Reincarnation is a believe in several cultures in religions stemming from Asia that after death, our souls might still have lessons to learn so we’re given human vessels again. We may also be reincarnated as other animals.
Dr. Ian Stevenson, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine spent 40 years of his career researching reincarnation stories with children. He investigated 3,000 independent stories from children who claimed to have memories of a past life or to know people who were in their alleged past lives. Stevenson says the number of cases are so high that it warranted him studying them, and it exceeded what he and his team were able to do.
There’s some evidence that these children, claiming to be reincarnated, looked similar to the people they claim they were, or they have birth marks in the same places.
