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.