Is reincarnation possible?

Question

First, you may have learned from physics that energy can't be created or be destroyed, and it can only be transferred from one place to another. Second, as most of us know, when one is asleep, time seems to pass very quickly. Once you fall asleep the next second when you wake up, many hours have passed. In extreme cases, when one is in a coma, a person may experience a lifetime in a matter of hours from the time the person become unconscious to when he/she awakes decades later. In theory, I think in religious term "a soul" is pure energy. It cannot be created or destroyed, but transferred from one place to another. When we die, the energy migrates from our body to another body where we establish conscious again. . During migration, the soul has no conscious because it doesn’t have any means to process and store information. It cannot process any of the five senses (touch, hear, see, smell, and taste). In this state, the soul is auto-piloting in total darkness. This migration may take years, decades, or even millions of years, but to the eye of the beholder, it's a matter of seconds.

Also, It can be said that the conscious is a lit light bulb, the cable is the body, and the battery is the soul. The light bulb lights up when the cable is wired and connect to a battery. The cable gets hot from running long hours and need to cool down. The battery reduces electricity output to let the cable and light bulb cool down while it recharges. If the cable is broken or deem unusable, you lose conscious completely that’s when you die. However, the battery and light bulbs remain intact waiting to be connected again. With time and randomization of events, the cable mends or a new cable comes along we establish conscious again.

Answer 1

While we can certainly measure with EKGs and EEGs the fields in the body, any theory that might connect organization to conciousness and joint transference of electro-concious energy fields into another corporal body would be pretty dramatic, indeed.

Evidence suggests..... Not.

Answer 2

Consider these facts:

1. Energy consists of two kinds: enthalpic and entropic. Enthalpic energy is useful energy in that work can be done or changes made. Entropic energy is useless energy in that neither change nor work can be effected.

2. The net overall energy table for the universe is positive entropic. This means that, although there are pockets of enthalpic energy created throughout the known universe, the net effect is that the universe is gaining an ever increasing percentage of useless entropic energy. The universe is running down like an unwinding spring. [See source.]

CONCLUSION: If "a soul is pure energy," as you claim, then souls are not eternal, as most major religions claim. Why? Because once the universe winds completely down, the souls will be no more, they will have run down too if they are energy.

Answer 3

Since everything is theoretically balled up into the same fabric, reincarnation is possible. Think of a "life" as a segmant of a larger thread in a huge cloth called space and time.

There is some evidence to suggest that reincarnation exists as a phenomena; however, there is no conclusive evidence to prove its existence. Its like De Ja Vu.

Any evidence that we have is at best anectodal or based on subjective case studies rather than objective studies.

However, many famous people have claimed to be reincarnated. Gen. George S. Patton was one of them. He thought he had lived many past lives, and recognized numerous ancient battlefields while pushing East through Europe to invade Germany in the last days of WWII. But he could have learned of those battlefields in earlier years and subconsciously retained "memories" of them. He was also a believer in the supernatural.

So its possible. But likely, who knows?

Answer 4

There has never been a measurement to show that a soul has energy if it exists. Also by your arguement, if energy (soul) cannot be created or destroyed, where have all the new ones come from. The population on earth is increasing. I think you're really reaching on this one.