While reincarnation is a central principle of Eastern religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, until fairly recently the idea of past lives was greeted with skepticism and ridicule in the West.

However, a number of lines of evidence have made it increasingly accepted - in one form or another. The evidence includes children who remember past lives, people whose dreams of past lives uncover unknown evidence, past-life regressions that result in healings, between-life regressions, and pre-birth memories that are later verified. Also, we learn that past lives feature in out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, mediumship readings, in healing, and in channeling.

However there is still a huge debate over the form reincarnation takes. Is it just a fragment of our soul that reincarnates? Is there always a greater part of our soul in the afterlife that meets our loved ones when they cross over? If there is no time in the afterlife, do we live multiple lives at the same time? Have we had lives on other planets, in other dimensions? Does everyone reincarnate? And do animals reincarnate or enter human evolution?

By exploring different aspects of the evidence the hope is that we may begin to open up to a more complete picture of what consciousness truly is. Perhaps it will reshape how we see our relationships, our purpose, and even our moral responsibilities to one another and to the animal kingdom.