Really, what if we are all coming back?

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of color blindness, wrote an article where she muses on the possible reality of reincarnation and karma, and what implications this might have for social and political life. She shares how the questions arose organically for her when she was young, though she eventually dismissed them and embraced a study of politics, and the use of thought experiments of prenatal awareness in constitutional design as they are developed by John Rawls in his famous Theory of Justice. In this episode the challenges of seriously considering the possibility of reincarnation and karma are touched on as well as contemplative research approaches developed by Rudolf Steiner, indicating one possibility of serious exploration in this direction.  

Alexander, Michelle. “Opinion | What If We’re All Coming Back?” The New York Times, October 29, 2018, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opinion/climate-change-politics-john-rawls.html

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. The New Press, 2012.

Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Steiner, Rudolf. Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man. Anthroposophic Press, 1988.

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