Incarnation? Reincarnation?
-There is a long running argument over this subjects. Some say death is final and unique for the individual, others that we simply pass through here many times, learning. There are some who say that death is final and unique but that we then go to other places and live there, until death there, passing through chains of worlds. All this is discussion within the being of conversation, rhetorical developments used by the self reflection to impress itself with being able to “see” what it does not know.
-This question assumes one basic thing, that the existence you have here is all that is going on, that this level that you perceive defines what is real. The basic assumption is that this made up name and self generated personality you call you is going to go somewhere after death, or will transfer to another life. It will, not it will simply unravel and return to the darkness here that spawned it. You are not this gathering of random thoughts and reactions, you are something totally other. You neither incarnate nor reincarnate.
-We are an attention, existing in something. Sometimes our attention brings into focus certain places and that is what we perceive, but there are other parts of us that are in other places. If you could disengage your complete focus from here you would sense these other things.
-This idea that we are living in a solid world of materialism is a current myth. It is an outgrowth of the philosophy of the age of reason and materialism. Before it the myth was we lived in a world populated by otherworldly being, angles, demons, elf's, various things. This was dispatched by people who decided that only that which could be demonstrated to the senses and verified scientifically by others was to be held as true, and the rest fantasy. Only the myth of materialism fit this, as was the goal of those people who desired to debunk the fear of God and angels and other (as they held them) critters of the Bible. Their myth was that of freeing us from religion and specters, keeping us in mental bondage and ignorance, replacing it with pure reason.
-Now we have a science of physics that seems to show that this is not simply a world of matter, but more of a field of energy. We are solid as we perceive it, but we are also at the other end of an energy pattern, on a wave of sorts, levels away. Life is not just this level of perception, but this is not an unreal world. If you step on to a road, and a car hits you, it hit you. However this world is illusion (deceptive appearance) because what our senses tell us is not all there is.
-From my personal experience there seems to be at least two of you, the self perceived image caused by the internal being of conversation, and the other part. As the internal discussion loosened its hold I began to perceive something else, not easily describable, but there. What it sees is very different and more bizarre than the daily world in front of us, yet they are the same place, this place set up for our needs. This “other” seems to be the “real” me, enshrouded by the discussion.
-This “other” is floating and swimming in this place, this energy, of which this perceived world is part of the presentation, neither incarnating nor reincarnating. It has the experience of this place yet this place is but a part of its total attention and perception. Who we really are never fully gets here, except with extreme effort. It is always off in some dream, its attention absorbed by some self reflection. It is partly in this body, but mostly not. This “other” is the one that has to worry about being here or freeing it. Your self reflection has no chance of leaving or evolving, for it is nothing but a bag of words. The only way to get free of here is for the “other” to get completely here in this body, completely alive, and then choose to leave. Other wise the choices you make are simply thoughts in the being of conversation.