This post will consider reincarnation to occur across the totality of human personal histories. The investigatory contemplative work allowing one to acknowledge such a possibility is something that can be undertaken within the sanctum of one's own consciousness; that is the laboratory within which one tests such conceptions to determine whether they can be proved true for oneself. Within this inner research institute one may be able to discover whether reincarnation seems to be an applicable principle to that list of givens of human being, such as breathing and dying.
A lie is a very convenient strategic tool to employ when fashioning an overlay cloaking a covert agenda. Lying could seem like a great thing to do if there were no reincarnation. But since there is reincarnation, lying is a false allurement. One very popular lie is the legitimacy of the "War On Terror". Perhaps the most visible proponent of the war on terror is Richard Cheney. He promises this war will not end in our lifetime. Great. Well, what he really means is, as long as he is alive he is not going to stop lying about fake terrorists. And those he works with, and for, are not going to stop lying either. Alright, fine, you guys have free wills- go ahead and use them. The problem is, you are going to die and reincarnate too. And when you do, the consequences of your actions now are going to exist on the earth. What this will look like specifically for each of you as a person is a mystery. But you're changing the world through lies, and this is how you are preparing the future world for your reincarnation, as well as everyone else's.
There are many reasons Dick Cheney lies as freely as he does. One of the reasons is because he in all likelihood does not know reincarnation is real. This is because he is ignorant. Oh well. Poor guy. He's rich now through Halliburton scamming, but he's perennially poor in essential universal wisdom.
If Richard does know reincarnation is real, and he knows he will reincarnate, then he has a very enormous faith in the essential goodness and redemptive possibilities of Being and grace. Because his accumulated karma is a morass of duplicity and homicidal wretchedness. On behalf of neo-imperialism he has told many lies and killed many people. The karmic burden of debt he has accumulated weighs upon him mightily. Fortunately for him, grace exists through the benevolent sanctifying operations of the Lord of Karma, whom some people call Christ. But even hard-core saints struggle to remotely approach the full compliment of grace which is theoretically possible for a person to experience.
Grace is a special endowment. Maybe Dick Cheney will reincarnate as an aspiring saint in his next incarnation. That would help him access grace to ameliorate his stultifying karmic payload. For his sake I hope he does go in the direction of a career path in attempted sainthood in his following life. That could help him. He will be a different person then, beset with many personal problems. Heroin or pharmaceutical drugs are not really going to suffice for what he's going to be dealing with. If he goes back into power-idolatry and militarism, I guess he could put off healing himself a while longer. We'll see what he chooses.
Let's pray, or at least think somewhat kindly and with some measure of pity or even compassion for Richard and those like him. For we are all like him to some extent. We've all erred. Suspended between the law of karma and the suspension of law through the miracle of grace, we incarnate successively and scientifically. Our karma simply exists somewhat statically, but the grace able to dissolve it is as fluid as the water of life which a person can drink that they may never thirst again.
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