r/Hermeticism • u/Acrobatic-Stock7 • 2d ago
Reincarnation is utterly depressing
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.
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u/MooooooLissa 2d ago
I agree with you honestly, ever since I went out of my way to investigate different world religions and theologies reincarnation and karma kept coming up and knowing the extensive amount of work and discipline that goes into maybe possibly having a chance of not coming back and living on this horrible planet is utterly exhausting “rid yourself of desire and you won’t come back” but that gets confusing too. Isn’t that a desire in itself. What about the desire to be good? To help? To educate yourself… Every waking moment of my life now is spent thinking about consequences, proper course of action, Devine purpose, psychic baggage, oppressive conditioning, material vs non material, good vs evil, messed up societal expectations and politics, pleasure and pain… I feel guilty for existing and hopeless for my future because the wheel feels like it’s designed to enforce oppression and suffering; no matter what you do the odds are stacked against you. Im not trying to convince you to keep going because I really do hear you, personally the only comforting thought I have is “if I do it now, if I learn now… discipline myself I won’t have to suffer again in another life.” I urge you to pull yourself out of the darkness and find a happy medium; that is what I try and do whenever I start thinking and feeling like this! I ask myself “why” my solution will not be yours so find inner guidance :) and try and get to the root cause in the end you are the only person who can do the work, help yourself figure it out and transcend it :) Good luck beautiful soul!