The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

You can do meditation without the need to believe in reincarnation but after sometime it all become clear and you understand how the system works.

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From God On The Brain again.

NARRATOR: This strange sensation of a loss of self is central to religious feelings in all the world's faiths. Buddhists seek a feeling of oneness with the universe, Hindus strive for the soul and God to become one and the Catholics search for the Unio Mystica. Dr Newberg wondered if these very different religions might actually be describing the same thing. To test this theory he took scans of Franciscan nuns at prayer to see if there was any similarity between what was going on in their brains and those of Buddhists.

NEWBERG: Interestingly when we look at the Franciscan nuns we see a similar decrease in the orientation part of the brain as we saw with the Tibetan Buddhists.

NARRATOR: Even though Buddhists and Catholics may come from very different religious traditions, how their minds react to deep meditation or prayer seems, in terms of brain chemistry, to be exactly the same process. Dr Newberg's research shows the first clear scientific evidence that there are a number of different areas in our brain involved in religious belief.

Tibetan Buddhists believe in reincarnation but Franciscan nuns don't even though the brains of praying nuns react in the same way as the brains of meditating Tibetan Buddhists. Christian mystics have the same experience as Tibetan Buddhist mystics but the system of reincarnation has never become clear to them.

It's all very mysterious.