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In another post I mentioned the theory of eternal recurrence which was a popular idea around the turn of the century and promoted by a russian mystic and mathematician named Peter Demianovitch Ouspensky. He asserted that the ordinary concept of reincarnation, rebirth in a different body after death, was a simplified version of eternal recurrence. Ordinary conceptions about time as a linear progression (as if moving on a line from past, present to future) was the only way people could view time. Eternal recurrence, on the other hand. asserts that all things in time repeat themselves over and over again, eternally. The idea here is that when we die we will be reborn as who we are in the same year, day and minute and in the same place and in the same body, in the same house, in the same family and live our lives all over again in almost exactly the same way (unless we think a certain way and do certain things to make things different). And this is why we experience deja vu, because we are repeating everything we have done in places we have been before an eternity of times. Interesting idea, I think.
"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"
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