Some more arguments supporting rebirths.........

Research Project

(A SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON THE MECHANISM
FOR TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS)


INTRODUCTION> Soul and its transmigration is one of the oldest human concepts, preceding science and its discovery of evolution by many millennia. Yet it remains as big a mystery as ever as it happens to be the least empirical subject.

We have two arguments in favor of the existence of the soul. The first one is an authentic case of rebirth; and the second one is the philosophical induction from nature. Since nature is impartial to lives in all other aspects, why should it discriminate in the quality and duration of life? There isn’t any ground if there is only one life for each soul.

It, therefore, stands to enlightened reason that though it appears to discriminate in one life (some have, many don’t have) it is, in reality, very impartial in the long journey of souls, spread over innumerable lives. And to top it all the memory about previous lives, is, as a rule, withheld from the conscious of the present life. The soul starts each life afresh.

Once soul and its transmigration are accepted, many questions crop up. Why should a soul want to be born again into this bad and mad world? Is it un-fulfilled desires or reward/punishment or both? How far is the soul free to select parents, place and gender for the next birth?



NEED FOR RESEARCH> Two slow and invisible processes are entwined around life in any form. But, no human system of thought incorporates both. Religions would not touch evolution and science would not look at souls. Need it be said that all the systems are deficient in this important respect?

Evolution gave us our true origin and transmigration will supply our true destination. Together they constitute the complete perspective on life.

Realizing the importance of the subject, a scientific research on the mechanism of transmigration is the crying need of the hour.



METHODOLOGY AND OBJECTIVES> In the first phase the research will concentrate on the personal accounts of rebirth cases, much on the lines of a psychological post-mortem of the soul, as published from time to time. It should give us the basics about the soul such as what is retained by it in addition to memories and emotions, and the personal motive for rebirth.

In phase two some verifiable parameter of the soul for its true identification has to be discovered through advance preparedness for rebirths. It may be accomplished by recording various parameters such as thumb-print, frequency of voice, DNA-RNA prints of all the members of a few hamlets then comparing the parameters of the new born with those of the dead.

Successful matching will give us the verifiable parameter for identification and prove conclusively the existence and journeying of the soul. Over the years it will also throw light on (1) the criterion guiding the selection of parents, place, gender and sequence among the siblings; (2) the influence of previous lives on the present one, which, if true, will establish the fact that the roots of individual nature go deeper than genetics and environment.

In phase three some technique for activating the unconscious memory of the soul has to be developed to probe deeper into the past experiences of the soul. Extensive research in this phase will lead us to the general pattern of transmigration and its purpose- the evolution of the soul.