The greatest persuasion for me to do this was my personal philosophy. I firmly believe that when I eventually leave this body I will return again with a brand new body! I must, therefore protect my future.
Reincarnation has always seemed improbable to me because of the numbers problem. If souls are reborn then where did all the present souls on earth come from? There are over six billion people on earth at this time and the numbers continue to grow. There were only thousands and then millions in the past. It seems obvious that evolution supplies a satisfactory answer to the reincarnation question. People evolve from the lower animal species. We know that animals such as dogs, dolphins, apes and other animals display human qualities and intelligence that is more highly evolved than many of our own humans. Genetically, we are all just about identical. I therefor accept these facts to be hard evidence in support of reincarnation. To me, reincarnation is not a theory, it is fact!
Additional support for reincarnation is in the comparison of children of the same family. It is well known to all parents that their children are very different from one another. Each child is born with his or her unique level of wisdom. One child will develop much more rapidly than a brother and sister and some will surpass the wisdom of their parents. Some children appear to be almost frozen in their development and progress very slowly or even regress in their development.
There are outstanding scientists, artists, thinkers and so on who are born with a level of skill which propels them forward far beyond the talent and wisdom of their parents. These great variations are obviously not genetic. The only other suggestion is a continuation of wisdom that has been developing over periods of millions of years. We souls are a product of our own personal evolutions! Our bodies are genetic but our soul minds are from the past!
I contacted Bill McLean and elaborated on this new insight and told him that I would attempt a paper to tell his story and attach it to my thesis. Bill said that the written discussion was ready for me. His conscience was now satisfied and he wished me good luck.
Bill McLean had handed the torch of social evolution on to me. The torch was burning my fingers. How to get rid of it! Where and to whom can I pass it?