Well this is certainly an odd topic and not one that
I would come by naturally I don’t think. However, the other week I saw a
YouTube video, or at least the start of one, from a motivational speaker who
was talking about a woman who had been legally dead for some amount of time and
was revived. He (or the doctors or someone) asked her if she saw heaven. She
said, “How do I know I’m not in heaven now?”
It posed an interesting question to me when you
compare our lives to those of so many people from 40 years ago to 4,000 years
ago: would our lives not be heaven-like to oh so many people? Even in today’s
world, there are certainly those of us who are living lives that others on the
planet would think are heavenly. But if they are alive and I’m alive, the
reincarnation thing doesn’t work, so I have to go back in time for my subjects.
In the 1950’s, would not someone think it’s heavenly
to have the communication, electronics, improved transportation and even
microwaves? And that’s not to mention the medicinal improvements.
If you go
back to the 1930’s, it’s all of those things and more! The 1800’s and you
mention cars, supermarkets, the availability of clean water, sewage treatment, indoor
plumbing, cures for polio and a much lower infant mortality rate; would that
not be heavenly? All of that and it would just be my great grandparent’s soul
that I possess.
But the 1800’s would also seem heavenly to someone
from the 1500’s right? And the 1500’s to someone from the 800’s. And so on. So maybe
our souls are reincarnated right here on the earth, with new one’s added
periodically to keep up with the population. Or maybe not. Maybe the number of
souls has been constant, but many never made it to being born. Heaven to them
would have just been given the chance TO live.
Just something I’ve been thinking about.
