I was thinking about reincarnation and something occured to me that i never thought of before
If I come back as a person, animal, insect or thing
Then have I taken the place of that entity, that would have lived that life?....or
Am I ALL the people, ALL of everything?Am I ALL the people, ALL of everything?
Now I'm thinking that this entire world is built for me to experience every life
And so I am you and you are me but we don't know that I am living both of our lives simultaneously
Only when I die do I recieve the instruction to begin another life, inferring that there is a creator, a higher power who is orchestrating and guiding me to begin another experience, until i have completed all humans, past, present and future, all animals, all things, everything
Now obviously the time you percieve as a 3d human cannot conceptualise how i can live multiple lives all at once, but also one at a time
And what I'm realising is that, if i have an argument with someone on the street, if i fall out with a friend, a disagreement at work
All conflict is self harmAll conflict is self harm
I am just arguing, fighting, hating myself
So today as an experiment I acted as if everyone was me, what i noticed is that when someone did something that upset me, i didn’t take offence because they are literally me
I rarely get upset anyway but nothing annoyed me, it felt very liberating
The question is, am i coping massively because i can't explain what this reality, this consciousness is
And are you living in your own universe built just for you, that is parallel to infinite universes built for everyone else?
If we as a planet realised we are just one consciousness, the wars would stop instantly but what keeps us separated and divided?
Language
Borders
Ethnicity
Religion
Money
Status
Makes you think 🤔 i wonder if there are powers that don't want us to cooperate
Deep for a Thursday 🤣🤣🤣
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You might be interested in the egg theory
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Lovely post!
You will enjoy this short story, "The Egg," based on very similar ideas. Cheers!
https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
This is one of the Brandon Sanderson religions - I forget of it was from the Mistborn or Way of Kings series. Practitioners of this religion believe everyone is collecting different experiences, but they're all ultimately the same being. I thought it was rather fun.
We experience this life like we're individuals and believe to be reincortate. The point is, we're like a branches of huge tree. Bad branches that don't serve (develope) the tree got dry and disappear, good branches make the tree better and give life for new branches.
You wrote it right, you're me and I'm you. We have always been here and will always stay here
What you do unto others is what you do unto your Self, especially judgments.
I sometimes watch NDE videos, and in almost every one, people basically say that a soul can choose to reincarnate and come to earth, basically for learning, and that somehow is useful on the other side. They also say that we are all of the same light, so in effect, harming others is like harming yourself
i have never heard of anyone reincarnating as an anmial though.
Now, whether you believe it or not is another matter, but almost every NDE mentions it
I wonder if you can game the system or is God waiting for you to be lead into temptation
It's definitely easier if everyone is you because there's no competition but is that verging on nihilistic behaviour 🤔
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Thinking of everyone as “me” reframes conflict in a radical way. Makes me wonder if empathy isn’t just a hack our brains invented to simulate this idea on a smaller scale.
If you are one consciousness living all lives then your question about taking someones place dissolves. There is no other person whose life you stole. There is only you wearing a different mask. Time from the human perspective is linear but from the perspective of whatever runs this whole thing there is no reason lives could not be run in sequence in parallel or outside of our concept of time entirely.
Philosophers have played with this. Versions of Hinduism Buddhism Advaita Vedanta and some modern thinkers like Schopenhauer and Metzinger all flirt with the idea that there is just awareness appearing as many. Simulation arguments and Many Worlds talk in similar shapes with different vocabulary.
The important part is not whether you can prove it but what happens if you live as if it were true. You did that experiment for a day and noticed that irritation dropped off a cliff. That is not trivial. That is a data point. You changed your ontology and your nervous system responded.
On the ethics
If everyone is you then enemy becomes a category error. You are basically punching your own mirror. Even if you decide the metaphysics is poetry not physics the behavior it produces is hard to argue against. You can decide other people are separate and still choose to treat them as if they are not because that stance leads to fewer regrets and less internal noise
https://m.stacker.news/134618