Are you ready to reincarnate? I often jokingly tell friends that I’m coming back as a woman with twelve kids. But what if reincarnation doesn’t happen after we die, but while we’re living?
Jungian writer Robert Johnson, author of Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life, recently showed me a new way of viewing reincarnation. He suggests looking at it psychologically and symbolically.
“Understood psychologically, reincarnation refers to the redemption of our unlived life, the necessity of addressing all of our potentials before we can realize God (unity).” My life is calling out to embrace the feminine and mother within me. When I do, I move several steps closer to wholeness.
“There are thousands of potentialities within, all of which are calling simultaneously to be expressed and experienced. This is the meaning of reincarnation for the modern person,” Johnson writes.
“Reincarnation is not for another time, another place, another existence – it is now.”
