Paradox of the Paranormal

There’s little doubt about it today, the subject attracts a lot of attention whether from glancing at a small article in the newspaper on the train to the office provoking a moment’s pause to ponder, or the serious investigators with their expensive equipment strategically placed to capture that which we can’t see or hear. The subjects encompassed in the total heading ‘paranormal’ are a growing interest to everyday folk globally. 

The paranormal genre is large, from spirits of the dead endlessly roaming in a never ending repetitive circle, dark powers of supposed evil spirits, to the pull of the Ouija board.

It enthrals all ages, from as young as ten to as old as one hundred,  crossing sex, age and race creating one of the few non-political topics that the whole of mankind has a universal relationship with often asking the common question, what happens to us after we die?

We’ve become hi-tech in our approach to determining the what, why’s and wherefores of this scientific enigma eventually one day hoping to solve the riddle that enchanted our Victorian ancestors and drove the Egyptian Pharaohs to spend most of their lives preparing for the afterlife.

Man has engaged himself in wanting to know if we return after our physical beam has been extinguished. Are we judged for our actions during the course of our lives, elevated to another plain of existence, or reincarnated starting again this never ending circle of life? 

These thought provoking questions and others like them have and will be asked probably for centuries to come, perhaps because all of us simply cannot fathom just not being anymore.   

But is it sensible for people to simply except rebirth or should we be looking more closely at unasked questions about the process of being reborn. A quick and simple look at one fact about mankind and these questions won’t seem as logical as we first thought.    

The earth today is the most populated it has ever been in its entire history, where have all these new souls come from? Meaning, if we do continue forever returning, ever increasing our numbers on this planet, what process manufactures new souls? Have they simply always been; forming a queue taking it in turns to come down to this earthly plain, waiting for their earth bound buddies to increase in mass to speed up the process? Is there some form of new soul production line keeping abreast of the worlds ever increasing populous?

Simply put, if today we are a species of six billion and in fifty years time we multiply to become nine billion, how are new souls created to fit the extra bodies?

Our soul (should one exist) is a piece of us that has no tangible form yet it is believed by many to be the one thing in us that cannot die, leaving our bodies at death to re-enter another at the point of birth.

My conscious mind doesn’t have the answers but I do believe that we come back; I choose to look at it in a very simple way. If five hundred years ago someone said to Henry VIII that one day man would walk on the moon, he would have been branded a lunatic or worse burnt at the stake. The concept was way beyond the thought process of the Tudors and that’s where we are today; rebirth is way beyond our comprehension firmly planted in realms of science fiction, but who knows for sure, we all do, because somewhere hidden in the depths of our subconscious minds are the memories of our formers selves.