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I posted this remark about my thoughts on death in a previous thread: "Life and death are so much more complex than we ordinarily think...and the concept of linear time with respect to life after death is not as simple as most ordinary christian concepts...The true nature of time is the key to understanding what may happen after we die in this temporal realm...Time is a circle (or possibly time is enclosed in a "sphere of consciousness" within us and not 'outside' us), almost eternal, and events in life return to live themselves out again and again...Only self-awareness and knowledge can can generate profound changes in the this eternal repetition." I am referring to the theory of eternal recurrence once quite popular among theosophists around the turn of the century, the idea that when we die we are reborn as who we are and live our lives all over again, and again, and again, eternally. According to these thinkers our ordinary concept of reincarnation is a thwarted version of eternal recurrence. Reincarnation was created by people who could not understand the true nature of time and the illusion of 'linear time.' This idea of eternal recurrence may explain the experience of deja vu. What's interesting about this idea is that each of us can 'jump' into the next life 'immediately' by simple struggling against our inclinations under certain conditions, by doing things opposed to what we believe we would ordinarily do and observing our reactions to it, thus changing the course of our lives somehow (an effect which, to us, seems immediate, but actually may be the effect of actually 'jumping into' a future life!). Pretty wild, don't you think?
"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"
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