The Question came up: Should We Ever Look Back?

This is about as silly as asking if we should ever look forward.

And in a Nutshell, we would not have Jazz today if we didn’t have talented people that looked back. We wouldn’t have fabulous music and lyrics by Bob Dylan or Nirvana if they didn’t look back at the past: folk music, gospel and Christian music. The earlier music shaped their music and thus shaped humanity’s consciousness because of their interpretations. Think about Dylan’s “Turn, Turn, Turn” that is a total and complete example of looking at the past (one of King David’s Psalms) and creating the present for future generations.

Looking back is ABSOLUTELY Essential to being in the Present and RIDICULOUSLY Necessary before entering the Future.

Let’s look at this concept in action…

A man was once told that he would have three choices for a wife. Some screw was loose in his brain and he thought that meant he had to pick 1 of 3 females; INSTEAD OF REALIZING THAT HE WAS BLESSED AND COULD HAVE ALL THREE CONSECUTIVELY. The beauty of his life was that he would have an Opportunity to meet ALL of them, and love All of them in the manner He Chose because it was His choice and not theirs. Karma was on his side. Wow, what a concept!!!

Here he thought bad things happened to those he loved and he simply misunderstood that their Karma was simply not to be in his life as long as he was to live. Sort of like a Redwood Tree lives 1000 years, but all the humans that might protected it live less than 100 years, so one tree would need about 10+ humans for a full cycle of protection. Of course, I’m trying to make light of the situation to balance out the strength of my words.

Sorry gentle readers.

Perhaps it wasn’t a screw loose per say, but a sincere misunderstanding of how linear lives present themselves. You can’t move from the Past, to the Future and simply skip the Present. In order to go from one wife to the next wife, you have to at least travel WITH the middle wife, because those chains of events lead you to the next one or better prepare you for the next one.  I think Orson Scott Card captured it best in his books, "Women of Genesis."

Westerners have such weird beliefs about what a wife Is and how she is Found. I’m always simply amazed at this lack of understanding. Each person, place and event in our lives SHAPE US for the next person, place and event in our lives. And just because you meet your next Karmic wife, doesn’t mean you have to actually marry her. How many men actually legally marry their wives? But you do have to actually know her well enough to at least consider the idea with an honest appraisal. But missing the step, misses the opportunity for growth and thus being prepared for the third wife; as well as sometimes meeting her.

Easterners have this down easy as pie. Either they have their wives at the same time, or they have them consecutively.  Heck, with the Tibetans, their wife have several husbands, so you know it goes both ways and isn't gender specific.

To “refrain from looking backwards” is to miss the point. We can either fight the Present and miss the Future or we can go with the flow and everything will happen naturally.  Believe it or not, there really is a reason for everything under the sun.
Not to mention, if you were to study the many surveys of men that have 3 wives consecutively, you would find that all of them needed that middle step for some very important reasons: She either carried two keys and not one…or he had to work on some issue before he was ready to commit to one person for the rest of his life. Very simply put, a braid involves three pieces of hair, all leading to one complete piece.

This isn’t Western brain surgery, its fundamental 101 in the Eastern world.

Make life easy on everyone and go with the flow: examine the Past, to come terms with It in hands of the Present, so you can be whole and ready for the Future.