The Warrior and the Pacifist

One of the many dichotomies I live with

I like to describe myself as a pacifist. Never in my current life have I ever struck another human being — not even as a kid. Not many humans can claim that they have never struck another human. But I can wholeheartedly make that claim. I am a true pacifist. But, in truth, that is not me. That is a sub-personality of me. With this story I hope to explain that.

In the Western Christian World the notions of reincarnation and karma are poo-pooed as utter nonsense. I have had far, far too many mystical experiences to fall in step with that prevailing thinking. I know (as opposed to believe) that we all have many faces (other lives) and those faces impinge upon our current lives. All of us have sub-personalities that are created from the karma created from our other lives.

Like everyone, I have several sub-personalities that came into existence not only from the residual karma from other lives but also from experiences in my current life. Psychiatrists make the big bucks by digging deep into our psyches to discover these sub-personalities and trying to deal with them. Of course, they will never acknowledge that the origins of some of these sub-personalities may have come from impingements from other lives and experiences and accumulated karma from those other lives. That’s just new age hokum.

Like most humans, I have had hundreds (if not thousands) of other faces or other lives. I prefer not to use the term, past-lives, because I tend to view linear time as left-brained hokum. It’s an illusion.

Of those hundreds of lives I have thus far only been able to connect to and investigate a few dozen of them. But they were (are) the ones in which the karma was developed that helped to create certain sub-personalities that exist in and influence my current life.

They are particularly important in the formation of two of the most major sub-personalities influencing my current life. These two particular sub-personalities I call, The Warrior and The Pacifist.

I have lived a few lives as a pacifist but there was one particular life in which I was an extreme pacifist. I was a Buddhist monk living in Japan around a thousand years ago (viewed by linear time). Pacifism was a…