The Bliss: Returning

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Where do Eternons go after death?		When the gathering of a structure ends, its Eternons separate. Most are quickly recycled in the manifest world. Others—and this includes our Leading Eternon—may remain for a while in a pure quantum state. Later, they will join new structures.
Why cannot we perceive this pure quantum state?		Common perception comes through the senses of our human structure. These senses do not let us dive into the deep ocean of cosmic energy. They only allow us to see and feel the ripples at the surface that form the material world. As a rule, the pure quantum state of Eternons, which some call "world of spirits," stays foreign to us.
Do Eternons ever pass from a structure to another of lesser awareness?		No, the purpose of the universe is constant spiritual elevation, and Eternons never regress. As Eternons lead one structure after another, matter emerges and dissolves, but information and awareness always grows. So does Eternons’ ability to build and guide ever more complex structures. When we speak here of structures, we are not solely referring to entire organisms, but also to parts of them. For instance, the Leading Eternon of a human skin cell progresses when it becomes the Leading Eternon of a dog’s neuron, although, in doing so, this Eternon entered a being of lesser awareness.
What prevents experienced Eternons to reincarnate as grown-up humans?		Even the most proficient builder has to lay new foundations for each new construction. For Eternons, starting over the growing process is a blessing. Creating and nurturing a human is every time a more instructive experience. Besides, a human does not just "happen." A human begins with a Leading Eternon. More precisely, a human is this Leading Eternon. There could not be such a thing as an Eternon "taking over" or assuming an already grown-up human.
Still, it is difficult to admit that a powerless toddler is a knowledgeable and several billion year old Eternon.		A human structure is a gathering of Eternons. This gathering may be inexperienced and not fully organized. Yet it does not prevent its leader from being knowledgeable. It takes time for a young assemblage of Eternons to acquire an identity and a functioning of its own. But the very purpose of growth and education is to make sure it happens.
How can we conciliate reincarnation and the frantic multiplication of certain species, in particular our own?		Population increases merely suggest that ever more Eternons are in condition to assemble and lead members of a given species. In our case, an ever increasing number of Eternons are getting sufficient knowledge to lead humans for the first time. These newcomers are joining the ranks of veteran Eternons who have already incarnated several times. It is from these veterans that ever more enlightened individuals are born. It is thanks to them that humankind is steadily making progress.
Can we discover which humans we have been earlier in time?		We are not a reincarnation of some other human. We are one of the various incarnations of our Eternon. In other word, the human that we are did not participated in other humans in the past. It is our Leading Eternon who did. This is an essential notion, and a key one to understand life and afterlife. As a human structure, each of us is born totally new. The detail of our past is not kept within our ordinary memory. It belongs to our highest plane of consciousness, to the realm of our Leading Eternon. At best, some of us may experience visions of previous incarnations of their Eternon.
If we do not remember our past lives, what of this one? What of our uncompleted works and of our loved ones?		We must look at our successive incarnations as characters written and acted by our Leading Eternon. Once the curtain has fallen, they have no existence or memory of their own. But they remain forever alive within the soul of their creator. As a human, we have no direct recollections of our previous lives, but, as an Eternon, we keep in memory every experience we had since the creation of the universe. Tastes that we cannot attribute to our heredity, impulses that drive us without our knowing why, affinity or dislike for certain minerals, plants, animals, people, and places, all may be traced to past lives of our Leading Eternon. Likewise, our present endeavors and relationships will impact the future incarnations of our Eternon. Whatever spiritual work we have not completed in this life, our Eternon will take up in another one.
How does Eternism judge traditional views about life after death?		On a religious and philosophical plan, two main doctrines consider life after death. The first is the doctrine of resurrection of the dead. It is shared, in one form or another, by the three Mosaic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second is the doctrine of reincarnation or transmigration of the soul. It is prevalent in Asia, the Pacific, and most of tribal Africa. Both doctrines obviously admit the re-embodiment of the spirit. In all other respects, they differ profoundly. The doctrine of resurrection of the dead presents many aspects irreconcilable with modern knowledge. The doctrine of reincarnation, although compatible with Eternism, has several unacceptable features.
What are the major problems with the doctrine of resurrection of the dead?		The Bible is not absolutely clear about the fate of the soul after death. For instance, the New Testament indicates that John the Baptist is Elias who had returned to Earth. Further allegorical statements leave ample room for reincarnation. Nevertheless, after years of debate, theologians agreed that the soul was united to a single body. It could not migrate in any other. Rather, this body was to resurrect for judgment day. Unfortunately, this position raises more questions than it brings answers. Here are some: 1. Misery equally affects the innocent and the guilty. Rarely do we see virtue rewarded and vice punished during this life. What is the use of an existence whose suffering is not deserved and will be compensated for only after death? In focusing on a single lifespan, the doctrine of resurrection is a great source of injustice, frustration, and fear. 2. In cosmic terms, a human life lasts less than a spark. It is too short for reaching real enlightenment. Even a long living saint would have little time. As for the aborted lives of those dead as fetuses or young infants, theirs is an existence void of significance. 3. Many humans spend their life so sick or disabled that they have no opportunity to turn their tragedy into a spiritual experience. Others are so mentally or socially insane that they never understand or expiate their acts before they die. 4. Condemning to eternal damnation is unworthy of a merciful God. Even the purgatory does not amend a system that is basically unfair. The simplistic dogma of Hell and Heaven has only helped to create worshipers who dread their vindictive God. Their devotion is often merely in hope of earning a free pass to eternity. We are embarked on a cosmic expedition that started well before, and will last much after, our current human incarnation. We cannot be expected to complete the lengthy process of our soul-making, during a single passage on Earth. Believing that our present life is the only one makes us its material prisoner. Instead, grasping that we are an immortal Eternon gives us the spiritual strength to transform such life into a worthy experience.
What of the doctrine of reincarnation?		Until recently, reincarnation was of little concern in the Western world. It was not a part of the religious mainstream. Disillusionment with Occidental values is changing this. Many persons are now openly discussing spirits and reincarnation. Let us review the tree points common to most doctrines of reincarnation: 1. Souls go through endless cycles of births and deaths. This is acceptable as long as we regard these births and deaths as gatherings and separations of Eternons. We must dismiss the primitive idea that migration of the human soul may extend to plants and animals. The point is not to argue if good animals are better than evil humans, however morally satisfying it may be. Rather, as we already explained, Leading Eternons always follow an ascending spiral of complexity and consciousness. 2. Souls are condemned to begin anew because of the imperfection of their lives. It is their karma. A chain of causation binds past, present, and future lives. Happiness and distress are products of what has been previously done. This sounds just, but not all suffering can be tied to failed past lives. Many incapacities and diseases are random consequences of Eternons’ interactions. Young paraplegics or hemophiliacs are not paying for the wrongdoings of their Eternon’s earlier incarnations. Passengers aboard a crashing plane are not punished in bulk for errors committed in former existences. Thinking otherwise is preposterous. It is the same as accepting the absurd dogma of "universal-guilt-for-an-original-sin." 3.The ultimate goal is to reach a nirvana. In nirvana, the soul is liberated of the burden of successive incarnations. Free from the suffering of existence, free from illusions, the soul finally achieves the highest level of enlightenment. Here, we encounter the familiar motivation of all the efforts made by Eternons: their yearning to achieve supreme awareness and their return to the Absolute.
How can karma make any sense if we have no idea of what we did in previous lives?		It is true that the lack of immediate memories about our past existences invalidates certain aspects of the doctrine of karma. How can we reap rewards for what we do not even remember having sowed? How can we be responsible, and, more important, punished, for past faults we do not recall? Such apparent contradictions, though, only exist when we look at karma from our human standpoint. But again, it is not our human structure that reincarnates, it is our Leading Eternon. The idea that the human we are has already lived in another body is a great delusion. If we accept it, we are imputing knowledge and placing responsibility where they do not belong. Permanency, and thus meaningful reward and punishment, are only found at the level of our Leading Eternon. It is as a Leading Eternon that we reap what we sowed. As for our situation during our ephemeral human materialization, the answer is simple: we are not on Earth for chastisement or retribution, but for enlightenment.
What evidences do we have to support reincarnation?		Interest in reincarnation has generated a good deal of research. We now have some convincing evidences. The most common element in support of reincarnation is the recollection of past lives. For instance, during hypnotic regression, certain individuals have access to the memories of their Eternon regarding former human incarnations. Such regressions have helped discover the origin of neuroses and cure them. A classical example is the phobia of water afflicting persons who had drowned in a past existence. Patients have also found that one of their Eternon’s past structure had been stabbed, shot, or hurt, precisely where today they show an odd birthmark or suffer an inexplicable pain. Detractors are prompt to construe past-lives recollections as figments of the imagination. They affirm that these recollections are built around forgotten experiences. But how could this account for the use during regression of foreign languages never heard before ? How could this explain the description of objects or situations known only to a few scholars? Even young children and illiterate adults have detailed earlier lives when obviously they had no means to know beforehand any of what they were talking about. The search for indisputable proofs of the transmigration of souls is legitimate, but it is somewhat unnecessary. Already, science has demonstrated the survival and recycling of particles. Now, with Eternism making it clear that humans are particles of Universal Energy, there is no doubt: we, Eternons, always return. BACK © Copyright 2000 Eternon International - All rights reserved.