Reincarnation

3) Fantasy is mistaken for reality: It is sometimes claimed that reincarnation experiences must be owing to a lively imagination , which in a credulous person is turned into realities, perhaps because of wishful thinking. But the objection that fantasy is mistaken for reality will be strongly reduced, if the person is equable and has a clear and distinct experience of something, which is just as much a fact as the other experiences in the everyday life, perhaps even more clear. Neither do we doubt other people's memories of what they experienced yesterday. If a person evidently claims to remember past lives, and if the exactness of this memory is significantly distinct and living, are we not compelled to allow for acceptance of the experience? A completely denial and exclusion that such reality can be possible show a very unscientific and prejudiced approach to the question.

4) Hallucination - unknown brain function: From a scientific point of view it may be stated that all kinds of reincarnation memories are expressions of biochemical reactions in the brain, which result in imaginative pictures that are hallucinatory. It is not just a matter of fantasies but unknown areas in the brain or incomprehensible brain functions that activate and generate mental illusions. Irrespective of the clearness of the experienced you may claim that it is pure brain productions with no foundation in fact. The answer to this is that such a conclusion more than anything else would be a premature conclusion based on presumptions and a materialistic background, which denies the possibility of reincarnation. As we will discuss later, scientific research is actually performed on the reincarnation phenomenon. Such a research must be compared with the statement of hallucinations and unknown brain functions, before any conclusions can be drawn.