Do you believe reincarnation is true?

Question

From what my daughter has read it lends credit to it's being real.

Answer 1

Well, I am a muslim woman and generally don't believe it, but my husband and I are questioning that due to certain events concerning our 3 year old daughter. She knows things we did not teach her and she knows the exact names of places she's never been to. For example, on my phone that is new and she has never seen, there is a picture of what is supposed to be inside of a cave looking out at a blue sea. My daughter is in the "What is this?" phase asking that same question and quizzing me on what I taught her (LOL). My husband and I were checking out my phone and were playing this game with her. We asked her what it was, and her reply was "Caves". We looked at each other with incredulous looks, because there has never been talk of caves or pictures anywhere. She is not in daycare or school, just home with me and I never watch anything on TV about caves and stuff. My husband says to her "Honey, how did you know that?". I said "Yeah, how does she know that?". She, who is usually extremely talkative, just sat there quietly and smiled. Freaked me out, but she's still my daughter.

Answer 2

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 3

Reincarnation works with karma, the idea that your past lives "goodness" or "badness" affects the quality and position of your next incarnation. The purpose of reincarnation is to help you develop PERFECT karma by which you might then achieve a union with the divine consciousness after you have learned whatever it is you are supposed to learn. The PROBLEM is that each person had a first "incarnation". That means that each person then had perfect Karma since he had NO PREVIOUS LIFE and had done NOTHING WRONG. Therefore, if he had PERFECT Karma and didn't learn or do what he was supposed to in his first life, then what makes him think that after hundreds of incarnations with accumulated bad karma that he will be able to achieve the perfect state of union with the divine consciousness that reincarnation moves him toward? IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE !!!

Answer 4

Reincarnation is a truth ... If one book does not mention it, Truth does not become false...

Reincarnation is perhaps a wrong word used...hindus and Buddhists use Re-Birth instead.

Our soul starts its journey in chemicals...and after each awakening find itself in plants, animals and finally human beings.

As humans we have to learn millions of lessons of pains and joys, richness and poverties, cruelty and kindness, killing and be killed, ...till we reach our next mind evolution i.e. Divinity.

One life is not sufficient for all these lessons. hence our soul, after death goes to another body to learn other sets of lessons

The paradoxes as to why some are born rich some poor, some without mind or without limbs...some from poverty going to utter richness...some spiritual from childhood... can not be explained without Reincarnation

Dont ask proof, because no one can give proof of God or heaven/hell...there are certain things which are beyond physical proofs

Many during the hypnotic state have remembered their last birth.

Why we dont remember past birth? Because Nature does not want us to get entangled to our last relations...so that we can freely learn new lessons...that z why She takes away the gross memory at death..and leads soul to new body with the resultant progress earned during last births

Answer 5

There are many people who say, through deep meditation they have seen glimpses of their past live(s). It certainly seems much more plausible to me than the Islam/Christianity/Judaism perspectives of believe, with contrary proof against their beliefs, or an all loving creator will send you to Hell....

Answer 6

I think that each soul is unique, and eternal...souls live on forever. I think that we, as our souls, get to chose whether or not we want to come down here.

If interested, you could find out more details here in the link below.

http://www.gnosticallyspeaking.com/

Answer 7

There are 8'400.000 species of life in this planet. The spirit soul transmigrates throughout all of them until he reaches the human form of life. In the human form of life there are 400.000 species of human beings.

Answer 8

I'm still out on the subject, but of the various theories proposed, it seems the most likely to me.

Answer 9

No. No reliable evidence exists. Which is not surprising, extablishing any evidence as being reliable seems like a difficult proposition.

Answer 10

Yes, because I've had past life regression