06/07/2017
Is Reincarnation Really a Thing?
In this video series, Ronald McGuru-Clown serves up philosophical junk food for the mind posed as “Essential Life Questions” ostensibly raised by his former shills, including the late Liz Kitching (my sister): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3WZ0RF0NU0
To spare you the ear-bleed and yawning boredom, let me summarize the hackneyed old philosophical chestnuts:
Hogs-breath Questions, Part 1 – Is there such a thing as free will or is everything preordained by destiny?
John’s answer: Partly.
A better answer: This is a non-question. It confuses identity and agency in a way that makes partial sense to your cerebral cortex, but makes no sense from the point of view of the natural world. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
Hogs-breath Questions, Part 2 – Can being present help clear attachments to past life events?
John’s answer: Absolutely yes. The past does not exist in the present moment.
A better answer: Tell that to the judge! When John eventually goes to prison, will he tell himself the prison walls and his prison-mate bitch-master don’t exist because it’s now the present moment and therefore the jaw-dropping secrets in his past history that put him there are all illusory? Utter nonsense. No one lives in a world without consequences. See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11331034/Mindfulness-the-saddest-trend-of-2015.html and “Can I escape justice?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-nnogrgTA
Hogs-breath Questions, Part 3 – Is surrendering a one-off event or is it incremental?
John’s answer: You only need to do it once, but you need to do it fully. We tend to surrender conditionally but in order to heal you have to surrender unconditionally. Then he launches into the plagiarized Black Magic Steering-wheel exercise that he says he uses continually, thus implying that he personally has never surrendered fully and unconditionally, even though he runs a healing cult himself. It also implies that he is not himself very well “healed” (or even well-heeled) and he doesn’t have a proper job.
A better answer: Physician, heal thyself! Permanent and unconditional surrender means the total extinction of personal ego. Done properly, with proper guidance, it’s a one-off event like breaking an egg or smashing a vase. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
Hogs-breath Questions, Part n - ….
A better answer: Don’t even bother. Rather get a fifty-cent course in philosophy from a dropout philosophical undergraduate. See: http://news.pcc.edu/2017/04/philosophy-instructor-tackles-old-questions-with-new-answers/
But John glosses over one important question, which I would class as an “Essential Life Question”. That is, “Is re-incarnation really a thing?” Throughout this series he takes it for granted that his audience buys into the theory of transmigration of souls. But should we?
Here’s my take on it, and it’s my best stab at a “better answer”: https://tinyurl.com/y9lg9uy9
We all have a World View (WV). A World View which underlies all our perceptions. This world view is fundamental to us experiencing and living our lives, and ...
