KAMI
Kami was relatively a young spirit, only a few million years old. Most of the time she resided in the spiritual dimension with her spiritual family, another seven “kindred” spirits, who shared the most harmonious and close relationship possible. Together they would drift from one place to another, learn from their elders and other young spirits who experienced unique encounters in other planets. Kami was a curious spirit and always enjoyed joining study groups.
She particularly enjoyed listening to spirits who had returned from earth. Every time a spirit would enter a body, she would remain there from the moment of birth until his death, experiencing “reincarnation”. Stories of reincarnation were fascinating.
“I was in the body of a little Japanese girl,” one spirit would recount. “I wanted to know what it would feel like to be a musician, so ever since she was little, I induced her to play an instrument. She excelled at the piano and soon I would evoke tunes that she could play. Everyone was very impressed by those melodies that suddenly popped into her mind, they were not aware of course that I was the one eliciting those melodies. When she became an adult, she started touring the world with her concerts. She married a flute player who toured with her together, they had two daughters. She died at 95 years, happy and content with her life.”
The spirits who came to listen to the story asked many questions about music, melodies and about Japan. The spirit answered them patiently and the audience was receptive and grateful for the knowledge. Some of the spirits wished that they too would experience the gift of music and decided that on their next reincarnation on earth, they would descend as musicians, composers or singers.
Once, a spirit who had just returned from a life as a beggar, described her experience as “fascinating.” “My previous incarnation on earth, before the beggar, was a very rich man, whose main interest in life was to make more and more money. He was never generous to beggars as he thought that they were responsible for their own circumstances. I was unable to influence him to feel more empathy or generosity to others. Every time I tried, he would hold me back and ignore me completely. He died a rich man but full of regret. This time I was on the other side of the coin. I was a beggar needing desperate help but receiving none. I saw life through his eyes, and it was sad and difficult, and I felt compassionate towards him from his birth until his death. But I was also very proud of him that despite his poverty, he was always ready to share what little he had and always found a way to encourage other people who were sick or poorer than him. This time I was able to have a profound effect on him, he listened to me and regardless of his situation, he died peacefully.”
“And had you been able to influence the rich man, how would his life have turned out?” Asked one of the spirits in the audience.
“He would have remained rich of course, because I chose to experience life as a rich man,” the spirit replied, “because I wanted to know what it feels like to accumulate so much wealth and live prosperously, but had he listened to me and connected to me, he would have been more generous, more sensitive to his surroundings, and he would have realized that there are many more interesting things in life other than money.”
There were so many spirits telling their accounts of life on earth, and there were so many groups where the rest of the spirits heard these stories and learned from them, that Kami felt as if she herself had entered a body thousands of times before. However, that was not the case: she had never reincarnated.
Those spirits that had gone through reincarnation chose every time a different role to play, depending on what interested them at that moment in time: Once they wanted to know what it felt like to be rich, and once what it felt to be poor. At other times, they wanted to feel what it was like to be healthy and what it was like to be sick. Once they would be born in America and then in Asia. Once they would be Jewish and at other times a Muslim. They wanted to know what it was like to be a man or a woman, to reach old age or to die young, to suffer pain, to experience joy, to love or to hate as human beings. Everything interested them and every time they returned to the spiritual dimension, they shared their experiences and their knowledge with the other spirits.
When a spirit returned from a particularly painful or sad reincarnation, her spiritual family would embrace and console her until she was well again. Sometimes a spirit required assistance in order to learn more from her experience, so she would consult with an elder spirit.
All the spirits helped each other all the time. They all shared one common goal: to learn and evolve as much as possible. It is the purpose of their existence. But not all spirits learnt from their own reincarnations, some chose to learn from other spirits’ experience. They knew that life on earth could be very challenging for spirits in a human body and they did not desire to experience such hardship. Until now Kami felt the same: on the one hand, she was very curious about reincarnations; on the other hand, she was discontent with the thought that in order to be on earth, she would have to experience some hardships and unpleasantness. In the spiritual dimension she experienced only feelings of tranquility, compassion and love. why ruin it?
Having deliberated on the issue for a while, she finally reached a decision: She will do it, she will take the risk and reincarnate. She will enter a physical body and experience new things that are impossible for a spirit without a body to do. Now all that was left was to make her decision known to her spiritual family and request guidance from the ancient spirits. She was on her way!
