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Nobody knows what happens after death. A student asks a Zen master: “Don’t you know if there’s life after death? Aren’t you a Zen master?” The Zen master replies: “Sure, but I’m not a dead Zen master!” The human form and personality dissolves at death. Indian religions believe in reincarnation, but that is speculation. Pema Chodron thinks there is a karmic imprint of the person at death, but that too is speculation. All we really know is the experiential realization that the essence of who we are is eternal and beyond death. I like this pointer:

I like Advaita because it's a simple teaching that doesn't require extra beliefs, such as in Buddhism they believe in reincarnation. However when it comes to the concept of time Advaita is too dismissive in my opinion. Therefore I have come up with my own model which includes time. I have put the model together from different sources including Leo's explanation of reality as difference, an idea that originally may have come from Peter Ralston who described all of reality as distinction. My model briefly is: Reality is difference. The difference manifests as Indra's net expanding forever at an accelerating rate (which is possible to mathematically define). Indra's net in its complete infinite form is the unmanifested reality and can be illustrated by the unit circle which has the radius of 1. Our multiverse is a point on that circle and that point can be represented by a single real number. Consciousness is that number observing the finite manifestation of itself within the expansion of Indra's net which produces the experience of time. My model might be more complicated than Advaita but to me it explains more. And precise predictions can be made. For example our manifested reality is always finite. It's only the unmanifested reality, the complete unit circle, that is infinite. Think of it as resolution of a screen getting higher and higher making the unit circle drawn on the screen consisting of more and more pixels. The unmanifested circle has an infinite number of pixels (points)! Try to produce a computer screen with infinite resolution.

What about to eat vegetables? You need first deforest the earth, destroy a lot of animal wild life, transport the food, etc. The best solution to avoid that would be a collective suicide. In other hand, a chicken in a good ecological farm have a good life. Better than most of the humans. Eat, sleep, stay with anothers chickens, no worries. One day he dies...what to do? Not bad for a reincarnation. A fish the same, born to die, like all beings on the earth, but when he's living, I think he's enjoying every second, not like the poor sads humans, born to figth with the karma. Life is hard. When you, or me, are fighting to breathe in the bed of an hospital for weeks maybe we get jealous of the destiny of a fish. It's useless to protect the life, if I could choose, I'd prefer a world without medicine, without any security, where death is everywhere. Better than this world of naive lies, where people think that life should be preserved, and it's impossible. Life born to finish, and it's not sad. Sad is to try to avoid that

RECAP Problem, challenge, obstacle Feeling depressed, suicidal, negative thinking of sufferable effort (Ego stories and games?) Having to suffer through work, grind, assignments in college Having to suffer through sufferable effort in general (throughout my history and life, although this may be a common problem) The "actual" (?) problem of Sufferable effort How do you solve sufferable effort? Solutions (Direct Methods) Outlook, perspective, optimism Consider your perspectives aren't necessarily the highest perspective Eliminate (or be careful of) nihilistic, pessimistic points of views, beliefs (on effort, sufferable effort, life, etc.) Incorporate/understand positive, optimistic, differing perspectives, points of view (on effort, sufferable effort, life, etc.) Be careful of the ego's stories Stop, eliminate, be careful of victim mentality, Don't be close-minded, don't give up, always try to find a solution, be a problem-solver, be a fighter, be a creator Don't overcomplicate it, Don't ruminate to much Pondering, contemplation, journaling Ask yourself question, question your beliefs, perspectives, interpretation Try to enjoy your current work, see what aspects you love Make the best of current work, effort, try to enjoy current effort/work Consider using supplements/drugs, consider using music, high energy music This can be ineffective if it is high level, high difficulty, a certain level difficulty of intellectual work Take breaks Work in teams and groups Consider, explore other types of work, ways to acquire basic needs Consider Part-Time work, minimalistic lifestyle, low-expense minimalistic lifestyle Choose a job (college or manner of creating money for basic needs) that is less stressful and suited to your needs Consider a trade Take a break, try something different, a physical job where you can have high energy with drugs/supplements and music Financial Freedom / Financial Independence Reduce expenses/liabilities (affordable housing, pay down debts) Create additional sources of income Find ways to be efficient Find ways to create efficient value, create immense value while being efficient, ultra-efficient Pursue what you love, find your passion, high-level interests If you love what you do, you won't feel like its work Make a living doing what you love, with enjoyable effort Awakening/Enlightenment, Dis-identify from the mind, Liberation from the mind It is speaking on your behalf and causing untold misery Self-experimentation Experiment with the solutions offered, experiment with your own solutions, experiment with solutions, experiment Acceptance, Understanding That work, effort, the sufferable effort is an inevitable part of life Know that life is a shitty deal, life is a shitty deal for not just me but everyone, understand/accept that perspective, "Just deal with it" Stop being a bitch, stop being a pussy (Indirect Methods / Worthy Endeavors / Solutions to other, related problems) Seek help Engage in therapy Using your mind to change your perspective is futile for some people (especially for those who live in their head), you need to engage your emotions strongly as well Engage in energy work Understand meaning Question, ponder, contemplate, learn, research, think about, etc. meaning Be careful for meanings surrounding meaning Eliminate video games, sex/masturbation (maybe just limit sex?~), alcohol, too much sugar, too much food indulgence, consuming too much media (especially social media), too much recreational drugs (weed included), too much partying/gossiping Eliminate all lower consciousness activities All this shit numbs you and lowers motivation levels Focus on your health, neurotransmitters, eliminate, replace, fix badly functioning neurotransmitters Focus on experiencing joy Find ways to enjoy life Engage in fun activities Ideas/Perspectives Death may not be an option (due to reincarnation, having to restart, karma, etc.) Consider "sufferable", unpleasant after-death experiences due to suicide Consider taking suicide off the cards It may override your higher purpose Find and focus on your higher purpose People who live to old age often comment that the time passes crazy fast anyway This is how it is, welcome to the human world. You don't have many options. You either own a business or have a job. In both, you need to work. Most people know life is hard, people with the highest levels of self-love are not willing to passively accept common outcomes Pursue what you love, don't overcomplicate Love is the magic ingredient that makes work not feel like work. You only call it "work" when you don't love what you're doing, Consider that modern life may expect to much intellectual work from us Consider that physical work can be therapeutic It can be healthy, exercise See the benefits, see the positive You may just take a break from your work and come back, take a break and work on physical work then come back Some forms of financial agency/security/independence are liberating though it is easier said than done Finances can be hard to get right if there is no external source of support ?~~~ (Victim mentality?~) Surviving on part-time work might be a more achievable goal Not working may cause mental issues, not working may be suboptimal There may be a certain kind of lethargy caused by a lack of positive engagement with people and challenges If you are involved in the right goals, it may not be an issue Your mind frame controls you, you look at reality in one way, while not being conscious that reality is how you see it Your mind creates the problems in interpreting the world See the deceptive nature of your thoughts, Do not trust your thoughts That’s the beauty of advanced personal development and spirituality, that’s why I watch actualized.org videos You will understand how reframing can solve the problem, only when you realize how your current framing has created the problem in the first place Its not always about re-framing, sometimes its about practice, past-experience, skill, strategy Have a positive mindset, think like naruto, think like anime characters, never give up (but I think still investigate, it can't all just be baseless) The effort you put in depends on your creativity, level of creativity Consider that you are in depression, that this is depression Possibly start to fear "meaninglessness" Go back to stage orange, lower level, previous perspective and see how I would see myself from there ?~~ My country has the most opportunities for whatever work I want to be doing, my country has the best ratio of self-made? people across the world I seem to be complacent and I am spoiled by my country and the conditions I was born in It can be challenging growing up with privelege because you are given a lot of things that other's work their whole lives for, and you see the emptiness in them and other pursuits You may lack motivation because your life is too comfortable right now Why does one lack motivation if their life is to comfortable? Isn't the lack of motivation a problem which is uncomfortable? Isn't the lack of results a problem which is uncomfortable? Life may take on more meaning if someone depends on you, such as a pet, child or student Why might this be meaningful? Awaken, enlighten, More spirit in your life means more presence, joy and lightness Awakening will let you sink into effortlessness, awakening is ultimate laziness With awakening, there isn't anyone owning the pain/suffering, which is a quantum leap Consider whether you should awaken, go down the awakening route Know it is an option if all else fails Only truthful activities remain when one awakens Directed energy to sustain activity dissipates if there is no point, purpose, it is non-truthful activity, a non-truthful activity, All activities done on behalf of a sperate self will eventually fall away as one treads along the path What these activities are in your particular case is something you'll discover as you go Further Questions / Challenges What is effort? What is sufferable effort? What is enjoyable effort? What is sufferable vs enjoyable effort? Is sufferable effort inevitable? Is sufferable 'emotional labor' inevitable? Is there are solution to this problem? Is their a way to eliminate this problem completely? Is suffering inevitable? Can you actually solve the problem of "having to put effort in life"? How do you handle, deal with sufferable effort while you working on solutions for it? How do you deal with having to grind in college (How do you deal with the suffering from sufferable effort? (boring, uninteresting, grueling, sufferable effort/effortful homework, assignments, zoom calls, etc.?) How do you handle suffering? Do you just sit and suffer (or fight and suffer)? Do you have to suffer? Is suffering inevitable? Is the sufferable effort of life worth it? Is the sufferable effort to eliminate sufferable effort worth it? Do you have to do sufferable effort in order to eliminate sufferable effort? What is the point/purpose of it all? Is that question voided, based on false assumptions? What are the perspectives, outlooks, viewpoints surrounding this? Is there something I am missing? Is the idea, perception, feeling of doing, effort an illusion? What level (or progress) of awakening does one have to be to realize this? (Is this full awakening?) does one have to be fully awakened to realize this? How do you love what you are doing? How do you create a love for what you are doing? Can we just see the world however we want? Can we create whatever framing we want? Can we interpret the world however we want? Why do anything? Why is it important to challenge yourself? Why is it important to grow? Isn't this sense of accomplishment based of false meaning and untenable? What is personal truth? What is subjective truth? Isn't meaning just bullshit? Isn't all meaning just bullshit? What is meaning? How does one understand meaning completely? Is having no meaning bad? Is meaning-less bad? What is the point/meaning of meaninglessness? What are the implications of meaninglessness? Is meaninglessness a bad thing? What is meant by meaninglessness? Is all meaning untenable? Can you still hold meaning even if all meaning is untenable? How can you enjoy meaning if all meaning is untenable? If all meaning is untenable what the hell? Feel free to answer all or a few of the questions above. Feel free to share your perspective, ideas, comments.

@Travelion When time, space, self, other, life, death, light, and love are embodied, what remains is reincarnation. That (or ‘this’) is your actual ‘body’.

I don't think that reincarnation exist but who knows. What are you? First question. For me the best answer is that you are a shape in the nothingness, you are a perfect, wonderful shape , incredibly perfect, a miracle, but no more. Your substance is the infinite nothingness, the same for you, for me, for the shit that I did a while ago, or that formed a stone. A infinite empty hole that it's everything, vibrating in a miraculous simphony...so, when your shape ends, who is going to reincarnate, if already now there is no one, there is only another shape , another wave with a frequency, when the wave gets consumed, only the substance where the wave vibrates remains, and the substance is everything, so what reincarnation?

Look, even though the world is a mess right now, the world changes. What makes you think you will only be a human form for all for eternity anyways? Reincarnation is real in an infinite universe, no one has proven you are stuck in a human form forever. You have an energetic and a formless awareness essence. Both of these transcend form... The human form, although beautiful is not a limit on the self which is always expanding and creating new experiences. Imagine a heaven Earth, synthetic meat no more animal killing, cured diseases,space exploration... The possibilities. This reality really teaches us only to focus on the negative, they bombard us on tv and everywhere in politics,so people become affected.Also life has twists and turns, but really it's self created misery. Humans make other humans miserable from egoic actions. Humanity did this to itself and the planet. Only humanity can repair the mess..

@DreamScape Ok, I see. Some questions answered and more questions arise What do you mean, by what Leo teaches? ( Raising consciousness? Leaving the reincarnation cycle? ) What happens when you aren't in the body? I'm still confused. There is no ego outside the body, Isn't it gone? Please elaborate @Proserpina ?

I'd prefer to leave my incarnation a mystery. A conclusion drawn like that seems like a shot to the foot. Already got one ? I don't think reincarnation is a literal term, it's a perspective view that is subject to change. I doubt that measuring another's power level can be anything of value unless you want to get something out of it. The discrepancy drawn between souls is a product of your current level of incarnation which is not inherited by any other soul, even if you agree with another. Older spirits would be generally happy to experience life in mundanity yet somehow subtly raise an aura of love that is based on integrity and awareness. Planning to do work after death seems like an excellent way to put work aside, I'd wanna tad more pressure

@Moksha I'm not referring to some religious sources claiming about reincarnation. I have referred to the research papers from Virginia university as well as documentary videos of scientists who are researching it. On the other link: I have posted some links of the CIA's research into paranormal activity like Remote viewing, ESP and other such phenomena. Who in their reports have concluded that such research is valid and yielding some positive results. Not all phenomena can be easily replicated. You cannot replicate reincarnation. You can only study it. But, studying many iterations of the same phenomena, you can atleast deduce something about it. In my own case, I used to think that kundalini awakening is fake and people who exhibit it are faking it. But, one day, I have directly experienced the awakening of kundalini within myself and started to have intense kriyas that follow it. Although the energy didn't enter into the central channel, nevertheless the experience itself was like a nuclear explosion within the system with way too much heat all over the body. Also, during that time for a few moments, any person that came to my mind during those few moments I was only having love for them. I could not hate them even if I wanted to. Anyway. I guess, as they say: You can only peel the skin of the fruit and give it to somebody or may even put it in their mouth. But, it is they themselves who has to chew and swallow it. I hope you get to have some experience where it will become quite obvious to you what the true nature of reality is. Good luck for your journey on this path. May the force be with you...

@Moksha I thought everyone got the memo, objectivity is an illusion, doesn't exist. Only subjectivity. Noone ever experienced something objective, only subjective. Standard in an... objective universe? The one that nobody can ever experience. Everything that exists is Consciousness, which is no thing From the point of view of your belief in an objective, real universe and reality, this makes sense. In my subjective () perspective, since all that exists is Consciousness, and all that exists is YOU, any supernatural phenomena must by definition also be YOU. So how supernatural can YOU be? Perceiving so-called supernatural phenomena only depends on the level of consciousness, if you're not aware that what you're perceiving is YOU, you might be convinced (maybe even by direct experience) of angels, ghosts, reincarnation etc. But these are just stories you (lower case 'you', the one that believes it's limited and separate) makes up about what you perceive, according to Consciousness level.

Dear @Moksha , Isn't it a biased thinking too to think that "any evidence that anybody provides is a biased evidence". I know you don't think that way. But, that is exactly what you are doing even without knowing you are doing it. Instead of researching through the sources provided, if you keep on arguing about it, how are you going to get a new understanding? Take one topic, say Reincarnation, keep watching every documentary video you can find on youtube about it. Also go through the research papers and sources I have referred to. Don't skip or rush it. Research on it properly without any preconceived notions on it. Come back after you have done this rigorously for a week atleast and we can see whether you can confidently tell me that you still believe there is no phenomenon that happens after death.

Thats ok, right now your mindset is resisting it because you haven't found the proper evidences. For the time being gain as much knowledge as possible. Along with the knowledge, your opinion will also evolve. In terms of extraordinary evidence you are seeking, try watching the reincarnation research video and research papers that I posted above. May be this will also help:

The Point is that the senses themselves are just that: SENSES(Experiences of varied Types). They are not physical in nature. But, they correspond to physical reality through physical body and brain firings. But, even without the body, the individuality and sensory experiences continue. Only when complete liberation happens, then individuality dissolves into infinite Brahman(Infinite Consciousness / Oneness). That is why I previously explained it in terms of dream reality where dream brain seems to control dream character. But, in truth both are non-existent and Imaginary. What we call as senses like visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, taste are just different configurations of infinite consciousness into those forms called senses. Consciousness does not have a restriction as to how many different types of senses it can configure itself into. Humans only have those five. During NN-DMT experiences, or even during meditation, people experience certain types of experiences which are not at all in the realm of our ordinary five senses. During such occasions new type of sensory realities are experienced which cannot be explained or perceived or understood through the ordinary five senses that we have; just like a blind person from birth who never seen colors can never be made to understand the reality of colors / visual perception. Among all the different types of experiences consciousness can configure itself into, physical reality is just a certain type of configuration which only makes it seem physical. Just like we have our current experience of realities and truths, similarly there are after-life truths and realities as well which we experience after physical death. But, in truth all of these are just dream of the one infinite consciousness. Reincarnation research: 50 Years of research: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/fifty-years-of-research/ You can find links for academic publications on this page below: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/publications/ Jame Leininger's Case Report from Official NIH government website: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27079216/ Full PDF of Paper above:https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/04/REI42-Tucker-James-LeiningerPIIS1550830716000331.pdf

Thank you for sharing the link. If you read through it, the first four sheaths are all tied to the physical body since they require the five sense organs to be active. Only the final sheath, Anandamaya, doesn't reference the senses. But this is only one of many perspectives on ultimate reality. I resonate with eastern philosophy, but I recognize it as such. There is no objective evidence for its claims. For example, I see no reliable evidence for reincarnation.

Are you saying that you have a fixed form but the ultimate reality is formless? How can be form and formless two separate things? Well, I'm not sure if it refers to the human avatar or something else, I never have been interested in the reincarnation idea... but apparently, death is not the end, so maybe you just forget that you had a past life. The temporal life makes no sense if reality is infinite... infinity would include your human avatar as well, I guess.

A few questions keeping in mind I only ordered your book list today so some of the books may answer them... Have you read the "Journey of Souls" books and if you have do you have an opinion on life between lives and reincarnation in general? In my opinion they are the book on reincarnation that most resonated with me. How do animals fit into the picture? Do they have souls? It would seem they can't really achieve enlightenment because they lack egos, only having basic instincts. What about alien civilizations? Multiple dimensions? In theory if another species achieve sentience say Dolphins they would be facing many of these same existential questions? Or alien civilizations? If true enlightenment is nothingness, why pursue it? Why not just do whatever we want? It seems like most humans just try to chase pleasure and avoid pain, so being obsessed with feeling states. Isn't pursuing enlightenment more of the same? By that I mean chasing certain feelings or feeling states. What do you think of the text of "revelations of an insider?" This one should only take you 60 minutes to read. http://goo.gl/cl1Jjz Thanks!

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within the spiritworld, spirits can use their thoughts and mind powers to create anything that they can imagine or think of; spirits that live in the spiritworld and that live inside each physical-bodied residents of planets, moons, and spaceships are thinner than air, and they are also composed of some type of electrical energy; some Earth humans contain so much electrical energy that they cause some or many electronic devices ((( such as televisions, computers, watches, cellphones, city street lights, etcetera ))) to stop working very well or at all, and that is because their individual spirit that lives inside their human physical body is extra strong with/in electrical energy; if a spirit was not living inside each physical-bodied resident of every planet, every moon, and every spaceship, those physical-bodied beings would be dead and unable to move or live, or do anything; a physical body is able to move, or do something, or live, only because a different, separate, individual spirit lives inside each one of them, and death of those physical bodies only occur whenever its spirit permanently leaves it, and each one of those spirits immediately returns to the spiritworld and immediately after its physical body dies, and life, thus, does not end with the death of the physical body; spirits, that live in the spiritworld, can never die, and they can never feel any physical pains, and they never need to eat or drink or consume any type of food in order to live; spirits that live inside physical bodies also never die or feel any physical pains, but only their physical body that they live in can feel and experience physical pains; after a spirit of a dead physical-bodied resident returns to the spiritworld, it can choose to remain, forever, in the spiritworld, or it can later choose to return to physical-bodied planetary life and via ((( 3 different methods ))) physical-bodied birth, or via the walk-in/soul-exchange process, or by using their thoughts and mind powers to manifest/create an adult physical body that they can enter into and live in, and during any amount of time of their choice; some spirits have never lived a physical-bodied planetary life, and some of them will never do that and because that is their choice, but some spirits have lived many different physical-bodied planetary lives via what is called incarnation ((( incarnation is the first time, and reincarnation is the second time, and any times beyond the second time; some spirits have lived hundreds of different physical-bodied lives, but not at the same time; it is impossible for a spirit to live more than one physical-bodied life, and at the same time ))) and reincarnation and also via those other two methods that I mentioned; everyone is his/her/its own god, and everyone is a spirit; spirits choose where they want to be born; spirits choose what type of physical-bodied being that they want to be born as; spirits choose what planet to be born onto; spirits choose their birth mother; spirits choose their birth gender; no spirit has ever been forced to leave the spiritworld to enter physical-bodied planetary life; some spirits also enter physical-bodied life via the walk-in/soul-exchange method, and some spirits enter physical-bodied life by using their thoughts to create an adult physical body, and that enables them to avoid entering physical-bodied life via physical-bodied birth ((( spirits that use their thoughts and mind powers to manifest/create an adult physical body of their choice, and so that they can avoid entering physical-bodied life via physical-bodied birth, are some of the most powerful spirits that exist, and they are thought of as being inter-dimensional beings, and they can choose to live as long as they want to, within those physical-bodied that they created/manifested via only their thoughts and mind powers ))); all of the bigfoot-sasquatch beings that sometimes visit Earth are also advanced inter-dimensional beings that travel back and forth between different dimensions, and that is why they are hard to find and capture, but Earth humans should not try to shoot, kill, and capture them; worrying and a lot of stress can cause some people to have depression, headaches, ulcers, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer; some strong constant thoughts, wishes, desires, and fears of people will eventually become true; birds of a feather flock together; like automatically attracts like; the general purpose of life for all beings of Earth, other planets, moons, spaceships, and the spiritworld is to always do, experience, and learn something new in life so that they will never become bored and stagnant in life; bad things happen to good people or any people whenever they fail to do the following things ((( always listen to, believe in, and obey all of your positive thoughts, feelings, instincts, gut feelings, inner warnings, and intuition, 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week ))); bad things also happen to people whenever they rush and fail to keep their mind on what they are doing, which causes them to have dangerous accidents; always go with your daily, individual, positive flow of life; our life would always be much better if we would always think, say, and do positive things in life; let he or she, that has never sinned, cast the first stone; why worry about the mote that is in someone else's eye when you have a beam in your own eye; if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains; the things that I do, ye shall also do, and even greater; you are god; our daily individual fate in life is the result of all of our individual thoughts, wishes, desires, hopes, fears, words, and actions that we have created in the past and present; spirits, that live in the spiritworld, choose to leave the spiritworld, to live a physical-bodied life on a planet, or on a moon, or in a spaceship, so that they can do, experience, and learn some things that they could not do, experience, and learn within the spiritworld, and also as a challenge to find out how well they can survive physical-bodied planetary life, since physical-bodied planetary life is much harder and more of a challenge than the easy spiritworld life, where spirits never get sick, and where they never feel or experience any physical pains, and where they never have any bad weather, and where they never need to work, and where they never need any money, and where everything is free, and where they use their thoughts and mind powers to create whatever they can imagine or think of, and where they never have to eat or drink or consume any type of food, and where they never die, and where they never become tired or sick or disabled, and where they have no body parts, and where they never have to use the bathroom, and where they never digest any foods, and where they never eliminate any body wastes, and where they don't need any clothes or houses or vehicles; once again, spirits that live in the spiritworld, can use their mind powers to create anything that they can imagine or think of; within the spiritworld, spirits are genderless ((( although some of them prefer to think of themselves as being either a male or a female ))) because they have no sexual body parts or any other body parts, but they can temporarily appear as any age, or gender, or color, or shape, or form, or image, or appearance of their choice; they can appear as animals, or insects, or objects, or as angels with wings, or as round orbs of light, or as mists of light, or as humans, or as ET's, or as clouds, or as anything or anyone else that they can imagine or think of; once again, within the spiritworld, spirits can use their mind powers to create anything that they can imagine or think of; if they want to experience being in some rain, they can use their mind powers to create rain, and if they want to live in a house or in a tent, they can use their mind powers to create those things, and if they want to have a garden, they can use their mind powers to create a garden, and if they want to have and drive an automobile, they can use their mind powers to create an automobile and some roads, and if they want to play a guitar or a trumpet, they can use their mind powers to create those musical instruments; and if they want to have a body that have some body parts, they can use their thoughts and mind powers to create those types of bodies; some spirits visit some Earth humans via the sleep-dream-astral-travel-adventures of some Earth humans; whatever spirits create within the spiritworld will last as long as they want those things to exist, or as long as they can use their thoughts and mind powers and concentration to maintain the existence of those things; some spirits of some dead Earth residents ((( but any advanced spirit can do that, and they don't have to just or only be spirits of dead residents of planets; they could be angels or archangels, or other types of powerful advanced spirits; all spirits, that live in the spiritworld have not learned how to do advanced powerful things within the spiritworld, but they can eventually learn how to do advanced powerful things within the spiritworld and after they would study and learn how to do those advanced powerful spiritworld things ))) appear to Earth humans in the form or shape that they know that those Earth humans expect or want them to appear as, such as how they used to look when they died or just before they died; some powerful spirits, such as angels, archangels, and ascended masters, and some other types of advanced powerful spirits, also use their mind powers to help design and to help create suns, planets, moons, and original physical-bodied residents of those celestial objects; once again, some powerful advanced spirits can use their mind thoughts and mind powers to create solid, adult, physical bodies ((( that have real functioning body parts ))) that they can enter into and that they can live in, and as long as they want to, and that enables them to avoid being born as helpless babies that can't do much, but those types of beings would secretly enter physical-bodied planetary life on planets where the residents would be afraid of them, but they could openly and publicly live on planets where the residents are not ignorant and fearful about those types of advanced powerful beings that are called inter-dimensional beings and where they are called by other types of names, such as maybe gods or goddesses; some good spirits of any types, sometimes or often volunteer to help some troubled physical-bodied residents of some planets, moons, and spaceships, and those good spirits are thought of as being spirit-guides, and angels, and guardian angels; every planet has its own, separate, individual Mother Nature, that is composed of millions of good helpful spirits ((( angels; archangels; nature spirits/faires, gnomes, undines, pixies, etcetera, and elementals; and other types of good helpful spirits that care about the welfare of planets ))) that always patrol, protect, and help it, and that also create and control all of its weather and all of its other acts of nature; (((((((((( Hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, and storms don't move, twist, and rotate by accident. They also travel many miles. Are they composed of some spirits, or are they controlled by some spirits? They are controlled by Gaia/Mother Nature/the many spirits ((( angels; archangels; nature spirits; elementals; etcetera ))) that take care of Earth. Hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, and storms are the results of some of those spirits trying to remove the negative energy ((( of some Earth residents ))), that has accumulated in certain areas of Earth. Some Earth residents think, say, and do some terrible evil things in certain areas of Earth. )))))))))) mysteries of life; unusual beings, places, things, news, events, and abilities; and much more. (Larry Whitley/Saturday/1-25-2020)

Who knows? The illusion is illusion, ok. But why the illusion exist? If you realize that it's a conciousness in the inmutable no time, you're going to realize that you are an illusion and the colored reality with time and space is all illusion. But illusion exist! Maybe the base of the illusion is the nothingness, but the illusion is something. It's duality? Maybe...not all of us realized the non duality, I m not doubting about it but it seems that some accept it like a dogma. About free will....In the illusion level it seems that you, as illusion , have a wall of concept that keep you isolated of the self, and you could break it or not... why? Who knows that. In a level seems that reincarnation exist, and a path of different lifes exist. How? Why?

@Someone here, thank you for sharing your thoughts. And sorry for all of the questions, but not really since I didn't choose to ask them I see reincarnation as a story too. But in a broader sense, what are your thoughts on our role in the awakening process? Aspirants practice the paths of yoga to receive enlightenment, but is all of that misguided and unnecessary? Krishna approves the paths of karma yoga and raja yoga. I understand the nonduality of uitimate reality, but "we" are in a world of time and space. If it's all an illusion, why go through the motions of realizing enlightenment? Agree with killing the snake for protection, but many criminals are punished beyond the point of protecting society from them. Are these punishments unjust since the criminals weren't responsible for their crimes? Even following an egoic act, why apologize? If we can't control whether or not the ego is at the helm, aren't we guiltless?

@Moksha Well you just gave me a nice list of questions lol... I don't really like tackling questions partially.. You can watch some Bashar videos and listen to cool reincarnation theories.. But if you want actual answers here you go.. .. This is just a story. A limiting story to keep you asleep. Reality is nondual. There is no such thing as free will. Can you point to it? Touch it? See it? Or is it just a concept in your mind?. It's not determined either. That's also a concept in your mind. It's not random either. That's also a concept in your mind. It doesn't fall into any category or mechanism. The world of forms does not exist. You mistake the formless for a formed because of your sense of self and your constant conceptual overlaying process. What is actual is nothing. Only the mind says otherwise Source and here are one. Cause and effects are one. Reality is nondual. As long as you assume yourself to be something seperate from awakening that you can only get it in the future you will never wake up.. Because essentially this is a lie. You are awakening itself. Because of misunderstanding. These are two separate issues. If a dangerous snake is trying to bite you.. You kill it.. Even tho you know it has no choice..it is just being a snake doing what snakes do.. But you gotta kill it anyways., Depends on your state of consciousness. If you in ordinary ego state of consciousness and you perceive mistakes.. You apologize. If you are conscious enough there are no mistakes...and then it won't make any difference to apologize or not. Because there is no mistakes.

This is one thing I don’t know is true because this is infinity we are talking about. 1 all things in the universe are your simultaneous lives past lives and future lives this works because time is one moment and doesn’t exist. 2. If reincarnation of an individual soul holds any weight in truth I feel like none of our past reincarnations have been anything like earth . Because it’s infinity

@DrewNows thanks for the answer. Is this something similar with remembering past lives or does it have anything to do with reincarnation? Like the wanderers from the Ra Material? Or the new age concept of star people?

@Mu_ That's cool, for me also the times of depression are of great use in poetry and music and philosophy also. I am still functionally afraid of death as in if I was about to die id probably shit my pants, but I'd rather die than kill someone. I see death as a continuation of the metaphysical factors which gave birth to you to begin with, in other words death is simply the necessary step to reincarnation. So actually I am terrified of death, but only in so far as I have negative karma(action(s))

Reincarnation framed as Cosmic Bowling Arnold Keyserling made the case that basically the 12 potentials of the Zodiac are to be actualized and mastered in a series of lifetimes. After which, eternal existence is only then assured. Not surprisingly, very similar to Gurdjieff's notion that just because we're born, eternal life is not a guarantee. I like that Leo used a quote from Don Juan Matus in his last video regarding Controlled folly in relation to fulfilling one's life purpose. Arnold Keyserling used the same phrase here in describing his notion/theory about attaining immortality. Keyserling- "You must choose to use all twelve of the basic potentials, both in language and in life, when the opportunity is presented by life. Otherwise, they will remain latent. These potentials do not automatically grow. They require choice and intentional efforts. First, your language must become holistic and coherent. To make sense of your life you have to make sense in your speech. The twelve basic concepts presented in the chart above are the keys to making sense. You have to learn to use these concepts in your speech, your language. Then, eventually, you will learn to master these conceptual cluster-words in a three step process: apprentice, companion, master. This mastery of language allows for mastery of the human faculties which they represent. This means mastery of the full human capacities in controlled actions, or as Don Juan said, "Controlled Folly". Both learning processes - language and life - must go hand in hand. One without the other will not allow for full development. Words alone are hollow. Life alone is incomprehensible. Only both - language and action - allow you to actualize these potential powers. With both you can integrate them into your being, and thereby make sense of life. You can walk your talk. You fully master the twelve time potentials in a three step process. First, you learn them. Next, you learn them even better by acting them out. Finally, you master them after you have taught them to others. In the final Master teaching stage the Self can merge with the Sun. The Self then can become radiating, full of life giving light. But, until all nine of the potentials are integrated, and the whole potential of your Being is realized, you will be submitted to reincarnation. As Keyserling says, you will be stuck in the "cosmic game of bowling". Only when all of your pins, your potential, have been set up and mastered, can you survive the inevitable black ball of death." from - http://www.chanceandchoice.com/course-overview/time-cycles/ He makes the case that the nine potentials of the Enneagram are basically key and the other three have to do with those life plans which have to do with playing a larger historical role in a particular lifetime. I' ve paraphrased some so, grain of salt,,,,,