I believe in reincarnation, but have never had any good reason to support that belief. I was interested in a statement on this thread that reincarnation has never been proven - of course it hasn't, how can it ever be proved, except by sopmeone who can time travel or something. The first link on this thread (about the young boy who believed he was a pilot in a previous life) is hard to answer.

I read a book years ago called Across Time and Death: A Mother's Search for Her Past Life Children (Cockell 1993), which I found pretty compelling. But I have just found this link which pretty much discredits the arguments in the book - A Case of Reincarnation -- Reexamined

It is pretty easy to take any story and analyse it an discredit it, using certain lines of logic. Analysts who do this are credited with having a "rejection mentality". Just as some people may be gullible and have a predisposition to believe certain things, so others have a predisposition NOT to believe.

It is important to remember that opinions have no bearing on whether an event has occurred or not.

therefore, while reincarnation may not have been proven, for me it has also not been disproven.