before 📺

This was incredible, terrifying and fascinating – all at once. I’ve never thought about what was said in the closing monologue of the show like that before: If we have to acknowledge an afterlife then we have to acknowledge a beforelife, something that came before. I did consider beforelives many times before, but I never thought of the after- and beforelives as connected concepts. So I cooked up this concept: In a regular process of transfer, the soul undergoes a blackout of the beforelife which corrects any previously experienced trauma. Those who don’t undergo a blackout1 carry the trauma with them to the life and are meant correct it in the present, during the canon experience of the now. If they don’t, they carry it with them for another life, the afterlife which would result in hell.2 Basically, if you don’t fix your shit now, it will haunt you forever.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk 🙂3

  1. And it’s important to note that this is no deliberate process. It either happens or it doesn’t. ↩︎

  2. I literally can’t imagine anything worse than reliving your trauma for eternity. ↩︎

  3. I’m just thinking out loud here. ↩︎

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