Save It For Later

This Idea is for any Religion that promotes reincarnation. It is also thoroughly half-baked, as you will quickly notice.

Basically, in reincarnation philosophy, your soul will eventually acquire a new baby body, and you will grow up not knowing anything about a previous life. For believers, though, deep hypnosis supposedly can bring up past-life information. And occasionally there are reports of young children claiming to remember stuff that turns out to be verifiable.

Well, what of the stuff you accumulated in your most recent past life? If you knew you were likely to be born again, wouldn't you like to claim it, instead of having to collect it from scratch all over again? I'm talking mostly about stuff that has sentimental value, not the kind of stuff that the typical grave-robber would be interested in. Your journal or diary, for example. Maybe a collection of books or magazines. Favorite toys.

So, as you approach the end of the present life, instead of buying a plot of land to hold a worthless corpse, you plan on burying a time capsule there, instead. Well-sealed against deterioration of its contents, of course.

Later, after being reborn, and learning who you used to be, all you need to do is prove it enough that you can then claim ownership of the time capsule's contents. That's the Half-Baked part of this Idea, of course!