Is it normal to not be so happy reading this "supposed" true meaning of life?

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Ok, So I read a book called "Many lives, Many masters" and
SPOILERS (about the true meaning of life) Ahead :P :

In that, a normal shrink hypnotised a girl patient and came to know that she had 86 previous lifetimes O.o

Anyway, soo Basically the author was saying "how happy human kind would be if they came to know they are never gonna really die, how carefree they will be to know WE ARE IMMORTAL!!!!

>_> I personally think this supposed true meaning of life really sucks. having 86 random lifetimes.live and die,live and die, live and then die.whats the point?

So every time she dies, some 2 or 3 masters appear in the after life stage and they preach something : what you sow, so shall you reap(NOT EXACTLY but something like that!) and then people go back to another life, so that we learn something we are yet to learn >.> and after we have learnt everything, the masters send us back to teach others(I m imagining some saint-like person here.)

And whats the deal with...In one life, a guy cuts ur throat and the other life hes your husband and ...DIFFERENT husbands and fathers in mostly all lives O.o [ no things like fated soulmates and shit :( ]

I think this masters theory is really boring....I m hoping for a more COOL designful intricate pattern of life :D...haha ...so maybe I should pick something new up which says something totally otherwise yay
xD Am I weird? how would you guys react to this meaning of life?

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  • izakthegoomba
    11 years ago

    Sorry to disappoint you, but this book is a pile of three-week-old bullshit. With flies and maggots and stuff.

    Just because she was hypnotised, it doesn't mean she can speak perfect truth. In fact, I trust it even less than if she'd said it while in control of her mind. It was most likely some combination of old fantasies, beliefs, and her mind making stuff up on the fly. There's no reason to think there's any truth in it. Personally, I think this "shrink" should lose his/her job. They are clearly in no fit state to be messing around with other people's minds like that.

    But for arguments sake, I kind of agree with you. If we can't remember these supposed previous lives, it's no different to just living once and dying. I firmly believe that the universe only exists in the present, and that anything in the past is only memories, so this theory is indeed rather dull and pointless.

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  • iunderstandyou
    12 years ago

    I worked as a Psychiatrist for some time and I believe life has no meaning.I believe we make our own meaning.Say your suicidal your meaning of life is to kill yourself.Say your rich your meaning of YOUR own life is to keep being rich and happy.You make the meaning of YOUR own life.In my past life I think I might have been a thief.Dont ask why.

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  • Complex4
    13 years ago

    hey hey hey :P
    dont count on my review..cos actually many people seem to like the book...

    1 person saying that all the learning leads to self- actualisation and through self actualisation we reach God...(hmm but how does it matter if we dont remember what we have learnt in the next life).....but I didnt think of it like this person.....

    and the author even said that, the masters told him that his little son who died(when he was a baby) died for a reason n all..
    n his father died too bcos of some reason(that i dont remember)

    hmm.. thats make me think y would he drag his passed away son n dad if it werent real...

    But still....I m not happy listening to this meaning ...O.o

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  • virtualdog
    13 years ago

    interesting and amusing and also saves me the trouble of reading the book. i appreciate that i might have absentmindedly picked it up in the library. thanks

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  • aussiewolf
    13 years ago

    well i would prefer to believe in reincarnation than nothing at all. but keep reading about things like that and i am sure you will find something that you like and will want to study up further on.

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  • Mastersash
    13 years ago

    that's amazing

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  • xxjenxx
    13 years ago

    i lost you for a second!

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