Originally Posted by
shadowofwind
Sivason,
Your analogy with a sequence of books makes sense. However, it seems to me to repeat what I said in another form. There is a kind of memory that connects one book to the next in the sequence. One state follows from a previous state, there's memory in that, even if its a dynamic kind. Granted we're all one in some ultimate sense, we can agree on that and set that aside. What is this 'memory' that connects a person to a particular previous life? Eventually it has to actually turn up in our experience if what the analogies represent is real. My experience so far seems to be that the real pattern is not a simple sequence, that its a lot more complex than that, and that if I were to trace a history of past lives, other people would be able to trace histories that contain some of the same lives. Moreover, depending on what criteria I use to trace my history, I would wind up with different paths involving different historical people. I guess I'm not arguing against reincarnation, I'm arguing against the thought of reincarnation that most people seem to have, arguing for another thought. Though I'm completely open to experiencing things that would change my thought, that would be great.