Monday, March 26, 2018

A discussion on reincarnation




Well this is certainly an odd topic and not one that I would come by naturally I don’t think. However, the other week I saw a YouTube video, or at least the start of one, from a motivational speaker who was talking about a woman who had been legally dead for some amount of time and was revived. He (or the doctors or someone) asked her if she saw heaven. She said, “How do I know I’m not in heaven now?”

It posed an interesting question to me when you compare our lives to those of so many people from 40 years ago to 4,000 years ago: would our lives not be heaven-like to oh so many people? Even in today’s world, there are certainly those of us who are living lives that others on the planet would think are heavenly. But if they are alive and I’m alive, the reincarnation thing doesn’t work, so I have to go back in time for my subjects.

In the 1950’s, would not someone think it’s heavenly to have the communication, electronics, improved transportation and even microwaves? And that’s not to mention the medicinal improvements. 

If you go back to the 1930’s, it’s all of those things and more! The 1800’s and you mention cars, supermarkets, the availability of clean water, sewage treatment, indoor plumbing, cures for polio and a much lower infant mortality rate; would that not be heavenly? All of that and it would just be my great grandparent’s soul that I possess.

But the 1800’s would also seem heavenly to someone from the 1500’s right? And the 1500’s to someone from the 800’s. And so on. So maybe our souls are reincarnated right here on the earth, with new one’s added periodically to keep up with the population. Or maybe not. Maybe the number of souls has been constant, but many never made it to being born. Heaven to them would have just been given the chance TO live.

Just something I’ve been thinking about.

2 comments:

Michael Podolny said...

I've always thought that as the number of animal species declines and the number of humans increases, that more and more human souls are 'younger' former animal souls compared to 'old' human souls that have been around for many human lifetimes. Would explain a lot about how many people behave as well.

Tee said...

As someone who believes in Heaven, and assuming I'll be there at some point, I've always thought I would never want to come back. But this definitely gives reincarnation and interesting perspective!