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My thoughts was from a comic a while back that each time you die you are reborn into someone else, any time, and place, the concept was that you are everyone else but without the memories of your previous yous. And the point was to learn and understand every view and everything.
The reason is because it made me more accepting and humble to others thinking there life is mine just born different with different circumstances.
"The Egg" is an interesting thought experiment and encourages empathy with others (much needed), however in my opinion it doesn't make sense as a religious belief in a few ways.
Primarily, what's the point? If "our" soul/spirit/essence doesn't remember our past lives, we aren't able to evolve humanity with the aggregated experiences and wisdom. The benefit implied by the story would be a grizzled singular soul with the experience of every human who ever existed... But to what end? Are we a training program for an advanced AI model created for the benefit of another dimension?
What about proto-humans such as neanderthals? Hominids and every mammal in preceding evolutionary chain? If anything, the egg would refer to the collective lives of every living creature to have ever existed. Even single-celled organisms? Alien life forms?
Third, you & I exist now, in parallel. I can't be you while also being me, unless the royal "we" is not a singular entity but rather a multi-threaded process feeding something one layer up. This might go back to the AI modeling concept, and perhaps "simulation theory".
If we are a simulation to train or experiment via advanced civic AI model, we individually are expendable iterations. Data points in a massive soup of existence, itself being one of a multitude of similar simulations.
Do what you can to improve the existence you reside in and those sharing it with you.
I know ~~where~~ I'm not in a simulation because of the shadow test, I learned that from the reading the Veritas.
Ok, ok, seriously, there's flaws with every religion or thoughts after death and all that, but I like this one even though it probably isn't true because it helps me remember to try to help others and be kind and know others have lived different then me and helps me remember to be sympathetic then judge people.
I remember a comic too, but the original story is The Egg by Andy Weir. https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
If there is a comic and someone finds it, please link it.
Edit: found a comic by voldult on Webtoons, but that isn't it. I remember a denser, darker style. Now I'm doubting my memory. Maybe I just read the story and imagined a comic based on the cover art?