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Building on my Déjà vu house key idea, here is my latest crazy spiritual concept:

Suppose there are multiple universes, and as we advance spiritually we jump from universe to universe. Your life, who you are right now, is actually one instance in an endless string of lives you have inhabited.

It’s like playing a video game. You log into a character that has already been built, has a back story, and comes fully immersed in the game world. But unlike a video game you come complete with memories. You don’t even know when you started playing because the game play is seamless.

As you advance spiritually, and grow and learn, you play other characters. You get to live through the whole range of human experience. You get to become more advanced as you learn, overcoming the hardest hardships humans can endure, and also reveling in the greatest triumphs. You move from universe to universe until eventually you ascend.

It’s almost like reincarnation but nonlinear. You move sideways to advance. If you play long enough you could become everyone you know eventually. And people (and things) your brain isn’t big enough to imagine.

This theory answers some nagging questions for me. I’ve always wondered how a loving and caring God could allow the most horrendous tragedies to occur. How could God allow children with cancer? Well now I believe that the child with cancer is there so that I might learn to deal with the emotion he evokes in me; to accept things that are senseless, and just be. In my new belief system that child might not be real. It may be a non-player character for my benefit. It may also be someone who needs to experience what it is to be that child. There is no growth without conflict, and pain.

I have also wondered where are all of the truly spiritually advanced beings? Why do we not see anyone walking on water, or raising the dead? Maybe this particular universe doesn’t allow that sort of thing. In my video game analogy the lowest level characters do not start on the hardest levels. You need to gather experience and develop your tools and skills. I’ll meet the people who can shoot fireballs out of their hands; I’m just not ready yet.

I’ve also questioned life after death. How can the experience and deeds of one life give you eternal happiness or torment? How can our little blip of a life be enough? Now it doesn’t have to be. We could live an entire lifetime to learn patience, of a couple of seconds to learn remorse. Over and over again. Any when, any where, any how.

I had a thought about what déjà vu might be.

Physicists believe that there are alternate realities all around us. Part of this theory is that every instant our universe splits into an infinite number of alternate universes. Some have extrapolated on this idea, proposing that universes close to our own would be much like ours, and those not so close would be much different.

What if our spirit or souls or energy shifts universes from time to time?

My house key fits in my door upside down – or right side up, depending on its mood. Everyday no matter which way I try it in the door it is wrong. If I put my key in the door today right side up, and tell myself its right side up, then tomorrow it will be too. What if tomorrow when I come home from work I jump, or shift universes. In the universe I was in, my key went one way, and in this new universe, it goes the other.

In this universe the key goes in upside down. If I had written down the direction yesterday or this morning, my note would clearly say upside down right now. If I research the lock maker there would be a definite reason why the key goes in the way it does, complete with a history of how long it has been this way.

This doesn’t change the fact that somehow, in some way, I know it was the other way. So this is my theory – as we jump for one universe to the next, we bring with us an imprint of the way things were. Just a tiny remembrance of what we just experienced. But once we realize it, or try to grasp the difference, it slips away as we settle into our current surroundings.

Our soul remembers, even if our brain and our memories have always been here, in this universe.

Déjà vu is the overlap of these universe shifts. As we make the jump from where we were to where we are, our record skips – just for a second.