universecannon said:
I've read much of your stuff a long time ago but i forget a good amount..so i apologize if you've answered this..
One question- if we really relive our lives over and over again for eternity, as you suggest, what about those with completely aweful and pain filled lives? What about those who die so young they barely even come to consciousness? What is the point really of this massive endless cycle? While i guess i wouldn't mind reliving my life, i wouldn't like doing it unless i was able to change something. And i certainly would see everyone reliving the same exact one again and again obliviously for eternity as a sort of hell lol
Unfortunately, all must repeat their lives, despite how bad they possibly were (for that matter, this includes animals etc.). All is necessary for the Greater Whole and these tragic opposites are absolutely necessary for the evolution of consciousness. Now, that being said, when on the "Otherside," there tends to be an understanding that the experience of Eternity - that is, the experience of death - is one so profound that it renders all of material existence's tragedies as comparatively moot. Oneness with the All redeems all beings and allows them to forget; to start anew.
Surely, hell exists for select individuals. Hell is repetition without evolution.
Heaven is evolution through novelty. Love is novel.
In finding Himself, God sought an absolute experience; one filled with beauty, hatred, malice, peace, love, and melancholy.
The painful beauty of enlightenment is the understanding of redemption:
“Zarathustra once defines, quite strictly, his task – its mine too – and there is no mistaking his meaning: he says Yes to the point of justifying, of redeeming even all of the past.“I walk among men as among the fragments of the future – that future which I envisage. And this is all my creating and striving, that I create and carry together into One what is fragment and riddle and dreadful accident. And how could I bear to be a man if man were not also a creator and guesser of riddles and redeemer of accidents?
To redeem those who lived in the past and to turn every ‘it was; into a ‘thus I willed it’ – that alone I should call redemption.” Nietzsche, ‘Ecce Homo’ (bold mine)
The entire Universe repeats and us with it. Conscious beings, for whatever reason, are bestowed with a most beautiful exit from material existence (I would imagine that animals do as well, as I believe their sentience allows them such an emotional experience). It is not known why these experiences occur, but they most certainly do. The sheer amount of Near-Death Experience research is proof of that.
The Oneness model goes hand in hand with the Eternal Recurrence of the Same.
God is truly One.
Tat tvam asi.