Day 227: Repeat

I wonder if our existence is a continuous rebirth of ourselves. From what I have read about rebirth, it is collectively agreed upon that the point of rebirth is to improve our soul, which is our true form. We repeat lives in order to learn and grow. To what end? To live eternally in those other realms.

A standard idea of Buddhists and Hinduism rebirth is that we are reborn in a different form. Be it: another human, another animal, and maybe on a totally different planet for all we know. But the point is that we don’t repeat our current lives. We move on to learn from a different perspective.

But what if the opposite is true? That we only repeat our own life in order to learn all the lessons that this life provides. That would explain Deja Vu and intuition easily. It would also explain the idea of infinite realities: where on some level we still feel all the past lives somehow.

A scientific possibility for that reality would be what I like to call the Hourglass Theory. (I made that up.) Basically, think about the way sand travels in an hourglass, along with the shape of an hourglass. It is wide on both ends and narrow in the middle. Now think of the universe as a giant hourglass: it starts in the middle (the Big Bang) and expands until it can’t expand anymore and pulls itself back into the middle, and then explodes out the other side again. Again and again, everything in the universe does this. If this is how the universe works then the possibility for us molecular forming in the exact same way each time is far greater than absolute randomness.

So, what then? Do we focus on having a perfect life? Finding the perfect way? No. I think if that theory of rebirth is true then we do it in order to experience all the possibilities within one life. Nothing is ever wrong and nothing is ever right. We are who we choose to become. That doesn’t mean that we have to be saints and it doesn’t mean that we should be giant A-holes. It means that were once were giant A-holes and at some point will be saints.

Maybe. It’s just a thought.