The mind's I.

[Peter]

The universal principle of balance is a force unto itself. It embodies both advance and retreat and is a constant source of explanation for why things are the way that they are.
Many of us arrive here (in the material plane) with memorial bagage associated with our previous experiences. These contain our attempts at rectification as well as provide an increase in psychic mass that eventually helps us to overcome the inertia of our experience. What about initialization? Where do we come from and how is it possible that more and more of us are arriving all the time?
The human spirit is the embodiment of the counteracting force to the entropy-increasing tendency of the universe. It is comprised of an organizing principle that represents intelligence and the order-making response to the increasing disorder of eventual universal "heat-death".
As the universe continues to "devolve", more and more responses to this state occur and manifest themselves through the increasing human population. We are legion.

[Fintan]

Good line of thinking.
And certainly humans and entropy are juxtaposed.

From the sub-atomic to the molecular to the complex human
we can see that everything self-organizes to defeat entropy.

However, though entropy is proven, the heat-death is speculative.
What if we are a steady-state type universe where new matter is
constantly generated in stars and planets? See: Expanding Earth

Nevertheless as you say the entropy gradient is a driver of evolution.

Many of us arrive here (in the material plane) with memorial
bagage associated with our previous experiences.

From the studies into reincarnitive events it seems that it is
common enough to have bleed thru of previous trauma events.
If that is the case then it's not just baggage - it's soul scars.
Which can be left behind - but not as easily.

[Peter]

The universal principle of love, (Yes THAT 4-letter word!) also derives from the gain in organisation of the fusion of two into one. Expressed another, more pedantic, way, sums it up:

I love you ... together we are more than we could ever be alone. Knowing that we will each treat the other as if they were ourselves will guarantee an alliance that will never be broken nor taken advantage of by one or the other. Acting in concert, for the greatest mutual benefit, will provide us with the opportunity to go further and do more together, not as one but as two parts of a complete presence. A presence that is greater than the sum of its parts.

[just0]

Great thread so far!!
I really like the last few lines of thought.

But could it be that these reincarnations we're
talking about are inherent in our physical makeup ?

Biologically we can understand some of the ways in
which information is passed on... there's a kind of memory
encoded into our genetics, our evolutionary DNA/RNA, our cells,
our proteins, molecules... but at the atomic level there's a uniformity,
a kind of basic numeric system.

But at every stage there is a struggle between order and chaos.
And every stage progresses through a synergy of ordered parts.
Life itself at it's most basic level is an order out of chaos.

So the Ego is a vital part to our being... it motivates us to order
ourselves, and to avoid the chaos that will lead to our own destruction.

[Peter]

It is the singularity that is the exception within infinity. We are "serial" beings, such that our presence is continuous (if not contiguous) through time and our spiritual essence requires a means of interacting with this plane of existence (energetically speaking).
The ego is the transit point for that contact. It represents as well as transmits the emanations of our spirit being such that its very own limitations become evident. A work in process and in progress, evolution-wise.

[skinters]

[Peter]

[skinters]

[Southpark Fan]

You have two brains. A right brain and a left brain. Use your right brain and you will have no need for false prophets and/or a dictionary.

[Peter]