The proofs of reincarnation are essentially based on the following:

• In memory regression, which can be done by suggestion, hypnotic induction or spontaneous memory of previous existences, without identifying a justifying cause; in the latter case, the memory can occur in both common sleep, as well as in the waking state.

• In mediumistic dictations, in which the medium transmits revelations about previous existences, our own or third-party existences.

• In innate ideas and child prodigy, a fact that has shaken and continues to shake the scientific basis of heredity.

The spontaneous recollections of past existences were the subject of research carried out, among others, by Professors H. N. Banerjee and Ian Stevenson. Professor at the Virginia University (USA), Stevenson is the author of the book "Twenty Suggestive Cases of Reincarnation," in which he relates experiences of people who spontaneously recall episodes of previous existences, a kind of phenomenon called "extra-cerebral memory".

Secondarily, not as proof of its existence, but as an obvious clue to its ancient times in human thought, reincarnation is also taught by various philosophical and religious schools - notably the Eastern ones. Pythagoras, for example, was one of its most intense supporters.

Some facts recorded in the annals of History deserve to be remembered here, for they constitute important testimonies in favor of the existence of reincarnation:

·  Julian, the Apostate, remembered to have been Alexander of Macedon.

·  The poet Lamartine declares in his "Journey to the East" that he had very clear reminiscences of his past existence.

·  The French writer Mery remembered fighting in the Gallic Wars and also in Germany, when his name was then Minius.

·  The sensitive Edgar Cayce, in a mediumistic trance, revealed facts of previous existences of the people who sought him and of himself. Cayce claims that in an immediately preceding existence he was John Bainbridge, born in the British Isles in 1742.

Reincarnation in the face of memories of the past

Through sleep caused by hypnosis, a method widely used by physicians and psychologists for therapeutic purposes, great and numerous proofs of reincarnation have been obtained.

The British psychiatrist Denys Kelsey reports in his book "Many Lifetimes," written in partnership with his wife, the case of a client, a middle-aged independent professional, afflicted by a persistent and invincible homosexual inclination. After applying the classical methods of psychoanalysis, with no result, in a session of hypnosis, by the fourteenth consultation, the patient began to describe episodes of an existence lived among the Hittites when, as the wife of one of the chiefs of the time , accustomed to luxury, she had exercised a great power over her husband. The Hittites inhabited northern Syria around 1900 BC. When her physical beauty was gone and her husband ceased to be interested in her, the emotional shock was too strong for her passionate nature. Trying to draw terrible evil upon her husband, she asked a Baal priest to curse him; but she ended up murdered, taking to the beyond all the frustration out of her humiliating position as a proud and despised wife.

Apparently, according to Dr. Kelsey, the episode was reverberating in the present existence, in which the same person experienced a homosexual inclination.

In his work, Delanne reports numerous proofs of reincarnation

As examples of evidence of reincarnation through mediumistic dictations, Gabriel Delanne, in his book "Reincarnation," mentions several cases.

Here is one of them, which was reported to him by Mr. E. B. de Reyle, by means of a letter:

"In August 1886," wrote M. de Reyle, "we did an evocation session, in the course of which the entity presented itself at first by typology, and then, at our request, by mediumship writing, an entity which my parents had lost, still very young…”

"It assured that to reincarnate, it was awaiting for the birth of my first child, specifying that it would be a boy and would arrive within 18 months. This child was not expected. Now, in February 1888, our eldest son, named Allan, was born on the date predicted, with the predicted sex".

Reincarnation allows us to understand the so-called child prodigies

Allan Kardec asked the Superior Spirits: "What is the origin of the extraordinary faculties of individuals who, without prior study, seem to have the intuition of certain knowledge, that of languages, of calculation, and so on?" The Spirits replied: "Remembrance of the past; previous progress of the soul, but of which it has no consciousness. Where do you want such knowledge to come from? The body changes, but the Spirit does not change, although it changes its clothes".

In this quote we find yet another proof of reincarnation: that of innate ideas. History reveals to us innumerable examples of geniuses, sages, valiant men whose parents, or even their children, were not great like them.

Some of these Spirits were on Earth what we call prodigies boys, whose talent was able to call into question the laws of heredity. Spiritism, of course, does not deny physical or reproductive heredity, but repels the idea that there is a transmissible moral or intellectual inheritance from parents to children.

In fact, we know that many sages were born in obscure environments, as is the case of Augustus Comte, Espinosa, Kleper, Kant, Bacon, Young, Claude Bernard etc., while men of value had ordinary or even mediocre people as their descendants. Pericles, for example, begat two fools. Socrates and Themistocles had children unworthy of their names, and the examples do not stop there, because they are many and known.

Reincarnation stimulates collective and individual progress

In view of the evidence mentioned, the thesis of reincarnation proves to be a renewing doctrine, because it stimulates individual progress and, consequently, the collective. Reincarnation reveals to us what we have been, what we are and what we will be, and it is the instrument par excellence of the law of progress and application of the law of cause and effect.

The doctrine of successive lives - contrary to the belief that we are condemned to eternal punishment after a single opportunity in life - thus satisfies all the aspirations of our soul, which requires a logical explanation of the problem of destiny. And what is undoubtedly more important, it perfectly reconciles with the idea that there is a Divine Providence, at the same time fair and good, that does not punish our faults with eternal torments, but which gives us, at every moment, the power to repair our mistakes, raising us on the evolutionary scale thanks to our own efforts.