I’ll go first. I’ll get straight to the point. Note that the idea came to me after reading a story called The Egg which you might have heard of, at least the inspiration. I don’t know if anyone has already came up with this.
The Belief System:
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Believe it to be true that each time you go to sleep, you wake up as a completely different sentient being or animal at random. Every time you wake up, you’re actually just waking up in this body after having slept in a different one previously, you just don’t remember it because bodies have brains which can retain only their own body’s information.
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There is no end to living, you will constantly be living from one being to another, every being to ever have existed, you’ve lived through their life one day at a time (before they sleep/die, whichever comes earlier) and then to another, and you will go back to living through their life.
What will this do?
This will enforce an awareness for actions which may harm others or any being. You’ll know that each time you cause suffering to any being, you’re the one who is going to suffer, sooner or later. This can be implemented regardless of religion. You wake up and you “know” you’re a xyz-ian (insert any religion in place of xyz) because the brain remembers the past. You cannot just let go your believes, you have to follow the normal life while being aware that you will wake up in a different body when you sleep tonight, so better make the most of today and cause no harm to other beings while doing everything you have to do in this body, as it remembers.
Feel free to add comment thoughts.