CONSCIOUSNESS is life, and around and around life goes and where it stops nobody knows.
It is self-evident (since we exist) that the universe births intelligences. Perhaps the new intelligences (being new and ignorant) enter avatars and learn to cooperate with each other (be nice) and eventually learn (by the pain they suffer) that being nice and cooperative makes for a more joyful life.
Eventually most intelligences mature enough to build for themselves and others better lives, and then they too start birthing avatars for the newer intelligences being birthed by the universe, and they help them evolve into nice people too, and soon the universe is filled with nice-evolved-beings and evolving young beings, and the highest evolved ones have awesome new adventures, but... if the adventures ever get old, they choose to go to sleep and never wake-up.
Conscious beings want new things to learn and do, new things to enjoy, new things to test themselves, new adventures, new challenges, new risks, hazards and dangers, and they want to repeat the old things they enjoy...and all those things together are their reasons for living and experiencing new lives, and when they are doing those things, that’s heaven, and anything less is hell–also known as eternal boredom. And...not remembering their previous lives is essential to making their new lives and experiences singularly unique because they won’t be contrasting and comparing past experiences which would only interfere with their new experiences. It’s enough that they know that their current likes, dislikes, talents, abilities, emotional responses and personalities are the result of previous lives.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness being you (and everything else) came to have a particular kind of Mormon Utah life through you, and of course through other Mormons too. It is also having Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and other religious lives through its self-created avatars, like YOUR avatar.
There are black lives, white lives, freckled lives. There are outdoor lives, mountain men, fisher men and plumber lives, and of course handy-man lives, and woman and man lives, and coal miner lives, and dolphin lives, and squirrel lives, and lives where the avatars are mean, vicious, self-indulgent, greedy, vain and prideful, cruel torturers and warmongers, and all those other words describing tough experiences.
The world is an illusion, a game we play. CONSCIOUSNESS is all that really exists, and we, and everything else, is CONSCIOUSNESS playing every part.
Progression, advancement, overcoming, surmounting, gaining, obtaining and exaltation and every other form of conquering the avatar-self are all game-goals within pre-designed programs. Are you having fun yet?
Within the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS are many games. Some are games of advancement. However, advancement or progression are merely an aspect of a particular game. CONSCIOUSNESS doesn’t consider progression for itself. Only game-players consider it important...which of course is part of the game. However, consciousness does consider boredom to be the death knoll for itself. BOREDOM IS OUTLAWED FOR ITSELF AT THE UNIFIED-ONE-CONSCIOUSNESS-LEVEL...but not so for avatars at the min-level who experience it for short times.
Consciousness can tune-out anything it doesn’t want to experience. For us it’s called sleep, or imagination or daydreaming.
Universe, galaxies, solar-systems, earths, continents, nations, species, societies, cultures, religions, theologies, philosophies, science, medicine, war and peace, and every and all other details of life are merely stage-sets, stage-props and environments for avatars performing or acting out what we call reality. AND THAT’S LIFE.