Reincarnation and Sex

The predominant cultural background of each race imprints upon the concepts of male and female a lot of attributes that are more appropriate to the first or to the second. Our occidental culture, for instance, defines attributes like reason, common sense and physical strength, to be typical of men, whereas those like sensibility, intuition and physical endurance, are said to be typical of women. Although the separation between what is typical of men and what is typical of women may change from culture to culture, there is no existent culture today, as far as I know, where men and women are expected to have the same predominant attributes.

Nevertheless, despite what the cultural backgrounds define, our acceptance of the spiritual reality, under the light of Spiritism, at least, makes us view the Spirit as a sexless entity. Since evolution requires that each Spirit live every kind of experience available at each world before being “promoted” to a subtler one, reincarnation in alternate sexes is a must.

Spirits that keep a good balance alternating sexes from one reincarnation to the next, normally show, when they are incarnate, attributes that may deceive their sex when someone else just reads what it has written to a list, for instance. I submitted to a test some time ago, intended to determine if one uses most the right or the left side of the brain (intuition x reason) and I scored almost 50/50. So, it is no surprise for me when someone who has never seen me thinks I am a woman. And, believe me, it has happened a few times!

The above understanding also explains homosexuality as the reincarnation of a much unbalanced Spirit in a sex different to the one that has determined more strongly his tastes and preferences due to many repetitive reincarnations in it.

Someone might ask: “If Spirits don’t have sex, why is it that they are seen as being male or female by many of those that can see in the spiritual dimensions?” The answer is quite simple: no medium ever sees the Spirit; mediums see the perispirit or astral body. The perispirit has plastic properties that make it appear exactly the way the spirit expects it to appear. An ignorant and suffering spirit that has suffered an accident at the moment of its death may show all the sequels of the accident imprinted on its perispirit. A Superior Spirit having suffered the same accident may show none, looking as healthy as it feels it is. That way, ignorant Spirits are normally seen with the appearance – and sex – they had in their most significant reincarnation. Superior Spirits on the other hand are normally seen with the appearance - and sex – they know the person that sees them will identify with that of a known good spirit or a master.