REBIRTH ... The Evidences

Slide 1: REBIRTH – The Evidences 1

Slide 2: 1. Some Famous People Who Believed In Rebirth ( Reflection: Such Great Minds would have contemplated, investigated ,reasoned, had glimpses into the truth of Rebirth ) Benjamin Franklin Carl Jung Statesman, Writer, Psychologist, Inventor Writer Mahatma Mark Twain Gandhi Writer Statesman, Philosopher 2

Slide 3: Some Famous People Who Believed In Rebirth Albert Schopenhauer Schweitzer Philosopher, Doctor, Writer Humanitarian, Writer William Socrates Wordsworth Philosopher, Poet Teacher 3

Slide 4: 2. CASE STUDIES ( Reference can be done on the works of Prof. Ian Stevenson and other Researchers. ‘Google Search!’ Refer to Journals like ‘Journal of Psychical Enquiry’ etc ) Ian Stevenson 4

Slide 5: 3. From The Great Religions ( Investigate for yourself the Early Teachings Of The World Religions on Reincarnation or Rebirth ) BUDDHISM CHRISTIANITY TAOISM HINDUISM 5

Slide 6: 4. TRANSSEXUALISM ( Reflection : In the Cycle of Rebirths we have lived before in our past lives as males or females. ) 6

Slide 7: 5. CHILD PRODIGIES ( The Rebirth Doctrine could logically explain why child prodigies show unbelievable capabilities in Mathematics, Music etc. ) 7

Slide 8: 6. PHOBIAS ( Inexplicable phobias seem to be consistent with the Rebirth Doctrine … certain happenings in one’s past lives. ) 8

Slide 9: 7. DEJA VU ( You can check out this strange psychical experience which is consistent with a Rebirth Doctrine. Google Search on ‘déjà vu’ ! ) 9

Slide 10: 8. OBSESSIONS ( Reflect : ‘Why do certain people suffer from compulsive and obsessive syndromes? Could these have something to do with happenings in their past lives?’ 10

Slide 11: 9. THE DREAM WORLD ( Reflect : Could some recurrent dreams be traced to memories from past lives? ) 11

Slide 12: 10. MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES ( Investigate for yourself into the literature of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Various books have been written on this, eg ‘The Search for Bridey Murphy’ etc ) 12

Slide 13: 11. HYPNOSIS ( Check out the great amount of work and research on ‘past life regression’, ‘retrogressive hypnotism’, ‘psychotherapy’ etc … strong evidences for rebirth or reincarnation. ) 13

Slide 14: 12. MEDITATION REBIRTH is no longer a Theory… it is a Fact! And you can prove or realize the fact of rebirth through MEDITATION. Refer to the many Dhamma Talks by Ajahn Brahmavamso on Rebirth, Meditation, Kamma … at www.bswa.org 14

Slide 15: May the reality of rebirth spur us to walk The Path with diligence With Metta, The End Bro. Oh Teik Bin 15