Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

If the idea of reincarnation offends you,
skip the next couple of pages.
For myself, I am not attached either way though there
does seem to be evidence to support the idea, espe-
cially through the vast amount of writing about near-
death experiences. These accounts are so similar in
their content and quality they hardly can be refuted.
Thousands of people have reported similar kinds of ex-
periences and exhibit the same kind of certainty that
what they saw was real. The effects near death experi-
ences have on their lives are more or less identical as
well.
From this same source, it appears that not only do our
souls incarnate numerous times but that they do not
come into this physical life experience alone. Past life
research seems to suggest that our souls keep com-
ing back time and time again with others from our soul
group to resolve particular 
karmic
imbalances.
During our journey towards wholeness, we create en-
ergy imbalances that have to be restored. 
 
These im-
balances are referred to as our karma.
For example, if
we take advantage of people and cheat them, we must
at some time have the experience of being cheated to
equalize the energy. This is not a moral exercise; it
has nothing to do with right or wrong. As we have al-
ready noted, the Universe is neutral. This happens sim-
ply as a balancing of energy and is dictated by the Law
of Cause and Effect, which states that for every action
there must be an equal reaction. (See Chapter 9.)
The people with whom we play and the games we play
with them are all about balancing energy in this man-
ner. Our soul heals and becomes whole again each
time we rebalance the karmic energies. Thus, each
incarnation contributes to the healing of the soul.
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Incidentally, since time does not exist in the world of
Divine Truth, all our incarnations happen simultaneously.
As we heal in one lifetime, we heal all the other incar-
nations as well. Use of Radical Forgiveness in one
lifetime, therefore, provides incredible value to a soul,
because it heals all the other incarnations at the same
time as it heals the current one. Imagine the collective
karma that was balanced by Nelson Mandela forgiving
a whole generation of whites in South Africa for their
treatment of blacks. By the same token, imagine the
collective karma that remains to be balanced in
America for the treatment of slaves and the Native
American Indians.
Our Soul always moves us in the direction of healing
and keeps creating situations that offer us the opportu-
nity to balance karmic energy. However, if this healing
is not accomplished at the level of Divine Truth, we tend
to recreate the imbalance through the resentment and
revenge cycle and the maintenance of victim conscious-
ness. This keeps the wheel of karma spinning round
and round and round. Radical Forgiveness provides
one of the best ways to stop the wheel from turning,
because it breaks the cycle.
Having said all that, if you have a problem with the con-
cept of reincarnation, simply ignore it. It makes no dif-
ference.