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About Reincarnation

  • Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death?
  • If it does survive, where does it go?
  • The explanatory value of the Vedic point of view
  • Who gives credence to this?
  • If reincarnation is a fact, how does it work?
  • Why reincarnation? What's the purpose?
  • What about scientific evidence for reincarnation?
  • Objections to the idea of reincarnation
    • If I've had past lives, why don't I remember them?
    • What could be the use of lives we don't remember?
    • If reincarnation is a fact, why is the population increasing?
    • Well, if you believe in it, I suppose it could be true for you
    • How could I enter someone else's body and become someone else?
    • But the Bible denies reincarnation
    • Clearly, the idea of reincarnation proceeds from wishful thinking
    • But personality is but a product of the higher nervous system and the brain.
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Objections to the idea of reincarnation

 

  • If I've had past lives, why don't I remember them?
  • What could be the use of lives we don't remember?
  • If reincarnation is a fact, why is the population increasing?
  • Well, if you believe in it, I suppose it could be true for you
  • How could I enter someone else's body and become someone else?
  • But the Bible denies reincarnation
  • Clearly, the idea of reincarnation proceeds from wishful thinking
  • But personality is but a product of the higher nervous system and the brain.
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