In ’100 Girls’ by Adam Gallardo and Todd Demong, a girl discovers herself to be a genetically cloned person engineered by the government in secret, with 99 others who look like her, but have different characters and supernormal powers. She escapes from the authorities and seeks to rescue all her other ‘sisters’ in captivity. She discovers that she had the ability to meld the girls she hold to share her one body, while ‘sharing’ their consciousnesses and powers. She thus becomes an increasingly super smart and strong being.
Sounds incredible so far? Here’s the link to the Dharma. If we have not changed much spiritually for the better since our past lives, our past and present ‘selves’ would karmically manifest to be near identical clones. This would not be due to any external conspiracy – it would be our own fault – even if we’re unaware of it. But realistically, we should have changed to some extent. There would be differences in character, even if they are but minute ones.
If one is the cumulative sum of one’s collective wisdom from his or her past lives, one would be a superbly powerful being by now. One woud be a Buddha. The bad news is, one is not just the sum of one’s karmic strengths now; one is also the sum of one’s karmic weaknesses. Also, one’s strengths gathered from the past might not be substantial now. Due to changes in karma and lack of habitual conditioning and perfecting, some strengths peter away in time. Steady spiritual cultivation is the continual process of training and gathering in strengths in terms of compassion and wisdom, which would depower opposing weaknesses and keep them at bay. Only when the critical mass of adequate compassion and wisdom is attained do we become truly super beings greater than the sum of our purified ‘parts’ – Buddhas!
