By CR
Krishna
Three thousand years before Christ, Krishna in India proclaimed the existence of a Universal Intelligence, maintaining the immortality of the soul and its evolution through successive reincarnations. And the great thinker clarified: "The body is finite, but the soul which lives in it is invisible, imponderable and eternal."
Pythagoras
Among the ancient Greeks, reincarnation was a doctrine closely associated with the followers of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. According to Pythagorean teaching, the soul survives physical death.. After a series of reincarnations each one following a period of psychic cleansing in spiritual environments the soul becomes free eternally from the cycle of reincarnations.
Jack London
The American writer Jack London in his book The Star Rover, a collection of related stories dealing with reincarnation, wrote: "I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums."
Richard Bach
Richard Bach wrote this in Jonathan Livingstone Seagull: "Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!... We choose our next world through what we learn in this one... But you, Jon, learned so much at one time that you didn’t have to go through a thousand lives to reach this one."
Jalalu Rumi
Islamic Poet of the 13th century wrote: "I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear ? When was I less by dying ?"
Napoleon
Napoleon was fond of telling his generals that he believed in the law of reincarnation and even told them who he believed to have been in a previous life.
Benjamim Franklin
One of the America's founding father's believed in the idea of reincarnation and once wrote: "Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other always exist."
Honore Balzac
French writer Balzac wrote an entire novel about reincarnation, Seraphita. There he stated: "All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?"
Arthur Schopenhauer
Were an asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: "It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life."
Ralph Emerson
Ralph Emerson also believed in the law of reincarnation and once wrote: "The soul comes into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal."
Henry Ford
In an interview he said: "I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives".
Paul Gauguin
In his final years in Tahiti, Paul Gauguin wrote that "when the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body."
Mahatma Ghandi
Ghandi once said: "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."
J. D. Salinger
In one short story, Salinger wrote about a young boy who recalls his reincarnation experiences and speaks forthrightly about them. "...All you do is get ... out of your body when you die. ...everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it."
George Harrison
The ex-Beatle, George Harrison's serious thinking about reincarnation is revealed in his thoughts: "Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know."
Hermes
Hermes in Upper Egypt asserted thousands of years before the Christian era that: the Universal Intelligence is the only creative power in the Universe.
Gabriel Delanne
In Animistic Evolution Dr. Gabriel Delanne states based on careful research: "... the duration of one’s life is but one moment in eternal evolution."
Plato
Also from the ancient Greece, Plato maintained that the soul is eternal, preexistent, and wholly spiritual and retains some knowledge of former existences. Plato believed that the cycle of reincarnations would cease only after the soul went through thousands of physical lives to continue its existence in spiritual planes.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Polish-born American writer and Nobel laureate, Isaac Singer in his Stories from Behind the Stove wrote the following: "There is no death... The soul never dies and the body is never really alive."
Leo Tolstoy
The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was a profound social and moral thinker and in his writings one can find this: "As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life... and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real life..."
Pinheiro Guedes
Scientist and physician, Dr. Pinheiro Guedes in his book Spiritualistic Science wrote about spiritual principles and laws and stated that: "moral and intellectual advancement is accomplished through the process of reincarnation – and that those laws: prove the pre-existence and survival of the human soul". Dr. Pinheiro Guedes has always believed that by analytical demonstration it is possible to prove that Spiritualism is a science; a science of observation which also resorts to experimental methods.
Walt Whitman
This american poet wrote:
"I know I am deathless...
We have thus far exhausted
trillions of winters and summers,
There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the greatest German poets, and also a dramatist and scientist, also believed in reincarnation and may have envountered the idea in his readings in Indian philosophy. He once remarked: "I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times."
Henry Thoreau
The philosopher of Walden Pond wrote: "As far back as I can remember, I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence".
James Joyce
Reincarnation is a recurring theme in Ulysses, by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. In one passage of the book, Joyce's hero tells his wife: "Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet."
Erik Erikson
Erikson is a psychologist who is convinced that reincarnation goes to the very core of every man's belief system. He wrote: ";Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter".
John Masefield
The British poet John Masefield, in his well-known poem about past and future lives, writes:
"I hold that when a person dies
His soul returns again to earth;
Arrayed in some new flesh disguise,
Another mother gives him birth
With sturdier limbs and brighter brain
The old soul takes the road again."
Herman Hesse
Nobel laureate Herman Hesse wrote: "He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships to each other... None of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face..."
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