They Believed in Reincarnation

Many great thinkers past and present have accepted the idea of rein­carnation; Plato, Dickens, Tolstoy, Kant, Aldous Huxley, Browning, Sibelius ... the list goes on.

Some have made positive statements:

Carl Jung (Psychologist): "I can well imagine that I might have lived in for­mer centuries...that I had to be born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me." Memories, Dreams and Reflections

Henry Ford (Car manufacturer): "I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six ... it was as if I had found a universal plan."
San Francisco Examiner Aug. 26 1928

Salvador Dali (Painter): "I am not only a mystic. I am also the reincarna­tion of one of the greatest of all Spanish mystics St John of the Cross. I can remember vividly experiencing divine union, undergoing the dark night of the Soul... I can remember the monastery and many of St John's fellow monks!"
New York Herald Tribune Jan. 24 1960

David Lloyd George (British Prime Minister): "The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc. nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be rein­carnated."
Lord Riddel's Intimate Diary

John Buchan (Novelist): "I find myself in some scene which I cannot have visited before and which is yet perfectly familiar: I know that it was the stage of an action in which I once took part and am about to take part again."
Memory Hold-the-Door

Rudyard Kipling (Poet): "They will come back - come back again - as long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?" The Sack of the Gods

Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman): He is quoted by Emerson as saying; "I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

At twenty-two he wrote his famous epitaph:
"The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms: but the work shall not be lost, it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition . . . revised and corrected by the author."