[Acting Like Godot]

Radical:

You really make too many assumptions. There are many things you've conveniently decided to ignore. On reincarnation alone, I invite you to google these three names:

Dr Ian Stevenson
Professor Raymond Moody
Dr Brian Weiss

all three who have had outstanding academic backgrounds. At the same time, all three research the topic of reincarnation from fundamentally different perspectives.

Dr Ian Stevenson researches cases of young children who apparently recall past lives - based on their accounts, he has actually been able to track down still-living families and people who knew the child in his past life. Often the child will have a prominent birthmark which corresponds to how he died in his earlier life - eg a chest wound in one life will result in a prominent birthmark in the exact spot in his next life.

Professor Raymond Moody researches the near-death experience; people who very nearly died (eg in a car accident, of cardiac arrest etc) but survived and returned to give accounts of what they saw on the other side. Now you will learn the true origins of phrases like "the light at the end of tunnel" and "my life flashed before my eyes". You will even read about their conversations with ......... God. Or whatever you want to call him. Note that similar NDEs are reported by people from all walks of life - Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, atheists, agnostics - different nationalities, cultures etc. In other words, regardless of whether you believe in him or not, and regardless of WHAT you believe about him, at the point of your death, you ARE going to meet ..... God. Or whatever you want to call him.

Dr Brian Weiss researches the topic of past-life regression hypnosis. One of his startling discoveries is that people regularly travel with each other from one life to the next. For example, your wife in this lifetime may have been your best friend in a past life. Under hypnosis, you and your wife will give matching accounts of your past life together, in highly detailed fashion - even though you and your wife are separately hypnotised, and neither knows beforehand what the other is going to say.

My short little accounts above will probably raise more questions in your mind than provide answers. I just invite you to go read up on your own on the above. It's fascinating, and I wouldn't be able to do justice to the topics just by writing about them here.