REINCARNATION : Fact or Legend?

I know at some point we've all heard and some have experienced ÐÉJÁ VU. Déjà vu, from French, which literally means "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced, has already been experienced in the past. Often times, in our day-to-day lives, events occur and somehow we have this strong conviction that such event has occurred before, but we just can't place when and where. All there is to hold onto is the striking semblance between the present and what we believe has happened in the past. Deja vu.

This is a very interesting phenomenon (for those of us who experience it constantly) and what makes it far more interesting is that it has been inextricably  linked to Reincarnation. Now, I've never paid attention to reincarnation neither have I ever really believed that human beings after they die could come back in different physical bodies but bearing the same soul / spirit. It has always sounded ridiculous. But with the facts surrounding me I couldn't help but ask myself if Deja vu indeed had anything to do with Reincarnation (if only it does exist). I've always had this atheist friend who keeps telling me that the life we live here now has been lived by people generations before us. Of course, I dismissed that. But not until recently when I saw a movie, Iyore, starring Rita Dominic and Joseph Benjamin. The central theme was REINCARNATION. One thing that struck me was that several characters kept experiencing Deja vu and a Benin priestess- in the movie- clearly pointed out that Deja vu does happen because the lives we live now have been lived by people who existed even before our forefathers. Most times we're just reincarnates who just come to relive the lives these people have lived before.

I'm not too keen on believing that reincarnation exists but I've come to realise that in parts of Asia, tradition dictates that when a person dies, relatives will mark his or her body—often using soot—with the hope that the soul of the deceased will be reincarnated within the same family. The mark is said to become both a birthmark and evidence that the soul has been reborn.In one case, K.H., a boy from Myanmar, was noted to have a birthmark on his left arm in the same place where his grandfather’s body had been marked. His grandfather had died 11 months before K.H.’s birth. Many people, including family members, saw the grandfather’s mark made by a neighbor from charcoal of the underside of a pot.

Whatever the mysteries surrounding 'Deja vu' and the possibility of Reincarnation being a legend or mere belief, it doesn't take away the fact that these two concepts reveal the depth of the human mind and the uniqueness of each soul.

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