Reincarnation in unfavourable environments

by CR (070)

Reincarnation is not an easy problem. Candidates to reincarnation are innumerable and exceed existing possibilities. Hence the need to wait.

To avoid wasting time, many spirits, willing to face whatever difficulties they may encounter, decide to incarnate in an unfavourable environment.

After disincarnation, when spirits go back to their own spiritual worlds, it is sometimes a source of suffering for these spirits to realize that others of the same spiritual class, through more effort and better use of their time in earthly life, succeeded in ascending to a higher spiritual class. 

It is not their ascension itself, that causes this suffering, but the realization that it was impossible to accompany them and that the distance separating them became greater on the way to evolution.

Spirits of a certain class are aware to others of their own class and of lower classes. They are unaware, however, of what happens to spirits of higher spiritual classes.

Those spirits that stay behind and lose contact with old, dear friends, comrades of long journeys in previous incarnations, suffer like incarnated spirits who see their loved ones die.

This contact, however, can be re-established, as those in spiritual worlds well know. But how? The answer is obvious. If a person walks at a slower pace than another, who walks faster, they become further and further apart. And, if the person who is in front is not willing to slow down, the one behind will have to speed up if he wants to reach him.

That is precisely what many spirits do when they decide to incarnate and face all earthly sufferings, which they know are transitory. They do so to enrich themselves with knowledge and moral values that will enable them to ascend to the next spiritual class.

With strong determination and redoubled effort, they succeed in recovering the time lost and fraternally reapproaching those spirits that had surpassed them.

References

[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984

[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese