I appreciate the OP. Since my current understanding is that my 3rd dimensional incarnation arises from a higher astral plane (as does everything else that is showing up here in 3d), that yes, I will most likely live on in my spiritual body. Whether or not I will Re-Member myself, or this Earth experience will just be a bad dream that I'll prefer to forget for a while, til I can look back at it as if seeing a photograph or old movie, I dunno. But I will most def be back to my normal, blissed out, joyous ecstatic aware loving self upon exiting. And will be drawn through resonance to those other beings who are part of my soul family, and we shall play again :) I seem to have maintained a similar personality since birth and expect this to continue after 3d death, I mean, I've always felt like 'myself', you know?
We came here to learn certain life lessons that we could only learn here. Yes, it's a horrific shit show...but you'll be better off in your next lives for having gone through it :)
Either that, or we'll encounter some version of 'nothingness' which...I've experienced in psychedelic states and these have been truly horrific, because there was still an awareness...but there was jack shit, fuck all in this awareness, just blackness, and that, would truly suck...so though there may be some kind of purgatory like state like that, but it won't be forever. Nothing will be forever. I expect high highs and beautiful psychedelic visions, but don't expect the rest of my afterlife to be some beautiful 8+ gram mushroom trip...but it will probably be pretty similar as being in that ego-death state but still fully crystal clear conscious and able to telepathically communicate with any other entity at a similar resonance. Any sensual experience I wish for, music, tastes, sex, I can simply experience, as I do in dreams...which are often as or more real than what I experience in waking life. I'm spiritual. Not religious. Recovering Catholic. Though I was an atheist for a while til I met Cannabis. Then explored Buddhism. Then Krishna Consciousness which is the real deal minus all the religious BS...their views on how to gain salvation and avoid rebirth are seriously flawed...I don't think anyone in this day and age can achieve full self actualization as was once possible before the cards of patriarchy were seriously stacked against us being our full selves. Jesus comes, He Loves, he gets crucified...so...that's what you can look forward to if you are able to actualize yourself. We can develop ourselves a great deal here and learn a lot about unconditional love (often times through experiencing it's opposite) and therefore resonate with (and be transported to) some very high heavenly realms once we exit the 3d. I think the overall quality of our awareness is ultimately what will dictate our next experiences. The Hare Krishna Mantra is gold though for taking control of our concentration/awareness. I belive myself to be some higher dimensional ET being who came to Earth more to attempt to serve and uplift rather than coming from lower in the consciousness ladder to learn and evolve. I bet there was a lot of shit about darkness and the shadow self I simply did not know cause I did not experience before and that is why I came here to tread through the muck and be depressed for a lifetime.
But regardless of how conscious anyone else is, guru or otherwise, we are still on this side of the ocean, and so basically, we're the same.
What convinces me most of an afterlife is not the many psychedelic and near death experiences I've enjoyed, but the spontaneous out of body experiences that have ocurred while totally sober, where I simply realized that I could exit my body, and somehow did so, and went into a dream realm in which it felt like I was still in my physical body...but I was totally in a higher astral manifestation of my surroundings. My opinion (informed by others opinions, of course...the evolution of consciousness is a 'group process'.) Peace.
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I wouldn't be so hard on myself to think that I have to go through this same incarnation again and try to not make the mistakes I made in past lives. I just don't think the universe works that way. I don't think it's that cruel.
However! If a person dies who never woke up in this lifetime, and so basically lived an unconscious existence then they will attract life circumstances in their future lives which may indeed be difficult and trying, but which may be necessary to wake them from their deep sleep.
I feel I was so numbed out by the pain of this planet that it wasn't until 2012 when I ate magic mushrooms and 'woke up' that I was able to see deeply into my self destructive patterns and all the BS thoughts I've learned from culture.
Just because I hurt others doesn't doom me to be the victim of such violence in future lives nor to have to repeat the experience for the opportunity to choose otherwise. The reason is that I learned from these experiences. And the reason I hurt people is that Hurt people hurt people. And if I weren't so wounded from a dysfunctional abusive family within a sick society I would not have hurt others.
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There is a lot of evidence of reincarnation. Search youtube. I met one man who had severe PTSD since he was basically a toddler because of the war he had just been in, he goes by Yoga D. Whether or not it was HIM that lived that previous life, or if it was just his slice of the pie to deal with I don't know, and don't think it matters really. In the end there is all One. So, the One gave birth to this person with Trauma so he could heal it. Trauma, experience, this is all stored in our DNA.
There are many many accounts I've read and heard of young people giving accounts of their past lives, saying things they could only know if they were that person, or in that family. Sometimes people even look almost identical to who they were in a past life. The famous inventor Patrick Flanagan claims to have been Nikola Tesla before, and says it really does not matter whether he was or wasn't because the fact is he had access in his mind to what Tesla knew and invented things with his innate knowledge.
Also Graham Hancock in his banned Ted Talk on consciousness speaks to some of what's come up in this thread.
Teal Swan (youtube) did a great video recently about Karma. Worth watching. The one on Depression she recently uploaded is utterly brilliant and spot on.
