Neoteny wrote:DaGip wrote:I believe in Reincarnation, the transfer of my energy back into the Universe. and the energy that makes up your consciousness (and perhaps a few learned memories) can emerge as another life, somewhere else. Perhaps another human or perhaps not. It depends on what the last thoughts of the mind at death. If one focusses his/her death meditation towards coming back as a human, then that is what he or she will come back as. It doesn't really matter as all lifeforms continue on until they reach an enlightened stage. That enlightenment releases you from reincarnation and you will never come back ever again. You enter into nothingness. This is why Sidhartha Buddha will never return, he reached enlightenment and remains a part of everything, yet is part of nothing.
Most life forms choose to come back over and over and over again, for millions and millions of years; but eventually they will evolve into a higher conscioussness and will become enlightened at some point.
Are humans the only beings that can become enlightened? My belief is no. I think any living creature can find enlightenment and escape from this cycle of suffering, death, and rebirth.
You don't have to believe in a god to believe in reincarnation. I don't know if I talked to you about this before, but the Universe makes more sense as energy cycling and converging. And those convergences make certain patterns and geometries in accordance to their Velocity and Mass.
I believe that there is a HyperConscioussness that collects information like a giant database, and when certain events happen in the Universe that would throw a system out of balance, the HyperConscioussness sends signals out (like a SuperBrain) to correct imbalances in all systems. It is doing this all the time.
I believe it does this through the Stars and the Sun, and that all things are connected (like a Spider's Web) back to the Impulse Event (the Big Bang) that started the entire Universe. And what lies a little bit beyond that Impulse Event is the Universal Hyper Conscious.
Some people try to tag the Hyper Conscious with human attributes (which is quite normal to do, as that is the only way that many of us could possibly come to grips with such majesty and awe), but in reality it can't be gauged by human labels.
I am fine with calling it God, as it doesn't really care what you call it.
Sometimes I call it the Great Iswasat or Wasatis or Isatwas (the reason being because it is such an all enveloping HyperConscioussness that it exists and prevades all space and time, including all present, past, and future events; thusly the combined term ISWASAT for it is the IS and the WAS and the AT, which is to say the yet to be)
When atheism was my thing, I used to refer to God as The Great and Glorious Duh!
But I evolved from that childish mentality, and it is easier for me just to call it God.
And She is so powerful, that She can do anything!
So how do you describe your religious perspective to people in one or two words, Gip? I'm not sure I could do it...
Mushroom Trip!
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