However, she also believes in literal reincarnation, planes of consciousness and so on. I asked her which interpretation of reincarnation she believed in, the literal or the esoteric. She didn't have any idea what I was talking about. I said that consciousness was a part of the body, and therefore could not be separated from it. She almost choked.
Interpretations can be either true or false.
And if an interpretation is false, then it is not really an interpretation at all, but a false construct. However, modern man has banished true and false from his vocabulary. All he is interested in is his interpretation, which of course can never be wrong. Their interpretation really means imagination . To them, imagination is everything, their all.