The True Nature of Reincarnation

Reincarnation is a concept that has fascinated humanity for centuries, present in many religions and traditions. From Hindus and Buddhists to the ancient Celts, belief in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth has had a place in the history of spirituality. In recent times, this topic has gained a new dimension, intertwined with quantum science and regression hypnosis. The author of this article explores whether memories and experiences from past lives can be caused by the phenomenon of simultaneous lives, suggesting that our spiritual connections with others may have deeper, quantum foundations. Furthermore, questions about the nature of time and reality become crucial to understanding who we truly are.

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The belief that people die and are reborn in new bodies, sometimes continuously for millennia, is found in many religions. Hindus, Buddhists, animists, and many other religious groups accept this doctrine in one form or another, as did ancient peoples, including the Celts. There is evidence that reincarnation was once an important element of Judaism and was accepted by early Christian sects.

Today, reincarnation is often considered an element of the occult. Many people belonging to religious groups that actively deny reincarnation—such as the Roman Catholic Church and most Protestants—also privately believe in reincarnation. It's very convenient to claim that we don't disappear into "nothingness" after death or face a sometimes cruel, "win or lose" judgment where appeals are not accepted.

But what is the current evidence for reincarnation? Aside from the fact that many of our ancestors believed in it, which deserves respect, we have unexplained memories, feelings, habits, seemingly impossible coincidences, strange dreams, and even puzzling historical facts that reinforce the idea that "we've been here before."

We experience déjà vú, or the feeling that "we've been here before." And hypnosis has been around for over 150 years. Today, many hypnotherapists "regress" people to "past lives." And not just for fun—regressive hypnosis undoubtedly has helpful effects on phobias and other problems experienced by people living today—problems they believe originated in their previous lives.

Of course, in nature everything dies and is born again.

However, there were a few questions that had always bothered me since I became a paranormal investigator, mainly because one of my first classes involved learning about things that seemed to never exist. But they're always worth pondering.

First, if reincarnation really exists, why are there so many "old spirits"? Second, how much hereditary memory is involved in the reincarnation experience? And finally, what would quantum mechanisms, the branch of physics on which I base my theories and methods, have to say about reincarnation?

In my opinion, the first question can be answered by the other two. Several researchers who have looked for correlations between past-life memories and genealogy have sometimes found that people shared memories that most likely belonged to their ancestors. This, of course, can only encompass memories dating back to the moment of birth as a child of the person who died in the incarnation in question. This does not explain memories of the moment of death.

This concerns quantum mechanisms, which we can look at in search of an explanation for reincarnation, which connects all unexplained situations.

Einstein and his followers essentially argued that time is relative. It exists only in relation to the observer. String theory and quantum mechanics lead us to the point where we cannot say that the past and future ever existed in any objective form.

If there is no past, where did past lives come from? And if there is no time, where did things like death come from?

They cannot exist.

Still, I'm convinced that what we call reincarnation are experiences from parallel or simultaneous lives. Just like one of the newest interpretations of quantum mechanics (the only one I believe I've had the opportunity to test during my day-to-day ghost hunting), which shows how the universe is structured. Like soap bubbles in a bathtub, there are billions of parallel worlds, one next to the other, with all of us in time, and with which we can interact.

We exist in many such worlds. Other people, who are ourselves, are manifestations of our subconscious, transmitting their memories and images to us. Hypnotic regression simply connects all the memories from parallel lives.

If this is true, and if hypnosis really is the correct way to achieve this, then shouldn't regression therapists have some suspicions about this deeper reality?

Yes, they have suspicions.

Over the years, I've made it a point to ask regression therapists if their patients ever described worlds they couldn't recognize. The answer is almost always YES. Sometimes I'd get a ton of stories about patients whose answers put the therapists off. There were stories of people who gave dates in the future—sometimes very distant futures—when asked what year it was. Others described people still alive, or those not yet born, and finally, those living in our little corner of the quantum universe.