--- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > > > If you found out God did not exist, is there still a > > > possibility of an afterlife of some sort? > > > > Again, I don't believe in a God, but I believe in > > reincarnation. One is not dependent on the other. > > I am hopeful about reincarnation, and God and Shiva etc. > But not sure.
Neither am I. It's a "working belief" for me (the reincarnation thang, not God or Shiva), one that I won't know the accuracy of until I kick the bucket. Then if there's a big light at the end of the Bardo- tunnel I'll be somewhat prepared for it. If there's just a big click followed by blackness, well I won't even be there to know that I was wrong, will I? :-) > Reincarnation sure solves a lot of the injustice and > ugliness of the world, which makes me wonder if that > is why I hope it happens.. Are you willing to say why > you believe in reincarnation? Sure. Memories and flashbacks. I have experienced flashes of being in the Bardo between lives, and of both dying and being born, numerous times. I have also had quite a few "past life flashbacks," in the waking state, in which I suddenly found myself in a specific location but in another life in that location. Full visuals, looking down to see myself in another body, being able to interact with people, the whole bit. Exactly what these flashes are I cannot say, only that I have had them enough times to think that they might really be some kind of past life flashback or memory of the Bardo process. Of course I would have no way of proving any of these things, and wouldn't try to. They're just a belief based on subjective experience, and thus as prone to delusion as any other belief based on subjective experience. Besides, reincarnation beats the socks off of sitting sexless on a cloud somewhere with a bunch of other sexless beings, playing on a harp for eternity. That, to me, would be Hell. :-)
