Your book says “your first kiss has an afterlife.” That it’s not just a memory that would die when your brain cells disintegrate in the grave.

It’s a poetic way of expressing that all memories exist non-locally as possibility waves until they’re actualised in the brain.

What did you have for dinner last night?

A salad.

As you’re thinking of that salad, you can simply imagine the taste and see yourself where you were having the salad, right?

Yes. If I went inside your brain, I wouldn’t find any neurons or synaptic networks that would code for that. Until I asked you that question, those memories did not exist in your brain. Now, as soon as I asked you the question, the possibility waves from past experiences localised as space-time events in your brain.

Where do we go after we die? Same place where that salad was before I asked you the question.

Obviously you talk about karma because that’s pretty crucial to the whole idea of reincarnation. Do you find karma scary, encouraging or something else?

Karma is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again. — Beliefnet.com