Reincarnation can be taken as either as metaphysical concept beyond the realms of scientific materialistic research or can be taken as a metaphor for something much more physical, reincarnation derives from the Latin; incarnation meaning a manifestation of the self and the prefix “re-” which shares meaning with words such as “recreation”, “reconstruction” and so on.

The concept of reincarnation could thus simply mean, living multiple lives in one life, what I mean by this is that everyday individuals make little conscience effort to construct their identity nor do they by their own volition control the way they flip between personalities during interactions with other entities. An individual who has the power to reincarnate would be able to consciously assume identities, wholly formed personalities whilst retaining an analytical detachment that allows him or her to switch between these personalities in different situations

Think of the advantages of waking up, analysing the day ahead and adopting and adapting the first personality for use in the coming day and then “reincarnating” throughout the day to cope with all manner of events.

The human brain is not however, just limited to cycling through personalities that are structures within the superstructure of ones unique mind, the human faculties are barely used and thus we are not limited, as a species, to constructing personalities that share commonalities or can be grouped under a general phenotype of personality – the supposed “I” of the individual. Individuals can indeed through research of individuals that have existed throughout history adopt the fullness of another individual or individuals complete mental idiosyncrasies.

A human can thus mimic and store the characteristics of several personalities by simply exploiting the mental capacity that is so disused amongst the species, through study, memorisation and practice a human can cycle through perhaps a dozen fully-formed personalities.

This leads to an individual being able to emulate any brilliant individual and equal his or her brilliance by adopting his or her frame-of-mind.

In summary, this process would in effect, be purposeful, conscious multiple personality disorder or dissociative personality disorder but with an effective and practical application through techniques variously described as imprinting or meta programming the mind.

Timothy Leary was a psychologist who understood the importance of this rewiring of the human mind, he wrote that people’s mind form “reality tunnels”; dogmatic views of reality that exclude data contrary to the presumptions of the reality-tunnel and accept the evidence or data that bolsters the reality-tunnel. Leary’s work shows that an individual is capable of forming his or her own reality-tunnels and this article is a mere suggestion that reincarnation may simply be an alternative, albeit archaic, term for rewriting ones reality-tunnel and building extensions and alternative reality-tunnels.