Law of Reincarnation
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The biggest existential questions we face in life are: where do we come from and why are we here? Does our consciousness - mind, soul or spirit - end with the death of the body? While the religions and spiritual beliefs of today offer us many answers to these questions, they are often dismissed because they lack scientific backing. Let's answer these questions using science and the scientific research data that exists in the area of reincarnation. Because when I examine the evidence I find a clear, scientific and rationalist argument that we all have a soul and it comes from beyond this dimension.
In one form or another, the belief that the soul, spirit or consciousness is reborn in another body is not limited to spiritual doctrines: it is a widespread, nearly universal belief. It occurs in almost all corners of the planet amongst many groups of people. This idea has been part of the thinking about the nature of reality for thousands - if not tens of thousands - of years.
In ancient Greece it was a central belief of the Orphic religion. In the Jewish Kabbalah it is known as Gilgul. On the extreme western fringes of Europe, the Celts, as part of their Druidic theology, believed that the human soul always passes from one body to another. Farther north, the Norsemen shared the same belief. In modern times belief in the transmigration of souls remains present among indigenous tribes like the Yoruba of West Africa, the shamanic traditions of the Native Americans of Alaska and British Columbia, the Druse in Lebanon and the Alevis in Turkey.
A theory is a proposed explanation whose status is based conjecture and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
The Theory of Reincarnation states that every human being has an immortal soul - defined as an etheric body of non-material consciousness. The soul is an energy body. Just as energy cannot be created nor destroyed - the soul cannot die or has no end. The soul only can be modified or converted to other forms.
Young souls are incarnated in physical dimensions - like our dimension of time and space - in order to learn and to grow. You are here to create and through the act of creation bear witness to the manifestation. You are here to remember the sacred memory and become consciously aware of your connection to this infinite consciousness.
As an eternal soul, you complete as many lifetimes as is required by your teachers and guides in the higher dimensions - a place we might call the spirit world. Hopefully one day you reach a lifetime where you get to graduate from the cycle of rebirth and become a teacher and a guide yourself. Many refer to this theory as the Law of One.
💡 “The statistical probability that reincarnation does in fact occur is so overwhelming . . . that cumulatively the evidence is not inferior to that for most if not all branches of science...”
Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, physicist
There are many theories we take for granted such as Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's still a theory - a damn good one but still. I'm hoping that the Theory of Reincarnation can soon become accepted science. That we can learn to see how science validates our amazing and infinite connection to the universe. We may never be able to prove the Theory of Reincarnation without a shadow of a doubt but we should give serious open-minded consideration to the evidence.
In order to take a practical approach to explaining the science of reincarnation, we need to ask and to answer the following questions:
Is there such a thing as consciousness not associated with the living brain?
Assuming there is “something” we can experience that appears to a discarnate consciousness, what does this mean for our understanding of the world - and of the human beings in the world?
What kind of explanation do we get for the possible persistence of consciousness beyond the brain and the body? And how might we communicate with such a consciousness, when we confront the evidence from the natural sciences?
Serious scientific study of reincarnation has indeed been undertaken, despite the fact that it is a touchy subject, and the results ultimately challenge the belief systems of many. This topic has been studied by numerous scientists who belong to various academic institutions from all over the world. In the interest of concise but compelling argument choosing which examples and studies to highlight can be difficult given how many of them exist. Worldwide, more than 2,500 specific cases have been examined in great detail, more so where these beliefs are more culturally accepted (for example in Asia), although cases have been documented on every single continent.
There is a large swath of research into reincarnation, however; not all of the research holds up to the gold-standard of science: peer-reviewed research. That does not mean the evidence is invalid or unworthy of examination. That's why we are going to take a look at all the evidence in its various forms because in aggregate it provides a compelling view into the theory of reincarnation. I've broken down the reincarnation data into the following groups:
Past-Life Memories (PLMs): These are individuals who remember their past lives, and whose detailed memories have been independently verified to be correct.
Birthmarks: Those who exhibit body marks or characteristics that are connected with the previous life, such as scars, deformities or marks.
Xenoglossy: Those who remember and speak a language unlearned in the current life but which was known to the subject in a previous life.
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs): an unusual experience taking place on the brink of death and recounted by a person after recovery, typically an out-of-body experience or a vision of a tunnel of light.
Thukdam Consciousness Experiences (TCEs): Thukdam (Tib: ཐུགས་དམ་) is a Buddhist phenomenon in which an enlightened master's consciousness remains in the body despite its physical death.
Past Life Regression Hypnosis: Past life regression is a method that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations
After Death Experiences (ADEs)
