How does the concept of reincarnation fit in with the consciousness-only model? If a mind potentially continues beyond death, does that not imply a kind of duality that contradicts the non-dual understanding?
Rupert says: ‘The existence of a finite mind while we’re alive does not imply the existence of a separate, individually existing entity. Nor does it imply such when we die. When a body seems to die, that mind may dissolve completely and merge with infinite consciousness, but it may not. There’s also nothing to suggest that it could not contract again.
‘And if that contracted mind was viewed from the perspective of another finite mind, it might at one point appear as another body. This is a model that is consistent with the fundamental premise of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, namely, that reality is one infinite, indivisible whole, and that we are that.’
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Timestamps:
0:00 Does Reincarnation Imply Duality?
1:19 The Consciousness-Only Model
3:29 What Is the Body?
5:17 Localisations of Infinite Consciousness
8:11 A Theory of Reincarnation
10:22 The Finite Mind
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