Here’s a little surrealism for you - in the form of a website that simply MUST be a scam. Right?

Welcome to THE REINCARNATION BANK:

If you leave nothing purposely behind when you die, then what is there here for you when you return?
Begin by believing and just do it. The great end of life is not just knowledge but action so act now and save for your reincarnation.

(Notice how there is only a “Deposit” link on the website?!)

Here is yet more evidence that we are dreaming our reality. Science and mysticsm are beginning to connect so intrinsically that it’s often impossible to tell the difference…

(Image from: http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/geocentrism/incan_cosmos.jpg)

The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself

Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.

by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman (Discovermagazine.com

Adapted from Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman, published by BenBella Books in May 2009.

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

This insight snapped into focus one day while one of us (Lanza) was walking through the woods. Looking up, he saw a huge golden orb web spider tethered to the overhead boughs. There the creature sat on a single thread, reaching out across its web to detect the vibrations of a trapped insect struggling to escape. The spider surveyed its universe, but everything beyond that gossamer pinwheel was incomprehensible. The human observer seemed as far-off to the spider as telescopic objects seem to us. Yet there was something kindred: We humans, too, lie at the heart of a great web of space and time whose threads are connected according to laws that dwell in our minds.

Read the complete article, here.

I think this is the most compelling piece of reincarnation evidence I’ve seen so far. What is your take on it?

It is being called the most documented case of reincarnation ever:

A little boy is able to recall over 50 memories from someone else’s life.
A World War II Pilot’s family believes it is their reincarnated brother based on the child’s memories.
The boy’s story is so compelling, it has been published in a new book called “Soul Survivor.”
Fox 8’s Suzanne Stratford spoke exclusively to the child and his family.

“The lines between science and spirituality have become inevitably blurred.” (Gerald Penilla)

The following is a segment of very in-depth piece on Buddhism and physics from www.examiner.com. I think the more we learn about both spirituality and science, the more we will find links between the two. You can find the video referenced in the article, below.

“In his video “Where Science and Buddhism Meet,” Gerald Penilla argues that there are such strong parallels between how physics and Eastern spirituality, including Buddhism, understand reality that the boundaries between them are not as clear as many may suppose. That is, physics and Buddhism are simply two different methodologies that lead to pretty much the same understanding of reality and reinforce each other.

This idea became popular in some circles with the publication of Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics in 1975. Since then, many writers have echoed Capra’s thesis that Eastern mysticism and modern physics share a similar worldview and corroborate one another. Gerald Penilla’s video follows this tradition.

For instance, according to Penilla, both Eastern spirituality and modern physics agree that the foundation of all reality is a “field of potential from which everything arises.” In Eastern spirituality, this field is called such names as ‘Tao’ and ‘Brahman.’ In physics, it’s called the ‘quantum field’: An electromagnetic field from which all particles arise not, ultimately, as separate objects but as “different forms of the same system.”

Penilla also asserts that the physics concept of quantum entanglement parallels the eastern spiritual concept of oneness or interconnectivity in which all particles and composite objects in the universe exist only in relation to each other and to the whole system that they comprise”… [read the complete article here]

Where Science and Buddhism Meet from Gerald Penilla on Vimeo.

Thank you to Rob Brezsny’s Astrology Newsletter for this:

“Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to
experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend
into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate
enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging
judge in robes.”

- Richard Grossinger, *On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical
Notes*

Author Pema Chodron teaches us how to meditate.

At last, here’s a video preview of PAST LIFE - the TV drama based on M.J.’s THE REINCARNATIONIST…

Fox’s Past Life was inspired M.J. Rose’s book The Reincarnationist and centers on an unlikely pair of past-life detectives who investigate whether what happens to a person today is the result of a past existence. It stars Kelli Giddish, Nicholas Bishop and Richard Schiff and will debut in midseason, when it will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m., right after American Idol. (The YouTube video incorrectly calls the show “ABC’s Past Life.”)

Click HERE to watch.

Do you ever wonder how we’ve found ourselves in the big messes we’re in as people and as a country? Apparently, the Why to all of this is that we’ve stopped being wise. The good news is that we don’t have to be brilliant to be wise, but the bad news is that without brilliance, wisdom isn’t enough.

From the TED talks -

“Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.”

I ran across this very detailed and interesting account of a man’s near death experience. Give it a read, I think you’ll enjoy this quite a bit…

Near-Death Experience NDE Story of Mellen-Thomas Benedict
Journey Through the Light and Back

In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live.

I had been an information freak in the1970’s, and I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what I got.

That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.

So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had never really faced God before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of spirituality at the time, but I began a journey into learning about spirituality and alterna¬tive healing. I set out to do all the reading I could and bone up on the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the other side. So I started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all very interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side. I ended up in hospice care.

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 AM, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die….[the rest, here]

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama issued eighteen rules for living. I think we could all use a refresher nearly 10 years later…

• Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living
  Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  Follow the three Rs:
  Respect for self
  Respect for others
  Responsibility for all your actions.
  Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
  Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
  Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  Spend some time alone every day.
  Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
  In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  Be gentle with the earth.
  Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
  Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.