Everyone talks about reincarnation but never defines it scientifically. There has to be "some THING" that is transferred, but physics and biology give us no clue as to the "mechanics" of such a "switching of bodies" -- mechanics as seen by some tool/concept of science.
We hear: "Oh, that's the astral body leaving the body, and it's too subtle for any machine made by man to sense." Something like that. Eh, yeah, riiiiight. There is only one sentience behind all the illusions -- that's Hindu dogma. If believed, then even rocks have the same spirit as you or me or God, and thus, there's no need to travel to another body that is ALREADY ensouled by THE ONE. It's about omnipresence and being made in the image of God, see? If it is the personal history of one's life that is somehow bundled up as, what?, memories? and then transferred, again, where is the science to explain this. Consider that the many who claim to remember their past lives are not on record being able to prove it by knowing things one could not know otherwise -- to a scientist. Yes, there are stories, but no scientist has done a study of these reports with enough merit to get other scientists to look at the issue. Maybe it is provable, but by now, given how many thousands who do believe they are remembering past lifetimes, there should have been a definitive experiment involving the gathering these folks, taking notes, and then comparing the notes with real world facts. Being able to speak an ancient language perfectly without having had any training would be a most excellent proof, but where are such examples that have been validated by a scientist? Zip. I KNOW that everything is in the now, and if there is any past then it is a feature of the now -- wholly formed instant by moment by titch of time. To be extreme in this POV, I believe that, say, the dinosaurs' bones we find are merely artifacts of the dream -- as real as anything else in the dream, but not scientific proof of having a "history," and hence, anything that can be imagined can become reality, but bones-alone do not a history make. In a dream tonight, you may think you're Moses leading his people and that this Moses dream character "has" memories of fleeing Pharaoh, etc....yet no such history in the real waking life world can be validated -- nothing in the Bible for instance would mention that Moses always wore a flower in his hair like "you" did in your dreaming of being him, nor, while in the dream, will the Moses dream character speak in ancient Hebrew unless the dreamer in waking life knows that language. The world of this dreamstate Moses is entirely concocted instantly by the amazing powers of the human brain. Just so the waking state's realities. Just so dino bones. Just so you. Just so me. And just so God. Maya = dreamstate = no substance. Period. There is no reincarnation -- at best there is "another part of the dream" that is very similar to "memories" that are part of the dream NOW. Illusion = delusion. It is no wonder that spirituality's goals are to have one led to want to escape this dreamstate -- one wants truth, not gold or happiness or power or esteem or whatever. After all, in our nightly dreams we often do have such things/emotions/abilities/fame in our roles as kings, perfect lovers, flying yogis, or "the most important person in this room." But when we awaken, we are so clear about the nature of the dreamstate that nothing experienced during it has any power over us once the truth about "I'm a king" becomes known in the waking life. Having awoken from a dream of being a king, no one regrets awakening from that delusion -- for even a bite from a apple is worth more to us NOW than any memory of a dream character's wealth. Heck, even a biter of cold, tough, chewy, cardboardy pizza in the morning will do. Either you get enlightened in this lifetime, or "lower case 'you'" are not going to be enlightened ever -- meanwhile, upper case YOU is always the only soul of entirety. This is not to say that God hasn't made a completely perfect clone of you in a bizzillion other dreams, but those "folks-o-you" are merely like the other coats that stay on the rack when you select one to buy. The other coats might be identical to the one you buy, but they are not your coats, right? Only your coat is your coat. Only this life is your life. Live it fully -- only not like Turq. Edg --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: > > > Atheists come in all stripes. Reincarnation could be natural law, > > having nothing to do with whether or not there is a God. > > Unless god recycles. >
