Fascinating. Let’s hear it.
Well.... I had an uncle who 100% believed in reincarnation, so I suppose that made me consider it. He was driving in a western town he'd never been in and described to his wife what was on every street and around every corner. I wasn't around for that, so who knows. I just know he was convinced.
My personal experience with my child and grandchildren also makes me think it's a possibility. There are times when they all act and remind me of past relatives. My daughter, while she's not a copy of my grandmother, reminds me so much of her. My grandmother was a very devout Christian. She died 5 years before my daughter was born. We went to church on and off while my daughter was growing up, but we didn't force religion on her and we weren't that devout - there was no pressure on her. But she and her husband attend church with my grandchildren every Sunday, attend Bible studies, volunteer at food banks, etc. There are things about her that just remind me so much of my grandmother.
My granddaughter, when she was learning to wave bye-bye (probably around a year old?), she was sitting in her high chair and looked up at a corner of the ceiling and started waving bye-bye. Cute, right? Then, she turned in her high chair and continued waving as she turned toward the door - like she was following someone out. Then she did it again. Now, that's not a sign of reincarnation - more like spirits? But it made me consider the possibility of spirits coming back in human form.
Now, maybe it's genetics for my daughter - that's why I'm only 50/50. But sometimes the resemblance is so strong it's scary. There are other instances but I don't want to write a novel.
I had a Ouija board experience that still freaks me out. When I was about 17, we were messing around with a Ouija board and I asked it a question. It replied with what I thought was nonsense at the time. I'm not going to get into specifics (maybe when you come down to a tailgate, I'll tell you), but about 30 years later, that prediction made 100% sense.
I'm not into the occult at all and I think there are a lot of kooks out there who believe in this stuff. But I've seen enough that I'm not going to dismiss things like reincarnation out of hand.
There are many things we, as humans, don't understand. That's why I think people who dismiss "God" as nonsense aren't acknowledging the possibility - and probability - that there is something/Someone more than just a couple atoms smashing together that made the universe.
Thinking about the universe and endless space and time just gives me a headache.
