anybody wanna lightsaber battle me in the afterlife...............?

on a serious note.... the idea of reincarnation bothers me, cause I hear a bunch of people saying that they would want to stay in the afterlife forever and not reincarnate because they want to be happy and peaceful and helpers up here or whatever.....but if reincarnation is possible, and you are alive......that means u choose before already to reincarnate into who u are now....so why wouldnt u do it again?

th3digitalmind wrote on Mar 5^th, 2007 at 10:57pm:

anybody wanna lightsaber battle me in the afterlife...............? on a serious note.... the idea of reincarnation bothers me, cause I hear a bunch of people saying that they would want to stay in the afterlife forever and not reincarnate because they want to be happy and peaceful and helpers up here or whatever.....but if reincarnation is possible, and you are alive......that means u choose before already to reincarnate into who u are now....so why wouldnt u do it again?

because I don't like to repeat myself :)

but you could have repeated yourself 100 times already now.....

yes possibly but with different circumstances :)

dont ever let me die ok?

dying was the most funniest, most loving, most spectacular journey I ever did!

don't be afraid, ok? somebody loves you. :)

when did u die?  cause ur here

I have strong memories of death. :) yes I'm still here in a body. :)

did I kill u?

haha! u probably did. :(

You raise an excellent point, 3D.  Most folks here when they address the topic seem to indicate that they have no desire to reincarnate.  I’m probably in that group, although sometimes I wonder.  Despite all the hassles and stuff associated with physical existence, it is kind of fun.  So is exploring the ‘afterlife’ – visiting other energy systems, creating your own space in Focus 27, being a geometrical shape, taking on a light form, pulsing with energy and PUL.  So there are two kinds of fun and maybe more.

I always liked the image of Buddha sitting in contemplation and I imagine a gleam in his eye and just a hint of a grin on his mouth and his all-encompassing serenity.  I wonder if we can’t have both and maybe we do.  From the point of view of encircling consciousness our existence here is just one form of expression and all our lives and between lives and beyond exist all at once.

I remember once as a point of light in route to return to my body letting out a whiney sort of thought that I didn’t want to go back.  I came back anyway and I guess that my current thinking is that it would be fun to expand beyond.  That might require letting go of the physical.  Perhaps that’s why most of us aren’t particularly interested in reincarnation.  But, as you said, why did we come here in the first place?

Rob

By the way 3D, I'm enjoying your dialog with Alysia.