Juliana Hatfield (ex-The Lemonheads) and Brett Newski discuss splendid isolation, reincarnation, why death won't be bad at all, and being an introvert in an extroverted world.
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EXCERPT:
Brett: We all want to leave behind this legacy or creative work, something that lives on, and that people remember and talk about. And I think that’s what most people want to do. But at the end of the day, in 200 years, you and I and Tom Petty are all on the same level, just floating around in the next cosmos as some sort of ethereal dust or whatever.
So on that note, all you can really do is just try to create good energy in your circles and in your world, and build up some sort of karma. Because I do feel that every step on the cosmic circuit, so to speak, after we’re done with the meat suit here on Earth...I’m thinking every step on the cosmis circuit gets better.
So even if your a totally broken, trash bin of a person on Earth, you have a chance to do better on the next cosmic stop off. I hope that made some sense.
Juliana: So you believe in reincarnation?
Brett: Not in a traditional sense of being “reborn” as a dog, though I am open to it. I don’t not believe in reincarnation. I’d actually love to come back as a puppy, I think that would be great!
Juliana: You could come back as a different person, in a different place.
Brett: I’m open to all that stuff. I think where I’m at right now is, when our meat suit expires, or when we graduate, or however you want to talk about it, we break into a trillion different particles of energy and dust, and we have at least some control in steering where those particles end up. Like a rudder.
You don’t have total control. Maybe a part of you is floating in the universe, and another part is hanging with your ex-best friend, and another couple of particles are swimming in the rivers with the fishes, or whatever. But that kind of gives me some hope for future existences.
Juliana: I feel some of that sometimes. You know when you meet someone new, but you have these little twinges of recognition?
Brett: Yeah.
Juliana: You feel a connection with the person you never met before, and maybe that explains it. Those mysterious things. Not deja vu, because you don’t remember anything specific, but just strange feelings like that. Could be that you're encountering some particles of someone from a past life.
Brett: That’s such a great insight. I never tied those two together.
Juliana: Me neither.
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