Reincarnation, but not as you know it

Reincarnation as an idea sounds so tame now, but I can remember a time when it seemed weird and wonderful in the West. Tell you what – let’s do a quick mind experiment to re-invigorate that old black magic.

What we have now is a concept that allows you to consider that a ‘dying’ soul leaps through time and space to take up residence in another body (within a womb). Got that, happy? You don’t mind that the deceased and the yet-to-be-born are in different geographical locations? You don’t mind that there is a gap – perhaps of years – between the two events. No, of course not. If Tibetan monks can unravel those mysteries and locate the next incarnation of the next Dalai Lama, then you can live with that too.

So now I want you to suppose that:

1. Multiple and serial reincarnations occur (this is a fairly standard concept, but it’s a little new to conventional Western thinking)


2. The life spans of the before-and-after host bodies may overlap


3. A soul may leap backward as well as forward


4. That process is instantaneous, and that . . .


5. It happens all the time, not just after ‘death’

Think about it.