Magic Water

Water is magic!  It is a proven, scientific fact-fact that water behaves in this completely magical way.  See, what happens is the water sits around for a while, and then someone invisible casts a magic spell where the water changes shape on this tiny level and floats up into the sky.  After spending a while there, someone cast this other magic spell and the stuff turns back into water and falls down.  It is so magical!  

See how the very basic processes of evaporation and rainfall can be presented as magic?  In actuality, the way that water behaves is predictable, mundane, and so on.  Nothing to write home about.  

This has happened with the concept of reincarnation.  What happens is that arrangements of sufficient complexity to have self-awareness and process memories are cyclically expressed within formations of matter on those planets constructed properly to permit that relationship to occur (“bodies”).  When such a relationship is achieved, the resulting “individual” manifests self-awareness and generates memories for a while.  After a time, the matter constructing that individual’s body can no longer maintain that relationship, and that relationship ends.  The accumulated memories are used for we humans know not what, and then the planet ceases being able to support such relationships (say the star has red-gianted and there is no more planet).  Memories go we know not where, nothing more lives there, and the whole situation with that planet and that sun goes away.  

(There are very many other memory-accumulators across the verse that like U.S./U.K./E.U. we often call a single word version of a united verse [“universe,” duh; that’s wherefrom the word comes; most Earthlings are so obsessed with unification that they do shit like that] but mostly being within societies inflicted with Toratic religions such as Christianity or Islam, we Earthlings tend to favor the narcissistic delusion that we are unique lifeforms.  Like a person feeling that the difficulties in her or his life are this rare proof of something when difficult experiences in life are actually normal, there is a lot of the “wow, look at me!” type of narcissism in the supposedly scientific belief that humans on Earth are rare.  This delusion is very similar to the delusion that Earth is the center of everything.  The point here is that a versal accumulation of memories includes much more than just the things people have gone through on Earth.)  

Basic concepts of the formation of relationships that develop self-consciousness and generate the resulting memories, and the way that some of the memories become lost and eventually the capacity for generating memories no longer works (things get forgotten and things die) have been memorialized.  In one of their extreme acts of narcissism, Earthlings have decreed that the way they come to exist, end their existences, remember and forget some things and so forth, is incredibly rare—sometimes they even say it is unique.  

(Think of the popular idea that life on Earth is the only life.  There is a very small chance of life developing on any planet—you have to have the right molecules in lots of different places—but if the verse is much bigger than we can currently see, then that chance is multiplied by however many planets there are to achieve a chance-number which makes life either more likely or certain.  A 0.00000001 chance per planet can seem very small, and can make it seem like that chance having been realized on Earth is really rare and wonderful, but if there are 100000000000000000000000 planets, then that chance is actually really big.  Our perceptions of how likely there are other humans somewhere depend strongly on how good our visual technology is and how good are our current maps.  Some primitive mariner with a telescope that can show him parts of the ocean a full thousand miles away [Mommy!  Look at how big it is!] can say that he has proof that his land is the only land and his people are wonderful and completely rare.)  

Because of the toxic influence of Christianity, Earthlings have decided that reincarnation is just a type of religious belief and not at all a simple process that can be comprehended (the popular term now is “scientific”).  As such, it becomes easy to treat as humorous the belief that when you die you become something else.  Reincarnation “religions” have thus been destroyed and their depiction in the beliefs of the children of the future slurred, just like Christianity recurrently incorrectly portrays what it doesn’t like.  Much like stargazing and flight were repressed for a very long time because of Christianity, incarnation (“re-incarnation”) is still being repressed.  Very simple observations and conclusions like “there are a lot of other planets out there; there must be at least a few other things like us” are avoided in order to prop up the favored belief that Earth-humans are so special that they are surely one-of-a-kind.  Again, the similarity to the self-flattery of making their planet the center of everything is noted.  

(Noted also is that Earthlings are recurrently drawn toward narratives of other humanlike life being out there.  Many science fiction narratives of people traversing numerous planets upon which reside humanoids who breathe Earth-style air and can often have sex with Earthlings--such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and that kind of stuff--are popular.  Their writers just don't address the question of why nitrogen-heavy gas is such a common way of delivering a high-electron molecule to bodies [oxygen], but the  craving of ordinary people for the verse being filled with other people to whom it is impossible now to get is regular.)  

What happened for a very long time with flight and astronomy is happening right now with the derogation of reincarnation as being just a fanciful, stupid concept (like Jesusian Christianity actually is, but which investigation into how self-aware components attach to material structure is not).  The verboten notion that material components complex enough can develop self-consciousness and generate memories is a correct notion, but very disfavored.  As many Earthlings once said they believed that an omnipotent humanlike deity had made and controls all such relationships (Jesusianism), most Earthlings now say that—and truly believe that—all such relationships are created and governed by random chance (Bangism).  While early Christians insulted their massacred/conquered predecessors (called pagans) for having the wrong version of the same essential type of stupid belief that those Christians themselves supported, today’s Christians insult the notion of reincarnation as being the same essential type of stupid belief that their predecessors claimed to have.  

(The massacred victims called by the killing faction pagans did not have those beliefs.  Nor was thought of incarnation a “religion” of the Christian type.  Christianity has murdered many, and it has also insulted its victims by saying untrue things about what its victims believed, how they behaved, etc.  Although people now can criticize a Jesus-based Christianity as stupid, they are still mostly under Christian intellectual dominion.  They are wrong, and insulting the losers by making up nonsense—just as did many generations of Jesusians.  Those wrongs things have become widely thought of as complete truths, e.g. “The people who lost had a long tradition of believing in invisible sky people.”  The losers, though, did not have such habits, although the winners did.  Believing that the losers did engage in the practice of worshiping invisible sky people is the equivalent of believing the things the mainstream media now says about people who don’t agree with it.)  

Reincarnation is not truly a stupid Christian-type belief.  Rather, it is a (“scientific”) conclusion that types of arrangements for material components complex enough to maintain self-consciousness and cause the generation of memories are, like water, subject to the conservation of energy/matter in the sense that they are not destructible.  Much as Earthlings were aware that the Earth was a roughly spherical globe in space, in a space that also included many other such globes before the invasion of Europe by Christianity (think of how the big stones at Stonehenge are made to show the solstices), Earthlings were investigating the relationship of recurrent mind-body interactions (incarnation; “reincarnation”) before said invasion.  Now, when most people think that they are quite a bit smarter than “Christians,” they still engage in this type of Christian intellectual behavior.  

The far greater, much more lasting fact of Christianity was not to make people interested in one particular human-type figure of separation from matter (Jesus; the savior figure), but to make people believe that the arrangement of matter generates rather than accommodates consciousness.  The supposed religions of reincarnation posited that the soul (the thinking part of a person; the self-awareness) was distinct from the matter of the brain, able to attach to different bodies and still be that thing.  By contrast, Christianity implied that the soul (that thing) had one chance in one body to demonstrate its quality.  This distinction—like the distinction of Earth from other planets—survived much longer than the passionate (sic) interest in this one particular rabbi who was omnipotent and invisible.  Understanding that helps understand why Christianity persists, and why it is still here—why it still rules.  

There have been theories that reincarnation happened for the benefit of the individual, so as to put that individual through various bodies permitting learning.  Theories that reincarnation benefited the individual have been expressed as “proof” that theories about reincarnation are religious, as stupid and narcissistic as Christianity.  These theories have been expressed as religious beliefs that a packet of conscious awareness (a soul) goes through being Animal A, Animal B, and so forth.  They are like the way that Lysenko had an incorrect theory on evolution in that they do not disprove survival of the fittest (Lysenko was the guy who thought a parent could develop a trait to be better at something and then that parent’s offspring would have that trait).  

People of long ago could be affirmed in their incorrect beliefs by what were then broadly considered very smart people, people who and organizations that had lots of resources available to them.  Such people thought that the time was now, hundreds of years after the errors of the past.  It is the same way still.  Things are exactly as different and advanced as they were in ^CE700: it is (and was then) centuries after the Christianization of Europe.  

What should be remembered is that all of Earthlings’ empiricism—all of Earth’s human observation; call it “science”—was advancing at a steady clip in Europe before Christianity was deployed to give access to that place.  Awareness of astronomy and souls—where things are in nearby space and how masses of specially arranged cells host self-aware entities (“reincarnation”)—were rolling along, and then Jesus shows up, promises that He made it all happen, and got people to not look at things but just think about how great He was.