Saw this movie the other night. http://imdb.com/title/tt0075704/

It’s about reincarnation. I suddenly got interested in reincarnation after I read a piece by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (now called “Osho“) saying that he’d lived another life 700 years ago. Although I’m not a Rajneeshee, I enjoy reading and listening to Rajneesh’s talks. I generally agree with what he says about philosophy. He’s well read, and usually is reasoned and scientific. His talks are usually matter-of-fact, pretty straightforward, notwithstanding his reputation as a cult leader. So I was surprised to hear him go off on what I consider to be non-scientific, this reincarnation bit.

But after all Rajneesh is from India, and reincarnation is taken to be a fact by the hundreds of millions of people there. Audrey Rose shows film clips of masses of crowds in India. That’s one interesting thing about it- it attempts to gain credulity for reincarnation by reminding the viewer that hundreds of millions of people in India take reincarnation to be a fact.

What really got me about this movie is that it ends up saying the same thing that Rajneesh says in his talk. To be specific, the Rajneesh talk I’m referring to is “Why I Have Come!” in the book Dimensions Beyond the Known. Past life experiences can be traumatic, says Rajneesh. That’s the same thing that happens in this movie- the little girl’s past life’s death experience was traumatic- she died in a flaming car crash, and relives this death as a nightmare in her new reborn life. If you remember a previous life, you’ll also remember a previous death- and who wants to remember dying?