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Eternal Lives, Eternal Deaths
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Epilogue
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Epilogue
Creation Myth for a New Paradigm Era
At the beginning of this book, we took a brief look at the myth, i.e. the explanation the materialist paradigm gives us about the origin and the nature of the universe. It portrayed life as random, without inherent meaning, humans as nothing more than skin-encapsulated biological robots whose existence ends with death. We saw that this paradigm, as powerful as it is when it comes to the technological advancement of our civilisation, is weak and powerless when it comes to helping people understand the struggles, challenges, and possibilities inherent in being alive.
Coming full circle, let us end this book by asking: Taking everything into consideration that we learned and experienced through reincarnation work, adopting the new, consciousness-based paradigm to study all aspects of our existence, what would our cultural creation myth be?
It could sound something like this:
At the beginning of the universe is a singular entity of consciousness. It exists in a field of emptiness. The field is empty yet the opposite of nothing: permeated by consciousness, it contains all the possibilities of creation for the past, the present, and the future. The inherent power of consciousness to create is endless – but once it created something, it is bound by its own creation. Once there is light, there is also dark. Once there is day, there is also night. Once there is good, there is also bad. The separation of consciousness into creator and the created brings forth the binary system of zero and one – yin and yang – through which the world can be set into motion, developed, and described.
The world is the great cosmic dream of consciousness experiencing itself in every sentient being. The primary, creative consciousness is the same consciousness that lives today in me, and in you, and in everybody else. Through every life it is evolving to reach greater levels of happiness and bliss. This evolution occurs in spiralling cycles: every life is followed by death, as every event, every civilisation, and every universe is followed by its own decline.
Yet, death is not the end of consciousness. Death liberates consciousness from the physical form, like warmth melting ice, turning it into water and eventually, into vapour. When consciousness is in the realm of life, it is bound by all the physical laws that it previously created and constitutes what we commonly know as reality. However, when consciousness is in the realm of dreams and death, these laws soften, like water and vapour. Here, the malleable character of consciousness becomes apparent, how it is creating reality and how the inner reality of the mind determines the outer reality of creation: ‘As within, so without.’
In life, new experiences are gained; in death, those experiences are evaluated. Life is a story, consisting of the endless adventures of the hero with the ten thousand faces. The journey leads through various realms: lower realms, such as torturous hells, and higher realms, such as godly heavens, or somewhere between heaven and hell, as human beings. These realms may manifest as external realities in a particular life, but also correspond to states of mind. The journey through the realms and emotions of hell, hunger, earthly life, animals, humans, gods, and demi-gods leads through various tests and trials that ignite the alchemical fire through which the pain and suffering previously experienced shall be turned into wisdom and compassion.
In all of the realms, all life is an emanation of the One, all life together is forming the great web. Yet, during the cycles of life and death, they are experiencing themselves as separate entities. In the most densely materialised form, this separation feels absolutely convincing which may cause loneliness and despair. At this point, sentient beings upon death also forget about their previous lives and are reborn ignorant of a higher, multidimensional existence. Their lives are governed by the laws of karma: the reverberation of their actions across time and space, causing either pain or pleasure.
Gradually, over countless incarnations, each being becomes aware of the consequences of their actions, how everything they do, or even think, shapes the world either positively or negatively. The illusory nature of reality becomes more evident. Yet, the beings who are awakening do not take the dream less seriously, on the contrary: they develop within themselves the deep, compassionate desire to free themselves as well as all others from the suffering they have encountered. These Bodhisattvas are the ones among the living, who are turning the great cosmic wheel back to its beginning: where consciousness is yet again pure, freed from all material restraints, ready to begin another great cosmic cycle, only this time on a higher level, leading to more joy, more happiness, more bliss.
This is a world, where the decision to create hell or heaven is made every moment. As living consciousness, each and every one of our thoughts, sentiments, and actions are transformational. As human beings, every moment of our lives is shaping the quality of embodied consciousness, hence the ultimate fate of the entire universe. Life is infinitely valuable, the choice is ours to create new worlds, higher realms of existence.
Through life and death, consciousness is spiralling, evolving, reaching new levels of bliss.
The choice is yours. Moment by moment. Always.
Coming full circle, let us end this book by asking: Taking everything into consideration that we learned and experienced through reincarnation work, adopting the new, consciousness-based paradigm to study all aspects of our existence, what would our cultural creation myth be?
It could sound something like this:
At the beginning of the universe is a singular entity of consciousness. It exists in a field of emptiness. The field is empty yet the opposite of nothing: permeated by consciousness, it contains all the possibilities of creation for the past, the present, and the future. The inherent power of consciousness to create is endless – but once it created something, it is bound by its own creation. Once there is light, there is also dark. Once there is day, there is also night. Once there is good, there is also bad. The separation of consciousness into creator and the created brings forth the binary system of zero and one – yin and yang – through which the world can be set into motion, developed, and described.
The world is the great cosmic dream of consciousness experiencing itself in every sentient being. The primary, creative consciousness is the same consciousness that lives today in me, and in you, and in everybody else. Through every life it is evolving to reach greater levels of happiness and bliss. This evolution occurs in spiralling cycles: every life is followed by death, as every event, every civilisation, and every universe is followed by its own decline.
Yet, death is not the end of consciousness. Death liberates consciousness from the physical form, like warmth melting ice, turning it into water and eventually, into vapour. When consciousness is in the realm of life, it is bound by all the physical laws that it previously created and constitutes what we commonly know as reality. However, when consciousness is in the realm of dreams and death, these laws soften, like water and vapour. Here, the malleable character of consciousness becomes apparent, how it is creating reality and how the inner reality of the mind determines the outer reality of creation: ‘As within, so without.’
In life, new experiences are gained; in death, those experiences are evaluated. Life is a story, consisting of the endless adventures of the hero with the ten thousand faces. The journey leads through various realms: lower realms, such as torturous hells, and higher realms, such as godly heavens, or somewhere between heaven and hell, as human beings. These realms may manifest as external realities in a particular life, but also correspond to states of mind. The journey through the realms and emotions of hell, hunger, earthly life, animals, humans, gods, and demi-gods leads through various tests and trials that ignite the alchemical fire through which the pain and suffering previously experienced shall be turned into wisdom and compassion.
In all of the realms, all life is an emanation of the One, all life together is forming the great web. Yet, during the cycles of life and death, they are experiencing themselves as separate entities. In the most densely materialised form, this separation feels absolutely convincing which may cause loneliness and despair. At this point, sentient beings upon death also forget about their previous lives and are reborn ignorant of a higher, multidimensional existence. Their lives are governed by the laws of karma: the reverberation of their actions across time and space, causing either pain or pleasure.
Gradually, over countless incarnations, each being becomes aware of the consequences of their actions, how everything they do, or even think, shapes the world either positively or negatively. The illusory nature of reality becomes more evident. Yet, the beings who are awakening do not take the dream less seriously, on the contrary: they develop within themselves the deep, compassionate desire to free themselves as well as all others from the suffering they have encountered. These Bodhisattvas are the ones among the living, who are turning the great cosmic wheel back to its beginning: where consciousness is yet again pure, freed from all material restraints, ready to begin another great cosmic cycle, only this time on a higher level, leading to more joy, more happiness, more bliss.
This is a world, where the decision to create hell or heaven is made every moment. As living consciousness, each and every one of our thoughts, sentiments, and actions are transformational. As human beings, every moment of our lives is shaping the quality of embodied consciousness, hence the ultimate fate of the entire universe. Life is infinitely valuable, the choice is ours to create new worlds, higher realms of existence.
Through life and death, consciousness is spiralling, evolving, reaching new levels of bliss.
The choice is yours. Moment by moment. Always.