Why I Believe In Reincarnation.

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]How you going guys? In this video, I'm going to talk about a controversial yet fascinating subject, reincarnation.

[00:00:07]I grew up a Christian. Definitely did not believe in it at the time. Then I became an atheist. Still did not believe in it. But the more and more thought I've given it over the years, looking at this through a eastern lens and through my own experiences with spiritual practices, I'm starting to feel I choose to believe it is real. And in this video, I'm going to give you my reasons why.

[00:00:33]The first thing to get out of the way, what does reincarnation mean? It means coming back in the flesh, doesn't it?

[00:00:43]You existed prior to this physical body made of flesh.

[00:00:48]You've come down in the flesh. You've died and you come back again in the flesh. So that implies to believe in reincarnation is to believe in an afterlife or a life before you existed in this reality.

[00:01:05]So that's one thing to remember. There's two types of thought in this life.

[00:01:11]Either there's an afterlife or there's not. So if you're an atheist or a materialist, of course going to heaven after death, the concept of a soul, the concept of consciousness existing independent of the body will not make sense. To be a materialist and many atheists, you need to basically have the opinion that consciousness comes from the physical body or the brain. Now, if you do a little bit of research into consciousness, you'll find that is not the case or no one has a clue.

[00:01:46]Many people that are trying to prove that consciousness comes from the brain, they're saying, "We don't know how this is possible. It even gets worse. We don't even know where to start to prove this is possible." In other words, consciousness, this feeling of existence, I am, I exist, total mystery.

[00:02:06]And that fact alone is what made me start considering reincarnation as a possibility. If they cannot explain how and why we feel conscious, if they cannot explain how nonobjective consciousness arises from objective unconscious matter by clumping it together in some formation. If they cannot explain that magic trick, who knows? So that's my first reason for starting to believe in reincarnation. The mystery of consciousness, this feeling I am, I exist. That is unchanging. It's the most realist part of your experience. Knowing your conscious, knowing you exist, ever since you were a child until whatever age you are now, that feeling has remained constant, unchanging. The world has changed. Your body's changed.

[00:02:59]Your thoughts and feelings have changed.

[00:03:00]But that feeling of being conscious, first of all, total mystery. Who knows where it's come from? Second of all, it's unchanging. And when we say the word I in the deepest sense, we're talking about that non-objective consciousness. This feeling I I am is us in the deepest sense. So that's the first thing that got me considering the teachings of reincarnation. The mystery of consciousness. That's my biggest one.

[00:03:29]If consciousness is not a product of the brain, if the brain is in fact a receiver for consciousness, which is another theory, for example, it would be like if consciousness is like radio waves and this brain or this body is like a radio.

[00:03:45]When you smash the radio, of course, you can't pick up the radio waves anymore.

[00:03:49]But that doesn't mean that the radio waves came from the radio. They existed before the radio.

[00:03:55]So there's that theory as well that consciousness is like picked up by the brain like the brain is an antenna a reducing valve for consciousness as oldest Huxley said when we take psychedelics apparently it is said if they scan our brain when we take psychedelics brain activity goes down while our experience expands.

[00:04:23]You'd think brain activity would be going up as we take a psychedelic to experience all these weird and wonderful experiences. But in deep states of meditation and taking psychedelics, brain activity lowers.

[00:04:36]So that's why oldest Huxley had a theory that the brain is a reducing valve for consciousness or an antenna for consciousness.

[00:04:46]So that's the big one. That's what made me reconsider all this. The mystery of consciousness.

[00:04:52]Second reason I started to believe in reincarnation is through my own personal experiences. I have done so much lucid dreaming. I have done out of body travel which is basically lucid dreaming again.

[00:05:06]I've also got into deep states of meditation feelings of expansion. In other words, I've had experiences in lucid dreaming and out of body experiences where I'm experiencing a reality while my body's asleep on the bed. So, the fact I can feel that I can experience reality without the need of my physical body clues me in on perhaps we are a soul. Perhaps this physical body is just a covering like they say in Eastern teachings. So that's another thing. My direct practice in deep states of meditation, lucid dreaming, out of body travel that ties in with the mystery of consciousness again.

[00:05:53]How does your conscious mind create a reality as real as this? Sometimes even realer. That's another big mystery.

[00:06:01]Third reason I started believing in reincarnation is when you look at this life, what is reincarnation and karma?

[00:06:08]Just the laws of cause and effect.

[00:06:11]We live in this physical reality under the laws of cause and effect. We feel and believe there is time. We might say time is an illusion. We might say space is an illusion. But we feel like we're experiencing it. And everything that happens in time and space has a cause effect relationship. And that's how we live. We believe in generational karma.

[00:06:34]That's why most parents want to have a successful life to pass it on to their children. Generational karma. If I have a good life, I'll give my children a good chance in life.

[00:06:48]Now, of course, some kids grow up with everything and they go off the rails.

[00:06:51]Other kids grow up with nothing and they succeed. But in general, we believe we instinctively believe in generational karma. If I do good, if I'm successful, that will help my kids. And generally that is the case. Another thing we all believe in societal karma. Some countries are trapped in poverty. Some are trapped or not trapped. Some are blessed with a lot of wealth. Western countries are blessed with a lot of wealth.

[00:07:20]Southeast Asian countries a lot of them are in poverty. Now that's changing slowly. But we believe in societal karma. The position certain countries are in are from what happened in the past. We also believe in recycling. We also believe in if I go around being a jerk, people are going to come after me.

[00:07:38]They're going to be a jerk back to me.

[00:07:40]If I go around screwing people over, I'm going to go to prison. What I'm saying, we live in this physical reality like karma is a fact. And we do feel the effects of it.

[00:07:51]So again, if the soul is not a product of the body, the soul existed prior to the body, it doesn't take much of a leap to think if there's karma on the physical level, perhaps there is karma on the subtle level, at the level of the soul.

[00:08:10]So that was my third reasoning in regards to your subtle body, your soul, this feeling of inhabiting a body.

[00:08:20]If it's not a product of the body, of course it's going to continue on. And what will it continue on to do? Whatever it basically did this life, there's one way I've heard this said so beautifully. They say, "Do you want to know what you were genuinely like in your last life? Look at what you're doing this life. Do you want to know how you'll genuinely be next life? Look at what you're doing this life.

[00:08:44]Look at this life.

[00:08:47]Every day we get up and we basically have the same routine.

[00:08:51]We walk the same way. We speak the same way. We have our little habits and routines. I get up, make a coffee, then I do meditation, then I watch some news.

[00:09:01]We've all got our little habits and tendencies.

[00:09:05]From a child till now, we feel like the same person, don't we?

[00:09:10]But we've been slowly evolving over time. Cause and effect. This led to this, this leds to that. So they say death is not going to interrupt this process for the soul. They say it's like throwing off old clothing, this body, then we inhabit a new one.

[00:09:27]If we have not woken up to our true self yet, that's the whole catch, too.

[00:09:31]Reincarnation again means coming back to this physical reality. But if we're spiritual, if we keep our mind on God or spiritual practices and we're so blessed, we won't have to come back. We will still exist, but not with this baggage of a human body.

[00:09:48]So again, that's my third reason in believing in reincarnation. We treat this physical reality under the laws of cause and effect. Good and bad karma.

[00:09:58]Go around being a peaceful, loving person. Generally, people are going to do it back to you. Go around being a jerk. People are going to screw you over or put you into prison.

[00:10:08]And then the question comes, "Yeah, but how come bad things happen to good people?" Again, because good and bad are in relation to our soul.

[00:10:20]You've got an infinite soul living countless lives and everything you do sends ripples through this reality. So, it's going to come back to bite you sooner or later. And that's why it's always a good idea to be good, kind, loving when bad things happen. Don't react. Return hate with love.

[00:10:40]Flush out all that bad karma that you're getting from past lives and generate good karma for future love.

[00:10:47]But I'm getting ahead of myself. In any event, that's the third reason I believe in the law of karma. We treat this physical reality under the laws of karma. Cause and effect.

[00:10:58]Fourth reason, fourth reason I believe in karma are all these stories of these children talking about past lives. And if you do a deep dive into all these cases through Jim Tucker, I think, and there was someone else, Ian, I can't remember the name.

[00:11:17]Definitely Jim Tucker. They research these past lives. They scrutinize every case and verify all these details. And the amount of details these young children have ageed 2 to four when they're really young, astonishing.

[00:11:34]Many times they know facts that only the family knew. It was never public. You could not find this online. So the very fact that there's all these cases of children talking about past lives and the details can be verified. At the very least, it shows you something about this reality. If it's not reincarnation, there's something mysterious going on.

[00:11:54]Also, it explains these child prodigies, these children that are gifted at music, at mathematics at the age of five or or less. How it would explain that big mystery too.

[00:12:08]So, that's another reason. All these stories of young children, all these people talking about past lives and the details matching, details that could not have been found by researching it online, for instance.

[00:12:21]That's another big one. Final one, the least convincing to most people. Ancient cultures have always talked about this.

[00:12:29]In ancient Greece, Pythagoras, Plato, they believed in reincarnation.

[00:12:35]Most people think it's just an eastern belief system. No, the ancient Greeks believed in reincarnation. So, ancient Greeks believed in it and of course the ancient Hindus did too.

[00:12:48]And that's the funny thing. Another thing regarding Hinduism, there are so many branches of Hinduism. Even Buddhism came out of India.

[00:12:58]Janism came out of India. You know the funny thing, Buddhism rejects the Vaders. The Hindu scriptures.

[00:13:05]Janism I think also rejects the Vaders.

[00:13:09]They all totally disagree on a lot of things, but the one thing they all agree on reincarnation. Even the Buddha who talked of no self talked about experiencing past lives. He remembered all his past lives at the moment of enlightenment.

[00:13:22]How does someone that teach no self talk about past lives? It would be like us in this life. We can talk about our 10-year-old self, our 12-year-old self.

[00:13:32]We call that our self, our 10year-old self, 12-year-old self, 7year-old self.

[00:13:38]We call that our past self. But when we look back at that time in our life, our body has changed, thoughts have changed, opinions have changed, friends what we liked.

[00:13:51]Picture your 10 or 12 year old self and look at yourself now. If you're anything like most people, you're completely different. You don't even like the same things, the same hobbies, same interest.

[00:14:05]That is the way to look at it in regards to past lives. So when the Buddha said, "I had countless past lives that I remembered at the moment of awakening, liberation, and he also talked about no self." He's talking about that fundamental essence, pure consciousness. Our fundamental essence is pure consciousness. That's what they say in advant.

[00:14:28]But you have this egoic self, this self that feels like Simon right now or yourself.

[00:14:34]We've got this dual experience that's ultimately non-dual. There's this unchanging impersonal witness that I truly am at my core overlaid with this ego agoic self that feels like they're in time and space that can remember past decades of this life and past lives.

[00:14:52]You can also go into past life regression. Many people have great experiences with that.

[00:14:59]So all this put together is what has convinced me that the teachings of reincarnation are true. Now again, you don't have to believe it, do you? We've all got our own thoughts and opinions and what are the practical implications they talk about? If you don't want to be reborn, if you don't want to be incarnated in the flesh, what does Krishna say in the Bhagavagita? Keep your mind fixed on God.

[00:15:28]Make it a habit in daily life. So at the moment of death, a very traumatic experience, your mind will instinctively go to God. Krishna also said keep your attention at the point between your eyebrows here because apparently that's where you want consciousness to exit the body at the time of death. If it goes out the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, you're going to go into a state of unconsciousness, be thrown around the astral realm, perhaps not even realize you've died, and then perhaps be reincarnated. So again this is all metaphysical isn't it? But again Krishna says in meditation keep your attention between the eyebrows. Keep your mind fixed on God because again at the moment of death this will kick in automatically because you practice it so much and you'll have a smooth exit from your body. You'll be able to consciously die and then not be reincarnated again unless you choose to do that.

[00:16:23]That's the thing. Reincarnation means coming back to this life, this world of time and space with this heavy meatag of a body. I remember one subscriber asking me, "Is it so bad to come back again and again? Why do people want to escape reincarnation?"

[00:16:40]And I told them, "You must have a very blessed life because most people are in misery and suffering. They've experienced so much pain and suffering or they're going to.

[00:16:51]And once you've experienced myself personally, lucid dreaming, out of body travel, you feel so light, free. You're not constrained by a physical body.

[00:17:01]When you're back in this body, it's slow. It's getting older. It's starting to get aches and pains. It's going to die. So again, reincarnation just means not coming back to this physical plane.

[00:17:15]It does not mean you're going to merge into non-existence. It means you're going to go to higher realms.

[00:17:22]or merge into pure existence. If you're into the teachings of non-duality, it's only going to end well for you if you do not come back here. Many people talk about being here as a hell realm. In that sense, it is. You can make this world as heavenly as you want by changing your mindset, but it is. For most people, it is a hell realm. So, the way out of this, take the teachings of karma and reincarnation to be real.

[00:17:47]Treat this life as a training ground.

[00:17:49]What should we be doing? Be loving, patient, non-reactive.

[00:17:54]The fabric of reality, the fabric of God is love. So, what's the secret? Be loving. That's what all spiritual and religious teachings are pointing to.

[00:18:02]What are they always talking about?

[00:18:04]Develop peace, non-attachment, non-reactivity, love. What does that do?

[00:18:09]Open us up. Our ego is fear. What keeps us trapped is fear. Fear makes us tense, feel separate.

[00:18:20]When we do the reverse, love opens us up, expands us.

[00:18:25]And that's another thing. At the moment of death, if you're in a state of fear and panic, attachment, you come back.

[00:18:31]That's what they say. If you're in a state of surrender, openness, love, calmness, keeping your mind fixed on God, you're going to have a smooth transition into the afterlife and you won't be coming back here. Again, this is all getting very metaphysical, isn't it? But those were my main points on why I believe in the teachings of reincarnation. Just to review, number one, the mystery of consciousness. Until science can explain how objective unconscious matter gives rise to non-objective consciousness, I'm going to keep my opinions on reincarnation as true. Second one, I've had so many experiences. lucid dreaming, out of body travel, sitting in deep meditation, feelings of expansion, this deep intuition that I'm about to break through to something greater. Go to a higher state of samadei or whatever you want to call it. I feel like I'm on the brink. I just haven't broken through there yet. There's just an intuition.

[00:19:27]That's the second reason. Third reason, we all believe in in the teachings of karma in this life. Karma and reincarnation work hand in hand. We all talk, we all believe in karma, generational karma, societal karma. If you go around being a good person, you're generally going to get it back.

[00:19:44]If you go around being a bad person, you're generally going to get it back.

[00:19:48]Next one. Again, stories of children experiencing past lives with all these details that only the person that have that did die would know who have told family members. They ask family members for instance, and they back up the stories.

[00:20:04]Do a deep dive yourself if you haven't into past lives.

[00:20:09]Amazing. Final one. All these ancient cultures talked about it. Ancient Greece talked about it.

[00:20:16]Of course, ancient India talked about it. And all the belief systems of ancient India, even Buddhists, Janists who don't even believe in the vades, the scriptures of Hinduism, also believe in karma and rebirth. Why? because they believed it was a law of reality.

[00:20:34]It's just another law. The law of gravity, the law of karma, the law of rebirth. They just believed it was a law of the universe. It wasn't so much spiritual. It was more just a law of life. And what did they teach? How to escape this constant rebirth, reincarnation.

[00:20:52]That's why Hindus are obsessed with getting out of this cycle of birth and death. It just means getting out of this physical existence and being in higher realms where we're not relying on this body. That's all it's saying. And here's the final thing.

[00:21:08]Living under the teachings of karma and reincarnation bring peace and happiness here and now. It develops non-attachment, non-reactivity, develops thoughts and feelings of love.

[00:21:20]Basically, if all this was made up, living like the teachings of karm and reincarnation are true will just give you peace and happiness here and now.

[00:21:28]That's what it's done for me.

[00:21:31]So, at the very least, that's what it's going to do for you.

[00:21:35]And at the very most, which I strongly believe is true, my personal opinion, you won't be coming back here again if you do it correctly.

[00:21:42]It's going to be such a blissful, happy experience in the afterlife. and you look back at this life, physical existence, and go, "Wow, I don't want to go back there again."

[00:21:55]I'll leave it at that.