A few months ago, I stumbled across a post about reincarnation.
Nothing special — some third-rate forum, the author's username just a random string of characters.
The title was strange:
"Responsible for sector G3A. I'll answer any questions."
I smirked and typed:
"So what is reincarnation, then?"
Honestly, I just wanted to laugh at another crackpot.
I wasn't expecting a reply. But it came almost immediately. And this is what he wrote.
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Earthling. You asked about reincarnation.
I won't be able to explain every detail — I'm aware of your limitations — but I'll try to lay out the essence in a form your kind can grasp.
At some point, we managed to breach the tunnel between what you call the material and spiritual worlds. Though that's an imprecise way to put it, reality is simply far more complex than that. You've almost figured it out yourselves: you don't live in a universe, you live in a multiverse. But what you don't know is that the number of universes keeps growing. And the most astonishing thing is how they're born. We discovered it by accident, while investigating something else entirely.
Our minds evolved differently. We learned to transmit information directly through a mental channel, what you call telepathy. The mental channel is far broader than verbal or visual communication. It carries information with minimal distortion, misunderstanding, or subjective interpretation. No more "that's not what I meant." But there was a price.
This ability demanded a colossal amount of energy. Our organisms were forced to spend up to ninety percent of their time asleep. Otherwise, exhaustion and death followed. So we found a solution. What if we could feed consciousness from the outside? With an individual beam of energy, tuned to the unique mental fingerprint of each being. The nearly infinite source of that energy became supermassive black holes. We were already using them to create wormholes and travel between galaxies. Expanding their functionality turned out to be straightforward. Wherever a being was, the beam found them.
And then, one of us died.
It was the first death since the technology had been deployed. The brain stopped, but the beam kept working. More than that, information continued coming through the return channel. At first, we assumed it was a glitch, but the volume of data kept growing. The signal was getting stronger, wider, as if billions of minds were speaking at once. It was expanding, and then…
We witnessed the birth of a new universe. A real Big Bang. Yes, that one. After every death, it happened again, but at a different point in space.
Think about that, earthling. Every consciousness spends its entire existence ripening — accumulating experience, structure, complexity — and after death it ignites and becomes an entire world. A new universe.
That is what reincarnation is.
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I read the message several times. I wanted to reply, but couldn't bring myself to. The cursor kept blinking into the void until I realized the account had already been deleted without a trace.