Do you think that reincarnation is reserved only for the animal kingdom?

Question

Do you think that trees, flowers, bushes or any other type of flora go through the reincarnation process. Or do you think that this is something that only animals feel. What about a single leaf falling away from a tree, one day will it exist in another state?

Answer 1

Hmmm....a single leaf, I don't think so. A leaf of a plant or tree is comparable to a skin cell of a human being. I doubt all our dead skin cells are reincarnated, so I kind of feel like leaves do not. Maybe a tree or flowers. Animals, I don't really know. Perhaps your soul starts as a low life form and then reincarnates until it is mature enough to return to life as a human. Who knows. Just a thought.

Answer 2

I have remembered being trees and rocks... I have communed with the spirit of a grain of sand... Everything in creation is alive, even so called 'inanimate' objects... Therefore we can incarnate as anything at all...

The leaves of a tree are analogous to the cells of our body their consciousness is subordinate to the tree and it returns to the tree when the leaves wither and die, just as the consciousness of the cells of our bodies is subsumed within our own consciousness when our cells die...

Aside from the limitations claimed for what types of lives may be eligible for reincarnation that some doctirnes of reincarnation define, I find fault with beliefs about reincarnation in regard to the role time plays in those beliefs.

Time is an illusion, the popular comprehension of reincarnation is time oriented and structures our belief about reincarnation in a progression from a past to a future, but with time being an illusion there is no linear progression just all of our lives happening now, all of the incarnations we experience and all the experiences of each of our infinite incarnations are all happening concurrently, now, therefore the concept of causality or karma as an explanation of the connections between our various incarnations is not likely. So, while it is true in my experience that we have many incarnations, the unlikeliness of the role of karma as part of a process of reincarnation strongly suggests that the traditional or popular beliefs about reincarnation have been modified by our societal desire to use spiritual knowledge to dictate existential rules for the purpose of social engineering through religious doctrine. Therefore the constraints implied against 'sinful' or 'karmic' actions serve societal needs to curb anti-social behaviour rather than defining an objective causal relationship between our incarnations.

To understand the illusional nature of time and space try seeing the movie/DVD "What the Bleep Do We Know?"

Answer 3

Hoof and horn, Hoof and horn
All that dies shall be reborn.

Corn and grain, corn and grain
All that falls shall rise again.

It's about the circle of life, the movement of the life force throughout the world. Of course that leaf will exist in another state. It will be rotted by bacteria and become part of the soil. It will feed an earthworm and become part of the earthworm's scat. That will feed a sunflower, which will produce seeds, which will feed your parrot. The parrot will die and bacteria will consume it, and so it goes.

What this has to do with the term reincarnation is unclear. I do not think consciousness remains in the cells as they are rotted away. I believe consciousness is a part of the soul, and that is not tied to the material world.

Answer 4

I believe anything that can live, and die can reincarnate. My friend brought to my attention if something can't die how is it living? So things in the animal kingdom and wild, anything living that dies should be able to reincarnate. I read a story about a leaf that reincarnated, it was non-fiction, but it made sense.

Answer 5

I don't know! I definitely believe in reincarnation.....but I would not dare even venture a guess as to whether trees, flowers, bushes, etc. reincarnate, or not. However, I don't find the idea inconceivable.

Answer 6

I don't believe in reincarnation of any kind. And if the leaf in your example doesn't have a nut/seed attached it will wither and die. A leaf is a part of the tree, not it's essence.

Answer 7

Simply....No.
(Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. 20 All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.

Answer 8

You must be from the Green Party because you think that "life is lived through the living of lovingness to hug a bug and a tree and free spirits of reincarnation" or something.

Answer 9

reincarnation is starting out as a bug and slowly graduating to animal form then to human form human form to spirit to god,,,,, incarnation is the belief the soul never dies and is reborn over and over until it is pure ,so it can be with god. both are supposed to be a souls learning experience.

Answer 10

No, I do not believe that leaves or flowers reincarnate.