Why I'm Skeptical of Reincarnation

[strrrng]

It's real. And you don't need to have a memory of a past life to validate it. No one is going to remember being Napoleon, that's absurd; the point is that birth and death are transition points for consciousness, so a kind of forgetting occurs precisely so that the present reincarnation can be lived out "naturally," and whatever memory that occurs through that, is what it is (virtually no one will ever have a "pure" memory in the way the quote presupposes they need to; it's more so that it's possible to condense the past and future into the present through certain states, such that it's not about what one was or wasn't in this or that life, but simply the archetypal forms that are passing through them at this point). Some call it collective memory.