What are your views on reincarnation?

Answer 1

Reincarnation is real, for every single Soul, not just some.

I've learned that through my own memories and most especially from my spiritual teacher, the Maitreya, who teaches from his own experience.

But reincarnation is not necessarily a good thing like some New Agers seem to think. It's my goal to not have to keep coming back on the wheel of birth, life, pain, fear, suffering, sorrow, old age, and death and rebirth again. Yes of course there's beauty in life too but there's no guarantee of what your next circumstance will be if you keep coming back. It's not necessarily a progression that keeps getting better and better.

So, yes, it's real, but the goal is to not keep coming back.

As the joke goes "I didn't believe in reincarnation the last time I was here either."

Answer 2

I believe it goes hand in hand with karma. I believe it is a universal law. Put forth a cause (good or bad) and you must live out the effects (good and bad). Until all karma is resolved souls keep reincarnating back to the physical plane in order to balance and resolve karma from previous lifetimes.

It's the only fair explanation for why we are all born into such diverse sets of circumstances and why "bad things happen to good people."

Karma, baby, karma!

Answer 3

well, I believe that our soul travels on to another world after this one and that just like the embryo in the womb is growing tools needed for this world, we have the potential to gain tools needed for the next world and those tools are God like positive attributes.
I don't believe that we return to this same world though.

Some people talk about remembering past lives and I do think that there may be some possibility of memory transferring through DNA which is passed on from generation to generation.

Answer 4

I believe as Linda Goodman believes. The soul travels through the twelve houses of the zodiac wheel as the same is true for the karmic wheel of life. Beginning in the first house of Aries(the birth house) to Pisces(the death house). Your soul has a lesson to learn within each lifetime that is represented by the house you will enter in the next lifetime. She calls them soul lessons. Your soul has to learn all the lessons to enter into the kindom of heaven back with the spiritual light and creator. You should read her books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Goodman

Answer 5

As christians, we don't believe in reincarnation. We believe in resurrection. Reincarnating into the same world in which we screwed up in the first place just so we can screw up less and less sounds a little bleak.

Answer 6

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment ... (Hebrews 9:27)

Catholics and most other Christians believe there is no "reincarnation" after death.

Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny. When "the single course of our earthly life" is completed, we shall not return to other earthly lives.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1013 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art11.htm#1013

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

It's comforting to think that one gets to try living over and over until one gets it right. As a Catholic reincarnation reminded me a little of Purgatory, where one goes after death to be purified before entering heaven.

Answer 8

I just thought I would share this story with you. About three years back, my niece got married. My sister's husband's brother's wife was there with her new baby girl. I am not one of those people who are good with babies. I'm better with school-age children. When this baby, Bethany saw me for the first time, she pushed her mother away and reached for me. I held her and she was very content in my arms. Most babies are not.
One Christmas, I saw Bethany again. She was just beginning to walk, holding on to things. When she saw me, she crawled out of her mother's arms again, and toddled over to my chair and crawled up into the chair with me. She does NOT do this with my other relatives, whom she sees more often. We sat together for a while, and then she went back to her mother.
This year (she's about 3 years old) people were walking past her and asking her if she remembered them. Of course she didn't, she's only three. But, when I asked, she said, "Yes." When we all sat down to open presents, she came over to me again (only person she approached) and told me her feet hurt. I asked if I could take off her shoes, and she shook her head. Then I asked her if she wanted to sit in my lap, and she said, "Yes." She really leaned in to me, and I held her and closed my eyes. I suffered from severe depression this year, more than normal, because I have no children - only miscarriages. I thought she was a special child, who sensed my pain and wanted to comfort me, but it was more than that. It was as if, for that time, she was my child. It just felt that way.
Then I remembered that it was about 9-10 months before she was born that I was assaulted while I was 6 months pregnant. My throat was slit, and I was left for dead. I had a "near death," but I say death experience. I believe I was in Heaven. It was very good and I wanted to stay. But I lived, and found out that the baby had died, because I had lost so much blood.
I think Bethany was my baby. In Tibetan Buddhism, they believe in reincarnation, and that you pick your parents. Maybe Bethany chose her parents so that she could be near me and comfort me. Nothing else explains the kind of mother and child bond that we feel with each other. She has only seen me 3 times in her three years of life. But, when she sat in my lap, it was as if her body merged with mine, like I had carried her inside me. It's something that only mother's know, and yet, I knew she had been near my heart before.
I don't know if this proves reincarnation, but I offer it here for thought.

Answer 9

Reincarnation holds no weight because it has never been shown to be true. Not even by those who claim it's true.

Answer 10

A primitive thought. It is for those who think there is no completion and everything has to be completed in stages.

Like graduating in at least seven attempts.