Are we supposed to reincarnate without remembering? Are we supposed to be born into this world not remembering anything about God, about ourselves, about right and wrong, about justice, about any of the rules of how life works?

Reincarnating without remembering just leaves us trying the same wrong life experiments again and again. This is the picture we are getting from modern Past-Life Regression research ; people just keep making the same mistakes again and again, often with the same partners. This is pure insanity in the most literal sense - one of the best definitions of insanity is a person who keeps trying the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. When a person does this within a span of one lifetime, we lock him up in the nuthouse. But when we find that we are all doing this from life to life to life, we sigh and say, "Oh, I'm sure that's how God meant it to be".

I don't think so. Reincarnating without memory doesn't work. It doesn't make sense logically, and according to the reports from PLR research, it doesn't work in any practical way, either. It just doesn't seem to have any of the earmarks of having been designed by any intelligent "Universal Consciousness" (unless, of course, one assumes that this "Universal Consciousness" actually had the intention of PREVENTING us from achieving any significant progress).

It is a colossal waste of time doing it all over and over again. The early Christian Gnostics taught this - that people reincarnate, but all for naught - we are not, as New-Agers prefer to believe, evolving spiritually through reincarnation.

This comes from the mistaken and unfounded assumption that the system, as it is now, is the way it was designed to be, that everything is working properly. The JudeoChristian tradition violently disagrees with this belief, reminding us of a long-ago "Fall" of man, after which the original divine nature of the order of things was disrupted and damaged.

In short, the system is now broken.

If it is broken, then we could indeed be reincarnating over and over again, getting nowhere, like a dumb animal, as the early Christians taught:

Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the Father is like

a certain woman who was carrying a jar full of meal.

While she was walking on a road,

still some distance from home,

the handle of the jar broke

and the meal emptied out behind her on the road.

She did not realize it;

she had noticed no accident.

When she reached her house,

she set down the jar and found it empty."

- The Gospel of Thomas

An ass which turns a millstone did a hundred miles walking.

When it was loosed it found that it was still in the same place.

There are men who make many journeys [lifetimes],

but make no progress towards a destination.

When evening [death] came upon them,

they saw neither city nor village,

neither creation nor nature,

power nor angel

[they were in the isolation of the soul's afterlife].

In vain have the poor wretches

labored.

- The Gospel of Philip