I don’t know about reincarnation. I don’t try to explain the phenomenon if it exists. I know there is an energy that survives life. Nothing is lost in this universe. We come into this life; we go back into the earth. We become fertilizer for growth of other life forms. As far as the spirit is concerned, perhaps it is an electrical phenomenon. Perhaps it is a form of light which goes forth and does its thing. So be it.

I don’t know about an afterlife. Psychiatrist, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote a lot about near-death, death and dying. During her life she worked with 20,000 people who had been declared clinically dead and who later returned to life. In part, these experiences are what led her to believe in the afterlife. While there are many skeptics in the medical and scientific community who believe her studies did not follow rigorous standards, there are some who support her scientific understandings.

I believe like a computer we shut down when we die. Some people who have “died” and “come back to life” report seeing lights, detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, serenity, security, peace, warmth, a tunnel and so forth. That’s not unusual. I recall hearing about a little boy in Israel. As the story goes, before he learned to read, he knew the Bible from cover to cover and could explain the Talmud. The question is: How in the world is that possible? Rather than believing he is a reincarnation of another person, perhaps DNA is passed down through generations and that boy had a memory of knowledge from his ancestors. We know traits are inherited. We are genetically programmed. Who knows? Such accounts definitely give one pause to think.