Reincarnation is real, but it's not what you think.

[axiom]

The ego traverses the the gamut of forms. For example, blade-of-grass consciousness > tree consciousness > fish consciousness > reptile consciousness > human consciousness > superhuman consciousness > trans-human consciousness > God-consciousness.

The ego thinks the answer to its own immortality lies in the direction of increasingly complex and convoluted distractions from the truth, which is that it isn't real, and never was. It will keep up this charade until it is entirely dissolved. 

Right now, you are identifying with your human body. Or perhaps, if you consider yourself "awakened to God consciousness", you are identifying with a different form. All such identification is an egoic effort to survive and to hide. To combat self-entropy, the ego builds ever-more sophisticated puzzle structures around itself. It is all a game of survival. Given a lifeline to prolong itself in a new form, it will grab it with both hands, day after day, "lifetime" after "lifetime".

Many romanticise the idea of reincarnation, and think it is something desirable.

Reincarnation is simply the ongoing attachment to form(s), which is the cause of all suffering. 

Edited October 20, 2022 by axiom

[Yarco]

If you start off as grass or a tree or an amoeba, you don't have the mental faculties to have an ego or sense of self tho. At least according to what conventional science tells us about the experience of these more basic organisms.

Are you saying that even grass is able to suffer and contemplate its own existence?

Why wouldn't God just stay at these super low levels of consciousness where it doesn't need to distract or deceive itself?

I dunno if even fish or insects are there. It's only really when you get to mammals that you'd need to start worrying about something that can question reality.

Wouldn't a worm be happy just being a worm for 1,000+ years, without ever questioning anything?

[axiom]

11 minutes ago, Yarco said:

Are you saying that even grass is able to suffer and contemplate its own existence?

Sort of. But it's not the grass that is suffering or contemplating, rather it is the ego that thinks it is the grass. It is always the ego.

Grass may not offer much of a distraction to a very powerful ego, since it is a relatively basic form.