The Recycling Process In Nature

This is the concluding part of this article first published last Friday.

For those who ask where the soul goes after death, the answer is that apart from earth-life, there are various other regions of abode and activity, of light and finer substances of matter which are invisible to human eyes. If we regard the earthly environment as the region of dense matter, the “beyond” which is quite vast, consists of medium, fine and finer spheres where life exists too. What is called the beyond covers endless vastnesses and varied planes which the human soul must journey through in its on-going development.
It is regrettable that some religious leaders can assert in speech and writing that “there is nothing like re-incarnation”. But this issue is important in an understanding of many controversies and inexplicable experiences of life. Definitely, there is a recycling of the human soul, whereby opportunities are provided for errors, negligences, deficiencies and debts incurred in past rounds or phases of experiencing to be corrected. Like in the school process, no child can become perfect or learn all that is necessary in only one session alone. There must be several exposures and ever onward movement from one session to another, and from one institution to another, advancing in consciousness.
What is actually offensive about the concept of continuity of life? The pity is that human obsession with materiality continues to make us so myopic and narrow-minded that we rarely learn lessons that are quite obvious through which nature seeks to educate us. Happily there are higher institution globally which are taking keen interests in thanatology and anamnesis, that is, death and recall of past earth-life experiences. There are many cases being investigated as well as testimonies.
A refining process is not only a means of purification but also an opportunity to separate and classify substances according to their nature and value. Methods used in the process include heating and filteration. Individuals need to be exposed to tests and drills for the purpose. Should any person remain content and happy standing still whereas everything in creation is in a state of motion? Varieties do not only constitute the spices of life but also provide enrichment and wider exposures to diversities of experiences. It would be necessary to add that currently there is an intensified experiencing globally, meant to intensify purification process.
Wider Concept of Schooling Process
Is it not rational to say that every life on earth is a short time of schooling and that we do not cease to exist when the body dies? Schooling as a regulated learning process is not human invention, rather, it was borrowed from nature through keen observations, with emphasis on combining the formal and informal system. Since individual human beings posses diverse talents and abilities, is it not national that learning and development should be comprehensive and continuous processes? Must schooling stop at the primary level alone?
Pressures and demands of various kinds come from various quarters, forcing every individual to make some adjustments every moment. Those who rise up to such demands and who allow themselves to be guided inwardly have a greater chance of learning wisely. But those who remain dull, obtuse and conceited would rarely make the best of the schooling process. The best teacher every individual has is usually his own personal experience, and the best adjustment anyone can make would depend on his personal volition. No malpractices in the process of assessment and evaluation of individual performances!
Obviously, there would be truant and unserious students in life’s schooling process who would play pranks of different kinds. Consequently, there would be disparities and inequalities among men and the necessity to apply stringent measure on recalcitrant ones. In a refining process stubborn elements are forced to bear intensive degree of heat or some catalyst used to soften substances that heat cannot break down.
Do parents not flog and punish stubborn children, and is there no justice in the process of separating “the wheat from the chaff” during harvest time? It is obvious that there can never be a uniform maturing of all men on earth in life’s schooling process, neither can discriminatory segregation be avoided. The issue of segregation as a Natural process should be understood within the context of the justice implied in the “separation of the wheat from the chaff”. It would be “hell” and quite unfair to force incompatible and unequal partners into a union.
What is known as “positive discrimination” in modern school system is the separation of and grouping students according to ability and academic standing. The purpose is to provide special attention to weak students through special instructions and treatment. We can observe similar pattern of segregation in the working of Nature.
Therefore, the ultimate purpose of Recycling process in Nature is the provision of opportunities for every individual and every species to transform and develop better in the mill of refining. Those who pass through or experience more intensive heat in the process surely need such catharsis to be able to mend and find salvation. Surely, Nature spurns extreme deficiencies and recalcitrance as an attribute of true love.
Readers interested in the issues discussed briefly here will find more enlightenment in my book: Understanding Death and Its Purposes – Rokins Publishers, 2009.
Dr. Amirize is a retired lecturer at the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.

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