There have been many interesting answers to my posting 'Replacement of the bonds by gold'. Among others, questions and objections to my claims concerning reincarnation have been risen. It seems more appropriate to me to discuss this topic in a separate thread.
For the first time I consciously dealt with reincarnation twenty years ago. It seemed then as unacceptable to me as it seems to you still now. But already around one year later, in 1988, I became convinced that reincarnation is a scientific fact. At the beginning, the demographic development of mankind seemed to me the strongest argument against reincarnation. But already in 1997, when I wrote 'The Demographic Saturation Theory', demography had become a main support of reincarnation. And the last ten years have further confirmed the predictions of the demographic saturation model. See 'A Critical Analysis of the 2006 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects' (mostly banned from Google), published on the net in June 2007 with these chapters:
- Introduction
- The most obvious anomalies of the 2006 revision
- The essence of demographic transition
- Direct-replacement versus generation-replacement fertility
- Saturated populations as the endpoint of demographic transition
- Classification in subpopulations and evolutionary relatedness
- The effect of migration on direct-replacement fertility
- The emergence of natural decrease
- The effect of wars on fecundability and on sex ratio at birth
- China's missing girls
- Conclusion
It is true that the assumption is possible that in China every year around one million girls are killed before or after birth only because they are girls. But at least in the poorer social groups and in remote regions, antenatal sex determination should not be very widespread. And the Chinese population knows that there are not enough girls, and this knowledge alone makes the birth of a girl valuable.
Yet it is a fact that the sex ratio of the whole population of China does not change and that "the missing girls" are confronted with a "feminization of the elderly".
My reincarnation theory has nothing to do with religious or esoteric reincarnation theories.
Two extracts from 'The Psychon Theory':
"For a person to be born, what is required is a human soul which has evolved by reincarnation. Human souls are reborn with increased probability in a similar environment. This ENVIRONMENT CONTINUITY can easily be verified empirically (e.g. by examining persons with pronounced rare characteristics). A manifestation of this principle is that persons are often in contact with persons they have also been in contact with in former lives. Environment continuity is also valid for animal souls. It is essential when a species splits into subspecies. It stands to reason that environment continuity is valid not only for human and animal souls but for all psychons."
"Essential human properties or their predispositions such as character, social behaviour, intelligence, talents, likings, aversions and phobias are given by the soul. It is not astonishing that somebody who died in his last life in an overcrowded cattle wagon after long suffering gets claustrophobia e.g. in an overcrowed cable railway."
In any case, I'm a consistent exponent of evolution. I do not only believe that our ancestors were apes, but I'm convinced that we ourselves were the monkeys we descend from. Neodarwinism however seems to me a rather absurd creation theory, because it assumes that the universe was hyper-designed and super-created by a big bang in such a complex way that blind downhill processes (increasing entropy) can design and create whole ecosystems.
Cheers, Wolfgang
For the first time I consciously dealt with reincarnation twenty years ago. It seemed then as unacceptable to me as it seems to you still now. But already around one year later, in 1988, I became convinced that reincarnation is a scientific fact. At the beginning, the demographic development of mankind seemed to me the strongest argument against reincarnation. But already in 1997, when I wrote 'The Demographic Saturation Theory', demography had become a main support of reincarnation. And the last ten years have further confirmed the predictions of the demographic saturation model. See 'A Critical Analysis of the 2006 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects' (mostly banned from Google), published on the net in June 2007 with these chapters:
- Introduction
- The most obvious anomalies of the 2006 revision
- The essence of demographic transition
- Direct-replacement versus generation-replacement fertility
- Saturated populations as the endpoint of demographic transition
- Classification in subpopulations and evolutionary relatedness
- The effect of migration on direct-replacement fertility
- The emergence of natural decrease
- The effect of wars on fecundability and on sex ratio at birth
- China's missing girls
- Conclusion
It is true that the assumption is possible that in China every year around one million girls are killed before or after birth only because they are girls. But at least in the poorer social groups and in remote regions, antenatal sex determination should not be very widespread. And the Chinese population knows that there are not enough girls, and this knowledge alone makes the birth of a girl valuable.
Yet it is a fact that the sex ratio of the whole population of China does not change and that "the missing girls" are confronted with a "feminization of the elderly".
My reincarnation theory has nothing to do with religious or esoteric reincarnation theories.
Two extracts from 'The Psychon Theory':
"For a person to be born, what is required is a human soul which has evolved by reincarnation. Human souls are reborn with increased probability in a similar environment. This ENVIRONMENT CONTINUITY can easily be verified empirically (e.g. by examining persons with pronounced rare characteristics). A manifestation of this principle is that persons are often in contact with persons they have also been in contact with in former lives. Environment continuity is also valid for animal souls. It is essential when a species splits into subspecies. It stands to reason that environment continuity is valid not only for human and animal souls but for all psychons."
"Essential human properties or their predispositions such as character, social behaviour, intelligence, talents, likings, aversions and phobias are given by the soul. It is not astonishing that somebody who died in his last life in an overcrowded cattle wagon after long suffering gets claustrophobia e.g. in an overcrowed cable railway."
In any case, I'm a consistent exponent of evolution. I do not only believe that our ancestors were apes, but I'm convinced that we ourselves were the monkeys we descend from. Neodarwinism however seems to me a rather absurd creation theory, because it assumes that the universe was hyper-designed and super-created by a big bang in such a complex way that blind downhill processes (increasing entropy) can design and create whole ecosystems.
Cheers, Wolfgang
