[TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation

[Samuel Weiss]

Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

>I believe that the story was "Last Enemy", and while reincarnation was
accepted as scientific fact in the Second Level Akor-Neb civilization,
Hadron Dalla (as Dallona of Hadron) developed a machine (and
pharmaceutical treatments) to assist in allowing a person to RETAIN
past-life memories, which previously could only be recorded while in a
trance state, and were not always that detailed.

Reincarnation was a major factor in the political scene, where the two
major parties were the Volitionalists, who believed that you chose who
you would reincarnate as, and the Statisticalists, who believed that the
discorporate individuality was in something analogous to a somnolescent state, and was irresistibly drawn to the nearest about-to-be-born infant, and would have to reincarnate in that infant only.
Dalla/Dallona's experiments showed inarguably that the Volitionalists
were correct, and that led almost immediately to a civil war along
reincarnational-political lines, in part catalyzed by the reincarnation
event described above.<

Yep, that's the one.
It has obviously been way too long since I last reread those stories. Time to dig them out for another survey.


Sam