Happiness isn’t a warm gun and it’s not created from money, nor is based on romantic luck. Happiness, it seems, is quite often totally ersatz. Fake. Pretend. Illusory. It is not a thing to be found, it’s a thing we create in our brains. According to Dan Gilbert (TED TALKS), our advanced pre-frontal cortex can synthesize happiness. So, as it turns out, we’re just as happy when our brains make us “happy” after not getting what we want in life, than when we actually get what we want. What does this mean in regard to reincarnation? Does this particular happiness theory water down the effect of karma a bit? If we are just as happy when we are playing out bad karma as we are when we are basking in good karma, what’s the point?

Please feel free to comment on this. I’d love to read what you think…

All of us here at The Reincarnationist blog are very excited about our Q&A with Danielle Trussoni, author of the bestselling new novel ANGELOLOGY. Enjoy!

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a hold over from a past life?

My desire to write. I knew from the time I was six years old that I wanted to write books.

What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a previous incarnation?

I’m not sure if this is a defect, but I am terrified of war, and believe I was probably killed in one, most likely in Vietnam.

Which of your favorite heroes do you think you could have been and why?

I don’t have any heroes, and so I’m not sure how to answer this. I don’t believe I’ve every been anyone famous, or a historical figure. Most likely, I was a scorpion someone stepped upon.

What three people from history would you like to have over to dinner for a discussion about reincarnation?

Madame Blavatsky, Carl Jung and the Buddha.

What do you think happens when we die?

I don’t believe in the creation or extinction of spirit or matter and therefore it is inevitable that it translates into another form.

When you come back next time, who (or what!) would you like to be?

I simply hope to be human

Danielle’s links:

www.danielletrussoni.com

www.angelologist.com

www.fallingthroughtheearth.com

Dr. Robert Lanza is the Biocentrism guy, but he is also a reincarnationist. Here’s a very interesting piece on reincarnation from this very astute scientist…

Do You Only Live Once? Experiments Suggest Life Not One-Time Deal

by Robert Lanza, M.D. Scientist; author, “Biocentrism” (From The Huffington Post)

We think we die and rot into the ground, and thus must squeeze everything in before it’s too late. If life — yours, mine — is a just a one-time deal, then we’re as likely to be screwed as pampered. But experiments suggest this view of the world may be wrong.

The results of quantum physics confirm that observations can’t be predicted absolutely. Instead, there’s a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that there are an infinite number of universes (the “multiverse”). Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. The old mechanical — “we’re just a bunch of atoms” ?- view of life loses its grip in these scenarios…

(For the complete article please click here.)