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Friday, 20 May 2011

Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the belief that when one dies, one's body decomposes, but one is reborn in another body. It is the belief that one has lived before and will live again in another body after death.

Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism believe in cycle of birth, death and rebirth, governed by karma - a moral causation.

Some people claim to recall past lives, while Church of Scientology accepts past lives and holds that all beings are truly immortal.

Advocates of past life regression (PLR) believe in reincarnation and claim that the experiences from previous lives can carry over and affect a person's current life. PLR is a process of retrieving supposed memories of alleged previous lives.

If reincarnation has been taking place throughout the millenniums, the population of this planet would have been static, probably the same number as the day it was created. Why then, the population on this planet is increasing everyday?

On the subject about people recalling their past lives, let me turn your attention to genes - the units of heredity in living organisms. The genes that exist today are those that have reproduced successfully in the past.

During reproduction, the genetic material is passed on from the parent(s) to the offspring. Genes encode the information necessary to construct the chemicals needed for the organism to function. Indeed, some offspring look and behave like their parents.

The controversial hypothesis, cellular memory, states that memories, habits, interests, and tastes may somehow be stored in all the cells of our bodies, and not only in the brain.

Is it possible that the genes in the cells also record other information like the experiences and history of one's "life"? If so, the genetic recording may be passed on from one generation to generation. Not everyone has the ability to unlock the stored information. For those who can do so, will probably be able to describe the past lives vividly.