Rest Incarnations
From: Richard Distasi
Date: Sun Nov 9, 2003 11:17 pm
Subject: Rest Incarnations
Tarjei
wrote:
Someone once mentioned on an e-list that Rudolf
Steiner speaks about "rest incarnations" and the frequent
occurrence of a life with disabilities shortly before a life
of great accomplishment. (Can someone enlighten us here?) "Rest
incarnation" seems to me an odd description of brain damage
or mental handicap.
With the above in mind, a mentally handicapped
condition would not be an incarnation of rest, but of exercise,
of hard work."
I think that RSteiner meant by a rest incarnation is that strong
and advanced individuals will have their incarnations in which
they are powerful and significant forces in the world or in their
communities but often times they will have an incarnation in
which they lack the talents and capacities which they would normally
hold or that in a "rest incarnation" they are in a
preparatory incarnation in which they develop the base for what
they are to accomplish in their next incarnation.
As far as a "genius incarnation" being preceded by
a mentally challenged incarnation is concerned I have read this
from Steiner also. As I understand it this is a fundamental belief
behind the Camphill Movement.
I also remember that Steiner had once said that people with severe
psychiatric conditions are often in a preparatory incarnation
in which they are developing the capacities for clairvoyance
in their next incarnation. Again it is the struggle the sows
the seeds.
rick distasi
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