Contemplating Reincarnation

Part One – Our Eternal Identity

with Richard Rudd & Christopher Bache, Ph.D.

In this opening conversation, Richard and Chris explore the growing body of evidence for reincarnation and its profound implications for how we understand our lives. From children’s memories of past lives to the possibility that we choose our circumstances before birth, they challenge conventional ideas about karma, the soul and spiritual evolution.

Their dialogue gradually shifts into an even more extraordinary vision of our place in a much larger unfolding story – one that challenges our understanding of individuality, creativity and even time itself.

Savour some of the most inspiring quotes from the episode:

'You don't need to just look backwards, you can also remember forwards.'

Richard Rudd

'We're not here to achieve escape velocity and leave. We're here to incarnate more and more and more of spiritual reality and capacity inside our physical being.'

Chris Bache

'That's the vision I hold, that we become creator gods within the wider God.'

Richard Rudd

'When you see great suffering, you're either seeing a sinner or a saint. And you can never know which it is, so best not to make any judgments at all.'

Chris Bache

'It's a paradox, I think. [...] the paradox of being an individual soul and yet being everything at the same time.'

Richard Rudd

'I think that basically all the Axial religions got two things fundamentally wrong: they got nature wrong, and they got women wrong.'

Chris Bache

Part Two of the Contemplating Reincarnation series moves beyond the evidence for reincarnation explored in Part One to examine its deeper purpose and the evolution of the soul.

To dive deeper into these themes, explore our other dedicated resources on the Reincarnation page.