Looking at Zonabi's output I tend to disagree as you mention "reincarnation", although many religions have held this understanding dear, it's lost it's meaning through translation after translation. As all should know we come from the earth and we surely will return to it, until we find a way to escape our planetry domain (Like either being on another planet or on a ship going somewhere).
When you die you body begins to shut down, the only thing left is like the Husk being sifted from corn. This husk can fit into the cycle of life by being recycled, namely becoming fodder for lower species in the food chain to feed upon or nutritional suppliments to plant growth. What people perceive as spiritual being or "a soul" is absolute metaphysical rhetoric.
If you want to have a spiritual being or a "soul" per say, you would have to utilise technology to generate it artificially and eventually become a cybernetic hybrid state with technology. I believe some cult groups have had that in mind and use technology to this advancement in secret which is why there are so many "weird occurances" to increase the propagation of their own belief systems.
Such systems in use, can install visual representations of "visitations" and create reminders of encounters through physical scars which in the past could have been seen as stigmata.
However all this is just conceptionalisation of accomplished physics being rework and organised to a differing goal than what mainstream consensus is currently utilising those technologies for. (Namely You ask a question? I "generate" the answer.)
As for Norval and your information control, Information is notibly a powerful thing, however the reasons some people enforce control isn't just about war and profiting it's potentially about the limiting of sufferage caused by "copy cat" scenarios. (Scenarios that wouldn't have come into being if information hadn't been released).
It's very difficult to balance everyones perception of information and how they should receive it, you could "ask" them not to do anything silly with the information thats outputted but in return there will always be a minority looking to use that information to their own goals and notibly occasionally destructive ones.
If everyone on this planet could get along, not fight or turn on one another in their quest for materialistic conquests, then a "free knowledge" system could be embarked upon, however as an overall race I fear we are not advanced enough to deal with knowledge. Perhaps in fact we are still too developing and don't even realise it.
Some people might suggest that evolution is a slow action over time, however in the last 100 years mankind has moved from horse drawn carriages to microlazer treatment that can rectify retinal problems. Our scientific development exponential curve is beginning to see more than one occurance of a paradigm shift, these paradigm shifts are actually destined to alter our exponential curve to go straight up. (In turn, technological advancements and achievements are going to come at an ever increasing rate, this is already seen in the development of home computers)
So I suggest that we could evolve to develop a better relationship soon, as long as mankind discovers how futile conflict is.