Can the existence of past lives be proven without the use of hypnosis or a pendulum to inquire about previous incarnations?
08.06.2025 01:55
However, to keep the initial thesis short;
Intro
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”.
**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.” **
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...
“Chakra Sarah”
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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.”
In short?
Is it possible?
We could call the 20 characteristics you have in common with your mom DNA, but the concept of “generational reincarnation” is significantly more accurate. Having the same looking eyes is one thing. Having the same underlying talents, demons, and habits? That makes the using of 3 “science letters” beyond reductionistic.
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.
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.
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Below is the full length version of this above thesis or “idea”.
With that said? Very few people are ready to look into their past lives. “Chakra Sarah”, with all of her dream catchers and crystals, is not one of those few people either.
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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Please for the love of god, any single god you pick, please stop with this feel goodery vocabulary and dangerously watered down Hinduism.
“So how does Karma fit into your weird book on generational reincarnation Zack?”
“Zack, come on man. That is just DNA.”
That being said, in traditional Hinduism, they saw the extreme influence that parents have their children’s identity as a fresh life, and since have developed specific yoga practices and rituals. Rituals that Im sadly too ignorant to discuss any further, but their overarching concept seemingly lends itself quite well to my thesis about “generation reincarnation”.
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.
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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.”
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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”.
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Thesis
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.
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].
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In all likelihood, in my best guess, reality (as a system) is best conceptualized of as “game” of sorts. So very much like Super Mario? There are multiple chances and lives. Especially if you are reading this in the west, never forget that the world holds billions of people who subscribe to this theory. That is to say, reincarnation might sound extra foreign to us over here in the west.
*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.*
“Running a subjective all things considered, which parent do you identify with most? You are basically them back again.”
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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).
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.
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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“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.
The reason being, this is a much more grounded approach to looking into your past. 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.
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.
“There is plenty of scientific evidence for reincarnation — you just call it DNA.”
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.
Intro
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.
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You walk, talk, look, and think like one of your parents primarily. Same talents, beginning belief systems, and even the same demons in most cases.
“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?
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.
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 in this case specifically, what not to do. You came out of someone who learned lessons about life in the past — oh you mean past life right?
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.
He was never around…
But why I believe in reincarnation (as a concept)
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].
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.
Your parents existed in the past right? Before you got here? And what exactly are they doing when raising you? Parents are simply teaching you about what they learned about life in the past. DNA duplicates teaching you about your life in the past? Just call it what it is — past life. How else are you going to learn what to do — and more importantly how else are you going to learn what not to do? I will go into more detail with this thought in the section below titled “But you existed the same time?”
If your parents drank excessively? Watch out for that same pitfall presenting itself in your life.
In my absolute best opinion, we are significantly better off framing whichever parent we identify with the most as our “past life”.
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.
“Children are like our re-do in life — f*cken obviously.”
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.”
The mystic Sadhguru is very clear, don’t look into your past lives as you are already struggling with your memories of the current one. Until you become nothing or become everything, don’t worry about reincarnation. With that being said, becoming conscious of just how much we are imitating our parents seems like a decently safe goal — with more pragmatism and less mind f*ckery.
Through their eyes
Through their eyes
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.
But you existed the same time?
Below is a loose quote from the highly esteemed mystic Sadhguru
“DNA is not whats happening, but rather DNA is the how something else is happening. Do not confuse the tunnel for the cars.”
[Intro]
But you existed the same time?
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.
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.
A very simple, but profoundly pragmatic thought, that I will go into deeper with the following paper.
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.
Im sure everyone reading wants some spooky metaphysical answer to this question. But until we understand the practicalbenefits, 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.
Let us once again take the example of Little Timmy...
If your dad was a workaholic? Don’t become one if it didn’t work out for him much.
My Guru’s Take
About that duck though...
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.
Apples don’t fall too far...
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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.
Is it possible?
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.
“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.”
“No Kevin, DNA is how this all happens... and is not exactly what’s happening itself”
“When we say reproduction, let’s break down the word. To reproduce something is to copy it. This isn’t philosophy anymore — this is just how words work.”
I will include a longer paper below, with my full thought process, but for now the best example of a past life is just this;
“Will one of my grand kids put down the f*cken vodka! Im so sorry I started this cycle!”
“You can find the truth below within your own experinces. Do not just ‘believe me’ – that is how you start a cult.”
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.
Your parents existed before you, and they taught you about life in the past. How long until we can just say past life.
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...
In length…
To your question directly;
“Where did you come from? You came from your dads balls.”
But for the parents?
My Guru’s take
I feel confident in saying that the majority of the cases [which your question is fundamentally asking about] is answered with nothing but classic and simple escapism — the mind grasping at straws to explain the phenomena that is existence itself.
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?
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.
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.
He was never around
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.
Reincarnation is a wild concept. And to be honest? It is probably true — I mean that.
Do we choose our parents each birth? No idea. I mean maybe? But quite often this entire new age line of questioning is a misguided effort to “guess at spiritual comfort”. That is to say, there are real things we could work on today, but they're hard. So instead we find ourselves asking absurdly macro cosmic questions. This would be something akin to a pacifying “spiritual entertainment “ or even a “spiritual procrastination” of sorts.
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.
Umm ok? Then why do we both exist then?
“Everybody wants to learn about their past lives, until they actually learn about their past lives.”
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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.