On the other hand, skeptic readers won't reach here. I very much doubt recalcitrant skeptics search for reincarnation blogs, and even if they existed, nothing I can tell them could change their skepticism, so in the end I don't have to worry about the credibility of my testimony.
However, it worries me because it is not that I am convinced of the reality of reincarnation. It is that I know is a real and universal phenomenon. O.K., I might be wrong, or I could even be misinterpreting my experiences and it turns out I don't have past lives, but they are simultaneous lives, as some say (hypothesis I don't share, by the way). But there is no doubt consciousness survives death, and even if we only speak about that, those are big words. It is a conviction that can't be remain in silence.
At the same time I am aware reincarnationist can't prove anything, at least for the moment. I can tell my experience and believe I remember past lives. Many people will think I am just delusional or no more than a very gullible person. Others will have other hypotheses to explain what's up with me, not even knowing how my experience developed. Fantasies of my mind to give the answer to my psychological issues, the collective unconscious, an unexplained psychic power by which I can pick up dead people's memories... It is a nearly endless list. But the most simple explanation is we all live many lives. That's all.
There was a time when I wanted to convince people of the reality of reincarnation, and stumbled with many people who preferred to turn a deaf ear and not listen to what I had to say, becuase reincarnation didn't fall within their religious beliefs. An afterlife, the survival after death, wasn't too bad, especially if you can recover your deceased loved ones. Now, reincarnation? No, for God's sake, not that... Along these years I have learned that there is no way to fight against the mental barriers some people choose to build around them, a prison to feel safe within, where no one comes to break down your preconceived notions. It doesn't matter if your message is full of hope and practical advice so that you can know the Truth by yourself.
For my part, there is not much I can offer those skeptics who will always deny everything, no matter if it is in front of their eyes. I am no different to many other who remember past lives. Very few are lucky enough to have a serious and respectable reseacher as Dr. Ian Stevenson was (something many people would also doubt) passing by right when we started to remember. We couldn't have someone to control and attest we didn't do anything to taint our alleged memories, nor did we research before it was due, nor did we invent a story because we are attention-seekers. Unfortunately, reincarnation is barely researched today, least of all if we are talking of adults. So I can't give the world any guarantee, just my word, that things developed right as I describe here. The validations I obtained, though scarce, I obtained them one way and not the other, and sometimes they turned up to be surprising and out of doubt. But of course, I know I can't prove anything, and I am perfectly aware this is only useful for me and those who have gone through similar experiences. The rest, will keep believing... or not. To me, beliefs are not valid anymore, only facts are.