The Flame of a Candle Is Never a Constant

"I'm going to discuss these matters, not by appealing to any special spooky knowledge as if I had been traveling on the higher planes and knew all my previous incarnations," he says. "But just what you have to realize is that life is a pattern of immense complexity and what you call yourself as a living organism say I am my whole body at the very least." He adds: "That body is recognizable and I recognize my friends when I meet them again with luck and you recognize me although the last time any of you saw me I was absolutely something entirely different from what I am now"