Nature and Sentience - Why is SETI not receiving signals?

My latest recreation. I had made a previous cruder version, this one is a little more fleshed out. the intro:

For years, SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - has scoured the heavens for signals to no avail. Surprising, because by all accounts they ought to be abundant in our galaxy. The author, looking to the Force of Nature as his guide, suggests a chilling alternative.

A Culpable Universe?

A thought occurred to me.
Imagine if the concept of future and past is an illusion, that life is a parallel event.
By this means, in our cycle of life and death we are reincarnated at the beginning of our time-cycle; you become everyone you have ever touched deeply and must feel the interaction upon those lives upon which you left an impression, for better or worse.
Thus, you are born to become your best friend, or lover. The torturer becomes there tortured. Whatever the actions, we must live the lives of those we have interacted with.