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Hmmm, you seem pretty CERTAIN about this. Can you provide any peer reviewed studies to back up this statement?
Quoting: **ZetaMax** No I can't back up this statement by peer-reviewed studies, because I'm not aware of any and at the same time psychological topics like this are hard to accurately pin-point. Take it as my personal opinion. And if you are interested why I come to this conclusion, it is because this concept of "reincarnation" has no hard evidence whatsoever yet many people believe in it. It does not seem too far fetched that people would rather believe all their hard work of forming a personality lives on rather than just decomposes into its elements. It's very human to search for a deeper meaning of life - but if you look from a big perspective, earth and humanity is completly irrelevant to the course of the universe. That's something eventually hard to accept, from a childish point of view. So it is not only fear of uncertainity but also fear of meaninglessness. According to data released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2009 survey), not only do a quarter of Americans believe in reincarnation, but 24 percent of American Christians expressed a belief in reincarnation. [ link to reincarnationafterdeath.com] So essentially you're saying that 24% of Americans are manifesting delusional fantasies because of paranoia. From the link above: How many people believe in reincarnation? A new survey reveals that 51% of the people in the world believe in God. Only 18 percent say they do not believe, and 17 percent are undecided.
More than 18,000 people in 23 countries participated in the survey conducted by the Global Research Society and the Institute for Social Research (Ipsos). The survey also found that 51% of the people believe in reincarnation (sic - should be "life after death" 19% believe in reincarnation), while 23 percent believe that we only will “cease to exist”. About a quarter (26 percent) said they do not know what will happen after death.
Bobby Duffy, managing director of Ipsos, told Reuters that “it may seem to many that we live in a secular world, but this study shows that spiritual life is important to the citizens of the world, since half of them said they believed in a supreme being”.So YOU represent only 23 percent of the world's population, while suggesting the other 77% (or the 51% who affirmatively expressed belief in an afterlife) are suffering some kind of mental incapacity. Proof??? Well these are shocking results for something that we have no hard evidence of. I assume this goes back a long time where this was accepted as a "common concept", however just because many people believe in something - does not mean it must be true in any case. Religion is a good example. People tend to assimilate what their surrounding believes, so if you grow up in a religious setting, it is likely that you will assimilate those views. >> this concept of "reincarnation" has no hard evidence
Neither is there "hard" evidence of black holes. The existence of black holes are inferred from observing other evidence. It's true that one cannot put "reincarnation" under a microscope, but just as with black holes, it's existence can be inferred from examining other evidence. What "other evidence"? Well for starters, the testimony of children who display detailed knowledge of past events they have no rational means for obtaining. Dr. Jim Tucker, M.D., the Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.
The child psychiatrist has spent more than a decade studying the cases of children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they remember a past life.
In his book, “Return To Life,” Tucker details some of the American cases he has studied over the years, including Ryan's.
“These cases demand an explanation,” Tucker said, “We can’t just write them off or explain them away as just some sort of normal cultural thing.”
Tucker’s office contains the files of more than 2,500 children— cases accumulated from all over the world by his predecessor, Ian Stevenson. Stevenson, who died in 2007, began investigating the strange phenomena back in 1961, and kept detailed interviews and evidence on each case.
Tucker has painstakingly coded the handwritten files, discovering intriguing patterns. For instance, 70 percent of the children say they died violent or unexpected deaths in their previous lives, and males account for 73 percent of those deaths— mirroring the statistics of those who die of unnatural causes in the general population.
“There’d be no way to orchestrate that statistic with over 2,000 cases,” Tucker said. [ link to www.today.com]
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