All together now.

I want to do away with the concept of the past life, and the future life. I have a proposition, a supraconcept: the simultaneous lifetime.

I've been reading this book about these kids, and there are thousands of them, who have these distinct and vivid memories of past lives. They remember their houses, their phone numbers, their spouses, their children. And they can call them on the phone.

There are also those people, you've probably heard of them, who get regressed through hypnosis to some past life or other. But some of these cases have been debunked on the basis of such things as people remembering being two different people during the same period of time.

I have these dreams, and in these dreams I am two or three people, or four or five. I am all of them at the same time. And these dreams and I, we say why not? If you are taking as a fundamental possibility that the soul can be transferred between people, and that it maintains memories of distinct people and places and numbers, then why is the concept of linear time the sacred cow? Bring it to the slaughter. You are that cow (and the butcher, and the baker).

This too solves the intellectual quandry of there being more of us alive now than there have been ever before. Because we're just reincarnating here over and over again, for some undefined reason, crowding this place and time in some orgiastic feast of the multiplicitous self.

Think about it next time you're in the corner mart buying beer at two in the morning, right before the legal cut-off time, and you see that guy who's all shaky and sickly in front of you in line. He's buying tv dinners with his Oregon Trail card and you're a little worried about him but in your relative misery you think, almost against your will, at least I'm not that guy. But you are that guy. And he is you.