Reincarnation

Objections

The number of believers in a cause will never as such be a guarantee for its authenticity. The above-mentioned examples of well-known intellectual personalities do only serve to demonstrate that the European conception in this field may actually be different than the one we read about in the history books and hear about through intellectual figures. In the following we will have a close look on some of the objections that are often raised against the reincarnation theory.

1) Why does not everybody remember their past lives? This question is very understandable, and you may naturally wonder why certain people suddenly remember their past lives, whereas most of us do not seem to have access to such memories. Here it is very important to remember, that the fact is that it is not the personality that reincarnates, but the soul that manifests a new personality each time. This explains why not all of us have easy access to knowledge about our past lives. Our body as well as our emotional and mental nature are new in each life. Therefore we do simply not have any recall on our past lives. But still, some people are able to remember other existences. How is that? Here we have more possible explanations. First, a spontaneous or trained deliberate contact with the soul may give access to its comprehensive memory. In that case you may say that fragments of memories flow down into the personality and give knowledge of the past. There may also be events in this life that directly relate to past lives, which through resonance produce inklings or clear impressions of connections with past lives. Our personality is of course new in relation to past lives, but still it holds "water marks" or "blue prints" which are like echoes from the soul's previous experiences. These may be wholly or partly activated and in certain cases produce glimpses of our soul or just feelings, which relate to past lives. In this way some people may have access to more or less direct information on previous incarnations. Sooner or later everybody's soul contact will give direct knowledge of our many lives. Until we reach this mature state we will at most receive feelings, senses and glimpses of comprehensions.

2) We become more and more people! How does that relate to reincarnation? Another kind of objection is that the growing number of people on earth brings up the question where these "new" people come from. The answer is, that according to the esoteric sources the total number of human souls is far higher than the number of people who right now are incarnated in the physical world. In other words there are human souls in higher, inner conscious dimensions, who are not incarnated, but exist in the intervening period between two physical lives. It is stated in the esoteric sources - e.g by Alice A. Bailey and Annie Besant, that the total number of human souls is about 10 times the population of the world today (6 billion). That means that the growth in population permits a higher percentage of the total number of human souls to be in physical incarnation at the same time.