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Reincarnation and multiple lives - if you believe this what does it mean

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Pleasekeepmycoffeehot · 10/03/2023 20:40

Just for fun really, as I don't believe in reincarnation. The idea of it is so fucking tiring! When I'm dead I want peace and quiet and a rest Grin the thoughts of starting the whole thing again is quite draining...

But, if you have an interest in this stuff, what do our hardships mean in the present life? Is it all something to do with karma and about lessons we need to learn this time round?

Is it like - we start off with 'easy' lives to begin with, and build our experience, and our lives get progressively harder until we reach enlightenment?

Or the opposite! Do we start off with 'harder' lives - and then they get easier the more we work our way through multiple lives? Kind of like a career pathway where you get really experienced and do more challenging things later on lol. And get to enlightenment that way?

And then is there something about karma biting us on the ass/ bad stuff happening as punishment in this life for stuff we fucked up last time round? Hmmm, that seems a bit victim-blamey.

What way does it work? Who has read about this or has any thoughts?

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OnlyFannys · 16/03/2023 21:59

GreenyAnnie · 16/03/2023 20:27

@doritstew the way you articulated your objections sound like scientism (belief in science) not actual science. I recommend Dean Radins books. He's a scientist who studied supernatural phenomena using statistical models.

Do you recommend any specific book? I would be interested to read about that, I have ordered the book someone recommended upthread about the neurosurgeon who wrote about his near death experience (I am trying to have some optimism about the unknown!)

GreenyAnnie · 16/03/2023 22:35

I read real magic first and then entangled minds, found them both great. The one upthread was Alexander Eben's proof of heaven I think, which is also thought provoking. Dean Radin is scientific, Eben is a personal journey of a scientist and emotional at times.

paulaparticles · 16/03/2023 23:03

Dolores cannon

FindingMeno · 16/03/2023 23:15

Oh, I believe in it.
Makes far more sense to me than worshipping a deity, or cold nothingness.
I believe in the soul absolutely.

GreenyAnnie · 17/03/2023 21:15

@paulaparticles just checked her books, so many of them! Which ones would you recommend to start with?

motherofcatsandbears · 17/03/2023 21:19

Try watching Ghost within my child: if these episodes don’t make you question things then I will eat my hat.

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