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From: hugh@achilles.adelaide.edu.au (Hugh Garsden)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Reincarnation
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Date: 10 Dec 90 03:02:47 GMT
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I have another question about reincarnation.

Presumably our rebirth consciousness, soul, or whatever,
exists outside and apart from the material universe. This
means that it is not subject to the natural laws of space
and time. 

Therefore, is there any reason why I could not be reincarnated
in the _past_ (i.e. the past according to the current direction
of time in the universe). Or, weirder still, could I be
reincarnated in my own _present_.

This may sound a bit silly, but surely it is an interesting
question which deserves an answer (and I am interested in the answer
for other reasons than pure curiosity, but I won't go into that here). 
Why do I have to be reincarnated in the future? 

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Hugh Garsden		
University of Adelaide	
hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au