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Reincarnation into the past

  
 
Andek Niemand
13:08 / 23.02.05
Few days ago, I listened to radio. There was this russian girl talking, and since my mind was wandering anyway, I started to think how I'll never know what it would be like to be a young Peterburgian in this day and age. And that got me thinking: if we consider reincarnation, who says that your next life will be in the future?

If the {soul/Kia/atman/whatever} does survive the physical death, it obviously is not bound by physical laws. So why should I assume it is bound by time? Couldn't I be reborn in my next life to the 14th century or whatever?

And if I could... what makes me assume that some of the people I meet day-to-day are not, in fact, me, reborn in some part of this cycle? What makes me assume that everybody alive now, everybody who has ever lived or will ever be born, are not in fact this same entity, which at this precise spacetime cross-section calls itself "me"? And perhaps the final end of this cycle {was/is/will be} when this entity was reborn as {Buddha/Christ/Osiris/(your favorite saviour figure here)}?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:42 / 23.02.05
I've come across this concept before: the notion that we are all a single soul/consciousness/insert favourite term here, pinging backwards and forwards through time (and possibly between dimensions/worlds, if one were to get carried away), thus experiencing itself via an infinity of different subjective perspectives. Usually comes attached to the idea that past life memories are recovered by accessiong this universal consciousness, which is, as you suggest above, often regarded as Buddha, God, ect.

For me, since there appear to be no way to prove such a conjecture, it's more of an interesting philosophical recreation ground than anything else.

Dammit, I'm sure we had a link to a site about this a couple of years back... I'll see if I can find it, but I'm not hopeful...
 
  
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