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David Bouchier: Second Time Around
Publisher |
WSHU Public Radio
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Personal Journals
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jan 19, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:03:38
Marooned in a doctor’s waiting room, I started reading a sensational magazine article about reincarnation. The article speculated on the past lives of some enormously famous celebrities I’ve never heard of. The author appeared to believe that every media celebrity must be the reincarnation of some past media celebrity, a theory that runs into difficulties as soon as you get back a few generations to the time before media celebrities were invented. The idea of reincarnation is one of the most appealing and at the same time one of the silliest of all human fancies. But if we set aside the logical and metaphysical problems, there’s no denying that it has an awful fascination. The belief in reincarnation may have emerged back in the mists of antiquity, and it may be one of the oldest human beliefs. Life was pretty rough a million years ago, and it was only natural for our ancestors to imagine another and better life. They probably got the idea by looking at their cats, sleeping by the fire
Marooned in a doctor’s waiting room, I started reading a sensational magazine article about reincarnation. The article speculated on the past lives of some enormously famous celebrities I’ve never heard of. The author appeared to believe that every media celebrity must be the reincarnation of some past media celebrity, a theory that runs into difficulties as soon as you get back a few generations to the time before media celebrities were invented. The idea of reincarnation is one of the most

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