what do you think the purpose of reincarnation is? some say karma, but we did come down here intially with no karma but purpose.. and some say lessons, growth so we can return to Godhead.. why the rigourous process to returing to Godhead when we were unified with God in the first place? What is the origin of God and our souls? if everything is balanced.. day night, yin yang etc is there Satan?

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There are some really interesting discussions taking place under reincarnation.  You would find them interesting to your questions.

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I think expression. I feel like "god" (for lack of a better word) is like light, and that our existence is created by a kind of crystal effect, in that when the light is shattered by different angles it expresses itself in a multitude of colors, which appear completely separate from the original white light. I don't think that's an original thought, but I don't know where it originated. I think some poets and philosophers used it, I don't know if this is the same idea as theirs or not.

But why do we need life? I think it's pretty difficult to understand on a literal level. Maybe even impossible.

I think we are on earth for lessons. Perhaps we are reborn to learn a variety of lessons in order that we are able to express our part when we're done. Like going to school so that you can get a specific career to find your place in society, or even to become an artist.

I think in order for balance to exist there needs to be multiple things that create balance, rather than just one. If it is just one the idea of balance would never be necessary. The multiple things are in constant motion, so there is a need for constant change to always retain balance. But when we think about lessons again, I think that integrating these lessons would be kind of like taking a lot of the smaller pieces and forming them into fewer and fewer pieces. So when we have personally integrated a number of those lessons, we now embody them, rather than them still floating around space somewhere.

I have heard that earth is sort of a place of limitations, and our lessons all seem centered around that. Perhaps once humanity has integrated all of its lessons there will not be such a need for the multiple things going on here, thing will come closer to unity.

A yin yang can be expressed even if you shattered it into billions of pieces, though it would not look like a yin yang up close. Therefore it's not like the integration of the pieces are necessarily returning, because they are always a part of it even when it doesn't appear that way. The pieces are just doing that, integrating to no longer look like a billion pieces. Just a different form of expression of the same thing.

I don't know anything about satan as I have no religious knowledge. But if satan is just what we call our darker side, it's just a larger piece of god perhaps, which we again don't recognize because even that large piece is shattered into many pieces all around us. We just have to learn how to integrate it with the rest of it to understand what we are.

If we some how got lost and scared, we would need to relive life to understand again.