If reincarnation is controlled and does not always occur at birth, I wonder what would happen to the displaced souls. For example, if you transfer an older man's soul into a 16-year-old girl, what happens to the girl's soul? And is there a cosmic game of "spiritual chairs"* as a consequence? Is it a karmic blot on a life-flame to oust an innocent soul from her body?
I can see other odd consequences from this. I have read Mr. Metcalfe's 1997 missive and am still puzzled. Maybe I don't understand the concept thoroughly.... <shrug>
rob t.
*see "musical chairs"
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> Todd Gardiner wrote:
> > I did not think the life-flame was a tangible, controllable thing.
>
> > Observable within a person, yes. A physical object that is
> transfered from
> > person to person like property, no.
>
> > I likened it to the same spiritual force in Buddhism that gets
> reborn into
> > new forms, without control of society, without known pattern.
>
> The original buddhist parable which denied that the presence of karma
> required souls spoke of it as being like a flame transmitted from
> candle
> to candle. The Teshnans with their life-flame have simply controlled
> the transmigration of the flames.
>
> Secondly what's wrong with social control over transmigration? If I
> take a life-flame from a funeral pyre and put it in the body of
> another
> person, why must this be impossible?
>
> > Again, where does this assertion of yours come from?
>
> It's been present in the first writing I made about Teshnos.
>
> http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/gd5/1997.11/2216.html
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>
>
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