Re: typical new age reincarnation beliefs

Also keep in mind how "enlightened being" is defined across vast stretches of the new age. Fritz Springmeier himself said it well in observing the methodology of, for instance, traditional practitioners from the far east in finding their path to spiritual bliss; "squatting like a toad while staring at a blank wall for nine years straight". An enligthened might call this appropriate time spent in meditation.... all to help clear the mind, you see? The unenlightened might hook up a monitor to such an enlightened head just to get a look at how cleared.... as in, erased, this particular state of bliss might be. It's sometimes called cognitive flatlining .... effectively brain dead conscious.

Yeah, sure, a quiet moment now and then to help calm and regroup is one thing, but the brain is like any other part of the body. Use it or lose it. Capisci?