The Reincarnationist Papers - Origins Prequel by Maikranz D. Eric

Author:Maikranz, D. Eric
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

We started walking through the quiet neighborhood, and my thoughts kept fixating on what she had been able to translate for me so far. “It seems to me, Marina, that you are convinced of Evan’s story,” I said, hoping to pry more information out of her.

“I am,” she said without hesitation. “If you could read it in Bulgarian the way I can, you would know. His voice is true, I know it, and in time you will know it too.”

“If it is true, I mean if all of it is true – Evan, the other ones, the Cognomina group in Zurich – what do you think it means?” I asked.

“I have been thinking about this as I have been reading. It is the real question, is it not?” she replied. “I think about it on two levels,” she continued. “For religion, it could have a big impact, but only if there was proof, like real proof, and I imagine that could be why the group of them in the Cognomina are a secret society. Perhaps they know it is best to keep this information to themselves. Perhaps they know this from experience. For individuals like them, I think it is much more interesting, especially if you remembered more lives like the woman, Poppy.”

I returned her glance and nodded. “There are some questions that hit me when I think about this. Marina, you said that Evan, Poppy, and the others like them are born normal but start to remember their past lives, all of them when they reach the age of seventeen or eighteen. Imagine if that happened to you, would you think of yourself as Marina who remembered these other lives before yours, or would you think of yourself as the person who lived before and was now reincarnated in this new body, as Marina?”

“I thought about this. I think this is an excellent question, and Evan and Poppy talk about it but only for a moment. I think it would depend on how many lives there are. Think about it, Eric. What Evan, Poppy, and the other twenty-eight are talking about is reincarnation, right?”

I nodded.

“I think the accumulation of experience would be the key to how you identify yourself. Imagine that you are Evan. You are a normal American boy until you begin to remember a past life or two, and you think, wow, that’s weird. But imagine that you are Poppy, who has had this experience of remembering eight times. She would probably remember that she had remembered before and that she had been in a sort of transition period during her late teenage years before. And when you remember, again and again, each time that new confused teenager’s young personality becomes a smaller fraction of all the collected, transcending lives that combine to make you. Does that make sense, or does that sound weird?”

I was impressed that she had thought it out so far. “It does, but for me, it only really works if the remembered lives are consecutive and continuous.

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