Description: Reincarnation and the Interim Between Lives by E. Arthur Winkler, Th,D., Ph.D. ; 1976 ; trade paperback ; 259 pages From the INTRODUCTION: Don't accept what you read in this book as a belief. I am not asking you to believe in reincarnation.Believing in reincarnation will not make it a fact. Failing to believe in reincarnation will not keep it from being a fact. If it is a fact, our believing in it will not change it in any way. When we examine the different beliefs held by religious organizations, we discover that they divide people. Beliefs become dogmas, and then they turn into a series of rituals and compulsions which bind the mind and separate people. An example is "belief in God:" If you do not believe in God, you are regarded as an atheist and you are condemned by a certain part of society. If you do believe in God, you are condemned by that part of society which does not believe in God. So believing in God usually becomes a religion. We consider believing in God to be religious. Religion then becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on our mind and the mind is not free. Belief becomes a hindrance to us, because it is only in freedom that we can find what is true. In other words, to find out what is God, we must have free minds, not subject to any belief. Belief determines what we think God ought to be.Belief determines what we think should be true. Our very belief prevents us from understanding what is God and what is true. Man becomes a prisoner of what he believes. There is a real sense in which man becomes a prisoner of his own mind Joel S. Goldsmith gave an excellent illustration of this by comparing man locked up inside his mind as comparable to a little chick that is locked up inside an egg. If the chick could see inside the shell, it would see only darkness; it might even feel a sense of hunger and find no ....
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: E. Arthur Winkler, Th,D., Ph.D.
Publisher: St. John's University Publications
Topic: Religion
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
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