What do you think about the ‘evidence’ suggesting the reality of reincarnation?

[Beyond_Repair]

Like kids who say they remember being a person who has died, the person being confirmed to have been real and is now deceased, and the two sharing a lot of characteristics?

Do you think there is an explanation for these types of situations? Or do you believe in reincarnation, and see this as proof?

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

If reincarnation is real, then I want to come back as one of these worthless social media "influencers" or steamers with 100 million braindead sheeple followers, making $5 million a month to do stupid useless dances or play video games.

 

[passivethought121]

Reincarnation for me is like religion for some agnostic people. Factually and logically, I know it doesn't exist. Emotionally, I wish for it so badly to be real that I believe it is. In my opinion, any evidence is only "factual" if the one claiming their past life has had no exposure to that person.

 

[Beyond_Repair]

Reincarnation for me is like religion for some agnostic people. Factually and logically, I know it doesn't exist. Emotionally, I wish for it so badly to be real that I believe it is. In my opinion, any evidence is only "factual" if the one claiming their past life has had no exposure to that person.

I really wish it were too. I love the idea of having another shot at life under different circumstances.

I think it's really interesting. As much as I don't really believe in an afterlife, it's really intriguing to look at these situations and wonder how such coincidences can happen

If reincarnation is real, then I want to come back as one of these worthless social media "influencers" or steamers with 100 million braindead sheeple followers, making $5 million a month to do stupid useless dances or play video games.

I agree - it's pretty annoying to see people making so much money with such little effort or skill involved.

I'd want to be born from happy, well-adjusted, financially stable people. I feel like no matter what you decide to do with your life, it's 100% easier coming from a solid background with good parents

 

[Blurry_Buildings]

The best of this so called evidence I have seen is some guy from the University of Virginia (I just looked it up and it looks like there is now a department that works on it: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual...es-of-previous-lives/fifty-years-of-research/) who compiled a list of children who claimed they were reincarnated and tried to match their accounts with dead people.

I can't remember exactly what but I know there have been multiple criticisms of the work being done, especially regarding potential coercion of the children (for example the parent encouraging the child to believe in reincarnation or the child just making things up based on things they have already seen/ been exposed to. There are some news articles on it.

That being said, I've always been extremely skeptical of the existence of god and the concept of heaven since I can first remember, but apparently my father asked me when I was very young (like at 3 - old enough to have just started forming complete and moderately complex sentences but young enough to not remember anything) whether or not I remembered heaven. Apparently I told him I did in fact remember heaven well, which was probably younger me making things up, but it still freaks me out (I feel somewhat confident my younger self would not have said that under normal circumstances... but also I was 3). When I was 5 and he asked again I apparently told him I did not remember heaven at all. So who am I to say for sure?

 

[sserafim]

I really wish it were too. I love the idea of having another shot at life under different circumstances.

I think it's really interesting. As much as I don't really believe in an afterlife, it's really intriguing to look at these situations and wonder how such coincidences can happen

I agree - it's pretty annoying to see people making so much money with such little effort or skill involved.

I'd want to be born from happy, well-adjusted, financially stable people. I feel like no matter what you decide to do with your life, it's 100% easier coming from a solid background with good parents

I'd want to come back as a housecat. I think that being a human being is a main cause of my suffering. I'm neurodivergent and I honestly think that I was never meant to be a human in the first place. I would hate to have to be a human again.

 

[brokeandbroken]

Like kids who say they remember being a person who has died, the person being confirmed to have been real and is now deceased, and the two sharing a lot of characteristics?

Do you think there is an explanation for these types of situations? Or do you believe in reincarnation, and see this as proof?

None. But if there was i must've done something unbelievably detestable in my past life to deserve my fate.

 

[SovietSuicide]

I just commented on a similar post.

These are just false memories, there's a reason more people claim to have these memories as the concept of past life memories becomes more popular.

Same with the alien phenomenon, before 1950s? Barely anyone talked about aliens. After sci fi comic books and Roswell? Suddenly thousands of people have "abduction" experiences and coincidentally overwhelmingly happen to be American.

It doesn't disprove reincarnation, I still think reincarnation is possible but any time these kind of concepts become popular there will be a bunch of people that hop on the train and tbh they kind of piss me off.

They're like a virus in the collective psyche spreading false information.

 

[sserafim]

None. But if there was i must've done something unbelievably detestable in my past life to deserve my fate.

Same, I honestly wonder what kind of person I was or what I did in my past life to be born with Asperger's/autism. It's honestly a curse and makes my life so miserable. On top of that I also have ADHD. Like why did I have to be born with this neurodivergence? It makes living in a neurotypical world and society so difficult.

 

[brokeandbroken]

Same, I honestly wonder what kind of person I was in my past life to be born with Asperger's/autism. It's honestly a curse and makes my life so miserable. On top of that I also have ADHD. Like why did I have to be born with this neurodivergence? It's so hard to live in a neurotypical world and society.

I wouldn't be surprised if I had both... But I'm pissed because everything was stolen from me. Literally. I was in medical school and dream of being a doctor just gone. Robbed. No fault of my own. I did my job. Sentenced to homelessness basically for the rest of life. No one did a fucking thing. Everyone I see I see someone who could help but is choosing not to. It makes want to rip out their larynx and beat the next person to death with it.

 

[Kundalini Guy]

I believe in reincarnation and ever since my spiritual awakening my belief in it has increased. I have done psychic readings which are accurate and it said to me reincarnation is real. People often have similar characteristics and lives in their previous lives, demon slayer got this accurate at end of the story.

 

[Abandoned Character]

Well you mention evidence but present none, so it's difficult to have a discussion here. I will say, though, that I think it is ridiculous to think individuality exists post-mortem. We come from the universe and will return to it in death. Maybe there exists an ethereal collective unconsciousness--a godhead, so to speak--that being-ness taps into on varying levels, and reincarnation may be an acknowledgement of that possibility. I'm just spit balling here, though.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It is really strange. I've wondered it myself. Where could that information come from? Could it be coercion from parents who want their child to be famous? Could it be bias from the researchers? Kind of like when people go to see psychics and grab hold of vague information in the hopes it is from their loved ones. I guess that becomes more complicated if the details from the child's past life are very specific and match an actual deceased life.

I find it weird that- if reincarnation is real and memories from past lives can carry over- that more people don't have them. A friend of mine went for regression once back through past lives. That's the other thing though- how are these memories being accessed? If it is through dreams or regression- that seems subjective. I can fly, sing and speak foreign languages in my dreams. Doesn't mean I can in real life. It's weird though- if their 'memories' can be fact checked to be correct.

I hope there isn't reincarnation but I have a reasonably open mind. There are certainly things in life we can't explain.

 

[R_N]

I don't buy it.

 

[Stuckinpast28]

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything transforms". that is an unbreakable rule of science. Knowing that it can be said that reincarnation is a possibility yet it doesn't mean that our consciousness stays intact upon death it could simply dissolve into its simplest form and rejoin the universe or we can also follow the idea of the mass consciousness of the universe in which case once we die we rejoin that consciousness. There is one thing to consider, we do retain memories of our ancestors that is what instinct is, some people are also naturally gifted in certain things almost like they've done it before whether that is a coincidence or evidence is up for debate. The consciousness is a complicated thing and is yet to be fully explained by science.

 

[Beyond_Repair]

The best of this so called evidence I have seen is some guy from the University of Virginia (I just looked it up and it looks like there is now a department that works on it: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual...es-of-previous-lives/fifty-years-of-research/) who compiled a list of children who claimed they were reincarnated and tried to match their accounts with dead people.

I can't remember exactly what but I know there have been multiple criticisms of the work being done, especially regarding potential coercion of the children (for example the parent encouraging the child to believe in reincarnation or the child just making things up based on things they have already seen/ been exposed to. There are some news articles on it.

That being said, I've always been extremely skeptical of the existence of god and the concept of heaven since I can first remember, but apparently my father asked me when I was very young (like at 3 - old enough to have just started forming complete and moderately complex sentences but young enough to not remember anything) whether or not I remembered heaven. Apparently I told him I did in fact remember heaven well, which was probably younger me making things up, but it still freaks me out (I feel somewhat confident my younger self would not have said that under normal circumstances... but also I was 3). When I was 5 and he asked again I apparently told him I did not remember heaven at all. So who am I to say for sure?

I'm also pretty skeptical of the whole thing - I could see parents encouraging this in their children, especially parents seeing their children as special or to garner attention. From what I've seen while working with children for a bit as a camp counselor - they say a LOT of out-of-pocket things, and they are really good at generating stories from thin air. Also they are highly susceptible to suggestion - if you encourage something, they will take this and run with it, as they crave validation from adults. So with all of these factors I could definitely see these cases having the potential to be fabricated

I'd want to come back as a housecat. I think that being a human being is a main cause of my suffering. I'm neurodivergent and I honestly think that I was never meant to be a human in the first place. I would hate to have to be a human again.

I definitely feel you with not feeling like I was meant to be human.

I just commented on a similar post.

These are just false memories, there's a reason more people claim to have these memories as the concept of past life memories becomes more popular.

Same with the alien phenomenon, before 1950s? Barely anyone talked about aliens. After sci fi comic books and Roswell? Suddenly thousands of people have "abduction" experiences and coincidentally overwhelmingly happen to be American.

It doesn't disprove reincarnation, I still think reincarnation is possible but any time these kind of concepts become popular there will be a bunch of people that hop on the train and tbh they kind of piss me off.

They're like a virus in the collective psyche spreading false information.

I think you make some good points, people like to hop on the bandwagon once something becomes popular

I just commented on a similar post.

These are just false memories, there's a reason more people claim to have these memories as the concept of past life memories becomes more popular.

Same with the alien phenomenon, before 1950s? Barely anyone talked about aliens. After sci fi comic books and Roswell? Suddenly thousands of people have "abduction" experiences and coincidentally overwhelmingly happen to be American.

It doesn't disprove reincarnation, I still think reincarnation is possible but any time these kind of concepts become popular there will be a bunch of people that hop on the train and tbh they kind of piss me off.

They're like a virus in the collective psyche spreading false information.

I think you make some good points, people like to hop on the bandwagon once something becomes popular

Same, I honestly wonder what kind of person I was or what I did in my past life to be born with Asperger's/autism. It's honestly a curse and makes my life so miserable. On top of that I also have ADHD. Like why did I have to be born with this neurodivergence? It makes living in a neurotypical world and society so difficult.

I'm sorry, that sounds rough. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and it's no doubt made my life a lot harder. I'm sure living with ASD on top of that can't be easy. Talking about neurodivergence though, what's annoying to me is that I don't think it would be such a bad thing if the world wasn't made for neurotypicals. I feel like we as humans are expected to behave in such a strict way with social norms that anything even slightly out of the norm makes life harder for the person, even though it shouldn't have to

It is really strange. I've wondered it myself. Where could that information come from? Could it be coercion from parents who want their child to be famous? Could it be bias from the researchers? Kind of like when people go to see psychics and grab hold of vague information in the hopes it is from their loved ones. I guess that becomes more complicated if the details from the child's past life are very specific and match an actual deceased life.

I think you're right on the ball. People are quick to believe things that suit them

 

[DeepCD]

these pseudoscientist & kids who claim that they are a reincarnation don't convince me.

what about the kids who can bend a spoon with their mind? those are the kids that I'm interested in!

 

[WAITING TO DIE]

I think the concept of reincarnation is just another load of bullshit, much like religion and all the other shit such as near death experiences.

 

[Beyond_Repair]

I think the concept of reincarnation is just another load of bullshit, much like religion and all the other shit such as near death experiences.

I find the concept of near death experiences fascinating, especially ones where there's a theme of the person floating above everyone and seeing what's going on while they're supposedly already dead. Although I guess you could easily make that up, especially if you've heard accounts of that kind of thing happening before.

Can I ask why you think near death experiences are bs?

 

[WAITING TO DIE]

I find the concept of near death experiences fascinating, especially ones where there's a theme of the person floating above everyone and seeing what's going on while they're supposedly already dead. Although I guess you could easily make that up, especially if you've heard accounts of that kind of thing happening before.

Can I ask why you think near death experiences are bs?

I guess because a person isn't actually dead until all brain activity stops.
During near death experiences when the heart stops, the brain goes crazy and releases chemicals such as dmt, giving the person a trippy experience.
At least, I hope these experiences are not real.
I seriously don't want to carry on existing as consciousness when I die, the concept of that is horrifying to me.

 

[Beyond_Repair]

I guess because a person isn't actually dead until all brain activity stops.
During near death experiences when the heart stops, the brain goes crazy and releases chemicals such as dmt, giving the person a trippy experience.
At least, I hope these experiences are not real.
I seriously don't want to carry on existing as consciousness when I die, the concept of that is horrifying to me.

That makes sense. I guess when I imagined it, it's like a temporary state before you actually go and cease to exist - which makes sense with it just being the brain chemicals firing. But yeah, that would definitely suck if it just continued after death. I seriously doubt that's the case, but that's just my personal uneducated guess lol

 

[oneeyed]

It's interesting stuff but I want to know where the opt-out button is. When we die maybe there's a "terms of agreements" you have to sign for reincarnation, but seriously, who's going to read all 5000 pages of it?

 

[Beyond_Repair]

It's interesting stuff but I want to know where the opt-out button is. When we die maybe there's a "terms of agreements" you have to sign for reincarnation, but seriously, who's going to read all 5000 pages of it?

Plot twist, you sign for reincarnation without reading the terms of agreement and you have to relive the same life over again

 

[oneeyed]

Plot twist, you sign for reincarnation without reading the terms of agreement and you have to relive the same life over again

Literal nightmare

 

[staplestable]

reincarnation is a hopeful dream of mine (retaining memories of course)
i'd seriously try from the start if I were to reincarnate