Phillip K Dick reincarnated?

[Eddi]

I have come to believe that I may be the reincarnation of the author Phillip K Dick. Consider the following:

When choosing my pen-name I chose “K” as an initial to go between my first name and my surname before I had ever heard of PKD (I chose to do this to honour my grandmother whose initial was K and because I think it is the most dynamic letter of the alphabet)

PKD was interested in what we could call Simulation Theory and in higher beings - as am I

PKD was interested in psychoactive drugs and their impact on mental states and spirituality - as am I

PKD enjoyed writing and so do I, although PKD is obviously a more accomplished writer than I am

Reincarnation was a theme in his last ever completed novel (which I have got but have not yet read) and also in one of his earlier short stories

And get this: He died 11 months before I was born.

I’m not saying I am his reincarnation but I do think a case could be made.

Personally, I'm keeping an open mind about it being a possibility. But I'm not really serious about it, I just think it's interesting so thought I'd share, that's all.

 

[Earthling]

Did the butterfly tell you this? He's always getting you into trouble, isn't he? Always searching for some spectacular phenomenon. Why not just be yourself.

 

[Eddi]

Did the butterfly tell you this? He's always getting you into trouble, isn't he?

No, he didn't. I noticed it myself.

And Butterfly is not the boss of me.

 

[Vinayaka]

It is quite common to look for similarities in personality when looking into past lives. But this is more a new-age or western thing. It focuses on personalty as the essence of being. Similarly, gender often doesn't switch, when this is the POV, or reference frame.

In dharmic paths, often the opposite is true. It's the soul that reincarnates, not the personality. There are karmas, and experiences that the soul has to go through and using this as an example, most likely that soul has now experienced what it's like to be an author, and has now moved on to something else. So a more typical pattern would be far more random. One might be rich, then poor, then an intellectual, then a business person, then a beggar, and so on, with genders basically being 50-50 as with gender on the planet. In the grand scheme of things, dharmics look at many lifetimes put together, as the maturation of the soul.

 

[Twilight Hue]

There's always cosplay.

 

[Falvlun]

I have come to believe that I may be the reincarnation of the author Phillip K Dick. Consider the following:

When choosing my pen-name I chose “K” as an initial to go between my first name and my surname before I had ever heard of PKD (I chose to do this to honour my grandmother whose initial was K and because I think it is the most dynamic letter of the alphabet)

PKD was interested in what we could call Simulation Theory and in higher beings - as am I

PKD was interested in psychoactive drugs and their impact on mental states and spirituality - as am I

PKD enjoyed writing and so do I, although PKD is obviously a more accomplished writer than I am

Reincarnation was a theme in his last ever completed novel (which I have got but have not yet read) and also in one of his earlier short stories

And get this: He died 11 months before I was born.

I’m not saying I am his reincarnation but I do think a case could be made.

Personally, I'm keeping an open mind about it being a possibility. But I'm not really serious about it, I just think it's interesting so thought I'd share, that's all.

Personally, I would hope if reincarnation were true, that our lives would differ from life to life. Otherwise, what would be the point of living the same life over and over gain?

But I think it can be cool to find similarities between us and people we admire, without needing to be literally the same person.

 

[HonestJoe]

I’m not saying I am his reincarnation but I do think a case could be made.

Not unless you can establish a viable mechanism by which it could happen. It’s all very well talking about a couple of coincidences between you and someone who died before you were born but that doesn’t really relate to the actual process you allude to. We could make up any number of mythical ways to explain those connections so for reincarnation to be the proposed explanation, you’d need to establish a specific hypothesis and the evidence to directly support it.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Did the butterfly tell you this? He's always getting you into trouble, isn't he? Always searching for some spectacular phenomenon. Why not just be yourself.

 

[Eddi]

Not unless you can establish a viable mechanism by which it could happen

When I wrote the OP it was under the assumption that there is indeed a viable mechanism by which it could happen

I believe that there is, but obviously I cannot prove it

 

[HonestJoe]

When I wrote the OP it was under the assumption that there is indeed a viable mechanism by which it could happen

OK, but if a case is to be made for it to actually be true (which is what you asked), you'd need to establish what that mechanism is. You're free to try to make a case and you're free to assume, you just can't do both at the same time.