While Christianity may be the most prevalent spiritual belief in the world, it certainly doesn’t hold a monopoly on the religious market. Many other faiths follow similar beliefs. One major difference is the acceptance of reincarnation.

The Christian Bible makes no mention of the concept of reincarnation. As a consequence, Christian churches traditionally reject the idea.

But what is the truth?

In our ongoing effort to reconcile the differences between spiritual beliefs and the world of science and logic, we need to step back once again, and view the Bible as a whole rather than nitpick what is or is not included. We also need to acknowledge the evidence of personal accounts of our fellow human citizens. After all, the Bible itself is a collection of reflections of people who are open to admitting their flaws and their struggles to learn.

Just because the Bible omits any reference to a subject, doesn’t automatically mean that it doesn’t exist. The Bible doesn’t mention sounds that our ears cannot detect, light waves our eyes cannot see, nor radiation we cannot feel, yet science has revealed those factors. Neither does the Bible address the sub-atomic world that science has identified as the foundation of our existence.

Over the course of many years, stories have come forward that suggest that the human spirit may, in fact, transition in and out of physical form. Stories abound of those who claim memories of a past life, including details that are not readily available through research. Evidence from children is especially compelling. When a young child expresses a familiarity with something or someone that existed before they were born, it is difficult to deny there is something going on outside of our normal experience.

In judging the likelihood of anything related to the realm outside of our normal physical existence, most of us are handicapped by the simple concept that there are things outside of our ability to recognize because we just don’t have the tools. Try as we might, even our science struggles to develop the tools we need to sense what lies beyond.

But, there are exceptions, and it is those exceptions that give us reason to open our minds to possibilities outside of the established parameters of any particular spiritual footing.

While still controversial, accounts of those who have had a confirmable experience with a medium only add to the accumulated evidence that there is a spiritual realm beyond our ability to detect. Likewise, narratives of those who claim to have experienced death and somehow returned, reveal details of a state of existence that we can only imagine while in our physical form. Many of those anecdotes speak of sensations that have no counterparts in human experience.

Once we come to terms with the vast amount of knowledge that we are unable to access despite our ever-expanding science expertise, it becomes easier to consider that reincarnation may be just another secret ingredient in the recipe of our existence.