Really, bob? You don't see it? Chap dies. Chap comes back. The body talks, walks, moves its fingers. Would you call that resurrection or reincarnation. I think both labels work. guess the difference is how you see the body. Normally you would need a brand new one because most existing, workable ones are already occupied, and you want something more than temporary sharing eg via channelling or speaking in tongues. But your own recently dead body (not too badly decomposed yet) could do fine, especially if your consciousness is divine and knows how to fix your crucifixion wounds really fast. A lesser example of quick reincarnation / resurrection is found in chapter 1 of Sogyal Rinpoche's book the tibetan art of living and dying. Apart from that, many medically dead people do come back to inhabit their most recent bodies. These are called NDEs. Anyway, beyond the labels of the two R words, focus on the common idea that the same consciousness can inhabit a bodily mass, leave it, and then occupy a bodily mass again. And again.
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