{"id":153,"date":"2005-11-19T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T03:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=153"},"modified":"2005-11-19T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T03:40:33","slug":"past-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/past-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Past_lives\">past lives<\/a> has come up a few times in the last couple of weeks. In order to save myself the trouble of stating my viewpoint, I&#8217;ll post it here. I may go into more details at another time.<\/p>\n<p>Being an atheist, I don&#8217;t believe in God or any of that stuff, nor do I buy into the agnostic idea of souls or whatever. I wouldn&#8217;t say, however, that I strictly believe in science or whatever. My beliefs on those &#8220;big questions&#8221; are rather nebulous, to be honest, and I am still trying to figure out what I think is true.<\/p>\n<p>But on the topic of past lives: I do not believe that souls are reincarnated. I think when people have hypnosis that finds past lives (or however else people determine that stuff), one of two things is happening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;past life&#8221; is really some repressed idea in the person&#8217;s unconscious psyche (yes, say hello to Jason the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigmund_Freud\">Freudian<\/a>). To the person, it may very well be &#8220;saved&#8221; as a past life and there are ripple effects of that past live in the person&#8217;s life, but it all comes from some sort of inner psychological goings-on.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;past life&#8221; is really a simultaneous existence of the person, though in another dimension. What I mean by &#8220;dimension&#8221; is rather vague. Do I mean another universe using the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bubble_Universe_Theory\">Bubble Universe Theory<\/a>? Or do I mean another dimension as in a hypothetical &#8220;sixtieth dimension&#8221; where reality is shaped based on different variables and whatnot? Like I said, I&#8217;m not sure what I mean by &#8220;dimension&#8221; here, but any of the possibilities seem more likely to me than the existence of a human soul that is reincarnated.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it. Don&#8217;t be afraid, however, to ask me this in person. I just figured since it seems to be a hot topic lately, I should get my thoughts out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, the topic of past lives has come up a few times in the last couple of weeks. In order to save myself the trouble of stating my viewpoint, I&#8217;ll post it here. I may go into more details at another time. Being an atheist, I don&#8217;t believe in God or any of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/past-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Past Lives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}