I came across a website that seems to have put everything together and solved many questions about why humans are such an insane and weird race of beings and also deals with the reincrnation of souls for many cycles until a person realizes this and works to achieve full consciousness in order to break that cycle that began in the Garden of Eden in the so-called "Fall from Grace" and it also shows how this is a very recent event that did not happen before the fall from grace. Before then, humans were not chaotic and their soul and spirit were one. It's a very fascinating website with a tremendous amount of information and uses many sources from many old religions and schools of thought.
http://www.divisiontheory.com/
Some material may be difficult to understand. I'll point out some highlights.
For the last five or six thousand years, then, our minds have basically been getting ripped to shreds every time we die. The conscious portion of the mind has been disengaging from its unconscious half, and each crippled portion has then gone on separately into the "next world". What actually happens is that the conscious loses its memory and eventually reincarnates, while the unconscious becomes trapped in its memories and feelings from the past, and unwittingly creates an imaginary heaven or hell dreamworld for itself out of those feelings and memories, a perpetual dream (or nightmare) it can never awaken from on its own. In the next world, these two cursed, crippled disembodied fragments of what was once a whole human being each experience a cruelly distorted reality, and they seem to be responsible for most of the reports we hear about ghosts and poltergeists, and maybe mankind's legends of zombies and vampires as well. In recent years, reports of near-death experiences and past-life regressions have documented numerous cases in which subjects reported experiencing their minds dividing in two during the death transition. Numerous modern psychics and mystics like Edgar Cayce, Immanuel Swedenborg, and Rudolf Steiner have reported this soul-division, and dozens of ancient religions all around the world once based their entire theological systems around this same premise.
The Binary Soul Doctrine is probably as close as the human race has ever come to having a single world religion. Thousands of years ago, people all across the globe believed much the same thing about what happened after death - that human beings possess not one, but two souls, which were in danger of dividing apart from one another when a person died. After leaving the physical body, one of these souls was often expected to reincarnate, while the other was believed to become trapped in a dreamlike netherworld. Some of these cultures believed that the afterdeath division of these two souls could be prevented or reversed, while others saw the division as being inevitable and permanent.
For millennia, mankind essentially seemed trapped, doomed to remain stuck in this repeating cycle of self-destruction with no practical way out. Lifetime after lifetime, most of us would divide again and again, repeatedly losing everything we work so hard for in each life (the reincarantion process). While most new generations contained a rare few individuals who pursued a life of enough authenticity, integrity, and psychological health to enable them to "keep it together" during the death transition, the vast majority of humanity's masses were just going through the same futile motions lifetime after lifetime, never making any progress towards resolving our dilemma. In effect, we were trapped, and needed a hero to rescue us.
Dozens of recently unearthed lost early Christian scriptures (such as the Gospel of Thomas) suggest that this may have been the true problem Jesus Christ came to address and resolve. But if so, His solution won't be fully effected until the arrival of the prophesied Judgment Day events.
Now I don't know about you, but this brings a whole new meaning to the term "being saved"
This is powerful information because I belive it explains the very reason why humans are so defunct and schizophrenic.
Judgement Day, then, is the "Great and Terrible Day of the Lord". "Great" because our dead will rise and we will regain everything we thought we'd lost forever, including full knowledge of all our past identities, memories, histories, talents, skills, and wisdom. "Terrible" for the very same reason : because our dead will rise, and we will finally have to confront and acknowledge the fruit of our own actions. We will recall with our own minds, and feel with our own hearts, the karma that played continually and torturously out from one life to the next over thousands of years, inflicting payment of each life's sins on the incarnations that followed. "Terrible" too because many of our reawakened dead will be re-awakening from (their dreams of) hell, and will not be unaffected by the experience. And as the separate minds of all our past-life incarnations slowly integrate together, their experience in hell will become our own.