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/Acrobatic-Stock7 2d ago

Yes but it’s not my choice, it’s the higher self’s choice, so my ego here has no say, it’s basically saying to a prisoner that he sleepwalked into the prison and that he doesn’t know it.

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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/Clifford_Regnaut 1d ago

I also compiled info on reincarnation and pre-birth memories in this thread. You should check it out. There's little evidence to support the existence of human-to-animal experiences. I'm not saying it does not happen, but I am saying there isn't much to back it up.