MIND GAMES

I must admit that, while the jury’s still out (obviously), there is something very appealing about the idea of reincarnation. The idea that we return after death for a new chance to learn lessons or right wrongs, or just to live again, is a hard one to deny ourselves. Especially if you are not convinced of the idea of heaven either, at least in its most popular conception of a place where only good Christians get to go. Reincarnation, quite literally, means rebirth, and it’s assumed that the life lived before was in the linear past. But if it’s possible...