Is there a possibility that we are living in a simulation and that there is a concept of rebirth?
07.06.2025 09:13
Would you rather learn about your past life through moon ritual tarot card readers, surrounded by fairy portraits and empty bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms? Are you sure about that...
You earned it (reincarnation)
We obviously can’t talk about reincarnation without mentioning the topic of karma — which directly translates to “action”. I am not simply meaning “do good then you get good” and there is also the component of memory nestled in the age-old concept of karma. Why? Because actions... that exist in the past... live inside the world of memory.
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“Everybody wants to learn about their past lives, until they actually learn about their past lives.”
We seem to have a multitude of expressions in our current culture that hint at the concept I am proposing — generational reincarnation. Have you heard, or even used, any of these common expressions, “Follow in my fathers foot steps” or “Like father like son”? Now I want to be clear, I am not suggesting that generational reincarnation is strictly tied to gender, I personally know someone who I have talked to great lengths about him identifying more with his mother. So just to be clear once again, despite some of the common phrases seemingly getting tied to gender... that is not what Im suggesting. Let us take this extremely common (and gender neutral) phrase to expand upon “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Many people upon hearing this raise their hand with quite the obvious question “Why does it take two parents to make a kid then Zack?” If we look at that quote about the apple falling, it is my understanding that the other parent is quite simply the metaphorical “wind” that blows the apple slightly further from said tree of genealogy/reincarnation.
Why I believe in reincarnation, in general.
You’ve asked two very hard questions. Meaning, here are two very long answers. It doesn’t take long to say, it just takes long to prove and cover all of the caveats — as well as make it truly practical.
This is a classic story; a son of a “bad dad” has his own child and vows to never repeat his own father’s mistakes. We all know this story, some of us might be living this story because it’s basically archetypal.
He was never around
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The reason I like this approach is for the pragmatism, and overall sense of grounding. Otherwise we are simply racking our imagination in a misguided effort to fancify our shortcomings in life. “Past life spirit dolphin? I’m sure you were Sarah… I’m sure you were.”
Is it possible that you are a magical soul being that needed to work on some prior karmic lessons which had nothing to do with your current parents? And so you picked your current mom and dad to mirror those same lessons back to you? Of course... that is totally possible. But there is real danger in this thinking; specifically how this woo woo approach opens up your imagination to complete subjectivity — wishful thinking for ethereally unsubstantial bandaids that magically explain your inadequacies and personality defects.
***Simulation paper linked below
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Living vicariously through your children shouldn’t be a foreign concept to anyone at all. Somewhere there is a middle class Debra in Nebraska who is pushing her daughter into beauty pageants because she wishes she was young again — this is an obvious trope. Somewhere there is an upper level banker in Manhattan named Jeff who will insist his son go into finance because that’s what he did.
Now I will include a short paper below as to why I believe in reincarnation as a concept in general. I will also outline the true dangers of looking into them before someone is ready to do so.
“You’re just like your f*cken father!” Says an angry single mother to her teenage son. “You’re becoming your f*cken mom Lauren!” says a husband after a bad day at the office.
Preface
If anyone reading hasn’t already put two and two together; Timmy just blatantly “fixed his father’s karma”. Not only that, we could actually suggest that Timmy just fixed his father’s dying regret — and that’s not trivial. This is how generational reincarnation and the concept karma fit so nicely together. We also have very common phrases for this concept as well; generational curses or break the cycle — things like that.
But you existed the same time?
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Preface
About that duck though...
Somewhere along the way, life got boring. A simple truth that can be proven by just how much alcohol or Netflix you now need to enjoy life — significantly more than 8 year old Lindsey playing princess castle under the back yard trampoline. We have children to experience the “magic of childhood” in a body that looks like us; through eyes that look like ours.
About that duck though...
So what does Timmy think about this? He resents his dad — obviously. Timmy recently got married and made a point to his new wife that he will always be around for his kids because he knows what it’s like.
You are already suffering this life’s memories, in what world could you think reaching back for another 10 lives worth of memories will truly benefit you.”
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But obviously we are going to take the question of “Where did we come from?” a little deeper. A little further past this 8 year old Seth Rogan comedy level of understanding...
My father existed on earth before me, like duh. My father taught me what he learned about life before I got here, like duh. Now let us all put two and two together once again again. The person I am a virtually a genetic copy of, with another 40 traits in common, taught me about life in the past — oh you mean my past life.
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Bob wasn’t really there for Timmy, in any areas of life outside mere money. He did not abandoned his son. He wasn’t a dead beat dad in that sense; just simply wasn’t really around.
My Guru’s Take
Im sure everyone reading wants some spooky metaphysical answer to this question. But until we understand the practical benefits, I find it of zero use to even ask “where do souls come from?” and hoping for some Pleadian galaxy “new age” woke nonsense answer — crystal compassion never really gets anybody anywhere in my opinion.
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Please for the love of god, any single god you pick, please stop with this feel goodery vocabulary and dangerously watered down Hinduism.
Let us once again take the example of Little Timmy...
There is danger in these “magical stories” that can be self-authored by you, and non falsifiable. So to complete the metaphor, your current parents would be the “fitness coach” role model. Actual physical and external beings that will push you along by showing you exactly what will happen if you dont work out these “shared demons” and generational traumas lets say.
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In all likelihood, and in my best guess? Reality as a concept is best understood as a “game” of sorts. With that framework, much like Super Mario, there are indeed multiple chances and continual lives. If you are reading this in from the western framework, do not forget the world holds billions of people who subscribe to the theories of reincarnation. That is just to point out that, reincarnation might sound extra foreign to us over here in the west.
However, to keep the initial thesis short;
Through their eyes
In short?
“Will one of my grand kids put down the f*cken vodka! Im so sorry I started this cycle!”
“Why was I born a middle class white American and some sweat shop worker named Ling Ling in Saigon?”
Everything is random. Everything is random doesn’t exactly make sense. Birds migrate to invisible wave patterns. No one treats life like it’s random until an accident happens. The game is too well designed, in regards to the the intricacy of physics, for the beginning point (or starting level of your Mario game) to also be considered ”random”. Everything is random is of course the position that most people take in an effort to explain, or rather not explain, the phenomena of life. Calling everything random is a silly way to get around the question and convince ourself that we dont need to answer anything. Why struggle to find an answer when you can just call the question dumb. Now I have a problem with taking the “everything is random” position in life — it simply doesn't feel right. Of course a ‘feeling’ is not worth much in a true philosophical debate, but I find it odd that no one really acts out their own premise that everything is random. We all feel that same sense of agency over our lives. Added to the fact that no one acts out this position, it doesn't seem to be working for anyone if they do. When tragedy strikes, if we feel like it’s all random and meaningless, that renders us to be a mere “sail in life’s wind” — divorcing you from that agency we talked about. Basically put, calling life random is a cop-out because it keeps you from having to answer the hard questions. This is a cop-out that no one truly acts out. And when they do? It exactly doesn't seem to work for them. “Everything is random Zack!” quickly becomes a silly, and non-valid position to take in life.
Intro
“DNA is not whats happening, but rather DNA is the how something else is happening. Do not confuse the tunnel for the cars.”
He was never around…
Why do I believe in reincarnation?
You simply can not take these 40 characteristics that you have in common with a parent and stack them all up against the silly thought of “Well I cant be my mom Zack... we both existed at the same dinner table for the last 26 Thanksgivings.” First off, this shallow thinking implies we understand what time is in general— and we for sure do not. But do you see what I am saying? 20, 30, even 40, things in common with your parents and we quickly try to rationalize the mystical nature of “Im a f*cken copy!” away; hoping to sweep the oh so obvious right under the rug that the family dog just peed on. But besides all of that, and briefly putting the mystical woo woo to the side, there are in fact real and profound implications with this approach to understanding reincarnation [within a more western framework].
Is it possible?
**Dont worry, just like the last book we will obviously address the elephant in the room — “You exist at the same time as your parents Zack, you’re trippen.” **
This woke new-age crystal compassion religion is “spiritual entertainment” at best, and a horrible distraction made by the internet’s misguided “Charka Sarahs” at worst. The new age, and all of its flowery vocabulary is a f*cken disaster. A pitfall that is making you think you have found out some spiritual truth, but we all know that you cant bring most of those ideals down from the “Pleiadian galaxies” and truly live them out.
If your dad was a workaholic? Don’t become one if it didn’t work out for him much.
Now that quote might sound a little silly and childish, which is exactly why I decided to stylize the quotes throughout the book this way — to reintroduce your childlike wonder. These answers aren’t easy, and I was constantly reminded of this quote that has been attributed to Einstein while writing this book; “If you cant explain it to a 7 year old, you don’t understand it well enough.” With all that said, even the short silly answer can put you into a tailspin if you were to spend a truly focused 20 minutes with them while looking into the bathroom mirror each morning. “Wait wait, what the f*ck? I... came from my dads balls? Now I have all of these hopes, dreams, and the same blue eyes? Okay I’m freaking out now...” That sort of thing.
So what does Timmy think about this? He resents his dad — obviously. Timmy recently got married and made a point to his new wife that he will always be around for his kids because he knows what it’s like.
“Until you are either everything, or nothing at all, looking back onto your past lives will invoke way too much confusion for your current identity. Do you really want to find out that your neighbor’s dog was your father in a past life? How exactly do you think that will play out?
Are you afraid of the world because you were burned as a witch in 17th century Salem? Or is more likely that you are afraid of the world because your parents raised you to be — when they were constantly watching worrisome and horrendous news stories each night over your family lasagna dinner.
With all that being said, in traditional Hinduism, they of course saw the extreme influence that parents have their children’s identity as a fresh life. With that perspective in place, their culture has developed very specific yoga practices and rituals. Rituals that I am sadly too ignorant to discuss any further, but that overarching concept, of extreme parental influence on children, does lend itself quite well to this paper’s thesis on “generation reincarnation”.
Thesis
Reincarnation is a wild concept. To be honest? It is probably true — and I mean that.
God is a dick definitely doesn’t make sense. The god like mind that lies behind the hydrogen molecule and the color purple is handing out life-cards like; ““You'll be broke and you'll be poor! You will be Oprah and you… well you will watch your kid die in front of you a failed kidney transplant.” Nonsense. Number two is silly and childish. This of course gets us into the territory of “free will vs determinism” and even the concept of fate itself. Number two, god is a dick, gets quite tricky quite quickly so it will need its own separate paper. But for now, in the context of “Why was Zack born white in 1989?” I cant really get behind the idea that the initial set-up for each “soul” is at the whim of a weird dictator-esqe godhead.
Thesis
When a father takes his son on a camping trip to watch this years meteor shower, is he really watching the sky? Or is more common that he is watching his son watch the sky?
Evolution is essentially “betterment over time”. So if we take that extremely basic definition and then couple it with yet another common phrase, “I just want my daughter to have a better childhood than I did.” then this should all start to click. In the woo woo community we all have multiple lives to become better through reincarnation. In the more experiential sense, we are all trying to improve upon our parents, and we have children who we hope... will improve upon us over coming generations.
This is where I get tripped up when attempting to follow Sadhguru;
The full paper below outlines a much more pragmatic way to entertain the idea of past lives — look at your parents. You walk talk, look, think, and act like one of them primarily. And even more so than that, you will have some of the same demoms and talents in life. You are in fact so much like one of your parents that you really (and I mean this) might as well just be them back again.
“So how does Karma fit into your weird book on generational reincarnation Zack?”
Here is the reasoning…
If anyone reading hasn’t already put two and two together; Timmy just blatantly “fixed his father’s karma”. Not only that, we could actually suggest that Timmy just fixed his father’s dying regret — and thats not trivial. This is how generational reincarnation and the concept karma fit so nicely together. We also have very common phrases for this concept as well; generational curses or break the cycle — things like that.
This is a classic story; a son of a “bad dad” has his own child and vows to never repeat his own father’s mistakes. We all know this story, some of us might be living this story because it’s basically archetypal.
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On a shallow level of course we have children out of a natural biological compulsion to procreate the species, but on a personal level no one is really basing the love of their child on a Bill Nye the Science guy understanding of some replicating genome and fear of survival. You have kids to re experience the magic through their eyes plain and simple. Tired of bank accounts, traffic jams, and news cycles; we all set out to copy ourselves into a tiny being that thinks more about Santa, fairies, and Iron man. Again for some common language, how any times have you heard someone introduce their kid as “Hey you guys, this is my little mini me Bradley.” If nature made it any more obvious... I actually dont know if it could.
Speaking as a male who identifies more heavily with his father, I want to continue to use my own life examples but remind the reader “In no way is this truth tied to gender exclusively”.
If your child crashes his bike he is not doomed to walk. He gets more lessons, buys his own bike, or gets some help along the way. If we little old humans can forgive our children then how could the supreme god head be best conceived of as a tyrannical and vengeful as*hole? Does not compute haha
When you really think about this; if you look like them, walk like them, talk like them, even think like them, and you have the same inner dreams, demons, or battles... how are you not that parent? How are you not your parents “back again” for a re do (of sorts)? We find ourselves quickly circling back to one of my main (and often repeated) jokes; “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has feathers like a duck... it is not a f*cken hot-pocket.” I mean that. How exactly are you quite literally not them back again? Being born into some weird duplicated video game.
Below is the full length version of this above thesis or “idea”.
My Guru’s take
Sticking with Little Timmy and his dad Bob, let’s use that same family. Bob was never around, always chasing that corner office and promotion. Im sure we can all follow a story about a rather absentee and workaholic dad. We can safely assume that on an individual’s death bed, the majority of people finally confront their demons. The majority of people finally take the much needed (and over due) time to make amends let’s say; whether that be with family, friends, or themselves. When Bob turned 82 he ended up the hospital for a rather complicated liver disease — remember he was often drinking heavily. With his wife already deceased, no one came to visit Bob; especially not his only son Timmy. With only a nurse to talk to, Bob was forced to have a reality check of sorts and finally confront his relationship with his son. “F*ck I was never there. 3 boats, 2 houses, and the respect of my colleagues... but no one to help me through deaths door.”
“No Kevin, DNA is how this all happens... and is not exactly what’s happening itself”
It is Christmas morning and you spent 300$ on your daughters new lego set, but when we take out the iPhone and start filming this magical morning... do you really point the camera at the expensive gift? Or are you actually trying to capture your daughter’s reaction to those legos?
But most people looking for “past life stuff” dont want the actual benefit that only comes from the work. No sir, they want some fancy galactic story that can never be substantiated — and even if it could be — what exactly would you do with the knowledge? What would you actually do if you found out that you used to be a decently respected blacksmith in 14th century Prussia. Your parents are images that show you what to do, and also, what not to do.
“Children are like our re-do in life — f*cken obviously.”
“Where did you come from? You came from your dads balls.”
*Of course we will go over the obvious, “We existed at the same time Zack…” That elephant in the room is not lost on me.*
I am not exactly sure what he means right here, but I believe I have the quote right. In my best guess, our personal sense of self, or “ego”, will get in the way of us accurately understanding our past lives. We can of course see the ego getting in the way with the above dog story for example. YOU think that HIS dog, is YOUR dad. A lot of ego based possessiveness going on here. “Thats my dad that you left outside in the backyard all day Bob!”
Sticking with Little Timmy and his dad Bob, let’s use that same family. Bob was never around, always chasing that corner office and promotion. Im sure we can all follow a story about a rather absentee and workaholic dad. We can safely assume that on an individual’s death bed, the majority of people finally confront their demons. The majority of people finally take the much needed (and over due) time to make amends let’s say; whether that be with family, friends, or themselves. When Bob turned 82 he ended up the hospital for a rather complicated liver disease — remember he was often drinking heavily. With his wife already deceased, no one came to visit Bob; especially not his only son Timmy. With only a nurse to talk to, Bob was forced to have a reality check of sorts and finally confront his relationship with his son. “F*ck I was never there. 3 boats, 2 houses, and the respect of my colleagues... but no one to help me through deaths door.” Bob wasn’t really there for Timmy, in any areas of life outside mere money. He did not abandoned his son. He wasn’t a dead beat dad in that sense; just simply wasn’t really around.
I can speak from personal experience with regards to my childhood. Born to a “open box thinking” Christian Republican father, and essentially a Buddhist Democrat mother... my childhood was quite torn. I was essentially born into the the family a gemini would have, it’s a metaphor. Growing up I did have some weird debates and funny anecdotes, but roughly around 22 years of age I started putting the two hemispheres together and found that balance I was just discussing.
These are of course basic, and low-hanging fruit, examples of the my initial claim. Might even seem like common sense? But our parents were indeed here in the past. They also taught us about life that existed before us… in the past. How long until we just say that our parents are “teaching us our past lives”? All seems rather self-evident to me. Of course we will go deeper into this throughout the paper, as well as cover some of the most obvious “elephants in the room” such as — why we both exist at the same time etc.
Is it possible?
We can try to get there another way, by taking the other two sides of a square. Why is it so difficult for kids to be raised with by one parent? We know this as a cultural truth, kids need both parents. Boys with no father in the house exhibit countless, but measurable, symptoms when released upon the world. On a very simple level, it is because they have to figure outall of life on their own; with no father to teach them the “ways of the world” or essentially give them a head start on figuring out life’s mysteries. Boys without fathers have no memory of their past lives — or no head start understanding of life in the past. Now some of you may be reading this believing that I am merely bending language, but the evidence is clear. You walk, talk, think, and favor one parent primarily. When they are not present in your life you lose the wealth of knowledge they could offer — knowledge that they themselves gathered about life from the past before you got here. This is why you exist at the same time as your “past life parent”.
Below is a loose quote from the highly esteemed mystic Sadhguru
Reincarnation is a wild concept. To be honest? It is probably true — and I mean that.
PAPER 1: Generational Reincarnation
We use these phrases all of the time. Once again, this book is not a book of my own silly philosophies. But more aptly put, a book detailing poetic and very basic mechanics of just how the world works — where the scientific and observational approach meets the profound commonalities found amongst ancient spiritual traditions.
Still not on board? Even after realizing you have upwards 40 traits in common with a parent and obviously improve upon them by fixing their “karma”? Lets talk about why we even have kids in the first place...
“You can look into your past life’s when you fall into one of two categories. One, when you realize you are nothing. Or two, when you realize you are everything.”
Everything is random
“Generational reincarnation is the first answer to the man’s plaguing question of “Where did we come from?”. It really should be all so clear. It really should be even more obvious than seeing a purple giraffe throwing guacamole at you from your living room ceiling. How did man miss this basic concept? How did man miss that purple giraffe with it’s big ass f*cken neck.”
You earned it. I earned this life and you earned that life. Yes, even the childhood tragedy’s of disease and death in children. I am nothing if not congruent in my beliefs. I try very hard to not abandon a philosophy at the first sign of inconvenience. Never mind all of the ancient traditions that make sense of the world this way, through reincarnation. You earned this life and its balance of tragedy vs gifts. This would be the reincarnation approach. When stacked up against, its all random or there is a gods f*cking with you, reincarnation is the only plausible answer. There is no 4th option. After nearly 7 years of asking around and focusing group this list of 3, I have yet to come across any viable 4th alternative. There was however one random person, I believe in a YouTube comment section, suggesting determinism as a 4th option. However, when looked into, that idea of determinism just lands us back to “god being an as*hole puppet master messing with you” — which is just number 2 again.
Do you buy the back yard bubble set to watch the bubbles, or to watch your children watch the bubbles?
If your parents drank excessively? Watch out for that same pitfall presenting itself in your life.
Apples don’t fall too far...
Apples don’t fall too far...
That parent, father or mother, is a concrete example right in front of you. A concrete example that you look like, think like, act like, and share similar talents, hobbies, or demons. For all intents and purposes, you are them back again.
“Chakra Sarah”
Through their eyes
Little Timmy has an alcoholic father, quite an easy story for people to understand and follow. When Timmy’s father, let’s call him Bob, comes home after a long day at work and an even longer night at the bar, thank god that Timmy has a balanced mother to tell him, “Dont worry Timmy. Just go play with your legos and playstation because daddy had a long day and he is in one of his moods. But he promises to take you to baseball practice tomorrow.” Can you imagine if Timmy didn’t have his mother in the picture? This is exactly why it takes 2 parents to create a child — balance plain and simple.
Chakra Sarah
Why I believe in reincarnation, in general.
A very simple, but profoundly pragmatic thought, that I will go into deeper with the following paper.
In my absolute best opinion, we are significantly better off framing whichever parent we identify with the most as our “past life”.
For each person (and I mean like every person ever) you can look back onto your parents and find out that you overtly resemble one of them just a little more so than the other. I do not just mean mere shallow looks or physically, “Well I do have my dads nose I guess Zack.” But there is in-fact one parent that you take primarily after in regards to your; looks, habits, likes, dislikes, skills, hobbies, passions, and even demons — those inner battles that you are oddly still fighting an entire generation later. Un shakable generational “curse” that you are still fighting just like your mother or father did (battles that they might be still fighting currently).
Because for a few years I have had one burning question. One that I have focused group with people of all walks of life. Some that know me, some that don’t. Some that are on “the wave” and others who are not.
With that said? Very few people are ready to look into their past lives. And “Chakra Sarah”, with all of her dream catchers and crystals, is not one of those few people.
This galactic approach allows your mind to both wonder and wander, constantly searching for stories that make you feel better. I believe the following is a quite common trait of this human experience, we dont like the uncomfortable. Who trains in the gym harder; person A left to their own devices, or person B who is pushed and ridiculed by an external fitness coach? Obviously person B. So what I mean is just this; if one is left to their own imagination about past lives, I find it more than likely that you will simply find “feel good” stories that justify your emotions and thoughts, stories that are void of the necessary rigor to actually push yourself along [in your own spiritual development].
God is an as*hole
Reading about 5D Source blah blah only makes you feel good. But you aren’t actually going to play in traffic. But why not? After-all it is just you being source, playing in source, getting hit by source. All of our new age nonsense falls to the way side on the day your cat dies.
But you existed the same time?
“Getting a past life regression, or focusing on past life’s at all rather, is a bad idea.”
In all likelihood, and in my best guess? Reality as a concept is best understood as a “game” of sorts. With that framework, much like Super Mario, there are indeed multiple chances and continual lives. If you are reading this in from the western framework, do not forget the world holds billions of people who subscribe to the theories of reincarnation. That is just to point out that, reincarnation might sound extra foreign to us over here in the west.
In my absolute best guess? Yes, it is possible to determine these things. But I am writing this below from a much more cautionary perspective. Do I personally belief in reincarnation? Yes, yes I do. But we are going to walk through a much more beneficial approach to this topic.
“Zack, come on man. That is just DNA.”