Question: If your consciousness could go into a new body like AVATAR

Does a bear sit in the woods?

Read the first post of this thread, including the first few links to photos and see if you see any interesting parallels.

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That's a different issue. If I were to share what I do know it would take hours and numerous links to back it up.

And it is no wonder that some folks just want to live forever for whatever reason.

However, mine was a philosophical question.

If I were to say I was offered an opportunity to have a new cloned body and turned it down... would you just laugh and say, yeah, sure.

What if staying in human form is entrapment and true freedom is to exist as a spiritual being?

What does it mean to spiritually evolve?

Personally, I won't ever forget the one Startrek, Next Generation episode where Picard got assimilated and became Borg. Even now with the technology as it is one can see where something like that is possible.

Is the human body spiritual entrapment or a means to liberation?

These are things I ponder over. Having had a few NDE, I'm not afraid of death because consciousness continues. Even the mind is non-local and has been scientifically proven not to exist within the brain.

So I just wonder how others feel when it comes to their own questioning of what it would mean to live forever in a human body or not. Meaning if it were possible to transfer ones consciousness into a clone of their own DNA would they want to do it?

From what, admittedly, little I've read about people's experiences reached through meditation, and what I understand about religious belief systems, the physical body is viewed as an encumbrance. Most of the belief systems and personal accounts of people who have had out of body experiences that I've read about seem to indicate that the spiritual self is at once different and also more powerful than our physical bodies.

To wish to switch into a newer physical husk solely to overcome physical injury or pain? Yes. That is quite tempting, yes. Would I take that offer? I'd have to hear a credible offer first.

But to try to achieve immortality in a physical body here I think would be limiting in the long run.

Don't ask that. Don't imagine that. Don't think about that movie.

Sure, I would do it. My physical body will die anyways.

a perfectly healthy cloned avatar of my current DNA...nice and young too...well I would go for that. My consciousness could be transferred and I would get to have fun with a wise old mind.

This kind of body is possible. But I think that sex and reproduction has to end with that body. All things come to an end. To gain one must give something up.

I like your statement Apollo: To gain one must give something up.