What if? Nothing was ever created or destroyed because the nature of existence is simply existence. What is manifested is only an endless cascade of dreams in dreams. There is no objective history, or evolution of man, nature, or the universe. Every story we tell ourselves is written in the dynamic scenario of human experience to give us a certain context of our experience. Experiencing in existence takes place through mutual relations. There is an infinite, multidimensional chain of relative relations. You will not fully experience your role without completely losing yourself in it. You will not look at the world through the eyes of a medieval farmer, remembering ChatGPT, space flights, the LHC, etc. You assume that the previous experience of human life was in the so-called past as people understand it. Your previous incarnation could have been on a very advanced planet, where beautiful people live in harmony with the cosmos, pursue their beautiful passions, and even master sub-reincarnation - transfer to another body within this peculiar paradise. Do you realize what resistance you would have to incarnate on Earth A.D. 2024? The same as now, when you think your next incarnation will be in the backward Middle Ages. Remembering "previous", often very different experiences from the current one, while believing in the absolutism of the current ones would be torture for most. If you are playing the role of the Godfather, mixing it with the adventures of Bridget Jones makes little sense, because "being macho" simply won't work. You may not always incarnate as human, or have human experience. As a human, you don't know how capacious human experience is, have no clue what infinity of existence really means, and in general, know very very little, almost nothing. The human scene is not the only one, nor is it the most important. Nothing is more or less. The whole existence is nothing more than a mega-theatre with an infinite number of stages, on which an infinite number of plays are performed so that you don't get bored because being eternal perfection for the sake of being is simply boring and pointless. You happened to choose this scene called Earth 2024 (enter your country, city, and family) and of course, you deliberately forgot what you are because otherwise acting in this play would make no sense. Just as we give awards to actors who can completely lose themselves in the character they are playing, you do the same. Some stories and novels are very long and extend over many years or even eras. Let's take Tolkien as an example. The same applies to our so-called earthly fates. Do we have any Tolkien fans here? Your attempt to understand what is happening without a real (not conceptual) reminder of what you are, however, included in your script, is simply doomed to failure. Seeing through closed eyes, levitation, and moving so-called matter with the help of intention alone is possible. Imagine that you are acting out a scene in which you are a conscious stone. Like in the movie "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once". Come on, stimulate your imagination! You put on a cardboard disguise and hold a still dialogue with another actor. You forget that you are a human being and you really can't move even a millimeter. Forget about jumping. But it's enough to simply remind yourself what/who you are, which is for certain reasons utterly hard. Duality extends much further than you think, far beyond this tiny, "material" dimension. It's all true. Relatively.  As Pablo Picasso said: "Everything you can imagine is real". one, not so big "if" PS In this act of our play, we approach quite close to a little bigger picture from many directions: