Top 10 Reasons for Reincarnation

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5. Child Prodigies


A prodigy is a child who possesses a special gift or talent—usually for science or the arts—they not only seem to excel at but become remarkably proficient at years ahead of their contemporaries. Good examples of prodigies include the German composer Amadeus Mozart, who was able to compose simple arrangements of music at the age of four and compose entire symphonies by adolescence, and the 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal, who managed to outline a new geometric system by the age of 11. While modern science attributes these rare gifts to simple brain chemistry, it fails to ask the question of why their brains are wired differently than other people or, precisely, in which way they are differently wired. Is it some genetic mutation or a one-in-a-million mix of DNA and if so, why does it not seem to similarly affect their normal siblings?

Or could it be that these special people possess their remarkable ability because they have done it all before? In effect, could the child who shows a special gift for geometry have been a mathematics professor in a previous lifetime or was Mozart able to accomplish his amazing feats of music because, precisely as he claimed, he had been a musician many times before? If past-life traumas, memories, interests, and even experiences seem to be able to manifest themselves in our current life-time, then why not our previous gifts and talents as well?

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4. Déjà Vu


Déjà vu is the strange sense that one is repeating an experience they’re certain they’ve never had before, or possessing an inexplicable knowledge of the layout of a building or city that one has never visited before. To some people, such experiences are considered evidence of a past life—an echo or ill-defined memory that has somehow survived the rebirthing process to be inadvertently triggered by some event in the present.

Science insists such experiences are simply a coincidental similarity between a present and a similar but forgotten past experience. No doubt, there is some validity to this idea, as it has been repeatedly proven that memory is a tricky affair that is capable of playing all kinds of pranks on the mind, but this explanation doesn’t seem to explain the sheer amount of detail that is sometimes recalled in the best cases of déjà vu.


Even a similarity of places or events cannot explain, for instance, how a person can correctly name and describe the maze of streets that lie just ahead in a small village they are visiting for the first time, nor does it seem to logically account for how a person can recall the precise layout of a home they had never visited before with unerring exactitude.


A similarity with places or things experienced in the past can go only so far; at some point the odds against correctly guessing the precise layout of a city or the location of various rooms within a sprawling mansion becomes astronomical, making reincarnation, in such cases, at least a possibility.

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3. Idiomatic Phobias




Phobias—those unusual and often overwhelming feelings of fear we sometimes have regarding things that usually do not constitute a genuine danger to us—is a common phenomenon almost everyone has experienced at one time or another. How one acquires a phobia is a well understood process; they are the result of some trauma or event from one’s past—usually in childhood—that manifests itself in later life as an often irrational fear. But what of those phobias that seem to develop without an accompanying trauma? For example, a therapist may find that a man who has been afraid of drowning for as long as he can remember and is terrified of water has never experienced a near drowning, while another may be terrified of horses though they’ve never been near one their entire life.



In performing a past life regression, however, the key to uncovering the mystery becomes apparent as many subjects recall being traumatized in past lifetimes, with the resulting fear carrying over to the present life. For example, the man afraid of water may have drowned in a past life, while the person afraid of horses discovers they were trampled to death by one in a previous incarnation, and they retain these traumas into the present incarnation.



The good news, however, is that in many cases, once the past life trauma has been identified, the sufferer frequently exhibits a surprisingly quick and complete recovery—often far more quickly than is commonly seen with more conventional therapies. In fact, even the medical community agrees that such therapies are an effective means of dealing with severe, unexplained phobias, though they generally dismiss reincarnation as a viable explanation, assuming instead that the past life “memories” are subconsciously manufactured fantasies created to mask the real trauma behind the phobia. In either case, though, past-life regression has proven to be an extremely effective means of affecting a cure.

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2. Homo***uality and Transgender Tendencies

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Until fairly recently it was assumed that homo***ual behavior was a freely chosen lifestyle choice that could be resisted with sufficient willpower, but evidence has subsequently shown just the opposite to be true. According to recent studies, approximately 2-3% of the population develops or realizes an almost exclusively homo***ual orientation from adolescence, while other studies further suggest that the proclivity towards same *** attraction may also have a genetic link.



Yet what would cause such a proclivity, especially considering the negative consequences such a life-style has traditionally incurred in some societies? Is it a question of environment and upbringing, or is it entirely a matter of biology?


Or could there be another factor involved? What if the underlying cause of homo***uality is neither environmental nor genetic, but is instead the result of a previous opposite *** incarnation? Since regression therapists frequently encounter cases of men remembering having been a woman in their immediate past life—and woman of having been men—could cross-gender reincarnation have a more profound impact than might seem immediately evident?



Perhaps in so closely identifying with their previous gender, they find it difficult to adjust to their new gender and so retain many of the characteristics they possessed in their last incarnation. As such, a man may be attracted to other men because on some level he still retains feminine proclivities from his past life (despite the degree of masculinity he may possess in other areas of his present life). While far from irrefutable evidence for reincarnation, cross-gender rebirth needs to be considered as one possible explanation for same gender affinities (and may have a role in explaining bi***uality, transvestitism, and even pedophilia as well).

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1. Hobbies, Interests and Obsessions




Some of us seem drawn to particular objects, places, or things from earliest childhood, frequently turning them into life-long hobbies and obsessions, but where do these interest come from? For example, why would a person be drawn to studying everything there is to know about the Civil War—a conflict that occurred a century before they were even born—or why does a teenager develop a fascination with the country of France though they have never been there or have any obvious connections with the place?



Could these be “echoes” from a previous incarnation? Is a Civil War buff simply pursuing a new interest or is he in some ways still clinging to a past incarnation in which he was a participant in that war? Is the teenager simply attracted to France because she admires its language, customs and history, or could there be more to it? Even if we have no conscious memory of that past persona, might not our present hobbies be a reflection of that individual’s experiences and interests?



While reincarnation is only one possible answer, it must at least be considered, especially in those cases where one develops a hobby or interest that seems quite out of the ordinary (such as a boy growing up in land-locked Iowa developing a fascination for eighteenth century schooners). It’s not known how much of our past we might retain into our present, albeit in the most subtle and subconscious ways, but it’s entirely possible that our past may be far more tied into our present (and, by extension, our future) than we can begin to imagine.