Reincarnation is possible
Let me begin with a question: Is there anybody on this blog who believes in reincarnation?
First I would like to make clear what exactly reincarnation
means. This is a religious or philosophical theory that believes that the soul
or spirit after biological death can begin a new life in a new body. This
conception is in the centrum of the Indian religions buti t is also a common
belief of various ancient and modern religions.
And now I would like to share some really interesting facts
with you about reincarnation.
Pherhaps the strongest nad best documented evidence comes
from the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson who was a psychiatrist. He studied almost
3000 cases of children (most of them between four and ten years of age) who
were able to remember their previous life names and even the date they died and
details about the villages in which they previously lived. Stevenson also
noticed that some of the children revealed marks on claim their previous
personality had suffered at the time of their death. For example an eleven year
old Turkish boy recounted having been shot int he head and remarkably he was
born with a badly deformed right ear.
In the late 60’s there was a psychologist, Dr. Helen Wambach
who decided to compare the specific details od people’s past life with
sociologocal and archeological studies made of the cultures they mentioned. To
her surprise people frequently described architecture, clothing styles, even
mundane details such as types of footware and the methods used to cook their
food.
And there is also the Déja vu which is the strange sense
that one is repeating an experience they’re certain they’ve never had before.
To some people such experiences are considered evidence of a past life, some
memories that has somehow survived the rebirthing process.
And also phobias those unsual and often overwhelming
fellings of fear we sometimes have regarding things that usually do not
constitute danger to us. They are the results of some treuma or event from the
past (usually in childhood). But what if those phobias that seem to develop
without an accompanying trauma? It can be that for example a man afraid of
water may have drowned in a past life.
And last but not least what about child prodigies? A prodigy
is a child who possesses a special gift or talent. Good examples are the German
Amadeus Mozart who was able to compose simple arrangements of musical the age
of four and the 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal who managed to outline
a new geometric system by the age 11. Modern science attributes these rare
gifts to simple brain chemistry. But could it be that these special people
possess their remarkable ability because they have done it all before? Could
the child who shows a special gift for geometry have been a mathematics
professor in a previous lifetime or was Mozart able to accomplish his amazing
feats of music because, precisely as he claimed, he had been a musician many
times before?
It’s not known how much our past we might retain into our
present but it’s entirely possible that our past may be far more tied our
present than we can imagine.
