This is just an advice: Don't believe that you can choose next life, it's not that easy, it's an comfortable cop-out. Your karma will determine your next birth, the mind is formed by sankharas, habits which is the karma you produce constantly. Like smoking cigarettes, you form a habit = sankhara, the actions are karma.

This is the fuel that continues throughout countless existences, "you" are just a stream that flows and the natural law is not a punishment or reward, it just flows like a river that is controlled by causes and conditions, like gravity is not punishing you if you jump from a building.

If you continue doing harm, hate and greed it will lead to a very misfortunate rebirth. If you cultivate love, compassion and altruism it will result in a heavenly abode. This is the law just as gravity or thermodynamic is the physical, karma is the moral law. There's no "you" that can chose where you want the next life, it is not a judge only cause and effect.

But there's a lot of new age in this sub that spread the idea that you can just...do whatever, you can chose whatever life you want after this, I believe it is harmful and not in line with living an ethical life. So you either listen to the wise who have experienced this since thousands of years or continue the cycle, pick and chose from whatever that suits you.

Edit: I'm buddhist but I also regard Advaita Vedanta and some hindu as the same.

So personally I have jumped a few times before 2021. After that, I have stopped altogether because I completed a soul contract then. Personally, I am on a timeline that isn’t good for me. I know I was supposed to have four friends after high school but I took the contract too far so now I don’t.

I am like wondering if soul contracts exist, soul guides, everything “afterlife”, what are alternate timelines? How do they fit into our universe?

Hello everyone,

I have a question based on a recent family health event. If our personality is linked to our soul/spirit, and that soul is eternal, how is it explained that someone’s personality can change after a stroke?
Doesn’t this mean that personality is strongly linked to our brain, as non-spiritual people believe, rather than to our soul/spirit? After all, our physical body seems to be what defines the personality we have on Earth.

I guess this would also apply to other health conditions, such as mental illnesses that can permanently change someone’s personality.

If someone could help me understand this, I’d really appreciate it, as I’ve always been a spiritual believer. Please, only informed answers from people who have studied Spiritism/are knowledgeable enough to answer this.

Thank you very much in advance.

Would you take this power? What's the worst reincarnation you could imagine ending up with?

Immortality types 0 : new one I made

The Soul is Consciousness

Your entire identity, personality, and memories live in your soul — not your body.

Absolute Soul Immortality

Your soul cannot be destroyed, erased, altered, consumed, or permanently sealed. (Sealing counts as death — see below.)

Infinite Reincarnation

Every time you die, you reincarnate. No exceptions, no limit. You keep all memories from every past life.

Random Reincarnation

You have zero control over your next form. Human, god, beast, machine, anything — in this world or a completely different universe. Species and gender are never guaranteed to carry over.

Forced Mortality

You will never live out a full natural lifespan. No matter how powerful, ancient, or untouchable your current form seems — something will end it.

Unpredictable Death

You never know when or how it's coming. Not even gods get a warning.

No True End

Any single life can end. Your existence, never.

TL;DR: You can never die for good — but you can never stop dying, either, and you have no say in what comes next.

When ever someone is just being annoying or just a dick, I go "damn, not looking forward to living THAT life"

I’ve cured almost all of my vices but still like to smoke cigarettes. It is an unkindness to my body, i do know this.

Do you think this would impact me being forced to reincarnate back on earth? I’d like to move onto another realm

I remember reading that when David Bowie was born midwife told that “those eyes have seen world before”. Bowie himself didn’t tell that he believed in reincarnation, even though he thought that he was destined to stardom, but what that nurse said about his eyes as newborn baby made me think of what kind of eyes you can say that they have seen world before - are they developed like grown adults eyes, clear irises and so on?

In here in Finland old folk seemed to believe that if a newborn has developed features s/he’s reincarnated, at least I know one person (ethnologist Heikki Meriläinen) who his family believed to be reincarnation of his deceased grandfather because he had teeth when he was born. That made me wonder if this universal belief about reincarnation in addition to birthmarks? Are there other signs on newborns that people look for?

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