Discussion Do you think there is a possibility of an afterlife or reincarnation?

[violetdevil]

I personally don't believe in an afterlife or reincarnation, but I wish I did. It would make suicide a lot easier for me. I'm scared of dying. I wish I could be somewhere else instead like Heaven because I hate life here. Maybe I could deal with living in Heaven, in a peaceful world with nothing to worry about. But I know that nothing comes after death.

 

[Ashu]

About reincarnation, I call myself a sympathetic agnostic. I've read Hindu and Buddhist literature all my life, for the last twenty years in Sanskrit, and have lived in India surrounded by believing Hindus for the last fifteen. Though I don't think we can really know enough about reincarnation to confidently theorize and systematize it in the way Indian literature has, I do think there are good, rational reasons for thinking that something like it does happen.

 

[Famous Last Words]

I personally don't believe in an afterlife or reincarnation, but I wish I did. It would make suicide a lot easier for me. I'm scared of dying. I wish I could be somewhere else instead like Heaven because I hate life here. Maybe I could deal with living in Heaven, in a peaceful world with nothing to worry about. But I know that nothing comes after death.

I'm not trying to convert you or anything. I'm not religious and was agnostic at best before I started contemplating what might come next.

But this guy's story (a neurosurgeon and scientific materialist who believed that unconscious brain matter was responsible for consciousness before his own near death experience after contracting meningitis) sent me down the rabbit hole of life after death. There are literally thousands of accounts by people who have come forward to share their experiences of what happens when you die.

The reason Dr Eben Alexander's story made the scientific and medical community (and Oprah) take notice (even hardcore skeptics like Michael Shermer who spoke about it on Joe Rogan's podcast) is that he is literally an expert on the brain and he knew that it simply wasn't possible that this was a dying brain's hallucination before death. The part of his brain that would have been responsible for this had literally turned to mush and it was a medical miracle that he even recovered.

His message from the afterlife - we are all deeply loved and cherished forever and there is absolutely nothing to fear.



This channel has loads of fascinating stories too

https://www.youtube.com/c/AfterlifeExperiences/videos

And this one

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThanatosTVEN/videos

 

[Theman]

Remember I'm pro-choice before reading this.I believe that we go to a spirit world,which is our true home.We just come to this world to learn lessons to evolve into higher beings of love and knowledge.Our present circumstances are determined by our karma in our previous lifetimes and the lessons we choose to learn before incarnating.Sometimes the lessons we choose to learn are too hard/difficult for us,so exiting is understandable.It is good to be shrewd but shrewd to be good.So we maybe need to learn how to take things one step at a time and love ourselves just as we love others.Trust me,noone can run from their karma.But what we experience in our lifetimes is a result of the combination of our karma and our decision to learn what we want to learn from this lifetime.Like I said,we need to take things one step at a time.I'm pro choice as I believe sometimes we set a bar too high for ourselves so we need to go 'back' and dial down the difficulty.But I believe we are only allowed to do that if we have accumulated good karma by helping people.Karma is always fair.So we need to be good people so we can go back and dial down our difficulties for our next life.Everyone's spiritual journey is unique.Peace.

 

[Ambivalent1]

People have no concept of eternity. If they did, they wouldn't want an afterlife.