Reincarnation strikes me as a method employed by the ego to comfort itself against the prospect of annihilation. It's harder than it was before for me to believe that the contents of one human container is transported into another such container. Far more intuitive for me is the idea that a collective un/conscious grants us access to the full store of memory before our own lives. Carl Jung and Stan Grof both have much writing that supports such an idea, and would help explain the idea of "past-lives" and their memories, even if reincarnation doesn't in fact exist. My mind remains open, but always striving to question assumptions. That's my two sats 🙂

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I think the research done into reincarnation and those who remember their past lives is very interesting. Lots of compelling 'evidence' on the subject, I find it very difficult to outright dismiss. I would say it's the logical explanation. A greater or collective un/consciousness is coherent at explaining both perspectives, at least the way I have understood it. The body isn't a container for the soul, it's the physical expression/manifestation of the soul.