Should You Plan for Your Next Incarnation?

If the being making these choices is the previous human personality (in the between lives state), then it must be severely dazed and confused, or distorted, in order to make some of the choices that are so numerously observed in the population. Of course, the previous human personality has no knowledge of things like hidden genetic defects in a fetus, so those sorts of cases might be ascribed to ignorance.

If we accept that reincarnation occurs, repeatedly (rather than just first life followed by second life), then the being in the between-life stage would presumably consist of ALL of the previous personalities - perhaps dozens or thousands of them. Or equally, of none of them.

However, data from NDE accounts often shows that the person during the experience rapidly loses any interest in the body or worldly attachments of the body they just left. This is something which is hard to grasp, but I think it is an important key to making sense of these ideas.

For example during an NDE a person describes their thinking as clearer and faster than usual, the experience itself as 'realer than real' - as though they just woke from a dream. The idea that the person is "severely dazed and confused, or distorted" is in direct contradiction with the evidence, which shows them thinking clearly, and having access to knowledge so things are understood.

If anyone is "severely dazed and confused, or distorted", I'd suggest it is us, all of us (with perhaps a few exceptions). It is humanity itself which seems dazed and confused.

I tend to consider this world as like a theatre, where we all play a role. But we are not the role, any more than an actor becomes any of the parts he/she plays on stage. When the play is over, the actor has an independent existence, not taking their stage persona home with them.