REINCARNATION: FACT OR FANTASY?

Whenever a person finds out that I do and have done Past Life Regressions, I am almost always asked, “Is reincarnation for real?” My answer to that question is always 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 the plethora of verifiable and objective scientific research along with scores of detailed case files should be sufficient to prove to any skeptic that past life memories have been documented as accurate for a significant number of those who have experienced a Past Life Regression – but that’s my personal opinion.

I have no particular desire to ‘prove’ the existence of past life recall to any 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)

I would also like to caution that when I say I believe in the reality of reincarnation, that doesn’t mean I’m convinced that reincarnation in any way represents some sort of final truth in our understanding of the universe. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the history of science, it’s that our theories about the way the universe works are never permanent. Sir Issac Newton gave us one picture about the way the universe works - and it was and is a valid picture. However, Einstein gave us another picture; Stephen Hawking yet another; and Quantum Physics - the branch of physics which seeks to understand the behavior of sub-atomic particles – has given us yet another. None of them are wrong, but each has gone a step farther than the one before.

I believe the same is true of reincarnation as a way of understanding how the universe works. I think that it’s a correct picture as far as it goes, but that there are surely even more correct pictures waiting for us in the future. For example, most proponents of reincarnation believe we live sequential lives, but science is showing us that there are levels of reality at which our everyday concepts of time break down.

So, it may turn out that the apparent sequentially of past lives is merely an illusion, a result of the limits of our current perceptions. Accordingly, some theories about reincarnation take this into account and assert that in actuality all of our lives – past, present, and future – are occurring simultaneously. Who knows?

My point is that although I believe in reincarnation, I’m convinced that, in our time, our current understandings will be eclipsed by even larger understandings. So remember that all the concepts anyone presents to you (including myself) are only constructs of words and that all constructs of words are tools. Embrace these tools only so long as they’re useful to you, and replace them when their usefulness comes to an end.

There are literally tens if not hundreds of theories and philosophies surrounding the subject. Yet I submit that the subject of reincarnation is too “unknowable” to dogmatize with any degree of certainty. For instance, some believe that our myriad lives in this vast picture are guided by angels or spirit guides who help us choose the life we will enter into. Who knows?

Some believe in the “Parallel Lives” concept. This holds that our souls inhabit more than one body at the same time. For example, you might be a prominent Madison Avenue ad exec who is simultaneously living a life as a bag lady in Los Angeles. Again, who knows? Would it be any less reasonable to assume that Reincarnation is one big dice game being run by an inter-galactic computer created by a millennia old alien civilization? Sort of a Cosmic Crapshoot? Only God and Captain Kirk would know that one. And, for the moment at least, neither of them are telling.

And if you’d like to experience an actual Past Life Regression and find out for yourself if you’ve lived before, I invite you to