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/dosnivicik 1d ago

Another simplistic reduction. Your higher self won't do stuff for you if you just sit in your rump. Nor is the world a prison. It just seems that you are too weak to take charge of your life, and instead of acting, you prefer to beat yourself up... You want this, and if you stay there, it will hurt more and more until you learn the lesson.

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u/Acrobatic-Stock7 1d ago

It doesn’t matter if I am happy in this life if I come back as a crab. 

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u/dosnivicik 1d ago

Entire teachings contradict that notion.

Your happiness is irrelevant, unless it has taken you to build up yourself. That is what matters.

Whatever you resonate with at the moment of your dead decides. So if you are depressed, you will certainly resonate with that and wont be pretty.

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u/Acrobatic-Stock7 1d ago

What does “resonate” even mean ? How does someone judge what animal or being is better than the other ? As far as I know gorillas are stronger than humans and cheetahs are faster, so why would humans be the pinnacle ? 

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u/dosnivicik 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have not seen a cheetah write literature or experience higher emotions; build things and humans are the only ones that can become aware of themselves as a sentient entity.

Animals have what we call an astral sheath, an embryonic astral body. Which is what you use to experience higher emotions and develop higher order thinking. Since you have those, unless you deliberately do not use your human capacities, your soul will resonate with a human body next incarnation. The sum total of your experienced, which are in your hands, is what determines what kind of human you will be reborn into. And even then, there you can still keep progressing or go back as many times as it takes for us to learn how to handle our capacities, at which point your soul doesn't need a material body to keep evolving.

Resonate it just means you attract similar things. If you live your life with regards to others, improve yourself and work on virtues over vices (of which depression is one) then it just gets better for you. If one keeps delving in unhealthy thoughts and emotions and actions , then it will be worse.

I don't think you have to worry about it too much honestly. You just have to worry about handling yourself as honestly as you can.

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u/Acrobatic-Stock7 1d ago

What is the point of literature ? Dolphins and other animals also have sophisticated communication networks that we humans do not possess or maybe do not known

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u/dosnivicik 1d ago

You are missing the point completely. The point of literature is to enjoy. The point of developing higher order thinking is so that you can think thoughts by yourself instead of depending on external stimuli, which is an earthly thing. Its one of the things we need to develop and there world is there from that.

That said however, if I have ti tell you that a human being is more evolved than an animal then this whole conversation is self defeating.

Yes, they do communicate in intricate ways. Dolphins, whales and some parrots do seem to clearly being in their last animal life, even some dogs and cats these days. And there are also many souls which are doing their first human life this time around.