What are your thoughts about it, do you believe there is a life after death where you will become life in another form? or do you think you will go to the heavens or whatever only. I know there will be alot of different responses for the subject because many people have different beliefs.

Well, I have quite a scientific mind so I figure that since energy cannot be destroyed I find it hard to believe that the spirit, which is a form of energy, cannot simply disappear, so thats a belief in some kind of afterlife. Also, since energy cannot be created either, no one can have a brand new spirit so that's where my belief in reincarnation comes in.

I also believe that when you live enough lives to learn all the lessons, you become one with the higher Spirit. Your spirit engery is not destroyed, it is altered.

It will be interesting to see other people's view on afterlife.

i agree with TribalRaven,i feel that we are entities of energy,not our bodies,that choose our life choices here in this reality.i feel that those choices,if they are 'good' or 'bad' are what determines what comes back to us,either in this life or the next.

hmmmmm interesting responses.

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In the West most who believe in reincarnation seem to enjoy the prospect, reveling in the thought of this immortality through myriad transformations. Whereas in orthodox Hinduism and Buddhism, reincarnation is taken for granted as an all-too-unpleasant fact; the precise goal of religious practice is to free oneself from the "endless round of suffering." While in the Western tradition, it seems, like Faust, are eternal seekers of experience; adventurer, not renouncers. And the possibility of an eternity of adventure in a thousand disquises seems to good to be missed.

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The Hindu mythic cosmology expanded my previous concepts of reincarnation. I felt a great weight lifted. While the Western concept is more playful, creative, colorful and grounded, as are all of the religious traditions, it was the Eastern concept of reincarnation that touched me , the genesis of my way looking at the Universe, of experiencing reality.

In the Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, we have not only one chance to make good but many. The Universe is endless, yugas and kalpas(thousands and millions of years) of duration. Morality is relative, and good and evil both are forms of desire. The destructive forces of being do not dwell in a permanent underground with wailing and gnashing of teeth, with the archdemon tempting us ever to stray from the path, but exist rather in the form of a dancing god, Shiva--terrible yet marvelous, god of destruction but also patron of yoga, disengagement. Reality is a play of illusion, and we too are such stuff as dreams are made of. We have passed through thousands of life-forms, thousands of transmigrations from one to another. Finding in myself an affinity for the Eastern Spiritual paths, I must inquire within.

I whole-heartedly believe in reincarnation, though I do include animals and plants. So far, what I've collected was I was a river willow and a desert hare... but it's all up for speculation.