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The Egyptians believed in reincarnation, and many learned people believe the transmigration of the soul belief dates back to a time long before the ancient Egyptians.
►The first definition of soul transmigration came from the Greek philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, and through his ethical, religious, and mystical teachings he taught that the soul is immortal … that it continues transitioning through a series of lifetimes, completing a series of rebirths to achieve a defined purpose before it can leave the reincarnation cycle.
►Druids have always been religious, not only believing in, but also knowing that reincarnation is real, believing that men's souls and the universe are indestructible.
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During an interview, author Jess Stearn, whom I mentioned in Part I as being the author of Edgar Cayce … The Sleeping Prophet, asked a woman who had seen the late American mystic, Edgar Cayce, “Why do you now find it so important to believe in reincarnation … wouldn't just being a good Christian, believing in the message of God through Christ be sufficient to get you into heaven?”
She retorted, “Don't you know that Christianity embraced reincarnation for three hundred years, and that changed when the Roman influence expunged it after the Emperor Constantine recognized the Church? What do you think the early Christians were thinking when they asked Christ whether he was Elijah, who had come before? They were thinking reincarnation … that's what! If you thought of reincarnation as rebirth, I think you could understand it better. Just as the earth has a constant rebirth, so does the spirit. Don’t you remember that Christ said, ‘Unless man is reborn, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven?’”
Stern told her he thought the reference was to baptism, and she replied, “Christ was not interested in show, but substance … that was at the heart of everything He said or did.”
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In Part One I brought to your attention several similarities between Edgar Cayce and Stephanie Ann Stevens, a woman whom many, based upon their spiritual intuition, and others based upon their personal observations, have stated she is Edgar Cayce reincarnated. I also stated that I would share many, many more similarities between Cayce and Stevens in Part II. I discovered these similarities in their characteristics while conducting my extensive research on Edgar Cayce, and made note of them at that time.
1.Edgar Cayce was a healer, counselor and philosopher (a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity) … Stephanie Ann Stevens is a healer, provides counseling and is also a philosopher.
2.Cayce not only visualized the health of his subject wherever they happened to be, he also visualized their surroundings … and so does Stevens.
3.Cayce gave remedies for a cure … Stevens takes it a step further, once she has spiritually diagnosed the problem(s), she sends the healing powers of the OM to her subject to heal their ailment, including the terminally ill.
4.Cayce and his family suffered one reversal after another … so has Stevens and her husband.
5.Cayce called his readings “The Information” … so has Stevens, and she did not learn that Cayce had called his readings “The Information” until sometime after she began calling the room that she did her readings in, “The Information Room,” and she obtained that knowledge quite accidentally, almost as though providence had stepped in and gave a hand.
6.Cayce taught Sunday school, and so did Stevens.
7.Evangelist Dwight Moody told Cayce he could serve God. Spirit had directed Stevens to look for an African American woman in a grocery store to tell her that her finances and back were going to be fine. When Stevens gave the woman that information, the woman said in jubilance, “God is sending you out!” In another event, the wife of a husband and wife team from Scottsdale, Arizona, who were involved in a television ministry involving prophecy, told Stevens, “God is passing down to you the mantle of Elijah, the double portion of His anointing.”
8.When Cayce was diagnosing a subject while in a trance, he would say, “We see…..” I personally witnessed Stevens beginning her diagnosis on a subject while in a trance, with those exact words.
9.Cayce would prescribe herbs and medicines that a subject should take, and so does Stevens.
10.At age 24, when Al Layne brought Cayce’s medical diagnosing gifts to the surface, Cayce was afraid and didn’t want to use them. Gertrude and his mother had to encourage him to use them. At the age of 21, Stevens prayed for her gifts to go away.
11.Cayce started to do absent readings after listening to Gertrude and his mother’s encouragement. At her mother’s encouragement Stevens began doing absent readings as a teenager.
12.Cayce warned a woman not to ride in a particular car, and he was not in a trance at the time … Stevens warned her parent’s mechanic, while she was not in a trance, to watch out for a car with a certain license plate number, and just a couple of weeks later the man’s wife was involved in an accident with a car bearing that license plate number.
13.Cayce was clearly prophetic in his health readings, for he not only made the diagnosis, he also made a prognosis, predicting whether a subject would get well, including how and when … so does Stevens, even to the point of predicting the day a subject would get out of the hospital.
14.Cayce could foresee things about himself, even if he had to dream them … Stevens does also, but she foresees things about herself through her Angel Writings.
There are many other similarities between Cayce and Stevens that go beyond their religious training and their abilities regarding health diagnoses and cures. But those other similarities cross over to the abilities that David Wilcock has, and many other people in the psychic and metaphysical world, but this writing is about reincarnation, and if it exists. Is it possible that two people living in this day and age can be the reincarnation of one individual, specifically Edgar Cayce?
I want to introduce you to Scott Christiansen. I asked him to write his views on reincarnation, and told him that I wanted to include his views in a feature length article that I was writing about reincarnation. Below is what he wrote in response.
SCIENCE, SPIRITUALITY AND REINCARNATION
Science and spirituality agree that energy can be changed, but cannot be destroyed. We can, through a proper microscope, see all matter as molecules of energy and information that make up that matter. If you look at a wooden log, you see a log. If you look at that log through a high magnification microscope, you do not see little logs making up the big log. Instead you see little swirling spheres of energy and information … molecules that actually make up the log itself. Everything physical is made of energy and information that cannot be destroyed, including your physical body. Your Spirit too is distinctive energy and information as observed through quantum physics. Everything on the planet, and in the universe is made up of the same recycled elements used over and over again, it is the nature of things. We can observe it in nature, in science and in spirituality. Once you accept this concept, then the probability of reincarnation becomes much easier to understand and accept.
Many of the people who have made the biggest impact on society and our collective thinking have also believed in reincarnation. Most people today have heard of Pythagoras, one of the great thinkers of mankind. The Pythagorean Theorem is an accepted truth taught as one of the keystones of geometry throughout the high schools and colleges the world over. Most people consider this man a genius. What you may not know is that among the ancient Greeks, reincarnation was a doctrine closely associated with the followers of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. According to Pythagorean teaching, the soul survives physical death. After a series of reincarnations, each one following a period of psychic cleansing in spiritual environments, the soul becomes free eternally from the cycle of reincarnations.
"I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." – Benjamin Franklin.
"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence." – Socrates.
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection." – Voltaire.
"God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to Him." – The Koran.
In the Christian religious tradition, Jesus died and then reincarnated back into the same body three days later. In modern times we can observe through “Near Death Experience” (NDE) studies that thousands of people walking the earth at this moment have been clinically dead for a period of time and then their soul reanimated their bodies. They were clinically dead, now they are clinically alive. You can witness this in emergency rooms across the country when they restart someone’s heart. This is understood by anyone who has ever taken a CPR Class. We can observe physical death. We can also observe the dead coming back to life inside the same body.
Does reincarnation have to happen inside of the same body or can it span itself through different bodies and different lifetimes? Most of the religious traditions refer to the “creator” as a “father” or parent. They then go on to say that we are (in some way) created in the image of that “father”. Human beings create other human beings, reproduction. A human being does not create a dog or a cat. They create small human beings. God is a universal energy of consciousness. God is energy and information. Therefore God creates more energies with information, extensions of himself, like begets like. When we examine everything that is in existence, we can see that at its core it is all energy and information, which can be changed but not destroyed. Therefore we create our children, reproduction. Then our children try to become like their parents, their creators. We as a human species try to emulate our creator, God, in one form or another.
If reincarnation exists, what about Heaven and Hell? Can you, as a parent, imagine saying to your child, “Now Johnny go and clean your room. If you do I will give you everything you have ever wanted and we will call it Heaven. However, if you do not clean your room I am going to take you out to the back yard, pour gasoline on your body and burn you to death (we’ll call that Hell). You get only one chance to get this right?” Of course not, as we emulate our heavenly father, on one level or another, we too give our children as many chances as they need in order for them to learn the lessons and experiences that they require and desire.
I have personally walked clients from every area of the globe though past life regressions and between life regressions. These people’s ages, religious beliefs, genders, geographic locations and backgrounds have varied considerably over 1000+ regressions. Regardless of what each person’s beliefs and mental conditioning told them they would see, or wouldn’t see, their experiences were all so similar, in what they actually experienced regardless of the religious dogma they had internalized as their own truth. The vast majority of them had a life changing powerful experience. They could describe their past lives in intricate details. They could see how the energetic relationship dynamics of one lifetime were playing out in the next. After however, they balanced the energy of their past life, they were then free to recreate new energies inside of their present life. It is like pulling a weed. You must first find out where that weed is rooted. Once you pull it out by the root, it does not grow back and that is the benefit of learning from our pasts as a real tool for shaping our futures.
Scott Christiansen
Psychic / Medium / Healer / Minister
Author of Bridging the Gap – Between the Christian and Metaphysical Worlds; and, The Inheritance … a Vision
www.ConnectWithScott.com
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Scott had some very interesting insights on reincarnation, and I also found it interesting that Scott, as I did, made reference to Pythagoras. I’ve heard and read that one spiritual being may be having simultaneous incarnate experiences in several dimensions, but I’ve never heard of a spiritual being having more than one simultaneous life experience in the same dimension. It seems to me that if these simultaneous incarnations in the same dimension happened to run into each other, it could create a paradox, and it makes sense to me that the Laws of the Universe would not allow that to happen.
Pythagoras also stated that the soul is immortal … that it continues transitioning through a series of lifetimes, completing a series of rebirths to achieve a defined purpose before it can leave the reincarnation cycle. Assuming Pythagoras is correct … then Stevens comes closer to fitting the Edgar Cayce reincarnation theory than does David Wilcock. Why? Think about this … Pythagoras maintained that the soul continues transitioning through lifetimes to achieve a defined purpose. Edgar Cayce had a very strong desire to help sick children and his fellow man, and if that had been such a strong desire, wouldn’t it follow suit that when he reincarnated he’d want to improve on his ability to fulfill that desire? I know this without a doubt … if I had his ability and desire, I’d do everything I could before I reincarnated to improve on that ability, wouldn’t you?
I’ve heard many spiritually gifted people say, “There are no coincidences.”
Is it a coincidence that Cayce explored for oil in a small Texas town that Steven’s father lived in?
Is it a coincidence that out of the clear blue, Cayce’s son called and had a conversation with Stephanie’s husband before she and her husband had met, or even knew about each other except through their Angel Writings? Her husband did not know Edgar Evans Cayce, and he has no idea how Edgar's son found him, or his phone number for that matter.
Is it a coincidence that both Cayce and Stevens had a strong desire to help sick people, and that both of them had a beautiful woman appear to them, and then disappear?
Are all these similarities between them merely coincidences?
I mentioned in the beginning of Part II that Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher, taught that the soul completes a series of rebirths to achieve a defined purpose before it can leave the transmigration of the soul cycle. In part one I stated … if one has an ability that is so important to them in one life time, why would they reincarnate in the next and eliminate an ability that was so very important to them. Pythagoras states the soul goes through a series of rebirths to achieve a defined purpose … if the defined purpose in one life time was to help sick children, and sick people in general, does it make sense that they would exclude it in the next lifetime. I think not. What do you think?
If you have a comment or experience that you would like to share, please email me by using the email link below.
In conclusion, I want to thank Nancy McKinney and Scott Christiansen for their insightful and meaningful contribution to this article. It is greatly appreciated. In addition, Scott Christiansen has a newly published book titled, “The Inheritance … A Vision”. Please click on the link below to learn more about Scott and his new book.
