Thing is, though, that the actual data for it, that is to say people who have claimed to actually remember past lives, when this is put to the test for specifics and for information that can be verified that they couldn't have known, etc., well those claims fall apart.
However, people who have near death experiences, of which there is a lot of data, do NOT report they are going to be reincarnated, before being yanked back to life on the operating table or some such.
No, it wouldn't be more honest to stay that. We have lots of data on near death experiences, double blind stuff at that, where objects are hidden and those who "died" said they saw things researchers hid in the room. Meanwhile, we have no data on those who say they remember their pasts lives where they can give verifiable details. It's always open ended stuff, that anybody could make up on that spot, like they were a milkmaid in Denmark.
Yea, they were called "heresies" and they were defeated by better theology and the use of proper authority.
You'll never know. You lose all your memories.
Thing is, though, that the actual data for it, that is to say people who have claimed to actually remember past lives, when this is put to the test for specifics and for information that can be verified that they couldn't have known, etc., well those claims fall apart.
However, people who have near death experiences, of which there is a lot of data, do NOT report they are going to be reincarnated, before being yanked back to life on the operating table or some such.
No, it wouldn't be more honest to stay that. We have lots of data on near death experiences, double blind stuff at that, where objects are hidden and those who "died" said they saw things researchers hid in the room. Meanwhile, we have no data on those who say they remember their pasts lives where they can give verifiable details. It's always open ended stuff, that anybody could make up on that spot, like they were a milkmaid in Denmark.