Someone was provoked by my comments in another thread that call popular assumptions about reincarnation into question:
Hi, Don,
I was going through some posts on EW today and there was a post from you that I found quite provocative – i bet you get that frequently [Image Can Not Be Found]
Anyways, it’s when you describe the 3 wrong things most psychics tend to get stuck with, and one of them is reencarnation.
Now, I realise this is not important nor do I give it any thought during my days unless the subject gets brought up, but now I’m curious – if you do not beleive in reencarnation what do you believe happens when one dies? I find it hard to imagine you are into the heaven/purgatory/hell system.
Personally I believe this whole Life afair is a continuous self-improvement / fun adventure ride and that God is … well ok, this one’s a little beyond me. The conciousness of the universe? The universe itself?
Anyways, that’s what I’m confortable with and I just wanted to know what do you believe happens from the moment that one dies.
Carlos
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Thanks, CArlos, and I hope you weren’t provoked too uncomfortably. I only wish to challenge people to think about some of their blind assumptions. I don’t pretend to know much about the meaning of existence and especially can’t say anything profound about God.
I don’t know whether reincarnation is real (I did mention that) but I do know that the packaged ideology that most people swallow around that subject is artificial, mind-numbing and misleading.
A good exercise is to compare the energy of Theosophy with the energy of Hinduism, which it plagiarizes. Theosophy feels like $#!+ when one has fairly functional discernment ability and Hinduism has the divine spark in it, so even if some of the popular Hindu beliefs might not jive with the original teachings of Rama and Krishna it still feels pretty good. Theosophy goes straight to all of the more questionable and oppressive (clergy-derived?) Hindu trappings and makes all of that their central core, hence the lack of divine spark in Theosophy.
I’d also like to know how much Hinduism changed when the Brits turned it into a ‘national religion’ for India in the early 1700s. I suspect that was the Bank of England’s precursor to Theosophy. The Secret Intelligence Service, which was almost a century old by then, had scammed all of the Hindu potentates to let the Bank set up a ‘Hindu Seminary’ in Calcutta to train a new cadre of priesthood for the subcontinent. There was evidently no religion called ‘Hinduism’ before that. I think anyone can see that things like the caste system were not from the original founders of these beliefs but were later added in order to keep people under control. The Theosophy paradigm of reincarnation and karma also sure fits that bill, at least for me.
When the rajas were conned enough by the Bank’s agents, they discovered that the agents had gained control of the subcontinent, essentially without firing a shot. India was conquered rather more by infection than by military domination. This is also how Theosophy conquers minds.
Speaking of mind, the reason I can’t pretend to know much about the afterlife or our purpose in this world is because that information is gained through the heart, not through the brain. Theosophy is essentially heartless, which is why it’s so loaded with mental gymnastics. I think those gymnastics cause endorphin squirts in the brain, which passes for ‘spirituality’ for the less discerning.
Some have said that if one an comprehend the dream state, then one can comprehend our following (after physical) existence. I particularly suspect that our heart-based communications with dolphins are also an indicator of what’s coming next for us. Theosophy has a vested interest in confining our concentration to the physical realm. They collectively remind me of Muhammad’s observation (about disinformants and the disinformed?), ‘They perceive the straight to be crooked and the crooked to be straight.’
I think Theosophy (on the sly) became so popular mainly because most people are uncomfortable thinking about the Big Topics, so they crave packaged answers. Theosophy, being parasitic, was happy to oblige, as Christian clergy earlier were with the ‘Patriarchal Sun God’ and heaven/hell silliness.
~Don