What is your point of view on....?

I think a form of it exists...but not in the linear way as it's usually understood. I like the idea of simultaneous lives. The past and future happening now and all that jazz.

I think the soul uses reincarnation to understand it's own creativity.

I am not altogether convinced of it as a concept; however, a personal experience has led me to believe that perhaps I have seen through other eyes at some time. A Native American ritual showed me quite a few faces on mine in a mirror. Many were women, some were men, some were very different-looking than my own face. While this could be explained in terms of low light, it was most certainly not drug-induced, and I choose to believe there is that possibility, that I have seen through the eyes of ancestors. This doesn't make it so, but it is a thought I do not discount simply because I cannot define or pinpoint "soul."

I am someone that does believe in re-incarnation. I believe that we don't return in the same bodies, more like another species. I've always looked at being a panther, but I don't want to eat other animals. I think that's why I don't like Sharks or any other animal that has to eat another animal to continue to live. To be honest I really don't know what is the purpose in relation to our souls. I just look at it like a lesson of experiencing life through another living thing.

if reincarnation is the case, i'd like to know where the first soul came from, and where all these new ones are coming from.

and what would happen if life ceased to exist? where would the souls go then? what are the forces, or what is the process that this transfer of souls takes place?

personally i think it makes no sense what so ever. the only reason i can see people accepting this faith is to comfort their fear of mortality, and if this is so, what is the purpose of reliving life without the accumulated knowledge from the previous?

Since who we are is a product of a functioning brain, and death is the end of existence, reincarnation is impossible. The concept of "soul" has no basis in fact. It's something that primitive humans invented because they were unable to grasp that humans, like all other living things, simply cease to exist when they die.

I believe re-incarnation is a possibility. I believe that should a soul be re-incarnated, then it has not yet evolved to it's potential. It needs more time to grow.

best wishes.

well, you asked, so..... ;)

i do believe in reincarnation; i also believe in hauntings.

i think that not all people are 'reincarnated', i think it has something to do with the same reason spirits 'hang around'....an unfinished life, a tragic ending, something left to do or an issue to resolve.

i think you have to be pretty arrogant to not even entertain the notion that it exists with the documentation we have on it.

to answer Meg's question (above me) - we have suffering in the world so we will learn compassion.

I see it like this. there is a huge mass of souls, like an ocean and one drop from it is a single soul. when you are born a drop is removed and when you die you return back, the drop rejoining the rest. I don't think there is indvidual souls, each souls are parts of others who came before. And i think it goes for all life, thats my opinion, as to why? Perhaps to gather and collect information, I'm not quite sure.

I don't believe in it.

What is the point of being reborn if you don't take any of what you learnt in the past with you. Doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again

I'm a Christian. I believe the Bible and it teaches you only get one life, unless you die and are resuscitated. Sometimes it happens in hospitals. Jesus resuscitated Lazarus after four days and I've heard of it happening to other people as well after having been dead for days. Either way, it's still resuscitation because the person eventually dies again, this time forever. Only Jesus was really resurrected, meaning He didn't die again. We Christians will be resurrected in the end to eternal life in heaven while those who aren't will be resurrected to eternal damnation.