Fair enough- I am not offended by you preferring a more statistically accurate, mathematical statement. I am throwing darts, using a qualitative summary of a number of books I have read, including the one in the article, 'After.' Have you read After? Have you read any of the following? I am curious, because I am wondering if you did a casual survey of those, would you find the statement more accurate? If we were to restrict the qualitative measure just to reincarnation, and we find that people switch races, genders, and religions- with no preferential or favoring of philosophical ideals- I would interpret that to mean religious ideology is irrelevant to eternity. There is even some evidence that people with prejudices against race, gender, or other religions usually end up in the body of a person that was the thing they were prejudice against. So, maybe not completely irrelevant if the goal is to mature souls through direct experience of suffering. What do you think?

Doctor Brian Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters

Doctor Michael Newton, Journey of Souls

Doctor Raymond Moody, Life after Life

Dolores Cannon, Between Life and Death

Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Realities, Volume II, High Strangeness

PMH Atwater, The Big Book of Near Death Experiences

Richard Martini, Hacking the Afterlife.

Gil Carson, Yellow Book: History of the Aliens on Earth

Thomas Campbell, My Big Theory of Everything: Awakening, Discovery

Robert Monroe, Journeys Out of Body

Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy

Ingo Swann, Psychic Sexuality: The Bio-Psychic “Anatomy” of Sexual Energies

Dean Radin, Real Magic

David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Micahel Talbot, The Holographic Universe

Anthony Peake, Is There Life After Death? the Extraordinary Science Of What Happens When We Die: Why Science Is Taking The Idea Of An Afterlife Seriously