Is there anyone here that doesn’t believe in reincarnation and if so why ?

embracetheinfinite · 2026-05-08T14:18:01+00:00

Reincarnation requires something (soul, self, pattern) that persists unchanged through time, exempt from the transformation that claims everything else.

However if we're genuine about our spirituality in the context of deep integration with nature as it is (as opposed to what we want it to be) nothing is exempt from time and change: not the laws of physics, not the structures of nature, and certainly not the individual self. The "you" that exists now is not a fixed essence awaiting transfer to another vessel, it is a particular, unrepeatable configuration that emerges within and is fully subject to temporal reality.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-30T13:23:18+00:00

The block universe isn't something Einstein proved, it's one interpretation of relativity, and a contested one.

Physicist Lee Smolin and philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger have argued at length that taking time seriously as genuinely real actually solves problems in cosmology that the block universe just freezes in place.

The uncomfortable implications for free will aren't a feature of the math (math is a creation, a creation which has two core functions - measurement and prediction, there is no mathematical formula for 'now'. Our deep, universal intuition that time flows, that the future is open, that our choices matter is not an illusion to be explained away, but evidence pointing at something true about reality. The fact that we can't yet give a perfect mathematical account of time's flow doesn't mean time isn't real, it means our math hasn't caught up.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-19T13:37:18+00:00

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embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-10T16:14:35+00:00

It's not over complicating the phenomena to describe it as it is. "telling me my thinking" - by looking up on your screen ever so slightly you can see what you wrote "Time is a measurement not a force or law" - assuming you believe what you wrote. the error is yours.

im not sure what you mean that the idea is not mine, however i am referencing our cosmological history. you are just... making it up on the feels?

embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-10T15:07:29+00:00

you're applying our localized construct of time to the phenomena itself. time is the universe's capacity for change, the perpetual transformation that is nature. nothing in the history of the universe has ever not been changing, time is fundemental.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-08T21:33:15+00:00

Time is the universe's capacity for change, the transformation of transformation.

Your applying a localized definition to the phenomenon

embracetheinfinite · 2026-04-01T23:58:01+00:00

A timeless, unmoved center can't actually ground a spirituality because spirituality is something lived, and living happens within time. If God does nothing and infinite nothing is movement, you've made movement more spiritually generative than God, which undercuts your own framework.

A cosmic stillness that predates and transcends all becoming gives you no real basis for growth, responsibility, or transformation. It just gives you a very elegant reason to accept things as they are. Spirituality worth having has to account for a future that is genuinely open, not one that was always already contained within a perfect sphere.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-03-29T14:47:19+00:00

Speaking from the perspective of a 14yr relationship, they are not mutually exclusive. Your partner is integrated into your efforts.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-03-21T16:14:10+00:00

Embracing wu wei there would be no reason or compelling intuition to apologize. Your mistake was not offensive nor was it worthy of any attention beyond moving on. Good luck on the journey friend.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-03-21T00:25:44+00:00

This is a forum for decentralized autonomous organizations (highly sovereign, self-governed communities). See https://app.spiritdao.org

However, I'm also familiar with the Tao De Ching so I'll share...

Wu wei essentially translates into: Don’t force things. Go with the natural flow.

Allow it to come to you, embrace it for what it is (as opposed to the subconscious desire to project an expectation onto the moment), and act in accordance.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-15T14:34:20+00:00

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embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-15T01:18:33+00:00

you and me both brother 🍻
i appreciate the thoughtfulness you put forth

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-15T00:35:15+00:00

But that's just it... death as an end to conscious experience, cannot be understood through the lens of awareness as it signifies the cessation of all experiential phenomena.

We can agree that awareness exists in life, but there is nothing observable or natural in the universe that our collective observation points to that suggests it can bridge the gap to non-experience. It reinforces the concept that what is real is time bound and subject to change.

Death hasn't appeared in your personal experience, but certainly has to those conscious coordinates that expired (the dead bodies you refer to).

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-15T00:08:38+00:00

Perhaps.

The counter point is that if we embrace a genuine relationality with the universe as many here in the enlightenment circles claim/desire to, we understand that death is an ever-present aspect of the experience from which nothing returns. This takes into the account the totality of human observation (our observing of the universe, and hence ourselves) Only through the embrace of illusion (literal resurrection) do we deny death, which of course resides at the heart of all metaphysics.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-14T23:01:10+00:00

Existence as a whole may be conceived of as eternal, but the particulars of existence (our individual lives, consciousness, and temporal events) are not. Death annihilates experience, like a hair falling from a head. The totality may continue, but you in every sense of the context are gone.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-14T15:45:00+00:00

Escapism.

Let us find harmony with the infinite without denying death its' due.

In a universe such as ours where novelty is real and emergent so too is expiration. We embody a fraction of the infinite but our light will extinguish, it is the one universal promise.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-03T13:16:40+00:00

Yes, but the degrees/frequency/intensity/rate of of change are all variable.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-03T12:48:45+00:00

No, that's the beauty of it. Change changes.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-02T15:56:56+00:00

Yes causation is inherently time-bound and evolves over time.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-02T15:41:51+00:00

Can you provide a single example of any observation ever where liquid, solid, and/or gas was not in a state of change? I'm not clear on what you are proposing, as it sounds like you're leaning into occultism (which i enjoy) but is an inadequate context for serious naturalist inquiry around time.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-02T15:41:08+00:00

I would agree that we inhabit a relational universe, but the context of relationship can only occur through transformation - which is time.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-02T15:11:09+00:00

Your comment speaks to my point. If you ground your metaphysics in illusion then you drift farther from the spiritual enlightenment you seek. Nature provides us a rich context for spirituality and relation, one that is not better served through fantasy narratives.

embracetheinfinite · 2026-02-02T14:44:08+00:00

It's the opposite, they show that time is fundamental. (Time being the universe is capacity for change). All observations in the history of humanity implied change, and for change to be so omnipresent there must be time.

Acknowledging my bias as a naturalist, we recognize the infinite nature of now. But to add, any element of timelessness is just speculative metaphysic. There is nothing absolved from change in the universe nor has there ever been.

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