Reincarnation: True yet False
It’s obvious that reincarnation, or a process so functionality equivalent to it that the terminological hair isn’t worth splitting, is basically authentic. There’s a ton of basic, prima facie evidence for it, including reams of childhood past life memory studies, as well as quite a number of documented hypnotic regression cases testifying to verifiable evidential details. I’m going to take the basic metempyschotic idea and just run with it as a superficial fact.
But then of course we have all the explanations for the phenomenon, all the rationalizations. Among those there are two related yet distinct threads that seem to underlie all other subvariant analyses. Those are:
Reparations: the idea that you fucked somebody up in your last life, so now you gotta be fucked up in a roughly equivalent way, preferably if possible by your own now re-embodied victim. The entire process is often called the impersonal workings of karma.
Skooling: The most common of all excuses, we’re here to learn all the hard lessons that can only be absorbed via the hard experience of earth life.
Obviously these two are somewhat related. Let’s deconstruct them:
Karma: Makes no sense at all. Because suppose A murders B. By hypothesis, B had it coming, because obviously B murdered A in a past life. (Leave aside the fact that all the greatest mystics have repeatedly assured us that the whole idea of Time is total fiction). But since B “deserved” to be murdered, we cannot actually say that A did anything wrong! A was just acting as a pure instrument of the Cosmic Will. Therefore A should be considered totally blameless. Therefore no karmic penalty should attach. Now we simply unwind all the way down - B was also blameless in the prior (penultimate) incident in the karmic chain. You just keep unwinding it til you understand that the whole concept is so illogicial that it “isn’t even wrong” as they say - it’s incoherent. (Side/snide remark: at a New Age seminar I once attended, Richard Bartlett actually, filled with Karmic believers, the speaker once proclaimed “In your next life you will become whatever you hate in this life!” And the one smart ass in the audience (i.e. somebody with half a brain) yelled out “I hate billionaires!” LOL. The crowd guffawed while the speaker glowered at the guy.)
Skooling: This one is even stupider than karma. First of all, what is the actual content, like 99%, of these so-called lessons? There are a million little variations but they all pretty much boil down to: don’t be an asshole. That’s about it. Be nice to everybody. OK fine. How many thousand or hundred lives are needed to take that on board? Then, we often here from NDEr’s and other natural mystics that we come from Source, which is absolute ineffable perfect bliss and love. And when we’re done with our earth education, when we’re pure enough, we graduate and return to that. So then why bother kicking it all of in the first place? Are any of these hard won earth lessons going to apply in a place of absolute ineffable bliss and perfect harmony? Does that make any sense at all? Then there’s whole memory loss idiocy. I referred to memories as evidence above, but we all know that most people have no clear, conscious past life memories. What kind of educational system is that? When the kids kids are supposed to begin algebra in 6th grade or whenever it is now, do we zap their brains to make sure the forget how to do multiplication? Nonsense.
Both the above fallacies suffer from a practical issue to wit: even if you managed to pay off all past karma in your present existence, it’s simply inevitable, by nature of being human, that if you were ever to be reincarnated, you would STILL somehow fuck up in some way. It’s just built into the DNA.
So we are left with 2 firm conclusions:
Reincarnation is real.
Most of the standard explanations for it are false.
So what’s really happening here? Two possibilities: Archonic Sim or Thrill Ride.
I hate to say it but the Archonic Sim scenario seems the most likely. Meaning we are here as the livestock of the evil gods, who game us and milk us for our emotional reactions to all the stupid shit that goes on down here. Then when we die, they appear to us as ‘Council of Elders’ or some other faked up shit to admonish us that we need a redo, still more lessons to be learned (loosh to be milked). This scenario was actually played out (with comically bad acting) in a Star Trek episode where an Archon-like evil alien impersonates the captain’s father to try to trick her soul back into the reincarnation/harvest machine.
The other possibility, Thrill Ride, can’t be logically rule out (yet) however. This is the idea that, no matter how pointless and unpleasant the whole thing may be, we really do jump out of that perfectly good airplane voluntarily - just the way people do all kinds of risky stupid shit just for thrills. And even pay money for opportunity, like those dumbasses who got crunched going down to see a stupid pile junk on the ocean floor recently.
So I’ll be analyzing this further in later posts. But don’t think that just because I say “friends don’t let friends reincarnate” that I’m in the currently academically fashionable anti-natalist camp. Yes, there probably are too many people but I don’t hold with these Nazi eugenics types pushing democide and population culls, mainly because … well, nobody likes being elbowed off the pavement.