"will our knowledge or understanding on OBE's, higher planes, celestial bodies etc... cause us not to be reborn onto the physical plane???"
Knowledge gives us a choice. I choose not to be reborn here.
"all this talk of a 2012 spiritual ascension and pole shift etc excites me a lot because i have an intuition that something is actually happening."
I have a similar intuition, but I dont know what year it will happen, except that it will probably be during my life.
I doubt mere knowledge of the subjects is like a ticket out of incarnation. The practical use and spiritual progression that you choose or choose not to accomplish with that knowledge is what determines it. I know all of this stuff, but if I stay a lazy butt and don't get anywhere I'll be here as long as I have to to break that cycle.
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will our knowledge or understanding on OBE's, higher planes, celestial bodies etc... cause us not to be reborn onto the physical plane???
from what i know about buddhist teachings, we are only reborn through our own ignorance of our true nature, and Karma...
But people like Robert Bruce, i dont see why someone like him would be reborn onto this plane when he is intouch and aware of these higher realities.
Ive read "the tibetan book of the dead" and "the tibetan book of living and dying" and they both teach that when we die, we must meditate, then we wont be controlled in any way by the thought forms we create on the astral plane (or "bardo") but were only controlled by them through our lack of knowledge of places where thought is mass, so to speak.
so, i personally know now that when i die i should simply meditate, does this mean that this life will be my last incarnation on earth/the material plane?
i feel somehow that my life now is more significant than my (apparent) past ones, probably because the knowledge ive gained from everything these forums are about seem so significant because it deals with the most important issues which make me feel at home because the topics are so relevant to our species.
all this talk of a 2012 spiritual ascension and pole shift etc excites me a lot because i have an intuition that something is actually happening.
its like the end of an era or something.
Anyway, if all i need to do when i die is meditate then i suppose ill ascend :)
it seems thats all one has to do, but it also seems a little to simple, surely theres more to it than that.