My response after my Near Death Experience in 2019.

If we describe the afterlife as a state where time does not operate the way it does here, then the idea of “when” something happens becomes difficult—if not meaningless.

In our physical world, everything is measured along a timeline: before, during, and after. We ask when because events are separated by time. But in a timeless state, there is no sequence—no clock, no waiting, no passage from one moment to another. Instead, all experience exists in a kind of continuous present.

From that perspective, reincarnation wouldn’t occur “later” or “after a certain amount of time,” because there is no time passing in between. The transition would not be experienced as a delay or an interval. Rather, it would be more like a shift in state or awareness—immediate from the viewpoint of that timeless condition.

This is why trying to predict or guess when someone reincarnates doesn’t really apply. The question itself depends on time existing as we know it. If time isn’t part of that realm, then reincarnation isn’t scheduled, delayed, or measured—it simply is, outside of any timeline we can track or calculate.

Furthermore, they ask all the time, can we go to different times?

The question of whether we can live in another lifetime when we reincarnate assumes that time works the same way everywhere—but that may not be the case. If the afterlife exists outside of linear time, then there is no fixed sequence of past, present, and future as we understand it here.

In a timeless state, all points of time could be equally accessible rather than arranged in order. From that perspective, reincarnation wouldn’t necessarily move only “forward” into the future. It could be experienced as entering any point along the continuum—what we would call past, present, or future—because those distinctions depend on a timeline that may not exist there.

So it’s possible to imagine that a soul might return to what appears, from our viewpoint, to be an earlier era, a later one, or even a similar life pattern again. Not as repetition in the usual sense, but as revisiting or re-engaging different experiences that are all equally present outside of time.

Ultimately, though, this remains a philosophical interpretation. Without a shared framework or evidence, we can’t confirm direction, order, or “when”—only that if time truly doesn’t exist in that state, then reincarnation wouldn’t be bound by it.