QUESTIONS CONCERNING MY NOVEL - PART THREE

3. Why do souls forget everything when they become incarnate?


• If they remembered, they would know that one day or another they’d return, they’d feel homesick, like people who believe in heaven, I guess, but it wouldn’t be as painful as not knowing at all.

• They would feel exiled and constantly yearn to return to heaven… But that doesn’t explain why souls must be stripped of all their powers and of all their memories in the first place.

• Some theologians explain this by saying that souls never completely forget. They dimly remember the lost paradise and long to return to their divine source. If they remembered that whatever terrible trial they must face, that in the end they will go back into the light, they would not feel lost and helpless and the whole process would be quite pointless. It is by overcoming adversity that the souls evolve.’

• The fact of the matter is that souls are already perfect. They don’t need to evolve.’

• Other religious people say: It was meant to be. Like everything else, it was part of His grand design.’

4. ‘Why did God choose to incarnate the souls in Humankind? Why not in other species? As far as I know, it didn’t make us any wiser.’

• ‘Perhaps the other species do not need a soul to be wise.’

• ‘Or perhaps it’s the souls that drive us mad.’