Guest Post: I Choose My Parents?

Where did the idea that we pick out our parents come from?

It comes from Buddhism. The belief that we each select our parents in each of our lives is well documented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. That book explains what happens to a soul traversing from one incarnation to the next. The soul enters into what is called the Bardo, loosely translated as “The In Between” where the soul travels for seven weeks—forty-nine days—while Buddhist monks chant in an effort to guide the soul on its journey. The intonations aim to inspire the soul to accept one of the several heavens offered to it at various stages along the way. But if that does not happen, or cannot happen due to the need to balance out the positive and negative forces of karma left over from the actions and consequences in prior lives, the soul at the end of the Bardo is given the choice to accept any one of several couples for parents in its next life time. The soul sees all of those potential parents making love and the sexual magnetic energy is overwhelmingly strong. Still, the soul is encouraged, per the book and chanting monks, to be cautious not to go into what is called a bad womb.

What the Buddhist monks mean by a bad womb is one that will give birth to a person where dharma will not be taught. Dharma means ethical conduct and righteousness gained by the teachings, practices, and expressions of wisdom about the laws of nature. The monks desire the negative forces of karma from past lives become balanced when positive thoughts and actions in the next life are in accordance with the laws that order the universe. They know we experience the consequences of our thoughts and actions, thereby the results of fulfilling dharma will improve the quality of the expression and manifestation of the next lifetime reality of the body and soul. It is important to block the womb where there is lust, hate, and delusion. To avoid slipping into it the soul is told to aim its will towards requesting to be born to a couple that will teach dharma and thus obstruct any womb of a mother who will not. Or else the soul is to form the powerful intention to receive spiritual education and illumination from the couple, which will then close off the womb of any who cannot.

The soul does not enter into an already made body, but the soul forms the body suitable for it—the soul—to inhabit. The soul comes first. It constructs the body. It is the thought force of desire for sensory expression that causes the natural formation of the fetus to be molded by energy supplied by the creative impulse of the being that lived before.

The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom, Dhammapada, the best-known Buddhist text opens up with: Experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, and produced by mind. Thus, everything we are is the result of what we have thought. Therefore each of us can determine our past life experiences by looking at the body we live in right now. And each of us can know what the future will bring in our current and future incarnations by noting what our minds are thinking right now.

Born in Missouri, May Sinclair left there as a toddler to reside with her parents in Arkansas, Idaho, and Washington State, where her carpenter father traveled to ensure he always had adequate work. He eventually rejoined the Navy, so there were additional states across the nation to be lived in like New Jersey, Illinois, California, and Hawaii.

Throughout her life the traveling has continued. She met her first husband in Hawaii, moved with him to New York, then back to California. She currently lives in southern California with her second husband, whom she first encountered in Liverpool, England.

When forty-two years old her first husband died at the age of forty-six. He was in a coma for a week before his spirit left his body. Prior to and for many months after that time she experienced several psychic events and had numerous dreams that led her to contemplate the possibility of people reincarnating. Her education about the philosophy of metaphysics began at that point and has continued since.

May Sinclair's doctorate is in the philosophy of Metaphysics. She is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of seven non-fiction books, as well as three fantasy fiction novels, based on symbolism and ancient history. Interjecting humor into a controversial subject, she adds a Western slant to an Eastern perspective in her latest book titled, Karmic Tribunal, A Political & Metaphysical Satire, published in late December, 2016. She is currently writing the third book of her metaphysical fantasy trilogy about reincarnation, Another Turn of the Wheel.

Most people hate politicians—unless they are one. Wouldn’t it be great to know that what goes around does come round? That politicians who make bold promises to secure their election would have to live with the consequences of their actions—or inactions—just like us ordinary people? To balance the karma, the politician in this story, Henrietta Radcliff Carstairs has to review her life choices in a tribunal conducted between her last and next lifetime. “…God forgives all.” “…true. However, your karma is not between you and God…be judged on behalf of those who were affected…” She gets several options and must choose which of the consequences she will experience in her next life, such as: By supporting unethical trade deals, she can choose to work in a sweatshop. Made war, bombed countries, thus could decide to reside in a country being bombed. Which karma will she decide to balance

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