Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the process of rebirth whereby an individual Spiritual Ego takes up a presence in a newly created Physical Unit.
Notes
Belief in reincarnation is common throughout the world. As Irwin points out "The pervasiveness of rebirth accounts collectively challenges the minority views of materialist ideologues when brought into alignment with all the various strands of evidence that contribute to a transphysical model of human survival. While no one source may provide a convincing argument in favor of post-mortem life and rebirth, together all sources provide a strong collective body of evidence supporting the plausibility of survival as a valid theory, currently held by a majority of human beings" [1]
A convincing review of Irwin's research is provided by Tucker[2]
Plato has a theory of rebirth [3]
Belief in reincarnation is common in various American religious traditions [4]
"We do believe in life after death. The many deities and spirits come from that belief. We return in the form of animals, trees, birds, spirits and other forms. We are part of the whole. We are the whole. We are a part of the spirit world now. We will be a part of it in the future. We have always been a part of it ... all things are one, and all life is one in one circle of time. Paiute Medicine Man (Toombs 1991)"[5]
"For the ancestors, who are returning to the visible world for the first, second, or third time, birth is a transitional stage that connotes one’s reemergence into the visible reality from the invisible. It is simply a stage in the ongoing cycle of life. The ancestors, however, are actually said to be reincarnated in the form of newborn babies. Therefore, they require the birthing process as a means through which their immortality is sustained and continued. Birthing is one of the vehicles through which the ancestors forever maintain a link to the visible world and become visible again themselves."[6]
Footnotes
- ↑ Irwin, Lee. “Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview.” Religions 8, no. 222 (2017): p. 21.
- ↑ Tucker, Jim B. “Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives: Past, Present, and Future ~esearc.” Journal of Scientific Exploration 21, no. 3 (2007): 543–52.
- ↑ Johnston, Charles. The Memory of Past Births. New York: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1899.
- ↑ Irwin, Lee. “Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview.” Religions 8, no. 222 (2017): 1–2
- ↑ Toombs quoted in Mills, Antonia, and Richard Slobodin. Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1994. p. .3
- ↑ Clark, Jawanza Eric. Indigenous Black Theology: Towards an African-Centered Theology of the African-American Religious Experience. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. p. 85.
