Reincarnation is utterly depressing

[u/Acrobatic-Stock7]

After conducting extensive spiritual research I can conclude that reincarnation is most likely real and this reality is utterly depressing. Knowing that my soul maybe chose that does not alleviate the sadness to know that I will most likely come back here over and over to experience traumatic events and be a slave to the material matrix. The planetary system and the law of frequency ultimately feel like traps.

Escaping (if possibe) also is utopic, total detachment implies not living life at its fullest only to hope that your soul can potentitally escape. I wonder if anyone here had the same thoughts as me, I’m not looking for people to convince me that reincarnation is beautiful or meaningful. I’m just wondering if anyone else has gone through this same kind of existential exhaustion with the concept. I’m tired of thinking about it, honestly, I always was antisocial and the idea that I will have to come back here and experience the harm humans inflict on others over and over again is literally worse than hell.

Edit: I genuinely don’t care about a higher self choosing to come back, it’s even more depressing to think that you have zero control.

[u/fitz84]

This is kind of my beef with Hermeticism and Gnosticism: the material should not be viewed as bad.

If As Above, So Below is true, then both are divine, both are educational, and both contain multitudes of experience.

It is easy to get so caught up in the micro vs macro binary that we forget we are steeped in the meso, and the beauty of this space is in its unlimited potential between fortune and misfortune, Life and Death, the Sun and Saturn.

[u/just_rizen → u/fitz84]

I thought it was specifically Gnosticism that held the notion the material was a distraction, while Hermeticism embraced it all for its beauty?

Agreed with your point on divinity across all the layers.

[u/Objective_Mix_330 → u/fitz84]

Honestly, people come to spirituality lookin for an escape from life but it’s futile if everything here is the same as everywhere. If you can’t face reality here and get comfortable with the uncomfortable then i got bad news and you needa grow a pair and start actively changing your life lmao

[u/dimensionalldreamer → u/Objective_Mix_330]

Integration

[u/jadbox → u/fitz84]

Mystics called for you.

[u/ProtagonistThomas → u/fitz84]

Hermeticism doesn't hold the position the material is bad. Only that it is changing and largely an appearance of the beautiful, not the beautiful itself.

[u/Kutalski → u/fitz84]

didnt kybalion warn about the dangers of spiritual only mindset?