[seahippie]

If reincarnation were true, would you want to come back to earth?

[twinkiedooter]

Reincarnation is more than just real/true. I've been sent back to earth several times.

[seahippie]

Did you have a choice on where and who you would return to be? Like what sort of people decide to come back as a starving etheopian child, or a child with mutiple disabilities?

[seahippie]

I just do not want to come back... will I be forced to come back?

[twinkiedooter]

You will not be forced to come back. Each spirit will chose what sort of life they will lead. Sometimes the more hardship in the future life is chosen by those who wish to advance their spirits.

[tickle]

I have run the gammut in this life, happy, sad, whatever. I have done well coping when obtstacles were put in my way. I just want to go the way I advised my son, cremation, ashes scattered in a special place near the water. I don't want to come back. I just hate the thought of leaving my son behind.

[lostsoul28]

I would like to come back as a dolphin, swim freely and in open openwater

[Alty]

I would love to come back as a dog, owned by me. Wait, that's not possible. Okay, a dog owned by someone just like me. Now that would be the life. :)

[linnealand]

You know, there's an old saying: be careful what you wish for.

I think whatever is going to happen is far beyond anything we can imagine. Don't worry about it now.

Just be good.

I believe everything else will take care of itself.

[Bluerose]

Not sure I believe in reincarnation or incarnation. But I do feel like an old soul and I would prefer not to come back unless it was to help others deal with stuff like this.

Anyone read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach? If not you should. It's a wonderful story.

[princessmayen]

reincarnation? Hmmmh... I think I just would come back as an eagle... soaring high, and endangered (?), really really rare.. haha.^^

[Alder]

Did you have a choice on where and who you would return to be? Like what sort of people decide to come back as a starving etheopian child, or a child with mutiple disabilities?

I think you get a choice of whether to come back, and also get a choice on some level of what form to take in coming back. Why would someone choose a life of suffering? Any number of reasons--perhaps they had lived so many lifetimes as kings and millionaires that they were bored, and needed a change of pace. Maybe they chose wisely, wanting to learn the nature of suffering or the meaning of life. Maybe they chose foolishly, out of guilt or anger. Look at the people in this world, living these lives right now. How often do we make important choices in our life deliberately, intentionally, claiming for ourselves our free will and our self-responsibility? How often do we let the important decisions be pushed onto us by outside forces, thinking we "have to" or "should do" x, y, or z? I suspect the way we live between worlds is much the way we live in this one. Which is all the more reason for us to start practicing personal responsibility and choice, of our own attitude in response to our circumstances if nothing else, now, so that the next time we are in the bardo state (as some call it), we will be good at the fine art of choosing.

To answer the original question, Yes! Emphatically yes! I want to continue living life in a state of adventure and change, even if I qualify for changeless nirvana (doubt I do, anyway). Call me the bodhisattva of curiosity. ;)

[susananne]

I don't think you have a choice on whether you come back or not... just like you can't choose where you came into life here.. I think you come back to learn the lessons you refused to learn in this life... you can only reach total peace after learning all of YOUR life lessons.. that would be a sort of heaven.. The best book I ever read on Reincarnation was Jonathan Livingston Seagull.. read it.. tell me what you think.. it's a great book for this question..