Reincarnation Can Be Amusing
Belief in reincarnation is common. Sometimes our ego-minds like to fantasize about being big shots in other lives. Often it's a royal person like a king, queen, prince or princess. Be patient with people who go on about this sort of thing. It's normal and humorous.
This belief presupposes a condition of separation that cannot exist. We are all extensions of The One Holy Source. That being said, this universe is a manifestation of individual and collective belief and reincarnation is as real as anything else.
Belief about reincarnation is interesting in that some folks conceive it as a time-bound progression in which we become incrementally more spiritually aware, while others see it as a series of fits, starts, setbacks and leaps. Three steps forward two steps back.
Christians say they don't believe in it, yet believe they'll go to heaven or hell, which are just other reincarnational life experiences.
I believe we all live an infinite number of lives, the number increasing exponentially forever.
Let me explain.
- Belief in time is part of the consensus trance. Without time being a factor, we are experiencing all lives simultaneously. Time doesn't constrain your God-Self.
- As God-Self we're undifferentiated parts of One Holy Source, and therefore we are experiencing everyone's lives as our own.
- Each individual random choice and/or interaction we experience causes a separate sequence of events leading to an exponential increase in the number of life experiences, to infinity. This may help explain goal setting.
- We are created in God's Image and are extending ourselves like God, to infinity.
Belief in Reincarnation Distracts From What's Happening Now
Reincarnation can be a nonproductive distraction, albeit an intriguing concept and fun to speculate about. It has little to do with
what's happening now aside from tendencies believed to be carried over from other
life experiences.
If you've not already clicked that link above, go ahead and click it. It goes to a Wikipedia page that covers the specifics better than any other site I've seen. The links from there are amazing.
Belief in other life experience is like believing in air, water, sunshine, or gravity. Dwelling on it is not going to help you become acquainted with your God-Self. It's a pretty distraction. Just be here now.
It's Okay to Believe What You Want Especially When Your Beliefs Serve You Well
If you read about hypnosis, and particularly Ericksonian hypnosis, you'll realize that what we think is "real" is just our interpretation.
Sure, there's a consensus trance in effect that causes us to have mutually defined experiences of the world influenced by groupthink, but it is still a highly subjective experience.
You are creating your experiences of the world according to your beliefs. You can change beliefs that don't support you.
Get a book about neuro-linguistic programming or NLP and look into how you can change your beliefs to conform with your goals or as NLP practitioners call them, well-formed outcomes.
Some NLP practitioners are also hypnotherapists and they can be very effective helping you modify your beliefs so they serve you well.
Your beliefs about reincarnation or other life experiences influencing your present life may not be serving you very well. You decide.
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Caring for the Body as Part of a Spiritual Practice
Many people want to get old without being old. They want the years, but not the consequences. They hope for wisdom without decline, vitality without restraint, and spiritual insight without the discipline required to maintain the body through which life is actually lived.
This hope is understandable. It is also unrealistic.
The human organism is not an accessory to the spiritual life. It is the medium through which perception, thought, and awareness occur. Every spiritual tradition ultimately operates through a biological system with limits, vulnerabilities, and predictable responses to neglect. To disregard those realities while claiming to pursue higher awareness is not transcendence—it is a kind of denial.
It is therefore not unusual to encounter individuals who sincerely believe they are on a spiritual path while maintaining habits that steadily degrade their health. Chronic overeating, poorly chosen diets, lack of metabolic discipline, and disregard for physical conditioning gradually diminish energy, clarity, and resilience. These patterns are often rationalized as irrelevant to spiritual development, as though consciousness could somehow flourish independently of the body that sustains it.
But the body keeps the ledger.
Over time, metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, and declining physiological resilience impose limits that cannot be bypassed by philosophy or belief. The organism responds to inputs—food, activity, rest, fasting—with remarkable consistency. When those inputs are careless, the results are equally predictable.
A more coherent view recognizes that caring for the body is not separate from a reflective life. It is part of it.
Food choices require awareness. Restraint around consumption requires discipline. Periods of fasting require patience and the ability to tolerate discomfort without immediate gratification. These are not merely health techniques. They are practices that mirror the same qualities cultivated in contemplative traditions: attention, restraint, and clarity about one's habits.
In this sense, health practices can function as a form of grounded spirituality—one that does not pretend the biological organism can be ignored while pursuing meaning or insight. Instead, it treats the body as the necessary foundation for sustained awareness and agency over the long arc of a lifetime.
For readers interested in exploring this perspective in practical, evidence-minded terms, Longevity Secrets examines how food choices, fasting patterns, and metabolic awareness can support a longer healthspan and a clearer relationship with the body that makes every human experience possible.
Longevity Is Cumulative
Healthspan reflects how well decisions were understood when they mattered.
A practical, evidence-minded book on fasting, nutrition, and aging—without hype or programs.
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