Years ago I was discussing reincarnation with a friend. We had both just read a series of reports of children who had very specific knowledge of things that happened years before they were born and many miles away, in some cases thousands of miles.

He said, "I'm still not convinced."

I asked, "Well, then how do you explain all of these cases?"

He asked, "Don't you believe in Jung's theory of the Collective Unconscious?"

Why do people believe in any fantasy... it makes them feel good and not afraid to die.

I don't know but there sure are some interesting stories about it. Makes me scratch my head.

Who cares about belief? Why does it matter? Couldn’t it be that some people have looked at the evidence and decided that there might be something to reincarnation? Carl Sagan apparently did.

Unless you are a psychiatrist it is better not to psychoanalyze people. If you want to argue against reincarnation present evidence.

Because Einstein taught us that all matter is a form of energy, so since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, we have always existed and will always exist in some energy form. No reason to think energy souls don't exist, and quantum physics already tells us different dimensions exist.

"For physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein

Cuz it sounds better than being dead forever ?