Issues and questions about reincarnation

Reincarnation is a fundamental tenet of many belief systems. It’s present in the Middle Eastern schools of thought, of course. Generally speaking, or rather writing, there are two schools of thought: one, when we die, there’s an in-between period before our next incarnation. Choosing the next incarnation is a process over which we have full control, some control, or no control at all where we end up in our next life. Karma, if one believes in it at all as I’ve always found it a bit dictatorial and random, deus ex-machina-ish, and many more aspects are potentially involved that determine our next life – maybe even reality in which we end up in. I’m a firm believer in the multiverse which makes me a heretic to so many, I know.

Two, we reincarnate immediately after our death and we have full control, some control, or no control over where we end up next.

Why would we incarnate as members of the same group and that’s it? Seems illogical to me. If a particular belief system revolves around cosmic fulfillment where one escapes or leaves the cycle of incarnations (nirvana) to reunite with God, then surely variety is the cosmic spice of life and one needs varied experiences and not just linear and predictable incarnations to advance faster? Role-playing games logic, perhaps.

Some groups are open and want to share what they know with others, and some are closed communities that prohibit interfaith marriage. By the way, in Polish, the word – przechrzta, loosely translates as interfaith, applied to the Jews who had changed their faith to survive the war.

We generally forget our past lives around seven – or so it’s believed – mostly due to social pressure and conditioning but there are religious groups, including in the Middle East, who are adamant they can remember their past lives with ease.

Does the manner of death matter in the context of reincarnation? Slow, sudden, or suicide, for example? Profoundly perplexing and intriguing, indeed.

Forgetting our past lives makes sense, on one level. Remembering our past lives would make us go crazy – unless we’re geniuses.

My theory is that genius minds incarnating with their memories intact is a logical course of action in the universe, while non-genius minds do, indeed, go crazy after incarnating with their past life memories intact as contradictory cultural codes, different languages with all the socio-linguistic complexities, and memories are too hard for non-genius minds to process and put together into a coherent personality, making non-geniuses lose their sense of stable identity.

I call genius minds the mirrors of the divine because geniuses are as close as we can get to the mind of God. Geniuses come from all walks of life and represent all disciplines we can imagine, and can’t imagine, but they have two traits in common regardless of their life stories: they are prolific and their curiosity makes them look at things from angles others can’t conceptualize.

Unfair privilege? Sure. No one said God is a cosmic justice warrior.

What about psychopaths and seemingly soulless beings? How does reincarnation factor into their lives? What is a conscience? Armenian mystic Gurdjieff believed not all have souls and you need to work on having a soul by being introspective and so on – this aligns with certain belief systems where, for example, there’s no need for a physical place to worship and commune with God. Rather, by philosophy and introspection, we are already communing with God, thereby rendering places of worship irrelevant, because God is always close to us if we choose to interact with Him, no need for intermediaries and big buildings.

We can’t take it with us when we go – they say. Of course we can – we take our minds. Our essence. Our selves. As such, that truism is illogical and flawed. Just another thought-terminating cliche. Of course, our minds could cease to exist and that’s that.

If we incarnate with memories intact, won’t the next life feel fake, in light of having an expanded understanding of the universe? Wouldn’t it be a sort of a cosmic impostor syndrome? What if our new family has no idea about the profound knowledge we have gathered as we wandered around the afterlife? How would we feel about that new family? Did we get to choose them or were they chosen for us? What if they, too, knew our past life story and we knew theirs? Gets fascinating, huh?

Now, reincarnation as a trap. In 1945, an Egyptian peasant stumbled upon a manuscript describing the archons and the demiurge. The being responsible for the white light trap, for example – when you die and go into the light, you’re reincarnated with no memories of who you were while the demiurge harvests your energy with the cosmic scythe. The demiurge, being the cosmic gaslighter that he is, comes up with all sorts of scenarios to convince you to go into the light. Posing as dead family members, even pets, whatever works.

Who knows how many belief systems and religions were destroyed throughout the ages because they posed a threat to the powers that be? Indeed, the same is happening now, as religious minorities are being persecuted.

What about heaven and perdition? Can the damned souls incarnate at some point, too, or must they escape their hellish humiliation to do that? After all, being stuck in some ridiculous room where one can’t even use bad words, when speaking and in writing, and resorting to eye-rolls, maybe huffs and puffs, with swan lake playing in the background? Hardly a good deal.