To answer the question – there is a logical disproof of one-to-one reincarnation (lives following on from one another).

If this phenomena was real, then as life forms die out in the universe from catastrophic effects (supernovae, planetery impacts from comets etc) then if reincarnation was real, we would see life spontaneously forming for no apparent reason (virgin births, bacteria splitting and multiplying under sterile foodless conditions, frogs appearing without frog spawn, etc etc etc).

No such effects are observed. Therefore, reincarnation on a one-to-one, here one minute and there another, is false.

It does however leave open the idea of partial reincarnation – as we die, our experience gets passed out to a universal consciousness, and new life is formed with access to the universal consciousness. Thus allowing access to information from “past lives” without the actual experience of “past lives”.

I can’t give out a link, as I came up with this pretty much on my own. Although I have heard from at least one person that it’s the position of some of the British Psychical Research Society).

@The Psyientist 506483 wrote:

I could just keep quiet and avoid any public humiliation but instead I’m standing tall (with my head already hung in shame) and uttering the words “I love that song” in fact I like quite a few Belinda Carlisle songs.

Excuse me while I go chuck my nads in the deep fat fryer.

I’m a Rod Stewart fan mate, is that deep fat flyer big enough for 4? :laugh_at:

@The Psyientist 506483 wrote:

I could just keep quiet and avoid any public humiliation but instead I’m standing tall (with my head already hung in shame) and uttering the words “I love that song” in fact I like quite a few Belinda Carlisle songs.

Excuse me while I go chuck my nads in the deep fat fryer.

You Northerners with ya wacky sense of humour and loyalty – you don’t have to like her just because she has a Northern town in her name you know!

Having said that, the sleepy little town of Belinda is a great reason to visit the north!

I don’t pretend to understand things like Near Death Experiences, but I do feel that information transfer happens all the time without a “physical” medium.

In other words, information is a big part of non-physical reality. So, take a 2 year old child who looks bright, educate them non-stop that they are a reincarnation according to Bhuddist philosophy – 11 years later, the Dalai Lama is “reincarnated”. I think the current incumbent is a very sharp, witty, and smart individual. He’s certainly very very deep on Bhuddist philosophic theory and practice.

Likewise, Alexander the Great. Take a child and educate them that it’s their DESTINY to organise an invasion and conquer the Persian Empire, guess what? They succeed and have little else to do except keep conquering until defeated.

I wouldn’t throw out Bhuddist practices and ideas without scientifically scrutinising them, trying to validate or reject them, and plenty of neuroscientists agree that Bhuddism does contain many valid models of the human mind. I think there’s a lot of valuable ideas in those who DO believe in reincarnation. I just think the basic idea of reincarnation, one-to-one, is flawed.