Reincarnation Cases

Reasonable, relative. Seems a bit half-hearted to me. And that's ok. There's no reason to climb aboard just because someone else did. Follow your own star.

Myself, I never had any interest in reincarnation. That wasn't the problem I set out to investigate or understand. It was something much more immediate and direct which concerned me. This life, right here, right now. I came from a logical maths/physics mindset where everything had some sort of cause, make a change here, and something there will change as a result. Not that I held the world to be deterministic, just interconnected.

When it came to things of the mind, things of the heart, joys and sorrows, successes and failures, it always seemed as though here, this sort of causality had some general sort of flow too. If one looks to just about any theory of the mind, no matter which branch, materialist, chemistry, physical, emotional, spiritual, there is always some sort of causality. One thing leads to another. And that was the greatest mystery for me. I had an outcome without any cause.

This break in the chain, the disconnect led to a search - with nothing excluded, for possible mechanisms which might even begin to explain that most mundane of things, everyday life. I was stumped. Thus went the search. To my enormous surprise, and against everything I hitherto believed even plausible, it was reincarnation which was able to fit that gap, the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle, which not only answered an immediate problem, it released the pressure. It was like being able to breathe freely again after being caught up in a confined space.

I just think it's wise to maintain a voice that sits closer to the middle than full-fledged acceptance, especially for the things discussed here, but much of what you said resonates with me. I think the reincarnation evidence has been the most robust of all that I have encountered, and in that same vein the most difficult to rebut, and I certainly did not expect that to be anything close to the case when I really began researching this sort of material.

I understand some of the objections to the studies that have been done thus far, but as I previously stated here and on other threads, I've yet to see a genuinely good rebuttal of the evidence. I think that, at the absolute bare minimum, it is suggestive that there is something, just something, going on beyond the reductionist, "there's nothing more to it" narrative.