The Myth of REINCARNATION

K talks about the nonsense of re-incarnation. And no wonder… In the modern era, it was the works of Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, which brought it a new found popularity of re-incarnation, especially in the West – and coddled a young Jiddu from his teens to become the new Spiritual messiah of the world. But – to elaborate from my perspective… Although, there’s a good deal of evidence that certain people recall their ‘past lives’ as I did in a “Past life regression session” with a well-known devotee of the famous clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. The ‘apparent’ time-honoured doctrine of karma and rebirth – one’s so-called ‘reincarnation’ as a higher human or “godling” if one has behaved admirably throughout life, as a lower human or higher animal if one has behaved badly, as a lower animal or demon if one has behaved appallingly? As humans, there’s nothing here that cannot be ascribed to clairvoyance or telepathy – for which there’s a great deal of evidence. So that when I imagine I’m remembering my experience as a Roman centurion, what I’m doing is picking up large areas of his experience. And witnessing to the fact that deep down we all merge. Indeed the trouble with reincarnation is that it doesn’t go nearly far enough. If it told me that ultimately all consciousness is my consciousness, or that consciousness is ultimately indivisible, I would have no quarrel with it. As for the claim that one can recall one’s subhuman lives, what’s to show this isn’t what it looks like – futile daydreaming? In fact this dogma of reincarnation (though in its time a brave and ingenious attempt to account for life’s injustices) makes no sense to me at all. Or, if it’s not necessary for memories to bridge the gaps between reincarnations, what else does so? And in what sense are they my reincarnations? Millions of intelligent people go on paying lip-service to this hallowed myth; clearly few take it seriously enough to go into it. The real solution of all such problems about one’s past and future lies in one’s present. Besides, one isn’t incarnate anyway – I as Awareness (the First Person Singular) isn’t in a body now – so what’s all this fuss about reincarnation?