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I certainly see past lives and future ones as entirely possible. I plainly wouldn't KNOW what my past life was so I don't really have much to say on who I must have been or whatever.

I'm not sure how you can believe in something and the refuse that it apply to you. Oh well.

I'm hazy on this...to some degree I believe in reincarnation....but to some degree not. Let me see If I can explain (bear in mind my obvious gnostic influence)


All things of Matter have a Spark of Sophia/spirit. Yet only a few forms the spirit takes shape in have the ability to be set free from Material Constraints. So if one Does not Achieve Gnosis (in this case the Separation of the spirit from the Dark forms of matter) then The go with the Matter.



So all things go through this cycle of conversion of matter(to which the spirit must follow the matter it is attached to) until it is made again in the image of a form capable of setting it free.


Then end of days, will be when the last of the Light as left the dark, and returned to Pleroma.

Most assuredly. There are two Major Gnostic Illness...

Psychicism: The worship of teh mind and the Emotonal soul
Hyleticism: worship of matter.

The Role of the Facilitators of Wholeness (Christ) is to exorcise these sickness b bringing knowledge of the Metacognitive.

Body, Soul, Spirit....

The body of the Material Darkness
The Soul the Mental personality deveopled...i.e:"The Me who has become..."
and Spirt, the orginal spark of divine. The Inner self. The Meta Cognitive i.e: "The Me who was when first I was"

I guess the only way I can say it is non sum qualis eram.

I believe what you are describing is Brahman, from hindu theology, and it is not a being but rather a force...or more of something like a force.

Moreover, feminist spiritualists have seen mind-body dualisms as being incredibly influential in the patriarchal devaluing of women and their bodies (since women were associated with the earth in ancient times, and therefore, matter).

I always saw the source of these ideas in Plato, but perhaps Plato was getting it from somewhere else. At its heart it isn't sexist, but you can see how the idea was used to support sexist practices over time.

Yup! I've been studying parts of Hinduism for years and it was then that I realized that this makes sense and feels right to me. There are other parts of Hinduism with which I disagree, though, so I can't identify as Hindu.