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In the Beginning
Almost all cultures, whether it faith based or science based, have a creation story. Interestingly, not all. Buddhism doesn’t address it, likely because it’s just not relevant to the process of staying present and being kind. My Christian faith gave me one story. My science faith gave me another. Those two are not necessarily in conflict, though many want it to be. I am still stuck in an infinite redress- if the universe came from the Big Bang, where did that come from. If God created it, who created God. If aliens seeded life on earth, who created the aliens?
This essay is in no way an answer to all of this. If it doesn’t frighten you to explore it with me, let’s start with Richard Martini…
I start with Martini, probably because you will need a Martini to get through this! But more, because in his book Hacking the Afterlife, one of the person regressed in Michael Newton’s method of Past Life Regression (PLR from here out) technique had a conversation with an entity that claimed to be the Earth. It wasn’t like an ominous, scary voice, “In the beginning, there was I…” kind of voice. It suggested all stellar bodies have souls. Essentially, the entity speaking for or as the Earth suggested, ‘at a certain point in my evolution, when the conditions were right to support life, a call went out.’ That call was answered by many.
From Martini, we will jump to Linda Moulton Howe, and her book, Glimpses of Other Realities: High Strangeness, volume II. In this…
