Some closing thoughts about reincarnation

I hope that readers of my blog found what I posted yesterday explaining why reincarnation beliefs persist, and the difference between "modern New Age" believers and traditional mainstream believers useful.

I hope that you can tell from the tone of what I posted that I have never had an issue with the pious of traditional faiths that have a component of their faith and morality based on belief in reincarnation. My attitude has always been to have good will to people of good will. It is the manipulating of others based on your own fallacious beliefs that I oppose and condemn.

And it was to me the fight was brought. Oppression, stalking, violence and hate in the name of so called "reincarnation" and "past lives" was brought to MY door, has harmed ME and MY HOUSE. I never sought a quarrel and in fact was open to cultural and social bridges that we could share. But I discovered that supposed "past lives" beliefs were the rallying cry to bring depravity, pain, combat and suffering in a one way battle directed toward me and mine.

Here is an example. It became clear in hindsight that things I thought were odd coincidences or silly jokes were signals of this disgraceful covert war against me. In the mid to late 1980's when I worked for a Wall Street bank, we all got a giggle that my phone extension after a move was assigned to be 4666. As I've explained before, I was alert to unconscious hostile gestures made in my direction (remember, I'd already had nearly twenty years of being physically stalked under my belt by then), so I thought it was another of those "meaningful coincidences" where not nice people inadvertently detected some of my still not public mission and thus a sign occurs. At the time I had not realized that I was being consciously stalked and harassed by not nice people regarding spiritual "belief." It was later that I realized that the 4666 was assignment of their "belief" in my "past life identities" to me via their daft numerology.

So, here is how it stands. I never had a quarrel with those with traditional pious beliefs. If you wonder how I feel, comments by Pope Benedict XVI are a handy guideline (though asking me would be even better, to find out my beliefs). But bad people assigned disgraceful "past lives" to me, and brought war and oppression to me, not I to them. Far from it; I have done nothing but reach out a desire for friendship and enlightenment, though within the context always of my God given mission to attest the truth of the already well documented Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But I also validate everyone's piety and search for the one true God.

And so, while I have not raised a hand against another human, and certainly not in oppression of beliefs, you must realize that when you raise a hand against me and mine, you have raised your hand against God. Over the years God has taken a toll, and has judged fairly and harshly at their deaths, on those who have persecuted me. My response in this "spiritual combat" has been to withdraw my prayers and intercessions on behalf of those who are using "reincarnation" beliefs. You are attacking me without a net, and thus you do your "combat" and "fair game" type of activities on a tightrope over a burning pit without a safety net. My prayers have been safety nets for many people, more than you will ever realize. As I confess in front of God how I've been hurt, he has not held back his arm in response. Beware. God knows all that is said, planned and done. He always has and he always will. And despite what you believe, there is only one door out of life and that door leads to judgment by him. God has never forgotten the sufferings of his faithful servants, which I always was and will forever remain.