“Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.”
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The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.