Universal Self

I was standing the hallway moments ago. I had a thought I had to write. It's a good example of how knowledge does not set you free; the application of knowledge does.

I have been reading in the yoga books that we are all a part of the Universal Self. Not just the Earth...the Universe. The epiphany I had in the hallway at first was that if I believe in an Universal Self, then my fear of something catastrophic happening to the Earth is alleviated(more on that in a moment). My second thought was, Oh! This solves my past lives dilemma, too.

Buddhists believe that you are reincarnated. But skeptics say (as I been thinking) well, there are more people on Earth now than there were before, how can there be so many incarnations? The logic is that we could have been other things like microorganisms. BUT! If you believe in the Universal Self, then you could have existed on another planet. Ah-ha! To extrapolate on that thought...your True Self, as light or energy, traveled to Earth to be incarnated here. Once your body dies on Earth, you return to the Universal Self and can travel anywhere in the Universe. Radical.

Back to the Catastrophic Event. I do not think I have blogged about it before. But my greatest fear has always been a world-ending catastrophic event. A supervolcano or an asteriod. I also fear losing my kids, being attacked, etc. but those are things I feel that I can control somewhat through precautionary living. No one can control Mother Nature.

I fear it the most because I saw a program that said if a large enough asteroid hit, it would not just end life on Earth, but incinerate any record of our existence here. Life may never occur on Earth again. I thought that this was awful. Even if I died, I would still have my children as proof I existed. But if everyone dies, there is no trace that I, or humanity, ever existed.