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Reincarnation On Trial

Promissory Reincarnationism

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I've taken the liberty of borrowing a concept, "promissory materialism," from Rupert Sheldrake and Karl Popper:

"Empty phrases such as 'genetic programs' and 'brain mechanisms' are used to explain almost everything. They imply that the answers are known in principle, leaving only the details to be worked out, with the answers [to be surely coming]. Committed materialists are committed precisely because they believe that materialistic explanations will be found in the future. They put their trust in what they hope for — in what is not yet known. The philosopher of science Karl Popper called this attitude 'promissory materialism' because it involves issuing undated promissory notes for future discoveries. Promissory materialism is a faith." Dr. Rupert Sheldrake

You will find in some of the literature promoting reincarnational doctrine a position, essentially asserting that we will return to the Earth a great many years, possibly eons, from now.

Allow me to translate into plain language this modest proposal of reincarnationists:

"Ok, alright, it's true that when we cross over nobody knows anything about reincarnation - they've never heard of it. There are no 'reincarnation counseling' or 'planning centers' to be found anywhere. But you just don't know the higher wisdom on this; because, as we move up the line into more advanced states of being, that's where they really know the truth, and from that mountain top we'll all be issued tickets to come back to the Earth."

Right. There is not one shred of evidence for this brash and presumptuous view of future life; in fact, many afterlife entities - for example, Father Benson - with personal contacts on the very high levels of existence, say that these ideas are just hogwash.

But that doesn't stop people with a sense of "spoiled self" from wishing and wanting to jump back into the existential hopper to remake themselves. 

They put their trust in what they hope for. It's quasi-religious blind faith. It's promissory reincarnationism.