The philosopher Plato wrote in 'The Repbublic' that before we are born we all choose from a pool of available lives.

 

Those who are blinded by greed and lust choose to become tyrants in this world.

 

But the true philosophers choose more wisely.

 

The great adventurer Odysseus, being disillusioned with adventure, chose a simple life for his next incarnation.

 

Then after everyone chooses their next lives the sisters of fate take all of our choices and weave them on their loom into the fabric of destiny.

 

"Hearken mortals.  Another cycle of mortality is beginning.  Choose your geniuses."

 

Another interesting theory is that we can be reincarnated into any time period past or future or even live the same life over again to change something that we deeply regret (or perhaps really enjoyed who knows).

 

This is a very strange idea since it implies that everyone else would have to be in those alternative futures of which there is an infinite number.  If it is true it shows how all of our destinies are intertwined.

 

This is far beyond human comprehension but it may be true.  Time does not exist in the spirit world.  The spirit world is a timeless dimension.

 

Now that I think about it there may be something in the book 'The Lives Of Edgar Cayce' about this.  I can't recall if Cayce actually lived the same life more than once.  I could be mistaken.

 

Cayce always had strange clairvoyant powers in all of his various incarnations but sometimes he abused those abilities. 

 

In an experience in the old west he used his powers to win money gambling.  That experience ended disasterously for him.  As I recall he drowned trying to save his prostitute girlfriend from a raging river.

 

As Edgar Cayce whenever he tried to use his powers to make money something always went wrong or he would start having terrible headaches.  He interpreted this as a sign not to use his powers for materialistic purposes which was difficult becaus those were tough times.  He even created 'The Cayce Petroleum Company' and planned to use his powers to find oil wells. 

 

The book 'The Lives Of Edgar Cayce' is very interesting because it follows the journey of one person through many lifetimes and demonstrates how the law of karma works.

 

Cayce claimed that he was one of the guards at the gates of Troy but his psychic powers didn't help him detect the treachery with the Trojan horse.  Because of the ridicule he received about this failure and after observing some guy get his brains bashed out after the gates had been opened Cayce committed suicide in that life.

 

Cayce also claimed to be one of the 'angels' who accompanied God Himself when God visited Abraham and Sarah and told them that Sarah, who was past the normal child bearing age by then, was going to have a son.  They named the child 'Isaac' which means 'I laughed' since Sarah laughed when she heard this.

 

I suspect the reason that Abraham and Sarah didn't have any children is because they didn't get married until Sarah was past the normal child bearing age.  In the mean time Abe had a kid with the slave girl Hagar that they had brought back from Egypt where Sarah had been held prisoner by that no good bastard pharoah.

 

In that experience Cayce later went to Sodom and the perverts wanted to sexually molest him so he blinded them.

 

Cayce is not an angel but rather the god Osiris.

 

It would be interesting to find out what really happened to Sodom and Gomorra.

 

                                                Jeff Marzano