Yeats' perpetual reincarnation

One of the most remarkable channeled documents of the past century is Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats’ A Vision.  Yeats explains how he obtained A Vision as follows:  “On the afternoon of October 24^th, 1917, four days after my marriage, my wife surprised me by attempting automatic writing.  What came in disjointed sentences, in almost illegible writing, was so exciting, sometimes so profound, that I persuaded her to give an hour or two day after day to the unknown writer, and after some half dozen such hours offered to spend what remained of life explaining and piecing together those scattered sentences.”  Yeats spent the next twenty years on this project, and in the end produced a masterpiece which contains an all-encompassing system of symbolism which has geometrical, astrological, psychological, metaphysical, and historical components – a model of the entire universe:  “all thought, all history and the difference between man and man.”  

To understand Yeats’ theory of reincarnation described in A Vision, it is important to understand that reincarnation does not take place within a matrix of linear time.  It’s not as if e.g. you had a life in ancient Greece and then you died; then you had a life in ancient Rome and then you died; then you had a life in the Middle Ages and then you died; etc.  Rather, all of your past and future lives are going on at once, in an eternal Now moment.  One way of thinking about this is:  survivors of near-death experiences often report seeing all the events that every happened to them flash by them in no time at all.  Thus it would seem that we experience the thought forms of our lives twice – once in linear fashion over a lifetime, and the second time around in timeless fashion at the moment of death.  Similarly, while there is indeed an evolution going on in the universe, this evolution is not taking place in linear time:  it’s all happening at once.  Read on>>