Keep incarnating

The comments of Rob Bray [ FT329:68] concerning earlier correspondence on reincarnation [ FT322:70] got me thinking. Although not a settled “reincarnationist” as such, I’ve also entertained the idea that, if there is any reality to the concept, it may be a process that is not locked into linear time, and hence it may be possible – for example – for a person incarnated 20 years hence, who dies 100 years from now, to then reincarnate in 20 BC. But then another thought struck me. If our relationship to time is so flexible, why assume that any one earthly life represents only one reincarnation? Could I reincarnate again as myself? Would I then be able to make different choices and order my life differently to the way in which I have? This would, perhaps, suggest multiple realities, or maybe a reality that, whilst not in linear time, is not so much cyclical as spiral. And does it even stop there? Could someone else incarnate into my current body, and then either experience the life I am living now, or take it in a completely different direction? Maybe even do so repeatedly?

At this point my brain began to hurt...

As an unrelated aside, it recently came to my attention that the works of Charles Fort are available online at Fortean Texts <http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/ index.htm>. It struck me as itself rather fortean to find these works on a website that has the heading of “sacred texts”. Fort as prophet, perhaps? Simon Curzon By email