Wikiphilosophers/Past lives

The concept of past lives, often associated with reincarnation, suggests that an individual's soul or consciousness has lived previous lives in different bodies before the current one. Do people have past lives? And will people have next lives? What are past lives for? And can you ever get out of this life cycle?

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• S. Perquin argues that the existence of past and future lives is plausible due to the improbability of experiencing life at this exact moment and suggests that near-death experiences indicate personalized afterlife experiences. Read more...