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War and Baby Booms
Balance Between This World and the Next
It's
3:45 a.m. A newborn opens two little
blue eyes for the first time, while joyous cries fill the hospital maternity
ward. Little lungs let in their first
breath of air, the first of a lifetime.
The Baby-Boom marches on.
"Baby-Boom"
is a term we use to describe the sudden increase in births, within a short
period of time, following a war. But
what causes a Baby-Boom? Millions of
babies born in the late 1940s and 1950s were part of the Boom which followed
World War II. Perhaps this huge increase
in population -- which followed the devastating death and destruction of the
war -- is a good reminder that there is balance between this world and the
next.
If
you believe in reincarnation, then you understand that souls entering this
world have lived and died, lived and died, lived and died many times
before. It's the nature of things. The amount of births and the amount of deaths
here on Earth move at their own natural rate, in balance with one another. But during wartime, this balance is upset and
millions of souls are violently thrown over to the other side. During only a few short years, more people
die during a war than would otherwise naturally occur. Imagine the large, tragic, release of
life-energy which occurs as millions of people perish during wartime! Imagine the terrible sacrifice being made. .
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During
the war, we can't see what happened to the souls of those three commandos as
their jeep overturned. We can't see what
happened to the hundreds of sailors lost as a ship was sunk. We can't see what happened to the millions of
innocent people, either soldiers or civilians, who died the ugly deaths of war.
After
the war, what happens? Soldiers return
home, settle down, start families and buy station wagons? Sociologists would say that this is why
Baby-booms occur. Perhaps this is how
Baby-Booms occur, but this is not why.
Baby-Booms
may be a way of restoring balance between the amount of souls incarnated in
living form and those not presently in living form. It's not very hard to see other examples of
this principle in nature if we look around.
The veil that separates these two states is like any other
membrane. It is permeable; it can be
penetrated the way water diffuses in and out of a living cell, or the way air
slowly but surely fades out of a balloon over time. When pressure increases on one side of the
membrane, the other side becomes receptive enough to help equalize that
pressure. People have often said that
war is a way that Nature deals with overpopulation. Perhaps Baby-Booms are related, but on the
creative side. This phenomenon could
also raise the possibility of "collective" incarnation, where
generations of souls are somehow linked together, progressing as part of a
larger whole -- like the way students learn their lessons, moving up to a
higher level as part of their Graduating Class.
The
War/Baby-Boom relationship is just a single example of the cyclic balance
between life, death and rebirth, between creative forces and destructive
forces, between this world and the afterworld.
What other relationships can you see as you look at history? At your current surroundings? At your own life today?
Perhaps
understanding balances in Nature, as they are expressed in the cycles of
history, can help us avoid the future tragedy of war -- in the Mid-East, or
anywhere in the world. Perhaps today's
newborns will have a better chance.
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