How Reincarnation Works — The Nonreligious Version

Here are the basic steps of how reincarnation works. It’s probably different from what you think…

How Reincarnation Works. Photo from Unsplash/ Amy Humphries

When we’re talking about how reincarnation works, we’re obviously talking about souls. This is a spiritual subject, yes, but that doesn’t automatically make it a religious one. I believe there is some semblance of truth in most religions, but humans have a tendency to manipulate and distort things — especially when it means they can control other people.

A huge percentage of the world’s religions, particularly some of the oldest ones, include a belief in reincarnation. (Even early Christianity, though a lot of people don’t realize it.) For this reason alone, it’s worth considering what is the truth that lies buried beneath the beliefs?

“I am not a religious person, but I found the place where we go after death to be one of order and direction, and I have come to appreciate that there is a grand design to life and afterlife.” (Michael Newton, PhD)

I won’t claim to be an expert on reincarnation, but I do enjoy sharing the information that made a believer out of me. Why? Because doing this research cured me of my crippling anxiety and shifted my whole perspective on relationships and life. Maybe it can help someone else, too.

For me, it took hearing about it from scientists and doctors and therapists to take it seriously. I needed to get information from people who could speak to my logical mind.

In the beginning I was reading about how reincarnation works just for fun. It was an entertaining concept. But the more I read books written by different authors in different times and places, all saying the same things, the more I started thinking holy shit, this stuff is real.

I would like to go into each of these sections in more depth in future posts, but this is the overview of how reincarnation works based on the info I’ve gathered.

“The manner of death may be different but what happens next is always the same… when you obtain the same descriptions from many…