In The Beginning? (Origins)

by BBella , Thursday, December 18, 2008, 06:31 (5629 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Thursday, December 18, 2008, 06:41

[bbella]So, if this is so, (not saying anything is for sure), the question would then be, what part of our conscience, as beings, remains thru this eternal existence?
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> [DT] Do you mean "conscience" or consciousness? Consciousness implies survival of a soul. - I should maybe have said the awareness, the part of the mind that is self aware. I do not know if that is the soul but whatever awareness is, I believe it is eternal and has no beginning or end, just as everything else, altho it too may evolve just as everything else does. - >As humans it appears to me that we have a beginning when we are conceived. Each combination of DNA is unique, as forensic science shows us. - Altho two unique DNA combine at conception to become one unique 'new' human being, the DNA itself is not really all that unique since it's the same DNA from forever just a different combination...there is no brand new DNA created, only a different combination. Isn't that the same as our number system that uses 0-9 to make many different combinations of numbers yet they are all made from the same 10 numbers yet each number is unique?
 
>There can be no reincarnation. - How can you state so emphatically there can be no reincarnation? If perhaps there is no beginning or end of anything, and everything is only recycling, possibly the mind/awareness also recycles thru eternity as well? What is the reason for ruling it out completely? Thought and awareness is also part of the fabric of life as it too is energy. - >But does the soul it creates in consciousness (probably at the quantum level) last forever? - If by soul you mean awareness, I would think it depends on whether the whole idea of beginnings and endings is truly a fact or not? Maybe all that truly begins and has an end is the name/word something is called. We may see a leaf fall to the gound and 'die' but truly it is only recycling into something else we call by a different name. What I think of as God (if anything) would be the fabric that all that IS is made up of, and it is from this fabric everything seen and unseen pro-seeds from and has it's existence. If the leaf carries on eternally, just evolving into something else, why then would not awareness be as the leaf? Just because we may not remember being here before this lifetime, and some do, doesn't mean we weren't here before and won't be here after our body is recycled. The fabric our awareness is made up of is of the same unseen fabric we could call spirit, which is no more than the unseen aspect of all that IS. Of course this is no more than conjecture...but, it is also a possibility.