Karma, Metempsychosis, and the CTMU [Part I]
To understand the human self, what it can do, and where it can go, an understanding of Ultimate Self is required. Ultimate Self is Ultimate Reality as described by the CTMU.
This is a preview of something we’re doing in connection with a CTMU-oriented discussion group on reddit. It includes my discussion of the following excerpts from a book about reincarnation and past-lives regression entitled Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life (Christopher Bache, 1998). The idea is to explain how the concepts discussed in the book relate to the CTMU, which provides a model of metaphysical reality in which they can be consistently and meaningfully interpreted.
The emphasis is on the prospect of an afterlife. Given the existence of a human self, soul, or identity, there would seem to be just a handful of post-mortem possibilities: total extinction, dormancy, permanent spiritual transfer to an immortal realm such as heaven or hell, resurrection in another world or alternate universe, or reincarnation in physical reality. It is on the last of these possibilities that the book is focused.
