Reincarnation

5) Fear of death or psychical unbalance: You may also take a philosophical-psychological view of the question and state that it is a matter of compensatory fantasies, which simply counteract a reasonable fear of death and expresses a need of immortality. Thus the reincarnation idea provides hope of personal life upholding and then becomes almost a pathological reaction or at least an expression of strongly psychical unbalance. Naturally such causes may to some extent be evident, but it is seriously problematic to generalize individuals' unbalanced fantasies and to make a disease out of reincarnation experiences as such. There are no scientific examples that support this and therefore the objection cannot be used as a common argument against reincarnation.

6) Paranormal identification with others: The thought of paranormal identification with persons in former times reveals a willingness to make very complicated hypotheses, which may seem even more complicated and unlikely than the reincarnation idea itself. Sometimes this hypothesis is combined with the thought of "collective cell memory", where each individual person somehow carries the ancestors' experiences in his protoplasm and therefore mistakes the brain contact with these "knowledge pockets" for speculative interpretations of former lives. The question is very simple. If you are willing to operate with the hypothesis that events and destinies of former times' individuals can be relived in a modern person's consciousness with great clearness or be reactivated in the cells - even with such clearness that the person actually identifies himself with it and is able to relate to this existence - why is it then so difficult to accept that it in fact is this person's own soul memory? Does this unwillingness against the idea of rebirth not precisely reveal a bigoted and scientific prejudice?