Reinkarnation: Life's Gift of Grace

What happens after a person's physical death? Can a person's soul incarnate again - and if so, under which circumstances and with what goal? How did the knowledge about life after death, about karma and reincarnation, disappear from the Christian western world? Feelings and thoughts, vague inklings, have been raised by mankind since the beginning of time, on the "wherefrom" and the "whereto," the "whys" and "what fors." The suppression of the knowledge of reincarnation brings with it devastating consequences: if we knew that we would be coming back, would we be so careless about how we treat our Mother Earth and the life on it?