Growing up, I was told about a lot of things that operates in the spirit realm. Some looks so true and some looks far from been true. For me personally and for my tribe Yoruba, we grew up believing in reincarnation even till now. Even though it is not that popular to witness as it is established in cultural and spiritual belief. For me, even though we have witness a massive development in the science world, it still can't dismiss the fact that reincarnation exist.
Growing up, there was actually an incident that happened which reaffirm my belief in reincarnation. One of my aunt in our extended family gave birth to a baby boy which was shortly after I lost my grandfather. Even from birth, the young baby boy has a lot of birthmarks that looks like the one our grandfather has also. For us and all the elders in the extended, it makes us believe that this can only be an reincarnation of our grandfather. Even though I was still very young then, the conviction it build in me was so strong that even till now the conviction is still fresh.
Well let me create the balance, there are actually some people who did not believe in reincarnation and that is quite understood because I believe it is a spiritual heritage passed on over to generations. For some generations, they hardly believe in all these ancestors stuff and for some people, they did not believe in all these ancestors stuff. It actually depends on belief in spiritual world. If you have a strong belief in ancestors and spiritual world, it will not be hard for you to believe in all these reincarnation.
But come to think of it, if we should look at it from the other side of it, I find the idea very wonderful. Even though I have not witness it physically but I believe it is quite fascinating that someone that is dead can still come back to this world. It helps to overcome the scientific limitations about life after death. For now, I think science did not believe in all these reincarnation belief which I quite understand. Science is always about facts and realistic, that is something that can be seen physically.
But actually my major concern is the fact that the reincarnation in some major part of the world is used for negative reasons. For some part of the world, reincarnation is used by the witchcraft and sorcerers and is been used for devish reasons. Someone that is dead can be resurrected because they actually want the person to still be working around and committing evil and demonic reasons. This is my major concern about reincarnation, it is mostly abused. Well I believe as time goes on, there will be a proper mindset that will be painted in the heart of men about it.
At the end of the day, it all point down to personal perspective about it. For some people, they did not believe in it and for some people, they actually believe in it. I personally believe in it but I also strongly believe that it should be used in the right manners and not for wicked and negative reasons.
