Some Thoughts on Reincarnation

[0omnidirectional]

I don’t believe in reincarnation per-say because there is only One Consciousness, thus you cannot have more than one life because every thing is One Life. We may get the impression of being here before because our currently inhabited aetheric resonance is similar to a resonance of a past incarnation of the One Consciousness. Being you are of a similar vibration, you can remember things, connect to the strain, and think about what that vibration of mind would have done in specific situations. You can learn from this archetypal consciousness that you are monadically connected to in this experience.

Some thoughts about the monad:
While you may be modadically connected to a being of a previous incarnation. I believe the monad has the 22 different consciousness archetpes that are produced in this galaxy. So this particular soul you are connecting to may in-fact be from the 18th archetype of consciousness within the monad. And because you connected with this strain of monad, rather than the many other monads (Ultimatly they are all part of One Monad), this soul may be of your resonance, or close to it. There are many souls connected to an over-soul (consciousness archetype) which is in turn connected to the monad.

[danmega]

funny enough, those are the reasons why i believe in reincarnation

[ArmsMerchant]

I have recalled numerous past lives, both my own, and in doing past-life readings for clients.

I agree with Stuart Wilde, who has written that the soul incarnates on this plane to gain experiences not possible otherwise, and one lifetime isn't enough.

[Dream of the iris]

I've recalled some previous lives as well. Some dating back to the millions of years old our time. Assuming that was a real memory.

*edit.

Actually, it's 23 pairs of chromosomes.

So, it's not interesting that you mention 22. :p

[chompchompchomsky]

You made a lot of generalized statements about the nature of being and nothingness that are not certain. Why One Consciousness? Why any conciousness? Where did you get all that? Just curious.

[ArmsMerchant]

^Let me address that issue. At the Highest level, we are All One. This is the greatest of all metaphysical truths, arguably the hardest to grasp intellectually.

Separation is an illusion, and the cause of all the suffering in the world.

Does that help?

[BrokeProphet]

Separation is an illusion, and the cause of all the suffering in the world.

Separation is an empirical fact.

We are seperate distinct individuals with differing ideas about everything many would consider important to a human being.

[Built To Last]

I believe in reincarnation because of a hypothesis my friend has dubbed "Carbon Theory". I view essence to be of natural origin. In other words, the soul is of the universe, not placed here by some other worldly being. So, when we die, the death is only for the temporary body. That body then decomposes and goes to fuel the life processes of another thing and so on.

But don't confuse this with me saying that your body IS YOU. The body is only a temporal manifestation of something greater.


Separation is an empirical fact.

Oh?

[Obbe]

Separation is an empirical fact.

Facts are lies.

[Obbe]

I don’t believe in reincarnation per-say because there is only One Consciousness, thus you cannot have more than one life because every thing is One Life.

Very agreeable.

[Actor]

If reincarnation is real what were we before the first lifeform got here?

[0omnidirectional]

I've recalled some previous lives as well. Some dating back to the millions of years old our time. Assuming that was a real memory.

Interesting that you mention 22. What is it, 22 pairs of chromosomes or something like that.

I remembered something about being a native American when I was five years old. Wouldn't be surprised if it was near where I live now.

The 22 is for the 22 paths of the Mystical Qabala.

[Built To Last]

If reincarnation is real what were we before the first lifeform got here?

This question imposes two incorrect ideas. For one, it asserts that to be alive, one must be a human/animal/cell. Secondly, it asserts that this physical manifestation IS what we are. To say that this current physical manifestation is us, is correct, but in a way it doesn't give credit to all else that we are.

[Waspish]

I believe that recalling past lives is actually insticts/memories passed down through genetics.
Does that fit in with the One Conciousness belief?
I mean, is that pretty much the same thing, but one with a more scientific focus, or am I really not grasping the concept?

[Dream of the iris]

See, the whole "One life" thing is something I really disagree on.

I see it as we are all individual and are all learning lessons/growing as we live. We are holograms of Source, if you want to think that, but I am most defiently an individual. So are you. With an individual history and an individual path.


Waspish, I would say the Spirit is seperate from the Flesh, so I would say that it doesn't depend entirely on genetics, however, I do believe that genetics plays somewhat of a role. We have untapped potential in our DNA and a vast majority of it is unexplored. I believe that our genes do play a role in our consciousness and the evolution of our consciousness. I.E. our conscousness affects our DNA, resulting in mutations and ultimately evolution. Memories being passed over through our genes doesn't sound entirely impossible.

[ArmsMerchant]

If reincarnation is real what were we before the first lifeform got here?

At the risk of sounding flip, anywhere we chose to be.

The soul--or Essential Self--is non-local. There is no reason why we could not reincarnate on, say, another planet or in another local universe.

[I am]

I think gangaji said it best when she used the stream and ocean metaphor. The jist of it was, while we are all part of the ocean of consciousness(the source) we each have our own life stream, and the journey of the stream back to the ocean can take many physical forms as it progresses towards the ocean, but at the core, we are all part of the same ocean, we are all one