Would you still hate or judge people of other religions, nationalities, ethnic affiliations, races or genders if you knew that you may have been part of a different religion, had a different nationality, ethnic affiliation, race or gender in another lifetime?
A man named Ian Stevenson, MD who died in 2007, was a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia. He spent 40 years researching and documenting reincarnation and past lives. For 20 of those years he compiled and studied 2500 cases involving children who spontaneously remembered past lives in detail. In about 1500 of those cases, the past lives of those children could be factually validated. He had a team of researchers from all over the world to help him. The researchers found that when reincarnated, a person can change religion, nationality, ethnic affiliation, race and gender from one lifetime to another. Change in gender happened less frequently – only 10% of the cases. Researchers suspected that if a soul is accustomed to incarnating in one gender and then has a lifetime as the opposite sex, that soul may identify with the previous usual gender which could lead to transsexualism, transgender issues and gender identity disorder.
I believe we were all put on this earth to learn lessons, improve our soul and the souls of others. I believe we do reincarnate into other demographics so that we can learn and get a different perspective on life. As the saying goes, walk a mile in someone else’s shoes to really understand them. How about a lifetime?
I think with all of the hate and anger that is so prevalent right now many of us may have lost our way and need to reconnect with our inner soul. If we all took a time out and looked within ourselves maybe the world would be a better place. We don’t need to be so judgmental, so hateful, so rushed and impatient. We are here for a reason. You are here for a reason. Be kind and try to see others as the beautiful imperfect souls that they are. We are all just trying to learn and be better, sometimes we just need a gentle reminder.
For more information about reincarnation, look into the research of Ian Stevenson, MD or Walter Semkiw, MD.
There is also a great, somewhat long, article written by Walter Semkiw, MD that you can access here. The article answers a lot of questions about reincarnation and I found it incredibly interesting.
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