Reincarnation is a common belief that states that the soul of a deceased person returns in a new life. Kabbalah maintains that a soul does not disappear after death, but instead finds its place in an eternal world or is reincarnated in another human body, newly born. The reason why this happens is because the soul has yet to complete its journey destination in this world.
The newly reincarnated soul will act according to negative or positive actions of a previous life or incarnations. Kabbalah explains, if the actions have been less than positive, the soul will have the opportunity to correct these actions.
Faith according to Kabbalah theory of reincarnation provides certain answers in combating the fear of death. People who believe in reincarnation, take great comfort in the belief that after ones death, their soul returns to the spirit world in order to await for the next good opportunity to be reincarnated in the body of a newly born baby, in order to learn more and complete certain actions. This faith and belief in reincarnation is very popular in many cultures, each slightly different but maintaining a common denominator with those basic beliefs.
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Reincarnation in Indian Culture
In Indian culture the belief in reincarnation is very strong. The roots of this belief lie in Buddhism and Hinduism. In those religions, death is regarded as simply as the soul exchanging the body. For this reason, the results bring about a lack of energy balance. Followers of these religions strongly believe that they need to return to repair defects from their previous lives.
This can be evidenced in the structure of a person’s individuality or on their behavioral patterns, after they have gathered considerable negative experiences.
Life is perceived as a long spiritual journey in a material world that cannot be accomplished in one reincarnation. According to this belief, a soul comes back and lives each time according to choice.
The soul can set one of the following criteria to choose when to be reincarnated,
– It can choose: time, place, parents to born to according to a “fixing” that it knows he comes to accomplish. (During the first two months of pregnancy, the reincarnated soul has a time to regret – and this is an explanation for natural abortion)
This faith in reincarnation also provides an explanation for the “de ja vu” phenomenon, where someone has a distinct feeling that they have been on the Earth before. As a result of this approach there are treatments available called reincarnation reconstruction. These treatments attempt to heal people from unexplainable problems, considering old traumas that were collected during previous reincarnations.
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Reincarnations in Kabbalah
Jewish tradition, especially Kabbalah provides very deep explanation relating to reincarnations. The Zohar and also Golden Age period kabbalist, HaAri, provided a very detailed explanation regarding the purpose of a reincarnation as well as a detailed list of souls that were reincarnated.
According to Kabbalah method, most of the souls to be born in this world are old and not new souls. The reincarnation method gives an explanation regarding reward and punishment and also a theological explanation regarding calamities that can happen to babies, which are not in “punishment” age. The same theories can also apply to tragedies happen to righteous people. An explanation is that tragedy happens as punishment for a sin in a previous life.
In Hassidic tradition (kabbalah “renessanse” period in Eastern Europe of the 17th Century) there are plenty of stories about reincarnation. The Baal Shem Tov (the leading kabbalist of that time) was asked one day by his students the reason why one great Torah scholar was killed.
Baal Shem Tov explained that the same man was a head of the Sanhedrin in period of Zichriah the Prophet. On one occasion when Zichriah predicted trouble in the future, he was slapped on the cheek and was called a dunce and a boor, who had no permission to prophecy. Zichriah was turned then upon by the entire crowd and murdered. After this horrible deed, the same Head of the Sanhedrin was punished to eternal rebirths and be killed every time he was reborn, because has caused to a death of a prophet.
Again we observe the way of reincarnation to explain something was not possible to understand according to common logic, there Kabbalah can give a different point of view.
Kabbalah perceives that a purpose of reincarnation is to repair a soul. That experience is what brings us back to this earth and it is a seed of our ambition to be wise.
On the other hand, fulfillment can cause absence of desire, which means that end of the reincarnation comes about is when a soul is wise enough not to feel a need in to be reborn. According to Kabbalah, a soul’s desire is to preserve a pure consciousness and state of mind without being dependent in physical existence that requires a placing a soul in a body and its limitations. This way soul and body persist in an endless struggle.
Reincarnations in Science
Despite objective experiences as well as tests from psychologists, psychiatrists and scientists, no unequivocal evidence was found to support the theory that reincarnations could occur. Reports of people that could reconstruct in great detail events that happened before their birth and to talk in ancient languages, although fairly common were unable to scientifically proven. Also those who were pronounced clinically dead and came back did not succeed in convincing scientific bodies of the existence of the soul after death.
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