reincarnation

Do you speak English?

Yes.

My hunch is that the whole notion of “souls” and reincarnation stem from a lack of comprehension about what we really are. Certainly we organic beings are recycleable- the carbon in me might someday be part of another animal, or perhaps feed a plant. Is the “mind” or “soul” you attribute to me something that lived in my body or the byproduct of the organic processes of my brain? If we are like TV sets, do we wonder where the program went when we turn it off? Or are we like like bulbs, just matter arranged into a shape & form useful to create light when electricity is applied? In that sense, the light is produced only so long as the bulb exists. A new bulb will produce new light; the old light doesn’t return to a different bulb (so far as we know. :laughing: ).

If I had to guess my views would mirror those of Schopenhauer- that when we die, we revert to what we were before we were born. I think we invented the term “soul” to have a name for a byproduct of our biological existence. By happy coinidence the molecules of our bodies found themselves together in a form that is aware of itself, but I think we presume to much when we imagine that this form has some eternal Form behind it.

I believe in reincarnation because:

  1. the soul must experience the mundane things— it cannot know what kind of fashion the teenagers are now wearing or what kind of music they are listening to or the newest electronic gadget or different languages, etc.
  2. the physical body needs to know the soul and how to perfect itself.

You’ve not even read any case-studdies about it, though.

You’re like:
“Okay, this is bullshit.”

Before you even read into it?

???

I’ve read an awful lot about it, actually. I wonder how many studies you’ve read and then looked for follow up?