\n

In other words, there is a model of reincarnation where our current form is not unique but rather something that gets reused. At first this seemed like a stretch, but once I got past the various paradoxes, I could see the wisdom in a whole other way of conceiving of the “linear” notion of reincarnation. Apparently there is reincarnation but most of the existing models for how we think of it have enormous flaws. Still, we feel the effect and any astrologer will tell you they watch it go by every day.<\/p>\n

This is in accord with various theories of physics. I’ll give you an example. In quantum law, everything is a probability. When you drop a pen, it’s not assured that it’s going to hit the desk or the floor — it’s just very likely to behave normally and land nearby. There is also a chance that the pen could fly through the roof. I.e., the Newtonian laws of gravity only describe part of the result of dropping a pen. Dependably enough for most purposes, but not when you apply high-resolution physics to the situation.<\/p>\n

The bigger the universe, the more likely that some rare effect will happen somewhere. I have read that based on the known size of the universe and the probability factors involved, there is (absolutely, unquestionably) another you on another planet, living a life you’re not aware of. There may be many of “us” in different parts of the universe, because the universe is so big that every possibility in a sense has to be real. Once someone told me that there was the spitting image of me living in Amsterdam, writing poetry in coffee houses all day long. Imagine if that were actually a different “me.”<\/p>\n

I won’t call the ego\/body\/mind trip we’re living an illusion; but it’s a very flexible hologram that tends to be bound up by the laws that we accept as clad in iron. In my version of that hologram there is a lot of room for my Aunt Josie to keep an eye on me and for Patric Walker to hand me bits of astrological information on a regular basis, particularly when I’m writing a horoscope column that many people seek guidance from. And there is lots of room for your grandmother’s energy to embrace you.<\/p>\n

Your mom’s fear does not change reality, it only denies it temporarily for her. If you’re conversing with her, I suggest you let the fear speak first.<\/p>\n

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