I believe, as do many others, that we reincarnate countless times along with the same extended group of soul actors.

I imagine that to affect each other’s past lifecycles and life lessons we had to spark matter into lives within roughly the same geographic community, and we had to physically meet to recognize the energy signatures of our kindred spirits and soulmates.

In the internet age, our soul groups get to experience and share with each other multiple cultures and distinctly different topographies due to the advent of social media, of which Medium is such a platform.

Makes sense that monks would make use of modern tech and if they face punishment, they should leave the order but still live true to the substance of the beliefs.