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The word reincarnation literally means, 'to take on the flesh again'. In other words, to take on a new fleshly (physical) body. The idea of reincarnation derives from a universal observation of fact which can be verified by everyone at the individual level and is not such an alien proposition as it might appear on the surface. A biochemist or doctor would tell us that the individual cells in our body have a limited lifespan—from days, to weeks and a few years.
Using sophisticated carbon 14 dating methods, Dr. Frisen and his team of a stem cell researchers in the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, found that the average age of cells in an adult body would be between seven and ten years. The Karolinska Institute appoints the Nobel laureate for the category 'Physiology or Medicine'. The technical abstract and a more detailed related article can be accessed
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For a more people-friendly summary of these, reach for this New York Times article on the right.
However, our consciousness of who we are remains unchanging. Our identification of ourselves, the 'I-consciousness' (I-con) factor remains constant and unchanging. Even though we may develop our likes and dislikes and thinking over the years, we always know who we are in the sense of personal continuity or personal 'being-ness'.
So, in reality, 'we'—our consciousness, is unchanging or immortal, and travels through many changing bodies in time. This is proof of reincarnation in this lifetime. If our consciousness is immortal, then so are we Further, we must necessarily consider this—everything that exists, invariably has in it the quality of its source and origins. So even though we may not be clear what exactly 'consciousness' is, we do know that it has the quality of constancy, it’s nature is of being unchanging. There are other words to describe this state—permanent, eternal, immortal, forever. You can consult your own personal experience to check the truth of this. On looking everywhere, you will find that this truth is: It is universal experience that the personal consciousness identity (the 'I'-consciousness) remains constant while the body is constantly changing. This is proof of reincarnation for each of us--we are of the quality of our I-consciousness: eternal, undying, constant. We are immortal.
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