Contemporary psychology assumes that personality and behavior are products of genetics, environment, and the brain’s neural wiring. The common belief is: “You’re born with a fresh brain — no imprint, no carryover from before that.”
This thesis challenges that assumption.
I present my case as evidence for cross-lifetime psychological continuity — where cognitive structure, emotional patterns, and behavioral tendencies persist beyond death.
Here’s why:
The Current-Life pattern
My psychological framework today is not a match for my current-life environment — instead, it is a perfect match for my past-life experience.
Core Traits
- Ultra-High pattern recognition — I constantly scan for systems, structures, and sequences.
- Long-term planning and systemic thinking — I build and refine polished systems with stability in mind1.
- Order out of chaos — I’m compelled to impose structure where randomness exists, yet I accept that entropy is inevitable.
- Minimization of preventable failure — if a system can be corrected, I correct it. If something can be optimized, I pursue it until all options are exhausted.
- Avoidance of unnecessary resets — I will always attempt to stabilize and recover before scrapping a process entirely.
- Cognitive stamina — if a goal is meaningful to me, I will persist through extreme complexity and effort until it is achieved.
The Past-Life Environment
In my prior-life as a WWII B-17 ball turret gunner, these traits were direct survival mechanisms.
Without:
- constant vigilance
- precise pattern recognition
- flawless system control
- endurance under pressure
…my crew and I would not have survived even a single mission. In my case, the role and the trauma of air combat imprinted cognitive and emotional patterns that stayed with me after death.
Conclusion
If psychology ends at the brain, this pattern would be impossible. My current-life upbringing and environment do not explain the extreme focus, structural thinking, and risk-optimization mindset I live with today.
But if psychology is persistent at the soul level, the model changes. Personality and behavior aren’t wiped clean at death — they continue, adapt, and evolve across lifetimes.
This suggests a different role of the brain compared to what contemporary psychology assumes: not as the sole origin of consciousness, but as an interface for processing soul-level memory and cognition.
If this is true, the brain is just part of what makes up consciousness.
Footnotes
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As a Rust programmer, that is a very good trait to have. ↩