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Reincarnation
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions. This doctrine is a central tenet of the Indian religions.
Although the majority of sects within Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not believe that individualsreincarnate, particular groups within these religions do refer to reincarnation; these groups include the mainstream historical and contemporary followers of Kabbalah, the Cathars, and the Shia sects such as the Alawi Shias and the Druze and the Rosicrucians. The historical relations between these sects and the beliefs about reincarnation that were characteristicof Neoplatonism, Orphism, Hermeticism, Manicheanism and Gnosticism of the Roman era, as well as the Indian religions has been the subject of recent scholarly research.
In recent decades, many Europeans and North Americans have developed an interest in reincarnation. Contemporary films, books, and popular songs frequently mention reincarnation. In the last decades, academic researchers have begun to explore reincarnation and published reportsof children's memories of earlier lives in peer-reviewed journals and books. Skeptics are generally incredulous about this and any other claims of life after death.

Conceptual definitions
The word "reincarnation" derives from Latin, literally meaning, "entering the flesh again". The Greek equivalent metempsychosis. roughly corresponds to the common English phrase "transmigration of the soul"and also usually connotes reincarnation after death, as either human, animal, though emphasising the continuity of the soul, not the flesh. The term has been used by modern philosophers such as Kurt Gödel and has entered the English language. Another Greek term sometimes used synonymously is Palin genesis, "being born again".
The soul
The soul can be experienced or perceived by the presence ofconsciousness.
Many spiritual traditions of the world accept “consciousness” as being a symptom of the SOUL.
At the time of death, all physical and chemical components of the body remain in place but something non-physical has been lost.
Even through our language we identify ourselves as being different from the body.
Body is compared to a vehicle.

Philosophical and religious beliefsregarding the existence or non-existence of an unchanging "self" have a direct bearing on how reincarnation is viewed within a given tradition. The Buddha lived at a time of great philosophical creativity in India when many conceptions of the nature of life and death were proposed. Some were materialist, holding that there was no existence and that the self is annihilated upon death. Others believed in aform of cyclic existence, where a being is born, lives, dies and then is reborn, but in the context of a type of determinism or fatalism in which karma played no role. Others were "eternalists", postulating an eternally existent self or soul comparable to that in Judaic monotheism: the ātman survives death and reincarnates as another living being, based on its karmic inheritance. This is the ideathat has become dominant (with certain modifications) in modern Hinduism.
How can we understand the existence of the soul?
Seeing doesn’t believe.
How do scientists deal with certain sub-atomic particles?
We can believe that solid matter, such as a rock, is really composed of tiny solar systems in which electrons revolve at incredible speeds around protons.
Qualities of the Soul
“For...
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