Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00455)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mic Forster <micforster@y...> 
wrote:
> Fair enough that you wouldn't want any vestigial body
> parts floating around. But what about other things
> that, in effect, are more lasting than our biological
> bodies? For example, photos, historical documents,
> etc. Do the thoughts we write on paper act as an out
> growth of one of our organs and, in turn, if we were
> to reincarnate and those thoughts are still around
> does that mean we will have weak thoughts in that
> incarnation? I've always wondered that, if this indeed
> is the case, then people like Hitler, Shakespeare and
> even HPB, are going to have an absolutely torrid time
> come their next incarnation!!

They deserve to have a bad time of it. I don't think Houston was 
siggesting that we won't inherit our past karma in future lifetimes, 
but that decisions which one would think completely harmless could 
result in bad karma we do not expect.

One thing that makes me think he may be worthy of a hearing is his 
cklaim to have been an initiate, although I do not recall after all 
this time how many initiations he claimed to have passed, or if he 
was specific about that. It is disturbing to think that it might be 
possible to leave ourselves a bad legacy by ma,ing nan unwise 
decision regarding the disposition of our remains. It is notable in 
this connection that religions everywhere have insisted on the sacred 
character of remains throughout history and have prescribed "correct" 
ways of disposing of them.

Maybe the only solution is "enlightenment in this very body, this 
very life" and obviate the whole matter by getting off the Wheel of 
Rebirth. The way the world is going I don't think I want to come 
back to a pile of pollution.