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Reincarnation strikes me as a method employed by the ego to comfort itself against the prospect of annihilation.

It's harder than it was before for me to believe that the contents of one human container is transported into another such container.

Far more intuitive for me is the idea that a collective un/conscious grants us access to the full store of memory before our own lives. Carl Jung and Stan Grof both have much writing that supports such an idea, and would help explain the idea of "past-lives" and their memories, even if reincarnation doesn't in fact exist.

My mind remains open, but always striving to question assumptions.

That's my two sats 🙂

RedTailHawk 4mo ago

I would be interested to have Jung and Grof review the research of the University of Virginia on this subject by Dr. Ian Stevenson MD and Dr. Jim Tucker MD and their collaborators.

Likewise, it would be cool to have Dolores Cannon involved in that discussion.

Obviously several of these people are no longer alive so that's not going to happen, but it would be interesting to observe.

I think it is best to review the evidence that has been gathered by the researchers who have researched the subject. If someone has reviewed that research and still wants to try to poke holes in the legitimacy of the doctrine of reincarnation, at that point, I'm all ears because they've got a LOT of explaining to do if reincarnation is not real.

It's an Occam's razor kind of thing. Like...how do I explain the known evidence one way or another? One way has allowed me to make sense of many things that never made sense to me when I was in the YOLO camp and again when I was in the agnostic camp with respect to the YOLO/reincarnation issue.

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