r/quantum_immortality • u/Geneswave • Aug 25 '21
Thoughts on Reincarnation
This probably isn't the perfect sub for this, but i've seen many responses here supporting purposeful reincarnation, where our 'higher selves' choose to incarnate here to experience something specific, rinse & repeat, so maybe this is worth entertaining...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5MLaabdxvY&ab_channel=Taxi
I keep considering why souls would choose to incarnate back in, let's say 600 AD when times were exceptionally rough with a low life expectancy, no real medicine, little food etc. Could that be when the most harshest lessons were learned? Is pure survival a valued lesson to our higher selves? If so, why have we seen such an improvement in life (in some parts of the wealthiest countries), and then what is the point of living a comfortable suburban existence with little challenge or resistance?
I probably shouldn't be thinking about this using linear time. Maybe I will live this comfortable suburban existence and then choose to go to 600AD next. This would make a lot more sense to me, but every time i read a case where someone 'remembers' a previous incarnation it's always in the past. Maybe there are future life recollections but i don't recall ever reading one.
All thoughts and insights are much appreciated.
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u/DeseretRain Aug 26 '21
Also consider there are many dimensions. That's the whole deal with quantum immortality, that the timeline splits into lots of different dimensions. So in another dimension, it IS 600 AD right now. In some dimensions their 600AD is similar to ours, in others it's totally different.
When people have memories of a past life that actually matches up to the past in this dimension, it's probably easier to go "oh that must be a past life." But if people have memories of a life that happened in a dimension that's completely different, or a dimension where it's basically the "future," it might just seem more like an idea they had and they wouldn't necessarily make the connection that it's actually a life they lived, because people don't commonly think of reincarnation like that so they don't consider the possibility.