1. Introduction: The masterpiece scenario

If you wanted to design a system that would be a masterpiece, a means of providing individuals with opportunity to fulfill their potential, to keep growing and learning, and meeting themselves with all their foibles and virtues, qualities and talents, vices and shortfalls to improve, and to ensure that all participants could access awareness of their effects on others (be it right away or, as seems to be more the case in our current materialistic days, in the between-lives arena) - then you would come up with the system that appears to be in play on Earth now - the masterpiece of karma and reincarnation in which we live.


2. Experiment:

Take a moment to imagine the cessation of your "I".
You can imagine the physical body coming to an end, the dissolution of the body.
But can you do so with the "I"?
The moment you try, there is your "I" standing back looking for an imagined end to itself.
It can't be done* - inferring that the Ego lives on after death.

*footnote: The "I" can be dissipated, in a sense, by oneself, or at least degraded and debilitated, through chronic substance abuse, or through long term practices of an spiritual path that espouses the dissolution of the ego (once an appropriate experience for the soul during the ancient Indian epoch, but now counter to the present leading edge of evolution - the retention and enhancement of the "Ego" or I).



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