Episode 57 - Past Lives and Reincarnation

say right maybe but that goes on to like when we were talking about psychic detectives like how do people have this information that's not common knowledge right and then to discover later the supposed memories of somebody reincarnate describes and then archaeology verifies before the archaeologic discovery was even made that's pretty compelling I mean is it coincidence Or maybe, maybe not.

I may need to open up my open skeptic side a little bit here and maybe lean towards believer when it comes to that.

But what are the logical explanations out there that help to explain from a neuroscience point of view?

Right.

And maybe we need to explain to our listeners exactly what is reincarnation.

So it is the belief that an individual's consciousness or their soul, their essence, whatever you want to call it, survives a physical death, but comes back and is reborn into a different body.

Now, this could be Say they're born in the 1500s, originally for their first life, they die.

Maybe they don't come back until the 1700s, but they come back.

And supposedly, one of the main reasons for reincarnation is that the soul needs to come back and learn different lessons from In order to be complete, to heal, to be able to ultimately reach the perfect soul.

Right.

It's described like a continuity of your identity, like you're picking up where you left off, but in a new age.

Correct.

Yeah.

And there's a lot of different traditions that will teach reincarnation.

And there's some that teach against it.

So I guess it, like you said, depends on how you were raised, what your cultural beliefs are.

So that's where modern researchers have to balance the difference here when we talk about religion and theological doctrines, because research doesn't want to go into that area.

That goes into beliefs and faith.

What can they study? They can look at the reports of the remembered past lives and try verification through historical documents and such.

And Some of it is just, can we take these stories for what they're worth? Can we believe this is person trustworthy? Do they have some psychological problems? So research is looking into those things versus the theology behind what's going on.

Right.

And I don't really know if there's going to be 100 percent scientific proof.

Like you said, persons documented accounts or their experiences.

So, you know, you've got to take that and make your own.

Yeah.