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@Leo Gura You also have two videos showing people how to practice memento mori. Through going into my fears of physical death, and facing them I have the same sorts of awakenings on the illusory nature of death. Just not the being God myself one, this hasn't happened yet. But I can intuit a technical process that happens after the body dies, and beings from beyond time have given me info about the nature of death as well. The soul seems to go through a process after death that reflects their beliefs and knowledge, karma and the like - so how you die and what you know about it will have value. For someone like you, you might not have a lot of karma and other things to keep you here for another round because you are already so knowledgeable on what God is in the firstplace. But there is something there. I can look at "death", which seems to be life as well. And pull stuff from it in a certain state, like a rabbit out of a hat or something due to serious sickness back in 2017, I opened that channel up. Have you studied reincarnation or any of that? It's pretty interesting actually. I've decided to reincarnate a few more times just because I would leave without knowing enough in this life. There's so much to learn about. You can develop siddhis from going into deep study and delving into one's personal hang ups about death. @Goldzilla Not really, most of them are quite ordinary claims.

Exactly, I'm not going to say it's a universal rule the higher your consciousness is the less you want these things. But, there is a good chance that these aspects of life aren't seen as attractive in one's eyes but rather mundane and mean very little to the very essence of an inter-personal connection between yourself and a potential lover. The more one becomes higher consciousness, the more one knows themself, and the more authenticity becomes the object of attraction. It has nothing to do with being "above it" and that is silly to say. No one's going to say "Ah, but you see you have nice tits. Sorry you just aren't good enough for me". But, rather the tits themselves mean almost nothing to the factors in why you would be attracted to her and if she does have nice tits it's not even a bonus, it's just how it is. Implying that someone only feels this way because they can't get a woman with large breasts is silly and a very low tier deduction of what is actually happening. An argument you would hear on Reddit or something where they person really thinks they got ya there. Instead of having faith in the words of the other person considering they are stating their own personal preferences as a person. Though it's entirely possible someone could literally be the reincarnation of Jesus and be all about them tits and that status.

@BlackPhil Yeah I agree with everything you said pretty much. And yes I had those experiences. Also past-life experiences. Wasn’t claiming there isn’t a Law of One style reincarnation game in play somehow, it’s just that it’s not really relevant for awakening, and further revelations of unconditional love and no separation (quite beyond mere past-life experiences) prompted me to somehow talk about how rebirth is not the ultimate truth anyway, regardless of how relatively true it is.

The simple reason for why it’s a misunderstanding to even wonder about whether reincarnation occurs or not: If you do reincarnate, that means you’re already reincarnated right now. Assuming you don’t already know that you’re a reincarnation, how does reincarnation actually happen in a meaningful way? You wouldn’t know it. There’s just life/God. It can also be directly recognized that the difference between reincarnation and no-reincarnation is not even merely imaginary, but completely nonsensical.

So advaita vedanta might be right on samsara. I tend to see reincarnation as BS because God seems to know it will recognize itself once the ego dies. That's because during awakenings/glimpses I feel like I have already planned everything. So... My guess is that God doesn't reincarnate in a loop. It might reconnect with its true nature at the end of every ego's lifespan. Why should the ego awaken for God to come back to singularity? God recognizes itself clearly once the false self is dead, or transcended by spiritual work. So... I'm still very skeptical about samsara... Seems like a fairytale. Pretty absurd to create other dreams and other dimensions without coming back home to design them isn't it?

On that level, no one really knows — and in fact it seems rather obvious that no one can ever know... Death is merely a fancy word for the unknown, in that regard. But actual death is fiction and nonsensical, as you probably know — in that way, one can know exactly what death is: it doesn’t happen. There are many ideas of what could appear to happen — reincarnation, etc — but regardless, it would not be happening to you. For instance, if someone dies today (is freed from time and space) and is timelessly reincarnated completely as Trump over half a century ago, is it even meaningful to say that reincarnation occurred? That might as well be happening every time you go to sleep at night (or more precisely, whenever you actually lose total consciousness like in anesthesia, since even in deep sleep it’s conceivable that it’s only memory that ceases). You have no way of knowing you don’t reincarnate as Trump every night, whether in a so called alternative timeline or not, as the concept is nonsensical, ultimately because the notion of separation is nonsensical in the first place. As are notions of time, birth, and personal experience simply learned beliefs of separation. Death is the falling away of a separation belief — what seems the most obvious is that this will happen all at once to all remaining separation beliefs of an individual at bodily failure, which is the only reason bodily failure is what people refer to death as the most. But those beliefs can and often do drop before bodily failure, albeit usually not all at once.

Could be, but just like Leo said he has seen how God creates reality, it is possible to see how reincarnation works, past lives ... or so they say

I still don't understand why, with so many spiritually versed people in this forum, the subject of reincarnation seems like a kind of taboo. all mystics, ahem ramana maharashi, have talked about it. Intuitively the idea of an evolution towards greater consciousness life after life seems real.

Is this what ancient hindu sages meant with samsara and reincarnation when a person is not enlightened?

According to non-duality, experiences of infinity with psychedelics, I would say what they have pointed out above. this life is only appearance, reality is infinite, you are infinite now and you will continue to be. Nothing is going to happen and nothing is happening now, but ... many mystics of all time speak of reincarnation. current shadguru for example, but many others, practically all. I would like to understand how, if we are not really separate beings, there is reincarnation. something tells me that it is so

What do you mean by securing a good rebirth? Do you mean my next incarnation would be nice? Unfortunately it is a slippery topic because I can't check if reincarnation true empyrically. I really wonder of what you talked about Jnana. I am meditating for 3 years and it seems I've lost some big chunk of a Joy puzzle!

I don't know why Germany was on my mind. I remember way back like 2 years ago probably in 2018, I had a huge fight with my ex. During the fight I blurted out - I won't be with you. I'll be with a German guy. I don't know why I said that. There were a few coincidences with Germany in my life. I remember reading a story of reincarnation as a kid. The story was of an Indian child who had reincarnated as Indian and returned back to India.. It was strange because I kept searching for that story for years. It felt like souls move around this planet. We have past lives. Maybe in my past life, I had a German lover. Maybe we loved each other and were buried together. I don't know My soul kept wandering and wandering, crying and weeping and looking for a soulmate. I felt like I was standing at a headstone in a cemetery and standing and asking why I hadn't seen my lover, where had he been. Why I was left alone without him. And there was no answer. Only silence. Then past few weeks Germany came up again. I wanted to listen to German songs. I was simply drawn to German things in the last two weeks. Then I kept thinking for past 3 months about Zodiac signs. I was constantly fiddling with Zodiac signs trying to find a match. At first I thought Scorpio was my match, then I thought Cancer and Capricorn.. I knew that I liked Taurus a lot but I wasn't ready to admit it because I was nervous that I would end up fighting with a Taurus the way I fought with my second ex boyfriend Who was also a Taurus. But deep down I knew that a Taurus was irresistible to me. I try to have a psychic connection with all zodiac signs. But only Taurus made sense emotionally. Then I saw Marcel was a Taurus. I found it strange. I fell in love with him Maybe it was Karmic.

Evolution yes. Reincarnation not interested.

Will there be a video covering reincarnation and evolution? P.S. This all reminds me or the movie 'Old Boys'. It's a pretty good movie, that has a loopy ending which puts the main character in deep denial. Worth the watch for the insights into imagination.

Unless you believe that the soul is somehow damaged during an abortion (given a belief in reincarnation) or that it causes a lot of suffering, I think the final legitimate concern from an utilitarian, non-essentialist and non-reincarnation standpoint is that the fetus is somehow "robbed of life". In my opinion, this comes from an irrational impulse of anthropomorphization (although granted, the fetus is technically a human), in the sense that the fetus in its current state doesn't have a "life" yet in terms of immediate impact on and manifestation in the world (a sense of self, personality, interpersonal relationships, a carbon footprint etc.). On the other hand, there is reason why you hesitate pulling the plug on somebody on a life support. It isn't primarily due to the fear that you think they will suffer a painful death, but it's rather because you recognize that they're a fully "realized" being with a life. They have acquired attachments, experiences, identities, and they're emotionally invested in a story, and that is what is actually keeping you from wanting to end your own life.

I have been able to still feel cold while sleeping in a cold room. But, I don’t know if that applies to general anesthesia. What if there is a consciousness so deep that you can’t remember it? That seems to be suggested by the reincarnation model, in that, we can’t remember our consciousness in a past life or before we were born, but advanced Buddhist monks can access these experiences through meditation.

thank you i always enjoy your questions and i'm glad you liked that even if a little off topic ... evidence is scientific materialist paradigm, it is intellectual game, only works up to 500 level of consciousness truth is radically subjective and has to be found within in any case, i am still pretty new on the spiritual quest so most of the time what i write is just trying to make sense of stuff i am hearing within i am no authority except to myself karma and reincarnation seem wholly obvious from all insights i have gotten karma is simply as you sow so you reap, fruit may not even come this life time but it certainly comes, existence keeps track of every little thing so love is always the better choice compared to fear

@gettoefl beautiful. I love osho. You spoke earlier about karma and reincarnation.. What evidence do you have of reincarnation?

I would say that it happens to you as if you are anesthetized with propofol but eternally. you disappear, period. the question is, what are you now? I would say that you are nothing more than a point of view, an experience, something apparent. All your history is nothing, like an hologram. You turn it of and it's done. I do not get to the bottom of the question, that would be enlightened, but I sense it. the absolute that you really are continues as always, being. Well, not continue, here is the difficult part, there is no continuity because it does not happen in the time, and because it really is nothing. So how anything apparently occurs? How an experience happens from the no experience? what I don't understand is why all enlightened masters speak of reincarnation. who is reincarnated?

One of the most honest expressions about death, which resonates with me: The essence of who you are is beyond death. That comes out of inner realization. I don’t know much beyond that. You’ll have to wait and see when you actually die. - Eckhart Tolle Reincarnation, near death experiences, ghosts, etc. are all possible, but still they are bound by relative reality. Ultimately, does it matter? We are all the same Consciousness, dreaming, in different states of awareness. When you realize that, the rules reveal the game itself.

And as it has been since before the era of the great empires... Romans, Vikings, Aztecs, Egyptions, etc... throughout history the elites have struggled with ways to keep the masses under control. Is reality a simulation? Are we souls incarnating in a playground that we created because oneness became too boring? You're assuming God cares about the end result of this simulation... whether the economy collapses or not, whether Cuban rebels get slaughtered or not... if there is karma, and reincarnation, it's meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Our species will be long extinct before the sun goes Red Giant in our simulation, which is but the blink of an eye in the entirety of "existence." Now, don't forget that the extended warranty on your car is about to expire! "As I was saying, the solution to our real enemy--boredom--turned out to be mortality. There were practical reasons for this. God pondered over a concept which eventually came to be known as time. Because in order to beget a damn thing outside of Source, there had to be an artificial construct to build into as well as the possibility of a beginning and an ending to act as bookends. In other words, it had to be finite or it would not solve the problem of a reprieve away from eternity and infinity. Sometimes infinity is a pain in the ass, and no one knew this better than God." We we need to do is figure out a way to crash the simulation. Chuckle. Maybe hijack the operating system and learn to re-code the program to suit our needs.. not just DNA which we will have mastered within 100 years but some of the basic laws of nature... at that point we can travel to distant "planets" within the simulation.

You can ALWAYS stop playing games such as: - Validation - Loneliness - Being right or wrong - Heaven and hell - Reincarnation - 'Soul contracts' - Life being a school or a test - Reptilian overlords - Past and future - Spiral Dynamics - Chakras - Being a human being inhabitating planet Earth - Science - Being a man - Being a woman TRUTH EXISTS BEYOND THE GAMES

It means that reincarnation is not what you think it is.

Hilarious attempts at rationalizing away evidence for reincarnation by practitioners of scientism: The scientific method just doesn't apply to this. You can't do an experiment using the current version of the scientific method, and prove that someone's soul reincarnates. You also can't prove with current methodology that it does not. I love how that makes these guys sweat and squirm and resort to hypocrisy and fallacies. The eggheaded guy criticized that reincarnation researchers are biased because they want it to be real. Then proceeded to set up an experiment with the goal to prove that it is not real? The experiment involved getting children to make up stories, and seeing if those correlate just as well with people that have existed. Then they picked only the stories that seemed to be very specific, linked them to a real person, and said "Tada, a made-up story is just as easily linked to a person that really existed". Conveniently ignoring that memories and imagination are very similar, especially children often mix them up. He didn't prove that telling the child to make up a story didn't trigger a past memory in her. That's what it clearly looks like to me. And the older devil: "We lost the Christian narrative that helped us cope with the mystery of death, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose ideas that give us comfort . [And so that's why we needed the idea of reincarnation]" (notice how the choice of words makes it sound pathetic) LOL? Scientists do the exact same thing, but word it a bit differently. And they don't even see HOW it is the exact same thing. We lost the narrative that the atom is solid, which helped us understand (helped us cope with the mystery of) life, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose new models that make sense to us (give us comfort/the illusion of complete understanding). [and now we have (that's why we needed) string theory / quantum physics] We lost the narrative that the sun spins around the earth, that made us uncomfortable, so then we looked around (measured a bunch of stuff, which is just perception with arbitrarily chosen sensors), and needed a new story to make us comfortable again. So interesting and devilish how they just reword the same process, to make it sound pathetic. I used to believe this scientism crap, not too long ago?

Hilarious attempts at rationalizing away evidence for reincarnation by practitioners of scientism: The eggheaded guy criticized that reincarnation researchers are biased because they want it to be real. Then proceeded to set up an experiment with the goal to prove that it is not real? The experiment involved getting children to make up stories, and seeing if those correlate just as well with people that have existed. Then they picked only the stories that seemed to be very specific, linked them to a real person, and said "Tada, a made-up story is just as easily linked to a person that really existed". Conveniently ignoring that memories and imagination are very similar, especially children often mix them up. He didn't prove that telling the child to make up a story didn't trigger a past memory in her. To me, it clearly did. And the older devil: "We lost the Christian narrative that helped us cope with the mystery of death, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose ideas that give us comfort . [And so that's why we needed the idea of reincarnation]" LOL? Scientists do the exact same thing, but word it a bit differently. And they don't even see HOW it is the exact same thing. We lost the narrative that the atom is solid, which helped us understand (helped us cope with the mystery of) life, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose new models that make sense to us (give us comfort/the illusion of complete understanding). [and now we have (that's why we needed) string theory / quantum physics] So interesting and devilish how they just reword the same process, to make it sound pathetic. I used to believe this scientism crap, not too long ago? It's very sneaky. They use the fact that "in believing this, they take great comfort" as a way to discredit it. Conveniently ignoring (or not knowing) that how a belief feels is a good indicator to how closely it aligns with truth. What a great deception! I pity these people now (of whom I was one) who force themselves to believe things that are very uncomfortable and cause great suffering to believe. Just because they got brainwashed into thinking that that is the correct way. Same with hell. "If you have anal sex, a bearded man in the sky will make sure you burn eternally". Does that feel comfortable to believe? Nope. So the comfort argument really doesn't fly as a way to discredit religion. That is a good song tho. Bro... If people who died and came back right away (the ones who had a near-death experience, of which many, many great recontations can be found in Shaman Oaks's youtube channel) remember that tunnel, AND children who were recently born remember that tunnel, then how stupid is it to say that the tunnel doesn't exist? That's like saying planets don't exist because you never looked through a telescope, and people who look through telescopes are crazy. And "it brings them great comfort" to look through telescopes and believe that we're not the only planet. ? Interesting parallel: if you die a violent death, your reincarnation remembers your past life better. If you are violently awoken from sleep, you remember your dream better. Do animals know the things they miraculously know (how to do their mating ritual, how to fly around the earth and navigate during winter trek, I'm sure there are better examples) because all of them die violent deaths again and again, and so they compensate their lack of brain size with being able to retain memory and learn across lifespans? Also what's interesting to me that in these reincarnation stories, the kids stopped remembering from the age they went to school. What would we remember if we didn't force-feed information to our children?