Reincarnation Thoughts

I don’t completely subscribe to the idea of reincarnation but a recent conversation with a good friend on the subject has prompted some reflection on my part. He described his conception of the subject in such an interesting fashion I thought to share it here as a topic of discussion and exploration.

He used computers as the analogy in which to compare his theory of reincarnation.

In the beginning our conscience or souls are like a brand new computer program. We are all the same, the coding copied from the same master file downloaded and installed to our first hard drives – our first bodies or more exactly our new bodies’ brain. Immediately there are slight variations do to manufacturing differences in our systems (body). Thus starts the beginnings of unique-ness

As we live out our life our program runs, self updates and rewrites its code over and over – learning, our experiences and the like influences these rewrites. Over time our hardware becomes too old and we start to deteriorate, eventually ending in complete system failure or crash – we die. Fatal Error, blue screen of death…

But is this the end? When our computers die, can we not sometimes extract some information from the ‘dead’ system? So what if this is true for us as well? His thought is that some unseen force or entity (God or something similar?) removes our original operating system (soul?) from our old worn out hardware – our dead bodies. (don't look at this as a physical thing, more like a more natural energy transference thing)

Picture this operating system as containing our original coding that has been contiously rewritten and enhanced by our experiences. Now this Operating system does not include our vivid life memories, it is the essence of energy that allows our bodies to function and grow ect... the memory of accrued knowledge and experience is almost empty except for the base instinctive at the start. Since Life memories are cached elsewhere else in the system, they are not part of the removed program and are lost with the expired body. However as with most things not all happens perfectly as designed. Contained within our down loaded operating systems there are deposited bytes of information, pockets of random memory saved where it wasn’t supposed to be saved.

The time comes to reload our software into a new system and hardware ie; a new body and mind; we basically repeat the preceding paragraphs over and over, every life time adding a few morsels of memory fragments with every up load at the end of another life term.

Perhaps there are individuals with ‘operating systems’ that have been around since the dawn of time, Snippits of actual human history and experience hidden away within.

Who has not had the feeling of being at a place when you fully know that you have never been there before? Or that haunting memory that seems so real, but is from an impossible time not near our existing life span years?

I personally have a distinct memory of Victorian England, you know, Ebenezer Scrooge stuff. The feelings and observations are specific and vivid, like looking back at my morning today… the snow covered streets, complete with horse and cart tracks, the gas street lights (not on; it's daytime although a little gloomy. overcast?), the snow on my coat, store fronts, other people in period clothing. I can feel that my fingers are a little cold. I recall the smell of bread and the odor of coal soot? (I have no idea what coal soot or smoke would smell like). All this is accompanied with a strong sense of happiness…is this just an attraction to that time? Or is it an actual memory fragment miss-filed in my operating system?

Something to ponder my friends,

MTFBWUA

personally i have rememories about feudal japan? I never really thought much of it

I go along (mainly) with the idea used in science - nothing is lost - everything remains in equal quantities but may well change form.

But this leave a gap for me - as I know there such things as 'spirits' or 'ghosts' or whatever name you want to apply.

I guess you could say our 'spirits' are like sound waves and continue long after the 'audible' sound has faded (our physical being)

If everyone can wait a while, I'll let you know :lol:

MTFBWY - A

based upon personal experience i do feel that many are recycled so to speak, those that aren't linger on as spirits/ghosts(energy can neither be created nor destroyed).

other personal experiences lead me to believe that some poeple do retain fragments of memory...look at children that seem to have innate knowledge of skills that take some a lifetime to learn.

as to the whole deja vu thing....it happens to me so often that i sometimes have a hard time seperating what really happens and what was a premonition

I have heard the term 'old soul' used to describe people who seem to be able to have insight into the past, views often from an angle that only someone who lived in the time would understand, that is to say, they see things in a way that doesn't adhear to modern thought and science, their preception could hold a view that we today would instantly recognize as incorrect, but however bazar by our standards, was the norm of the time.

I see time and again Dr.s and Phd's forming complicated theories on historic events using modern scientific knowledge. But we have to remember that even a mere 200 years ago our understanding and knowledge of nature, our health, and our planet was but a fraction of what it is today. We cannot expect that a person living in that past time to make decisions and act as we would today. I believe that the motives to many past events are much more base than we think.

Oh I guess I forgot my point of my last post, and that is, lots of people who experience dreams, feelings, deja vu, the hibbi jibbes of a past life experience more often describe a normal mundane event other than one of excitement or grandure. Simpler times...