“What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?ĭuring a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she take her first breath.ĭuring a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. I’ve experienced a litany of unpleasant after effects recovering from the coronavirus, and I knew that reading a good book would hook me, forcing me to spend some quiet time. I suppose that’s why this book’s premise drew me in I needed a profound read as I set aside moments to rest over the last few weeks. Then there are some people you just resonate with. There are particular phenomena I’ve gone through, such as having an out of body experience and various moments of déjà vu, the feeling of having lived in a particular place, (such as Paris), meeting some individuals you feel like you’ve known your whole life after only a few minutes. Perhaps our choices reflect our level of consciousness or soul wisdom in any given moment… “Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realised their significance.” ~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life How can we explain why we are drawn to certain people, places or careers, why we enjoy certain activities or the talents we have, why we make the choices we do? It’s an intriguing idea that every sentient being is an aspect of infinite consciousness experiencing the finite, entangled into a genetic uniform and personality. According to Chopra we are the infinite creators, conscious agents in the matrix of the microbiome of life!
I feel like I am the watcher, the sentient being, the spark of consciousness that pervades the universe, just as every human is aware of being alive, able to use sensory outlets and emotions to heighten experiences. He asserts that we are light beings in essence. What Deepak Chopra terms as ‘lightness of being’. When we do have spiritual experiences it is like returning to our natural state. It comforted me to think of him as an immortal soul occupying a temporary body, having a human experience as opposed to a mere body that originates in oblivion and returns there. It was at that time I started to believe in the divine nature of the soul. I had the sensation that his spirit was near and around me in those early days, a feeling that’s hard to describe. I began think about where his spirit or soul energy had gone. His life force was not animating his body. It was the first and only time I have seen a dead body. I couldn’t stop myself thinking about having seen him lying at the undertakers. I was in a dreadful state and moped around the house for many weeks. I couldn’t accept that he had just disappeared here one minute, gone the next. I had been on the back of his motorcycle many times before, (I still am something of a speed freak), but I never got on a motorbike again after his untimely and tragic death. And then there is how their death impacts other lives to the extent of what they do going forward.Ī few days before my 20 th birthday, unexpectedly my first love perished in a motorcycle accident.
I’ve often pondered about when people die young, the tragedy of a life cut short: the pain of their loss on loved ones, missing their presence and wondering what they might have done had they survived. One life just isn’t long enough to experience and learn everything an immortal soul would strive to achieve. I am coming round to the idea more and more these days. It is certainly thought provoking and provides some historical learning, it will also make you laugh and cry, as well as entertain you. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is one of those books that will make you question the nature of reality. ‘But, of course, there are some situations where it’s impossible to imagine anything worse.’” ~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life “‘There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening,’ Dr Kellet said.