If (the illusion of) time is circular (as has been proposed) reincarnations could be both simultaneous (in the sense of taking place at the same 'time' in different places) and consecutive (in the sense of going from the end of one to the beginning of another).
However, I think at the moment of death that fragment of soul would re-enter a state of eternity and be reconnected with every other fragment of soul from all of your other lives. Being outside time makes temporal concepts (and tenses) awkward but essentially the soul would 'always already' have lived all those lives, as well as being perpetually in the state of anticipating being reincarnated into this funfair, and returning from having been reincarnated. Also.. i think we may all be the same soul. You ask: how much change can there be before it's a different soul? For me, the possible answers are either that every single soul-incarnation is different, like every print of a painting or every $5 note, or that all souls are the same.
btw, it may be a coinkydink but I saw a quote from The Wasteland the other day in a book on anarchism. I loved (and was disturbed by) The Experiment. I live to be disturbed though. Please do keep pointing these things out.
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Date: 2007-03-20 10:13 pm (UTC)However, I think at the moment of death that fragment of soul would re-enter a state of eternity and be reconnected with every other fragment of soul from all of your other lives. Being outside time makes temporal concepts (and tenses) awkward but essentially the soul would 'always already' have lived all those lives, as well as being perpetually in the state of anticipating being reincarnated into this funfair, and returning from having been reincarnated. Also.. i think we may all be the same soul. You ask: how much change can there be before it's a different soul? For me, the possible answers are either that every single soul-incarnation is different, like every print of a painting or every $5 note, or that all souls are the same.
btw, it may be a coinkydink but I saw a quote from The Wasteland the other day in a book on anarchism. I loved (and was disturbed by) The Experiment. I live to be disturbed though. Please do keep pointing these things out.