If eternal reassurance is true, would I return after death in my own consciousness?

Question

The one I am in now, would I be completely the same or...

Answer 1

HH the Dalai Lama teaches that each lifetime or embodiment is a separate building block, toward Realization.

The Catholic tradition teaches that each soul is a save or not save situation.

These are compatible.

"Reborn in the West:  The Reincarnation Masters," Vicki MacKenzie,

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock,

"Beyond the Ashes:  Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust," Rabbi Yonassan Gershom,

"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,

"The Masters and Their Retreats" and "The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D.,

"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D.,

"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, and

http://www.carolbowman.com give similar perspectives.

Answer 2

"Ifs" are interesting things.

IF Naturalism is true, you would not return at all.

"Naturalism, challenging the cogency of the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, holds that the universe requires no supernatural cause and government, but is self-existent, self-explanatory, self-operating, and self-directing, that the world-process is not teleological and anthropocentric, but purposeless, deterministic (except for possible tychistic events), and only incidentally productive of man; that human life, physical, mental, moral and spiritual, is an ordinary natural event attributable in all respects to the ordinary operations of nature; and that man's ethical values, compulsions, activities, and restraints can be justified on natural grounds, without recourse to supernatural sanctions, and his highest good pursued and attained under natural conditions, without expectation of a supernatural destiny. "

http://www.ditext.com/runes/n.html

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Answer 3

I believe you would, in reference only to my own near-death experience.  But you will not consciously remember.

Answer 4

Your question is totally meaningless.

Answer 5

It's not what the goal of life is. The goal is not to be reincarnated, and life as a human is to lose your ego so you don't reincarnate. It's what all the religions and spiritual practices are all about. Being afraid of not returning as the same ego is just an ego concern in itself and eventually you're going to have to get beyond that. The fact that you, the ego, are concerned about staying who you are means you'll stay who you are, basically. Your basic ego personality is somewhat different than you experience having a body because your body has a genetic makeup that has it's own personality that impinges on your real ego, so when your ego reincarnates and gets another body, you're ego and personality will be somewhat different from the genetic makeup of the new body. Also each time you pick up a body, the body's makeup changes your basic personality, so you'll be different when you drop it at death than you were at the time you entered it at birth.