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I feel stupid after talking about Reincarnation with my friend and now she thinks I a freak..=/?

I was looking online of stories of reincarnation and they seemed to be pretty intense stories. My friend was like it's all made up and that made me feel stupid for believing it. I don't believe everything it says but don't think it is all false either. With the idea's of a past soul or spirit of a person and even a family member, becoming a new human being but with different personality, looks etc. Does anyone else believe in this type of thing, if not what do you believe? Thanks and please no negative answers, I'm feeling a little down.

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1. Reincarnation is a common believe then the Eastern religions and traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Taoism. It is not a Christian belief. Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment ... (Hebrews 9:27) Catholics and most other Christians believe there is no "reincarnation" after death. Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny. When "the single course of our earthly life" is completed, we shall not return to other earthly lives. For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1013 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art11.htm#1013 With love in Christ.
2. "At the time of writing there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study: ... (3) that young children sometimes report the details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any way other than reincarnation. I pick these claims ... as examples of contentions that might be true." -p300, "Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Dr. Carl Sagan Sagan, by the way, was a brilliant scientist who spent years debunking the paranormal, including religious mythology. If Carl Sagan allowed that reincarnation "might be true" that's pretty impressive evidence that it is. Reincarnation is not "new age," nor is it limited to Eastern mythology. Ancient Egyptians believed in reincarnation, and ancient Judaism too. Jesus, as an Essene Jew, historically would have believed and taught reincarnation. Most of his teachings on the subject were deleted or modified to match the Greco-Roman religious doctrine of the 3rd and 4th century (when Christianity was actually established). If you're interested in reincarnation, you should check out the book "Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery," which is a great source. A few quotes for you: "I have been here before, but when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, the sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls… Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected." - Benjamin Franklin "The idea of a succession of lives for each human creature would be no more debatable to the average Hindu than a Westerner's fixed belief that the continuity from childhood to adulthood exists in a single life." - Nancy Ross "Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body." - Carl G. Jung "Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return… Forget not that I shall come back to you… A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me." - Kahlil Gibran "A person whose life's vision is limited to this one fleeting incarnation is like the plow horse which views it's life's work as a single furrow. Not able to appreciate how one furrow blends with the many others. Not able to understand why there are rocks in the furrow. Not able to why the furrow is so hard to plow." - Bryan Jameison "I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna." - Mark Twain "So as through a glass and darkly, the age long strife I see, Where I fought in many guises, many names, but always me." - General George S. Patton "I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times." - Thomas Huxley "As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of previous existences." - Henry David Thoreau "... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences." - William James ("Human Immortality") "Reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental." - Alice A. Bailey "It is no more surprising to be born once than to be born twice: everything in nature is resurrection." - Francois Voltaire "The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children." - Ian Stevenson "It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed benneath the ground?" - J. G. Herder "You would know the hidden realm where all souls dwell. The journey's way lies through death's misty fell. Within this timeless passage, a guiding light does dance. Lost from conscious memory but visible in trance." - Michael Newton ("Journey of Souls") "Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being." - Arthur Schopenhauer "Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells successively in many bodies, even during one short life." - Francis Bowen "As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live." - Marcus Aurelius "I hold that when a person dies, his Soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise, another mother gives him birth. With sturdier limbs and brighter brain, the old Soul takes the road again." - John Masefield "Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude." - Frederick the Great "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France "I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!" - George Gordon, Lord Byron "We feel and know that we are eternal." - Benedict De Spinoza "Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal." - Werner Von Braun "George Sand believed very firmly in the immortality of the soul. On losing any of her family, the certainty of going to them some day was her great consolation. 'I see future and eternal life before me as a certainty,' she said; 'it is like a light, and, thanks to its brilliancy, other things cannot be seen; but the light is there, and that is all I need.' Her belief was in the existence of God, the goodness of Providence and the immortality of the soul. George Sand was an adept in natural religion." - Rene Doumic "The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity." - Leo Tolstoy "The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn." - Victor Hugo "The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth… And then returning to earth, forever alternating." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me." - Carl Jung "I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time." - Walt Whitman "All life changes its aspect when reincarnation becomes a settled conviction, beyond all argument, raised above all dispute. Each day of life but one page in the great drama of existence; each sorrow but a fleeting shadow cast by a passing cloud; each joy