Rational Spirituality

The website of Ian Lawton (www.ianlawton.com) is a veritable treasure trove of articles and information about matters spiritual. Ian is the founder of Rational Spirituality, which offers evidence of the soul’s existence and multiple incarnations.  He is the author of several books, including The Big Book of the Soul and The Little Book of the Soul, both of which are great reading.  When you go to his site, the first thing you see is a beautiful presentation that reveals 10 important spiritual principles:

1. The soul survives independent of the physical body. Out-of-body experiencers often bring back verifiable evidence that could only have been gathered by their consciousness when their physical brain was non-functioning. 

2. Souls have many lives, not just one. Past-life regressions often bring up verifiable memories that are so obscure they could not have come from mere guesswork or fraud. However, they do not arise from tapping into some sort of ‘universal memory’ because they are often accompanied by strong emotions or unusual behavior. Also, when people recall their time between lives, or the ‘interlife,’ the evidence confirms the continuation of the individual soul from one life to the next. 

3. Our many lives are not linked by a karmic law of action and reaction. Regression evidence indicates that our successive lives are not governed by a ‘law of action and reaction.’ Instead, the so-called Law of Attraction suggests that we ‘create our own reality’ with free will and personal responsibility through our subconscious thoughts, emotions, attitudes and intentions. 

4. We reincarnate to gather experience so we can grow. We plan our lives usually to provide opportunities to work on lessons we have not yet mastered, and repeating a lesson does not mean we flunked in earlier lives. It just points to another round of detail being mastered. The more difficult the challenges we build in, the more likely it is that we are a more experienced soul striving to accelerate our growth. Newer souls plan simpler, less challenging lifetimes. 

5. The only judgment after death comes from ourselves. The notion of punishment when we cross over is a purely human invention intended to keep the masses under control. It may have stemmed from less-than-positive NDEs designed for ‘course correction’ for those who have strayed from their soul’s plan. 

6. We are responsible for all aspects of our lives because we plan and choose them. Interlife regression suggests that we choose who our parents will be, their circumstances, where they live, who our siblings will be, and the major events in our life. Knowing this prompts us to accept responsibility for our life, because not only did we choose the circumstances, but we also did so for the growth involved. So no putting the blame on others, some deity out there, or just bad luck. 

7. We always have free will to deviate from our life plan. Despite all the planning we put in, we have complete free will to stray from our chosen life path because otherwise, there would be no opportunity for growth. And we continue incarnating until we at the soul level have garnered all the Earth Plane has to offer. After that, we continue experiencing and growing in even higher dimensions, so completing a cycle of Earth lives is just the beginning. 

8. We are all One and all God. God is not a separate entity, but the matrix of all souls, so we are all part of one, interconnected whole. 

9. Soul consciousness is holographic, and represents the part and the whole all at the same time. How do we reconcile the matrix of soul connection with individual soul survival? The principle of holography says that each part contains the whole, yet is clearly distinguishable from it. 

10. The aim of the Source is to experience all that is and all that can be. What is the ultimate point of all this? Why does the universe even exist in the first place? The Source diversifies into the billions of individualized aspects of itself to operate in the various dimensions throughout the universe. As individualized aspects of the Source, we are fulfilling a small part of that objective by gathering experiences available on the physical plane. Imagine a huge jigsaw puzzle and you have some of the pieces. Without the pieces you have, the puzzle would be incomplete. 

Nothing new here to readers of this blog, but Ian’s presentation is beautiful and the accompanying music is gorgeous, so the site is well worth a visit if you have a few minutes to spare.