Reincarnation:
Fact or Fantasy?
"I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before,
and I hope to return a thousand times...” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(German poet and dramatist, 1749-1832)
Well, since you asked, let’s cut to the chase and address the
question of whether or not reincarnation is real. My answer to that question
is a resounding, unequivocal and emphatic. “I don’t know!” It all comes
down to a matter of personal belief. I happen to believe. It seems to me that
verifiable and objective research like that presented above should be
sufficient to prove to any skeptic that past life memories have been
documented as accurate for a significant number of people – but that’s my
personal opinion.
I also happen to believe that those who continue to adamantly deny
(or even objectively entertain) the possibility of reincarnation may present
themselves as scientific but I respectfully submit that, in reality, they are
trapped in an irrational dogma comparable to the beliefs of those church
‘scholars’ in the 16th Century who maintained their belief in an earth-
centered solar system in the face of Galileo's telescopes. You know the
rationale, "My mind is made up! Don't confuse me with the facts!"
In any event, I have no particular desire to ‘prove’ the existence of
past life recall to the fanatical skeptic, since I feel the literature on the
subject is replete with such proof - or at least evidence suggesting that
Shakespeare was so right when he tells us in Hamlet, "There are more
things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
(Act 1: Scene 5)