[…’Reincarnation’ as just a hopeful romantic ideal…]
If I believe in I Heart Huckabees’ blanket theory that says we recede back into the cosmic force when we die, and we understand this cosmic will to constitute all of the material world, couldn’t we assume that if I died in Africa (or USA, or Eugene), that I’d likely reincarnate near the same region? What is the likelihood that my spirit will travel around the globe, and reabsorb into human form halfway across the world— especially if the soul reincarnated immediately! … I can see how the Dali Lama tradition proceeded as so…
Do you ever read Emerson and think you just might be Emerson reincarnate?… picking up where you left off, moving forward in precisely the same way? Maybe we really only live once, but leave behind a spirit/path that others follow. It’s a system meant to inspire. Nothing more. And only the few will reach enough Enlightenment to influence the world. How? I do not yet know. But I will try.
Each life is one effort to push the potential of mankind. Cosmic Will wants you to help nuture her, but we will extinguish ourselves if we cannot live in her harmony. Yes, reincarnation aside, we will die anyway, but there is a way to be at peace with all experience. Simply trying to live in this way will give those that live after you a better chance as well— in fact, your biological disposition (environmental context, psychological persuasion, etc.) compels you! You are given a gift.
What is the consequence if you (don’t) take advantage of it?
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