If Reincarnation Is Not Real, Then How Come These Testimonies?
“The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals… and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" —Hebrews 9:27
The first saying from Emerson support reincarnation, the other from the Christian Bible means that we don't recycle, we instead face judgement immediately after death, where our eternal destiny —of either damnation or bliss— is determined.
I spent a weekend with my grandma and as it has always been my ritual to want to sit by her side and hear her tell old-time stories, I got her talking. We talked about many things, of which the topic reincarnation was among.
I was doing my modelling assignment before her that faithful day when I wittingly asked her if she knows what I'm doing. To this she gave no as an answer. I asked her again "won't you want to know what I'm doing?"; then came the reply "m kabia…
