It’s hard to say how many people worldwide believe in reincarnation but in 2009 the Pew Research Center did a survey and found that 24% of the American population and 22% of Christians believe in reincarnation. With near death experiences being so prevalent today I believe more and more people will start believing and accepting of reincarnation and past lives.
Here are some famous people who also believed in reincarnation...
Mahatma Ghandi: "I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace."
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "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."
