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If brain creates consciousness, then the senses of the body must also be limited by the brain itself. Then, why is it that People who have a NDE(Near Death Experience) sometimes accurately describe events that had happened far away from their body when they flatlined on the hospital table. How come Yogis able to to Parakaya Pravesha(Entering into another body through Pranic airs). How come people read other's minds that are far away? During a kundalini awakening, a youtuber described seeing through walls. How do you explain various reincarnation stories of children, being born with wound marks on their body, with the memory of dying because of traumatic injury at the wound mark area in their previous life? Which when verified, turns out to be true. Also CIA has released documents of experiments that they conducted which clearly talks about these phenomena. In those reports it was observed and concluded to be real by scientists as well.

Death is the biggest problem for the sense of self. That's why it creates belief's of a soul that continues on to the afterlife, infinite consciousness, reincarnation or whatever have you. What it can't recognize is that it already isn't alive. It's Maya illusion of the self. So nothing dies or continues on living because it isn't real from the very start. So safe and dangerous are equally meaningless to that which isn't real.

Dear @StateOfMind, I already shared my experience in my answer to your reincarnation inquiry. My awakening occurred without the assistance of psychedelics, it happened on its own and quite unexpectedly tbh. I was just sitting on my bed and it just hit my heart with what I thought at the time was the love of Jesus Christ (I come from a Christian background). Upon awakening I had 3 main insights; - I actually know everything I should do & I’ve only been pretending not to know - Everything is perfect & everything is ❤️ - I am ready to die right now because I’m no longer attached to appearances ?‍♂️ Reincarnation didn’t even come up after the 3rd insight, as it really didn’t matter.. I felt just ready to die and bathe in love... (btw, at the time I didn’t know about Leo or Actualized.org - let alone non duality). Now when recontextualizing with what I know after a year and a half of studying, I’d say that when we’re in a state of pure presence, the question won’t even arise. Once awake, you’ll know you were never born, rendering reincarnation obsolete... Just standing knowingly as awareness❤️ Namaste ?? , any question is welcomed!

Dear @StateOfMind, Upon awakening I had 3 main insights; - I actually know everything I should do & I’ve only been pretending not to know - Everything is perfect & everything is ❤️ - I am ready to die right now because I’m no longer attached to appearances ?‍♂️ Reincarnation didn’t even come up after the 3rd insight, as it really didn’t matter.. I felt just ready to die and bathe in love... (btw, at the time I didn’t know about Leo or Actualized.org - let alone non duality). Now when recontextualizing with what I know after a year and a half of studying, I’d say that when we’re in a state of pure presence, the question won’t even arise. Once awake, you’ll know you were never born, rendering reincarnation obsolete... Just standing knowingly as awareness❤️ Namaste ?? , any question is welcomed!

Go to this thread, the last few replies I have given apply to your question: Replace solipsism with reincarnation.

The only "you" that exist imo is the ego, the set of thoughts that creates the illusion of a center. There is an energetic pattern that comes from birth, a karma, you just have to observe 3-year-old children. This stable pattern is what I think the "you" is, which is said to be an illusion, and which creates the illusion of individual, separation, time, etc. If you break that pattern, what remains? being real, but not a "you". What I believe is that reincarnation, if it exists, can only be a continuity of the pattern that has ended. you will not know, because there is no you, you do not exist

You are right. But you write that reincarnation is just beliefs and stories. And that's right, to you, they are. But if you are blind and you have never experienced eyesight, it doesn't mean it's just beliefs and stories. @Breakingthewall I assume that "you" that we refer to here is current perspective of awareness.

Reincarnation is just beliefs and stories. What happens after death? You will die and know so why the hurry? Anything you can't see..touch.. Smell.. .. Taste.. Right now is a fairy tale.

Yes. Now, “you” are collection of thoughts. Which is identification, naming, labeling and putting meaning on thoughts and words, even saying words to “words”, thoughts to “thoughts “ as “reincarnation “. You need a direct realization of who you really are. Which is enlightenment or direct realization. Only when you not know, you are what you are. Thats why you don’t remember before so called birth, thats what “being” is.

Definitely. After some time, if you keep observing, “you” realize that “observer” itself is a thought, as “reincarnation “. You are already what you are. ?. Just identification with so called thoughts makes you so called “separate “ (identification again with naming and labeling word of “separate” or “word”).

Just a thought. There is no such a thing as reincarnation, life nor death. You are already what you are. Just thought process makes it cloudy. Let the clouds go with surrendering the thoughts, most importantly belief of “I”.

Ok. so how does reincarnation works?

The best route to enlightenment is via the teachings of Jacob Frank, an 18th-century religious leader who proclaimed to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi. Jacob Frank recommended homosexual orgies in excrement to achieve states of enlightenment spoken of by spiritual gurus such as the Buddha and Adyashanti. If you want to discover the strange loop and the infinite nature of everything, just indulge in an orgy of excrement. Also, put 5-MeO-DMT into the mix for guaranteed, permanent states of enlightenment and oneness. How far are you willing to go to become enlightened? Do not impose conditions upon yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankism

Maybe we look at it totally wrong and this is very biased linear perspective. If someone in "past" had similar energetical structure I might be able to communicate "telepathically" with them and because of that I think that it was past me. Traditional understanding of reincarnation makes sense only when we believe in time (which is false perception). *By telepathy I mean communication based on similarity. You can communicate well with yourself because you are very similar to yourself It's relatively easier to do that when you have similar core / or there is a polarization (eg. masculine - feminine) / or you are being in a state of no self. It depends how you define it. There can't be any existence without a falsehood. If you are too enlightened you may get disconnected from your body accidently.

These are my insights on reincarnation from my awakening experiences: Every life is your past, present, and future life. There is no linear sequence to what lives you live. If that were true, then that would mean there was a first life you lived and an end life you will live. This would mean that there was a beginning point to when you started living lives, but of course, as God(who is Absolutely Infinite) you never had a beginning, nor will you have an end. Linearity necessarily implies finiteness (which means there is a beginning and an end) but the amount of lives you lived/are living/will live is absolutely infinite, so how could it have had a beginning or end? With no beginning or end, there is no “next” or “before”. Every point in Infinity is the very center! How could “you“ go to the “next” life when there is no such thing as “you” to begin with? This idea is born from the ego. It implies that there is some unique individual identity that moves on from life to life, but as everyone on this forum should understand: YOU HAVE NO IDENTITY. Your actual identity is God, which is all identities and none at the same time. And God lives all lives at once, in the Eternal NOW.

@Username Yes, I think that this whole story of reincarnation comes from intuitions that ancient mystics have had, it does not have to be 100% correct, or not even approximately, but I do see interlocking patterns, predestined family histories, structures that evolve ... but it doesn't have to be true of course. About the totally enlightened idk, maybe you could be 99,9% enlightened, any Buda that is meditating all day,needs to be fed, egoless, just presence

But "you" don't exist, that you is me, the dog, etc...so the only that could reincarnate is the ego. Is it possible? I believe yes. That's why is said that when you are enlightened there is not more reincarnation,. because there isn't ego , energetic structure, to continue

Just realize that you aren't always there. You are not conscious all the time. When you take a psychedelic gaps are filled and weird things start to happen. You gain control over reality and you can more control over it. I experienced something like jumping between timelines - lack of stability. This is also why it's good to meditate - to learn how to be present no matter what. I believe there is something like reincarnation after physical death. When your body is destroyed and you can no longer be attached to it, "you" will find something energetically suitable.

Did you have any insights during an wakening about reincarnation/past lives? if yes, please do share it with us... Please don't tell me something you've read or heard, i want raw insights.

For fuck's sake! This is the last thing I need right now. The new age hippy propaganda is taking over the country, which is already a dead country. Ugh. Disgusting. I should cut down on my Facebook usage too. Lots of idiots there dogmatically parroting concepts such as reincarnation, Karma, God, etc... and mindlessly half-seriously asking existential questions. Lord! Why are you doing this to me? Who the fuck gave them technology?! It's like ego & delusion on steroids. Human rights and free speech are the biggest mistake in the human history. Most people don't deserve shit. Most people are just malware and should be used, repressed, and oppressed by dictators and psychopaths like me.

something tells me that reincarnation is real, but who reincarnates, if there is no individual i right now, is an illusion created by thought. I would say that a pattern is reincarnated, a mold with the characteristics that you have acquired in this existence, but empty, without any memory but with very marked tendencies. your candle goes out and gives light to another candle that continues to evolve, but there is no i, only the cosmos incarnating

I was reading a new book from Ram Dass yesterday, where he compares his soul journey to a spiral staircase. He is standing midway, looking down at the selves that preceded his current incarnation. Looking up, at the top of the stairs, is him too, but as ultimate awareness. It resonated with me. Ram Dass died in December 2019, at the age of 90. I wonder what his new incarnation is, or will be? The truth is that although it is possible to realize ourselves as infinite Consciousness that was never created or destroyed, the actual fate of our relative selves remains a mystery. Maybe the ancient gurus were right about reincarnation, but even that is just a belief. It doesn't actually matter. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to die before you die. Realizing the depthless ocean of Love that You are is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, or to any other relative self.

Hello. I know my answer comes late. Thanks for all your words. I already read your answers when you posted them, but I didn't answer them. I needed to take a break from actualized.org, meditation and spirituality. I was just desperate. I really appreciated your words, but I didn't know how to properly use your advice. I know that repression is not a healthy way to deal with fear, but I didn't know what to do. When I decorated our Christmas tree with my family, I could not enjoy it. To "never stop being aware of something" was very scary. I didn't know what to do, I never felt an anxiety like that in my life. I am not an anxious person. I think, in retrospect i was not ready for my ego-death-experience in September, at least not for the consequences for my existence. I don't know if I "worked out my fear" or anything like that, but at least I don't feel anxiety when I think about immortality, reincarnation, and the story "The Egg" anymore. Idk, it just does not feel dangerous now. Maybe it will do so in future again. But I will work through it. The experience in September was probably the most incredible gift of my life. Thanks for your kind words and advices.

A fatal "mistake" spiritual teachers have made I think is to only have the I Am dimension as a mental state. And their bodies are treated as something separate and they age and die. In this way they become total losers in my opinion. There isn't anything natural by biological birth and death. What we need to do instead is to expand the I Am dimension into the body, and then expand our physical body so that it becomes the whole planet Earth. Birth, death, reincarnation, heaven and hell, those are all insane beliefs.

I highly recommend reading the works of Pyrrhonism. I believe I was probably 13-15 years old when I first studied epistemology, and I encountered skepticism. It all made perfect sense, but it was just an idea to me. I didn’t read the whole book, I just understood the basic premise of there being no criterion of truth (Credit: Wikipedia) For several years, I carried skepticism in a latent capacity. I‘d like to think that I never totally committed myself to any belief, but I fell prey to negative dogmatism. I was/am a Humean. I went around everywhere and shook everybody’s foundation. The Problem of Induction is my favorite piece of philosophy because it made me understand that I’m an animal. I was active on the Internet doubting a lot of what people believe. I was having fun, but I admit that I did not fully get it though. I wasn’t what you’d call “Orange” because I actively fought scientism (in fact watching Leo’s newest videos I couldn’t help but think welcome to club?) But, I was also anti-religion. I was anti-everything. Sort of like a self-amused Nihilist. This worldview was somewhat liberating, but incomplete. A lot of casual things that bother other people haven’t bothered me. Reality is sort of unreal and groundless. But, I was/am bothered by ideas. Ideas are more real than physical reality. I’ve been reading about Buddhism the past 3 months. But there are a lot of questions in Buddhism. Like is reincarnation real or is it a metaphor? Is it real or is it a metaphor? I grappled with the ideas, and reified them. There was a debate between one side and the other, but never a debate about the debate itself. Last month it hit me, when I first read Nāgārjuna. It’s called The Middle Way. The whole point is that it is not “Yes” or “No”; there is no criterion (there’s an argument that The Middle Way and Pyrrhonism are essentially the same). Let’s take Actualized.org. I actually followed the channel 4 years ago, it taught me meditation and it helped me get out of a depressive rut I was in. But a year or so ago, I was watching it and kind of thought, Alright this is some New Age nonsense. He’s entertaining things that are clearly nonsense. Paranormal activity? “I am God”? What nonsense this? I unsubscribed. But then I came back. After reading this philosophy, I started watching Actualized.org more. I just confronted it. Ok sure, I’ll watch Mr. God explain why we’re all God. I see what he’s saying, it’s panpsychism or pantheism, another philosophy, another idea. Then I kind of had a realization. What if this like a giant Zen Koan? Why are we entertaining the existence of ghosts and demons? See, there’s a latent skepticism. So of course, maybe there are ghosts, but I see no evidence so I choose not to believe. So why entertain something with no evidence? Sadhguru talks about Yogis being able to sit in one position for months. There are the Breatharian movements. A perspective: These are all trainings. We obviously don’t “really” know if these things are there or not. But how do we react to them? These ideas defy common sense and what one would expect from Science. There’s no evidence. Here’s what happens, you understand it this way and then you start arguing and attacking. When you argue and attack, you are perturbed. Not by “real things or circumstances” but by “ideas.” I was getting mad about ideas! These are just ideas! Neither right nor wrong. It’s a confrontation, by confronting what doesn’t make sense to you, you either choose to reject it and debate or you learn to live with it because you must realize that your reasons for choosing to reject it are equal to reasons to accept it. This is Pyrrhonism. When you confront your fears, you grow. When you confront nonsense, you also grow in a different way. Ever since I read Nāgārjuna, I become like a computer program. I work in IT, do you what happens when you tell a computer to divide by zero? The program crashes. There’s no answer. It is asymptotic. How do we resolve this? We write a try-catch block. Try: do this. Catch: If an infinite loop emerges, then stop. Do something else. You can’t divide by zero. You can’t make sense of nonsense. So don’t. This is non-attachment to views. I had this to a degree ever since I learned about skepticism. But it’s actually a process and an ability. You develop it. There are huge holes in the realm of ideas that you choose to reject or you choose to affirm. This is a reifying of the “Yes” or “No.” This is the opposite of the Middle Way. So now every time I encounter an idea I don’t like. I implement a sort of try catch block of code into my mind. Why am I bothered by this idea? It’s a self-examination and therefore it takes a long time. Wordlessness is kind of an Eastern Idea. The Tao is nameless. You cannot discuss the Ultimate Truth because our Conventional words cannot access it this way. This is another idea that bothered me a lot, because it sounds like irrationalism. You can’t just not think! You can’t not have words, that doesn’t make sense! Well, Sextus Empiricus and the Pyrrhonists have cured this. ”Similarly with regard to the question of whether propositions exist, for the proposition is a lekton. Further, even if it should be granted for the sake of argument that lekta exist, it will be found that propositions do not, for they are composed of lekta that do not exist simultaneously with one another. In the case of "If it is day, it is light," when I say "It is day" the proposition "It is light" does not yet exist, and when I say "It is light" the "It is day" no longer exists. And since composite things cannot exist if their parts do not exist simultaneously, and the things of which propositions are composed do not exist simultaneously, propositions do not exist.” It is a perfectly logical argument as to why propositions don’t exist and my logic was against wordlessness was flawed. It is paradoxical because one must use a proposition to argue that propositions don’t exist. But in reality, they don’t exist for the reasons laid out. The realization that all of these people had was the extent of our mental fabrications. The very nature of words is that they are reified. They are mentally built. In any instant of time it doesn’t exist. It’s a conglomeration, your memories become your reality. They’re only real in the sense that you hold them in your head and piece them together. This is also what “no-self” is. Your self is the conglomeration built up, but careful you might just reify the idea and turn it into a reality that can harm you. This is Dependent Origination and Emptiness. If you understand Hume, you already know this. Reading Nāgārjuna was like reading something I already knew, but in a much more powerful way. Did you know that Pyrrho was a High Priest? Did he believe in a bearded sky God? Well if he did, he certainly didn’t know of one because he was a skeptic after all. This is the liberating feeling. You can become anything. If I “practice this teaching” appropriately, I could live amongst religious zealots and it wouldn’t even bother me. It shouldn’t bother me. It’s just ideas, why get mad about an idea? This is the feeling of libertarian I get. For what does it mean to be God? God is just a word. Don’t be perturbed by it. We could replace the word “God” with “Reality” or “The Universe.” Try to rewatch some of Leo’s God videos and replace “God” with “The Universe.” Now it’s crazy, but in a good way. When he says “God” it’s only crazy “in a bad way” because you don’t like the idea of “God” or his view of “God” conflicts with your own. If I say, “I am the Planet Earth” that is the most selfless thing a person could possibly say. You’re not simply an actor in the human rat race of making money and gaining fame, you’re also not simply a detached observer trying to figure what is going on? You are the Planet Earth. Literally! You are literally the Universe? Sure. To say that The Universe is self-aware isn’t a crazy statement. If the Universe is Everything and you are a Thinking Thing, then the Universe has at least some self-aware components. But these self-aware components can only become aware of the Universe, it is indeed the Universe becoming aware of itself. Just keep exploring, keep shifting perspectives and developing your craft. You are a process. I met one guy who claimed to be God once. He said that what lived to do was poke people and make them want to upgrade their operating systems. Perhaps this is all an elaborate poking, aka “pointing” so that people untether themselves. Of course, I must not be enlightened because I thought of this. I didn’t sit with my mind empty for 10 days straight. So therefore, don’t believe me. I’m lying, I don’t believe me. Take everything with a grain of salt all the time. One final quote, because it sums it all up. “The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, that one will accomplish nothing.” -Nagarjuna