Most cultures and spiritual traditions embrace the idea of reincarnation, it was the corrupted Roman elites manipulation of Christianity to suppress that from Christian texts which led Western civilization to shift away from recognizing that our souls are incarnating for many human experiences and not just for the current lifetime in the identity we are immersed in. Then scientific materialism further rejected ideas related to spiritual existence, so both religion and science in Western societies have tended to deny reincarnation despite the evidence supporting it.
Whether we call it reincarnation as though a linear process or limitless simultaneous incarnations from a non-linear perspective is another matter. The way I conceive of it is that it is really God consciousness fragmented its energy and awareness to generate infinite creation and experiences. A soul is like a fragment of the Creator gathering its unique cluster of experiences as it role plays with other souls.
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: By Will Franks - August 1, 2022
: We live in amazing times. I never thought I would write this,
: but: we now have very good scientific evidence for human
: reincarnation as a natural fact of life. Yes, you can read
: that sentence again.
: This evidence mainly stems from the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson
: and his studies of children who can spontaneously remember
: very specific details of their former life. These details
: are then checked against the details of the former life
: being described (such as people, places and events), very
: often with uncanny agreement. So much agreement, in fact,
: that it really does seem that these people have lived as
: other people, and represent the rare cases in which this
: previous life-experience is readily accessible through
: memory.
: When a high percentage of these life-details are verified as
: correct, a link between two different human lives is
: suggested. Our task is then to do everything we can to
: explain this link within our existing paradigm — i.e. by
: finding a physical mechanism that might link these two
: lives, or revealing some way that these children are
: getting these details correct by accident, and actually
: they’re just spouting imaginary fantasies.
: But the thing is, Stevenson kept finding cases where there is
: agreement on a large number of life details: sometimes as
: many 25-30 correctly verified specific details such as
: people’s names, place names, life events, manner of death,
: geographical data, and so on.
: The likelihood of all of these details being correct by chance
: is astronomically, preposterously, small.
: Take this analogy: you attend a party and week later, you and
: I are having a conversation about it. After you’ve
: described a few details, I say “I was at that party!”. “No
: way!” you reply, “I didn’t see you there at all. Prove it —
: tell me what happened!”.
: Imagine that I then went on to describe that Mike (who was
: wearing his yellow shirt) was singing songs with Annie (an
: artist visiting from France) out in the garden, to
: celebrate Vishal’s birthday. Vishal was dancing with Anja
: and Rupert and they got on the table and sung “All Night
: Long” before Vishal made a speech about love and proposed
: to Sylvia, his fiancee. She said yes!
: Since you witnessed all these events yourself, then you would
: of course conclude that I was at the same party. With that
: level of detail, the only reasonable conclusion to draw
: would be that yes, I was indeed at the same party as you.
: You might suspect that I got the information some other
: way. But if I could also prove to you I was somewhere else
: at the time (e.g. with a picture of me in a restaurant that
: same evening), then surely your doubts would disappear.
: Now coming back to reincarnation: with this level of accuracy
: over several life details, it is unreasonable not to
: conclude that reincarnation is happening.
: Stevenson recounts the a particularly strong case of a child
: who “talked copiously about the life of a young schoolboy.
: He made several specific statements that ultimately checked
: out. He said he lived in a place called Balapitiya and
: traveled by train to a school in another town called
: Ambalangoda. He made comparisons between the families’
: property. He referred to an aunt, by name, who had cooked
: chilies for him. Perhaps the most astonishing thing was
: that when the two families met, the boy pointed to some
: [writing] in a wall that turned out to be the name of the
: deceased boy he was remembering. The subject said he had
: made that when the cement was wet.” (New York Times)
: Human reincarnation. Yes, it’s weird. Yes, it’s unexplainable.
: But it’s happening.
: The next question is how it is happening. And nobody has even
: come close to suggesting a physical mechanism that would
: explain such accurate and precise agreement between all
: these memories and verified life-details.
: If this was a one-off, we might let it slide as an anomaly.
: But Stevenson collected as many as 2500 cases of
: former-life remembrance in children, from different
: cultures all over the world.
: What are the chances of all these thousands of specific life
: details being correct by chance? To suggest that this is
: all just coincidence is a massive claim — you’d need a damn
: good explanation for why these all details are correct by
: chance.
: Stevenson scrupulously took many of the potential
: information-transfer mechanisms into account (such as
: suggestive parents who have already gathered information
: about the former life being described), but still, the
: evidence holds its own. Taking all these factors into
: account, and by identifying controlled cases where there is
: a verified lack of communication between a
: remembering-child’s parents and the former-life’s family,
: it becomes clear that something very unusual is going on
: here.
: To say it’s all coincidence actually demands that we concoct a
: far more elaborate (or downright vague) explanation for
: this phenomenon than the obvious and reasonable conclusion
: that is staring us in the face: that there is indeed some
: kind of non-physical mechanism that connects these children
: to the lifetime they are describing so precisely and
: accurately. This has huge implications, as we’ll see.
: First let’s address the question: why only some children? Why
: not everyone?
: Well, clearly the vast majority of people undergo a sort of
: “amnesia” before birth, where we forget our previous lives
: — perhaps in order to focus all our energies on the
: learning to be gained within this current life.
: Interestingly, a high percentage of children who remembered
: their former life, remembered one in which the means of
: dying was either violent or sudden. The trauma of this
: supposedly left a deep imprint on their psyche that
: survived even through their next birth, allowing these
: children to access former-life memories.
: I get it, you’re skeptical! Maybe you think I’ve finally lost
: the plot.
: Well: the *key reason* I’m writing this post is because of the
: incredible strength, quality and rigour of Dr. Stevenson’s
: research, analysis and reasoning (this paper is a good
: introduction).
: And, of course, because I want to share a discovery that
: doesn’t seem to be getting nearly enough attention. Because
: this is very very good news, if you ask me. As Christopher
: Bache writes, it means that we have an “unlimited amount of
: time”… an “open-ended number of lifetimes” with which to
: learn, grow and evolve.
: With reincarnation, “Nature has found a way of preserving and
: carrying forward the life experience of the individual. Now
: we see that our unique way of experiencing life, our
: singular individuality has emerged out of an ocean of time
: so vast as to be almost immeasurable and that it can
: continue to develop for as long again still. Death is but a
: pause that punctuates the seasons of our life, nothing
: more. This insight brings us to the threshold of a new
: understanding of human existence.” (Bache)
: Reincarnation might sound scary or spooky at first, but once
: you digest it, the sense of freedom and vastness this
: evidence brings can be totally life-changing. It can help
: us to find freedom from the “imprisonment of the
: one-timer’s worldview”.
: It’s also worth mentioning the secondary body of evidence that
: is the anecdotal accounts of very many living people who
: have done various forms of introspective work (such as deep
: meditation, psychedelic work, past-life regression
: hypnotherapy, or just spontaneous remembrance) and began to
: uncover memories of their former lives. Check out this
: heartwarming story for a good example. There’s a lot of
: these people about, but in our society nobody really
: believes them, and most keep quiet about it because the
: backlash and ridicule is so fierce. But to the naysayers, I
: would challenge you to consider how your life a worldview
: might change if you started to remember past lives.
: Ultimately no second-hand account is going to be more
: impactful than uncovering our own experiences of
: reincarnation. Through internet resources and guidance,
: such as guided past-life regression therapy, this
: possibility is now becoming available to a vast number of
: people.
: It’s worth asking: why is Stevenson’s evidence for
: reincarnation not more widely accepted in our society?
: Well, I think it is a difficult thing for us modern
: Westerners to digest because it challenges some core
: assumptions of our worldview. Assumptions like “death is
: the end”; “you only live once”; “my identity is defined by
: this lifetime, this body, this person I currently am”;
: “without the body, there can’t be a mind”.
: But what if all of these assumptions simply aren’t true?
: Evidence for reincarnation has the power to completely
: overturn our “materialist” worldview which takes matter to
: be primary (and mind/consciousness to be some accident that
: bubbles up out of matter when it gets complex and
: intelligent enough). It suggests that some essential part
: of ourselves is not bound by matter; that the mind is not
: reducible to the brain; that reality is indeed more
: multidimensional than the four-dimensional space-time that
: we can see and touch (where do we “go” between our embodied
: lives?) . . .
: [SNIP]