Science just recycles, it doesn't reincarnate!

We all came from star dust and energy. And go to it again. In never ending cycles, each atom of our bodies goes to other forms, including the living ones both while we are still living and after our deaths. Atoms from other bodies come to us. There will be atoms that have been inside a living cell that started 3.5 billion years ago on our planet and are still in living cells today. Matter will be turned into energy and energy into mass. We belong to everything and everything belongs to us! A group of cells composed of atoms and energy in our brains makes us conscious with their work. It is the reason why we think, feel emotions including pain. But can't we channel that consciousness into realizing reality and face it with courage? We can, certainly!

We all belong to one universe. We were born here as a result of coming together of a few atoms and some energy and the resultant consciousness. In the end we will return to the place where we came from. The bits and energy our bodies are made of will be returned to the universe for the recycling process to continue.

In the process we meet some forms like us who too came together with the help of atoms and energy and consciousness, who we call relatives and friends and inanimate things like our houses, cars, money etc. which we think are ours. They are ours only till we are here as conscious beings. Realize this. They are actually owned by the universe we came from, not us. And go back to it! That is the eternal truth!

Yes, our beloved ones who departed from us will still be there in the configuration of scattered particles and energy in this universe. But not in the conscious shapes we interacted with during their life times. We will never meet them again in those appearances we are familiar with once they die. We can only see them in our dreams as our brains try to comfort us by showing their pictures. That is all.

These atoms now in different configurations might not interact with us in the same way as they did earlier but they do it in a different way. In the form of memories. The association we had with them when they were in a living form, the love, affection and other emotions we experienced because of them still interacts at the emotional level and brings us comfort and happiness.

After our deaths and destruction we too return back to the universe as individual atoms and energy, to the one body that recycles them and we all belong to whether we lived with our conscious bodies or existed as inanimate forms.

It is wonderful to think we all belong to one body, the universe, that processes and reprocesses atoms and energy into different configurations, bring them together in space and time, and then change the situations again to bring in new scenes of appearances. Nobody is going anywhere here and nothing is staying here forever in one form! So no one is departing from this universe, the atoms and energy we are made of are leaving only one form and from the site we are in but still be here in other arrangements and other spots in this one entity we call universe. That is what science tells us. Isn't it comforting too to think about the truth?

How Nature Recycles Individual Atoms |

I and others too have many 'past' forms and lives, forms and 'future' forms and lives - the atoms and energy in my body taking different forms both living and non-living- that is, one birth- one form, second change from partial part of my body - with some atoms of 'my' body-another form, third change - separate entity ,… a hundred births, … a hundred thousand forms, I see myself and other beings too passing away and reappearing, inferior and superior, fair and unfair, fortunate and unfortunate, and I understand how living beings change their lives, shapes, forms in an eternal recycling drama.

And how science directs this eternal show.

This is not reincarnation, mind it, just re-cycling!

Sources:

1. Science tries to strengthen our minds permanently by making us real...

2. Science and Spirituality

(These are my own articles)