does anyone out there believe in reincarnation?

Answer 1

The Hindus invented the term reincarnation as a means to control others.Those Brahmins wanted to safe guard their luxurious way of life and make sure the lower caste people do not revolt. So they came up with this ingenious way to put them in their prespective. It's all about making their surbodinate believe in merit system within their own caste. They were told to work their **** off to gain merits in this life so that they will be born to a higher lever being the next life, but not in this lifetime......how sad!

Answer 2

The idea of reincarnation as per certain cultural beliefs means that if you were living on earth as a good louse and you did not bite polititians for example,and later you died you would be rewarded to come back to life again . In this case you may come back as a elephant or even a Human as president of a country. These are beliefs =not proofs.
The more undeserve you were in life the more karmah you would bear in the reincarnated life.Whether you are a fish frog or fly.But the nicest is still a cat.
This whole theory is basically what evolution is all about.

Answer 3

Greetings in Love

To believe in reincarnation is a great belief if accompanied with the law of karma.

It will stop one from committing offensive activities to others and to his own self, his own body.

It will encourage him to do the best in this life to become better in the other.

It will give hope, make the mind focus on positive thoughts thus help one to endure hardships.

All believers believe in reincarnations. Some believe reincarnation in this world and some in the other world. The other world, for example, is the christian heaven and hell.

Peace.

Answer 4

Good question. I am on the fence with this one. Perhaps reincarnation is simply that we decompose and through our decomposition life comes forth. Flowers, trees, we contribute to the earths makeup. I dont know. I do know that until I was around twenty on many occassions my parents and I would go to foriegn places that I had never been to I would say to my parents around the corner there is this yellow house and low and behold there would be a yellow house. I also would dream of people dying on occassion and the phone would ring and someone in the family had died. That passed when I hit around twenty. Is that a sign of reincarnation. I honestly do not know. But you asked a good question

Answer 5

I do, it is more logical than not believing in it. It explains the vast discrepancies in human development. Humanity looks like one of those anthropology charts, you know, the ones with Australopithecus on the left and so-called Modern Man on the right? And all the stages in between?: Bronze Man, Cro-Magnum Man, etc. Some people will kill you if you even look at them, while others are devoting their lives to serving humanity. Or why some children can barely talk at 8 while some others are writing symphonies at 3. Nurture? Genetics? Not likely. Most human brains are pretty much the same if you dissect them and examine them for number of brain cells, weight, volume, etc.

Answer 6

Life Comes From Life

Changing Bodies

Dr. Singh. People want more proof.
Srila Prabhupada. What more is required? The eternality of the soul is a simple fact. I am an eternal soul. My body is changing, but I am not changing. For example, I am now an old man. Sometimes I think, "Oh, I used to jump and play, but now I cannot jump because my body has changed." I want to jump, but I cannot do it. That jumping propensity is eternal, but because of my old body I cannot do it.
Dr. Singh. Opponents will say that according to their observation, the nature of consciousness is that it lasts for only one body.
Srila Prabhupada. That is foolishness. In Bhagavad-gita (2.13) Krsna explains:

dehino 'smin yatha dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." Just as this body is always changing (as I can see in my daily experience), there is a similar change at the time of death.
Dr. Singh. But according to the scientists, we cannot actually observe this last change.
Srila Prabhupada. Their eyes are so imperfect that they cannot observe many, many things. Their ignorance does not make the Bhagavad-gita unscientific. Why don't the scientists admit the imperfection of their senses? They must first admit the imperfection of their senses. Their seeing power does not determine what is and what is not science. Dogs cannot understand the laws of nature. Does that mean the laws of nature don't exist?
Dr. Singh. Well, the scientists admit that argument, but they say the way to become perfect is through objective information and experience.
Srila Prabhupada. No. That is not the way to become perfect. No one can become perfect through imperfect thinking, and our thinking must be imperfect because our senses and minds are imperfect.
Dr. Singh. Srila Prabhupada, another question can be raised. is it not possible that the soul may accept three, four or five bodies and then die?
Srila Prabhupada. You are accepting millions of bodies. I say that your body of yesterday is not your body of today. So, if you live for one hundred years, how many times have you changed bodies? Just calculate.
Dr. Singh. Thirteen.
Srila Prabhupada. Why thirteen?
Dr. Singh. Medical science says that all the bodily cells are replaced every seven years.
Srila Prabhupada. No, not every seven years--every second. Every second, the blood corpuscles are changing. Is it not so?
Dr. Singh. Yes.
Srila Prabhupada. And as soon as the blood corpuscles change, you change your body.
Dr. Singh. In scientific terminology, can the eternality of the soul be compared to conservation of energy?
Srila Prabhupada. There is no question of the conservation of energy, because energy is always existing.
Dr. Singh. But according to scientific terminology, the law of conservation of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, which means, I think, that it is eternal.
Srila Prabhupada. Oh, yes, that we admit. Krsna is eternal; therefore all His energies are eternal.
Dr. Singh. Is that why the living entity is also eternal?
Srila Prabhupada. Yes. If the sun is eternal, its energies--heat and light--are also eternal.
Dr. Singh. Does it follow from this, then, that life cannot be created or destroyed?
Srila Prabhupada. Yes. Life is eternal. It is not created or destroyed. It is only temporarily covered. I am eternal, but last night I was covered by sleep, so I think in terms of yesterday and today. This is the condition of the material world.

Answer 7

Yes, I do. As souls in a human form we are compelled to shed this body and take on a new body on and on again to enable us play our roles in the predestined world drama cycle which repeats itself every 5,000 years.This is what is called reincarnation.
Whilst human beings reincarnate, God, the Supreme Father of all souls Incarnates. Because He is not an embodied being, He takes the support of an impure human body on loan in this impure world.
This is to say that we are all actors in the drama cycle and each and everyone of us including God Himself has a distinct role to play in the drama cycle which is predestined.

Answer 8

absolutely! although it is only because our minds are so small and not many of us make the choices to set aside our illness,pain,lack,prejudice,war,jealousy,immorality and all those things that keep our brains from expanding to the point that we can see beyond the horizon and realize that all those things are ties to ones past and until we set our past aside we go nowhere but back into the wheel of reincarnation..

Answer 9

I read an article written by Dr Elizabeth Kubler Ross a top Psychiatrist, who lived in America. What she wrote made sense to me. She definitely, believed in it.

Answer 10

I am open minded on this one. I knew a small child who one day looked at his hands and said I have got new hand now
he talked about going up in planes he had not flown with his family. When he reach 5 years old he did not talk of it anymore