As I have mentioned before, I am a skeptic by nature.
Thus I also did not believe in reincarnation. However, the possibility that it
could be true involves several Big Questions About Existence, which I felt that I owed to myself, to investigate.
Never mind what others may or may not believe - I felt I owed a duty to myself, to answer my own questions, or at least make an attempt to do so.
Hence I personally underwent past-life regression hypnosis. In fact the hypnotherapist discouraged me. That was because I did not actually have burning issues in my present lifetime, to investigate by checking my past lives.
Nevertheless I insisted. I visited two past lives. So now, instead of merely impaul's theories, or renie408's theories, or antiventurecapital's theories about why reincarnation is or is not true, I have personal experience to rely on.
For those who aren't as skeptical and inquiring as me, you can still go some way - by seriously reading up on topics like past-life regression hypnosis and
near-death experiences ....... before you commit yourself to some definite opinion in your own mind.
In the area of past-life regression hypnosis, we owe a lot to the work of a very courageous man by the name of Dr Brian Weiss. He was a highflying psychiatrist, with top qualifications from top universities, he was heading a department in a major hospital etc etc. He stumbled on past-life regression hypnosis. For years he kept his research a secret, knowing that if it were released, it would jeorpardise his career .... imagine it - the head of a department of a respectable hospital in the United States, believing in past lives!
Eventually he felt that that the potential value of his research was worth jeopardising his career for. And so he went public anyway. Brave man.