Reincarnation Across World Religions: What Actually Comes Back?

Most people think reincarnation is an Eastern concept that the West rejected. That story is wrong. In this episode, we trace the actual theological DNA of reincarnation across Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — uncovering a tradition most people completely misunderstand, and a quarter of American Christians who believe in something their own councils formally condemned. We break down the three distinct mechanisms — reincarnation, resurrection, and metempsychosis — and show how each tradition's answer to "what is the thing that comes back" reveals what it thinks a human being actually is. From the Upanishads to the Zohar, from the Dalai Lama to the Second Council of Constantinople, this is the map you didn't know you needed.