I am a Christian. I don’t believe in reincarnation, but I have heard that “half of the world” does, and that a rising number of Christians are toying with this idea. I would like to find out what our readers think about the possibility of reincarnation.

I will give a bit of my reasoning here, but I will probably add more in the comment section.

First, I just don’t there is scientific evidence for it, but how much of an argument is this? Has science really studied this well? Most studies are pretty biased before they begin. Perhaps reincarnation could be inferred if we found a handful of people that had knowledge of past events to which there was no historical connection, events that occurred before they were born that they could describe in detail. But one could not prove where this knowledge came from. Perhaps they read about it somewhere, or…

So let me first start by saying, I’m not one of those people who is hanging on every word Oprah says, reading every book Oprah recommends, or lusting after “Oprah’s favorite things”. Although I’ve been watching Oprah before it was the Oprah show (it used to be called A.M. Chicago, only airing in Chicago), lately I’ve been a little turned off. But last week she finally caught my attention again.

Last Tuesday, Oprah had a show about past lives featuring renowned psychiatrist Dr. Brian Weiss. Weiss is a well published, sought after speaker who uses hypnosis to facilitate past life regression. My interest is twofold: I am definitely a little (ok, very) fascinated by the topic of reincarnation and, I personally attended lectures given by Dr. Weiss at the University of Miami as a psychology major.

Weiss’ first book, Many Lives, Many Masters is nothing short of mind blowing – even if you’re a total…