M.J. Rose

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…

Our thanks go out to Dr. Amit Goswami from The Center for Quantum Activism for answering this week’s Reincarnationist Q&A. Dr. Goswami and his theories on life and reality are the subject of The Quantum Activist, a feature length documentary. To find out more about the film click here. To educate yourself on Dr. Goswami’s revolutionary ideas please visit his website, here.

About Dr. Goswami: Retired Professor of physics from the University of Oregon’s Institute of Theoretical Science, Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments… and to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life.

A prolific writer, teacher and visionary… Dr. Goswami has appeared in the movie “What the Bleep do We know?”, The “Dalai Lama Renaissance“, and the recently released award winning documentary on his life and teachings: The Quantum Activist

THE QUESTIONS:

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

Wanting to integrate and having the ability to do it.

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

Have not meditated on this one.

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

Haven’t thought about this one much either.

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

Jesus, Buddha, and Einstein.

What do you think happens when we die?

Our physical body dies with all its content memory, but the nonlocal memory of our vital and mental propensities survive.  These propensities are then used by future people who are our reincarnations.

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

I refuse to think about this one.

A genuine paradigm shift. While mainstream science remains materialist, a substantial number of scientists are supporting and developing a paradigm based on the primacy of consciousness.

The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein.

This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds major religions and mystical traditions…”

View the film trailer below: