Something I read that mirrors my beliefs

[HelenW]

http://leonalo.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/the-transsexuals-story/

Some of us are determined to establish the cause of our "condition".  Some of us believe strongly that there is scientific determinism to transsexualism.  Some feel it's 50% nurture, 50% nature.  Here's what I think.

Like Dr Wayne Dyer, I believe we all chose to come back into this lifetime as transsexuals.  This may sound preposterous to you - who would want to do a thing like that?  Who would willingly trade a "normal" existence for one that's continuously peppered with pain and suffering?

I always get inspired when I cycle.  So one day, a few months ago, as I was cycling, I saw myself as a student in a classroom full of students about to be reincarnated.  And there was God, the teacher, standing by a table on which files were displayed.

[Shana]

I have to agree.

In some ways it may be hubris, but I do believe that on some spiritual level we do, or at least some of us do, choose this as part of our life's path.. even before the womb..

I love Joseph Cambell's views on the hero's journey. We all have things that are so great in our lives that to overcome them, face them and make them our own.. reshapes our very cores. This has helped to shape mine.      We face challenges to our inner workings, our minds, our spirits, and our station in life unlike any other group on the planet, and yet we exist in all societies, and records show that we have been there in one form or another since antiquity. . And I think that by our very natures we probably delve more deeply of our own free wills into the dark and dank places of our minds and our selves than most sane people would ever wish to see.. and yet we, for the most part, keep our sanity..

We quest where others balk at the very concept.. not by choice, but by necessity.. and yet we do.
And in so doing are witness to concepts and things foreign to any but our own.

If it is a journey, it is a lonely one, but one made better with friends and fellow travelers.. (No.. not that kind..) and like most hero's journeys.. the path leads inevitably back to the self.

Just my observations..

[Julie Marie]

Emelye, I was surprised to see Wayne Dyer quoted as saying that.  I didn't know he was of that belief.  I have browsed a couple of his books but now I will look for that because it is part of my own belief.

Let me explain...

When my dad died I was pretty distraught.  I was agnostic and I was having a hard time believing he was gone.  Poof!  That's it.  Lights out.  I didn't sleep well for a couple of months wondering how he could have just vanished.

One morning I woke up with a vivid memory of a dream.  It seemed totally real.  My dad came to me and told me he was okay.  That morning all the worries, all the internal conflict, all the concerns I had with his death vanished.  I can't explain it but in an instant I was at peace with his passing because I knew he had gone on to a better place.

Another incident compelled me to look into near death experiences and I learned a  lot.  A well known medium claimed we create our life blueprint before coming here.  It is designed to help us achieve what we want or need to accomplish.  A NDE victim claimed when we die we experience first hand, as if it is all happening to us, everything we did, influenced or had an hand in while here on earth.  If you punched someone in the nose, you got to feel the hit, the bones crunching, the nose bleeding and even the kid's mom's feelings about how you could have done that.  And if his dad was angry, you got to feel that too.

If this is true and you accept this, it puts the responsibility of your life squarely in your own hands and makes you think twice before you take a swipe at the person next to you.

You can't blame anyone but yourself.  That doesn't mean you have to take it.  It just means you created this for a reason and you need to figure out why.

Julie

[HelenW]

For whatever reason, some of us experience things that some might call religious or spiritual experiences.  Others don't seem to, or if they do, tend to dismiss them or not recognize them for what they are.  I suppose how we react is a reflection of where we are on our journey.

The problem most people have with this concept is that, first, it seems ridiculous to choose a life filled with such pain and suffering, especially if one is convinced that there is no such thing as consciousness before or after life.  That ignores the sad fact that it is in suffering that humans grow.  I'm convinced the Deity does not mind when people suffer, for that reason.  I can personally testify that I have grown immeasurably as a human being throughout my transition.  Much of that growth was painful - it continues to be so in many ways - but I can also see its immense value.