I hatched an intriguing idea yesterday, a residual thought from a chat on a lorry ride, a probing question from someone and an hour long discussion at my friend’s office. Since this friend of mine refers to me as Woony, I shall call him Balloony (you see, he has the tendency of “deflating” as the clock strikes 12 midnight).

The general gist if the idea revolved around the origins of the thing we know as memory, which can then be spliced up into the conscious collection, and the subconscious sea that resides within.

The conscious memory is the Memory we refer to in our daily lives, and it probably started accumulating when we came in touch with what we know as language, but to be more precise, any form of communication that tags a constant expression to a constant perception.

The subconscious memory is, however, more interesting. This sea of memory does not just reside in our mind, or at least this is how my theory goes. It in fact resides in every single cell / spec of energy that we are made of.

Science tells us that we are, like all else, made up mostly of space, and partially of electrons, protons and neutrons. Ancients tell us the nature of energies can be broadly classified into 5 types (or what the Chinese call Wu3 Xing2). Cosmic studies further tell us the ever changing effects of electro-magnetic fields on our planet earth, as the cosmos revolve in their pattern of eternity.

Astrology, the more accurate text of it, reveals the nature of people born to certain dates and years, based on the corresponding patterns of the sun and the moon, the 2 cosmic bodies from which a large majority of our electro-magnetic interference is experienced.

Putting all this together, I have concluded (of course only on personal opinion), that all claims of singular past lives are groundless, and that we do not have only 1 past life (as most may like the grand but morbid suggestion of being Genghis Khan or Hitler on their pre-incarnation).

In fact, going by the biological chain that runs our ecosystem, we reproduce by feeding on what is provided; flesh from other animals, which feed on plants and plants on soil. We die, become the soil and the cycle continues.

If I were to claim (as proven in the scientific findings of muscle memory), that every cell has a memory of its own, it would mean we are made up of many different cells, collected from what we consumed in life, and what our parents consumed before that. So, we have millions, possibly billions of a past life.

Understanding the cosmic electromagnetic interference from the sun and the moon, how it affects our mating cycles, appetite and so on, ancient astrologers probably found a way to piece all this together into a roughly dependable system of prediction for one’s subconscious memory.

Unfortunately, astrology is often only as far as 70% correct. This simply means, that we do not currently have the means to decipher the remaining 30% of cosmic interference, that may be exerted upon us beyond our tiny solar system.

While this may all seem pretty interesting at first, I personally find it quite disturbing to have my life pre-determined to such an extent before I even live it out. The next question, one unanswered throughout humanity, is the question of whether we truly have a choice.

On a side note, my Balloony friend has commented that I bear a semblance to the DoTA character – Roshan. I have thus attached a picture of Roshan below.