My after-death theory of multi-rebirth was established in written form already two years ago, after being on my head for some time. For two years it was stuck on one of my super-private-for-one-specific-girl's-eyes-only blogs. From time to time I talk about my theory to people but I have never been able to show them the specifics and details of it. I wanted to move this article to a semi-public (or semi-private) blog for some time, and now, with Brain to Let, I can.
The Theory of Multi-Rebirth is a theory that attempts to explain the event of life after death, without the need for an idea of a God. It is not something I fully believe in, it's just a theory. I choose to believe in it because it is as valid as the next theory or religion.
The Dogmas
The multi-rebirth theory is based on two dogmas, two things that I cannot explain or otherwise prove to be true, but that I perceive (or sense) as true because I cannot imagine the world I live in without them. They are:
- The idea that the conscience persists after the person has died (conscience persistence);
- The idea that my conscience cannot inhabit just this body I live in (conscience transference).
The first idea is easy to explain, it comes from my difficulty to accept that it all ends when we die. Many people have this, so everybody knows what it is. The second idea is a little more complicated: I cannot understand exactly why, from all the people in the world, I ended up here where I am. Living in a small city in a small country, doing pretty much the same everyone else does, not having the slightest impact in the world. I mean, I gain conscience in this world to live a mundane if not miserable life and then I die and that's it? Where does my conscience go after I die? Do I just stop thinking? I can't imagine a time when I don't think.
I had another theory once, where the outside world was just a big dream I invented, and I was just living the dream; I would die and then wake up from the dream to another world, eventually to start dreaming again. I dismissed that theory a long time ago, not because I had any particular proof to refute it, I just thought it to be too elaborated and I sensed that other people should have consciences too.
Scraping Everything Else
These are the only two dogmas I need for my theory. I don't need a creator for the Universe and all living things - science shows they could very well be created by themselves. I don't need a perfect being that knows everything and can do everything - the world works perfectly fine without it. I don't need special places for afterlife - I mean, heaven and hell, really?! And I certainly don't need some being that supposedly does things for people who pray to it - that just doesn't happen, guys.
Descartes got it wrong
When it comes to this kind of stuff I like to resort to the good old Discourse on the Method by René Descartes. In his attempt to find the absolute truth, Descartes first started by assuming nothing around him was real, nothing that he saw really existed. Then he remembered that he was thinking, and that if he thought, then he surely existed. So far so good.
Then he realized he was an imperfect being, and if he was imperfect there should be a higher, more perfect being than him, and that's how he came to the idea of God. And finally he concluded that other people should exist too because God was perfect and good, and wouldn't let them not exist.
This is where I don't follow him anymore. Why do we need the idea of a perfect being, just because we are imperfect? The world will still work even if it works in an imperfect way. Everyone can achieve perfection in a specific area while being imperfect in all the other ones, and that's OK. Even if we had a God, it would be a God that doesn't do anything. He just sits and watches while events occur in the Universe by themselves, according to the well known laws of Physics.
So let's stick to the I in the Descartes method. I think, therefore I exist. You should probably be thinking the same, so you exist as well (because you think). God? I don't really have an evidence that God thinks...
The Fundamental Laws
So, this is the background for the fundamental laws of the multi-rebirth theory. There are only two fundamental laws, followed by a number of secondary laws. The first fundamental law is the obvious law to apply given the two already mentioned dogmas of conscience persistence and conscience transference:
- Law 1: When a conscious living being dies, he/she is reborn as another conscious living being.
The second law needs a little more explanation so I'm just going to say it beforehand:
- Law 2: Rebirths can go back and forth in time until all conscious living beings are accounted for.
Law 2 confers unity to the multi-birth theory, which means that there is only one conscience. The conscience is actually the same for all the people in the world, just in different "conscience time" states. This solves an important problem: if there actually were more than one conscience, we'd have to assume that conscience creation and, consequently, conscience destruction also existed. But conscience destruction violates the dogma of conscience persistence, and even conscience creation violates it at some point, and cannot be easily explained.
Law 2 also gives the comforting idea of infinity, meaning it's going to take a long time before we run out of all living beings in the Universe space-time.
This is the law that actually confuses people the most, especially when I tell them that either I was already born as them or I will be. It is an interesting observation that becomes more clear once we understand that there is only one conscience and it passes through everyone's minds.
Finally, there are some things that the theory doesn't explain, like the order of rebirths. I believe they are taken at random, without ever repeating the same living being. There are other valid explanations, though, like the chronological order of conception, for instance. I don't really find it important to determine that.
Another thing left unexplained is the definition of what constitutes a conscious living being. It should be every animal with a conscience, but one cannot know which animals have consciences and which don't. I guess cats and dogs might possibly have a conscience, insects not so much. Again, I don't find it an important issue.
The Secondary Laws
The secondary laws of the multi-rebirth theory are to ensure there are no other dogmas involved. They show that conscience persistence is possible without the idea of God or an afterlife.
- Law 3: Conscious living beings are completely independent of each other.
"Independent" means "unrelated" here, and these are very important words. Although each and every one of us shares the same conscience, the lives we live are completely independent of our previous and next lives. We have absolutely no memory of our previous lives, and our present lives do not depend on any of our past lives. This means that the idea of karma, where your acts in the present life either reward you or punish you in the next life, is wrong according to the multi-rebirth theory: your next life is chosen at random (presumably) and with no relationship with your present live whatsoever.
Things might get a little confused at this point, so I need to re-explain the definition of conscience. To be conscious is simply to be aware that you think, and therefore you exist. It is only this awareness that is transferred to other beings, not your thoughts or memories.
The third law also solves the important problem of predetermination: as it is possible that one (or more) of my past lives takes place in the future, one could argue that my whole life is already predetermined, that every arbitrary decision I make is actually "written in a script" that influenced some of my previous lives. Yes, this might be true at a higher level, maybe we could see the whole script if we joined all lives together, but since we are independent of each other, my decisions are still arbitrary. The future is only a paradox when we know what will happen then, and the third law ensures that that never happens.
- Law 4: Conscience transference occurs immediately after the being's death.
"Immediately" is not to be taken here in the sense of time (after all, the time is relative, and conscience moves freely in it), but in the sense of memory. Even if the conscience takes some time to travel to another being, your perception of that time is null: as far as you know, you are reborn (as another being) immediately after you die.
This means no afterlife, no purgatory, no judgement. There is no transition period between the death of one being and the birth of the next. And, consequently, there is no transition place as well: heaven and hell do not fit in the multi-rebirth theory. Everything happens in this universe, and in these four dimensions.
This is actually why this theory is called the Theory of Multi-Rebirth, and not the Theory of Multi-Reincarnation. Because reincarnation automatically assumes there is something other than flesh, something people call the soul. The soul would be the part of the person that remained after the person died. The conscience is not a soul, it is physically implanted in our brains. Our thoughts and memories do not remain after we die, only the awareness of ourselves remains by being reborn in another being, all beings living in this Universe.
In Conclusion
This is how these two dogmas and four laws constitute the Theory of Multi-Rebirth. It just makes it comforting to know that there is something else to ourselves after we die, without having to take on all that religion bullshit. If it is really true or not... I guess we'll never know.
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