Christopher Bache: Deep Time and the Birth of the Diamond Soul

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Explore the mysteries of reincarnation, life between lives, and the evolution of the soul with author and philosopher Christopher Bache.

What if your life is just one chapter in a much greater story—one that spans lifetimes, centuries, and the very fabric of the cosmos? In this new episode of our special series on reincarnation, host Tami Simon welcomes philosopher and author Christopher Bache for a mind-expanding conversation on reincarnation, deep time, and what he calls "the diamond soul."

Bache shares his personal journey through psychedelic exploration and academic research, revealing how these experiences have shaped his understanding of the soul’s evolution. Together, they discuss how embracing the possibility of reincarnation can transform our relationship to suffering, purpose, and each other.

Highlights:

The scientific and spiritual evidence for reincarnation
The concept of “deep time” and multidimensional existence
Soul companions that transmigrate together across lifetimes
Why does the Universe need our life experiences (and suffering)?
The birth of the diamond soul, and much more

Note: This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com

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0:00.0	The Sounds True Podcast Network.
0:06.6	My worldview is that reincarnation is a simple fact of life,
0:10.9	and it leads to an accumulation of development of our lifetimes incarnation by incarnation,
0:16.3	but it also leads to an accumulation at the level of soul.
0:40.3	Yeah. but it also leads to an accumulation at the level of soul. Welcome friends to this special series from Sounds True once more, exploring reincarnation and the gap between lives. In this episode, my guest is Christopher Bache, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy
0:47.6	and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, where he taught for more than three
0:53.4	decades. He's also the author of several
0:57.6	influential books. They've been influential in my life and in the lives of many spiritual
1:04.2	explorers, including a book called Life Cycles, Reincarnation, and the Web of Life.
1:11.6	It's a book described as one of the most intelligent and broad-ranging discussions of reincarnation ever encountered.
1:20.6	He's also the author of the book LSD and the Mind of the Universe, a book in which Chris chronicles a 20-year exploration of the
1:32.4	structure of the cosmos through his engagement in more than 70 high-d-d sessions.
1:41.7	Friends, stay with us. Chris, welcome. Hi, Tammy. Very glad to be here with you. I'm so excited to
1:58.1	have this conversation with you. Really, I'm kind of jumping out of my skin,
2:02.2	so to speak. Here's where I want to start. You write reincarnation is an idea that's hard to see
2:09.8	at first, but once seen, it changes everything. And I want to break this down a little bit.
2:18.3	Hard to see it first.
2:19.8	What allowed you to see it at first?
2:24.5	Ian Stevenson's research was at the University of Virginia.
2:27.6	He's considered the Charles Darwin of reincarnation thought.
2:33.6	His research, oh, about 11 books published documenting in detail studies, children from around the world who have spontaneous memories of their previous lives.
2:46.1	And he was able to get to them, document their memories, verify their memories, or falsify, and
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