Your Thoughts On Re-Incarnation...What Are They?

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Do you believe in re-incarnation?

I've always felt that i have lived before, in another life. A few things lead me to believe this. First, i have always, as long as i can remember, had a flash of myself, with 2 other women, i think we were all sisters. Anyway, i see us walking along somewhere, perhaps a busy street downtown, or something, and in New York. This is all i have of this, but as well, i would have these weird dreams when younger, of being in a huge body of black water, (obviously night-time) and calling out for help. Sometime about 10 years ago, i started searching information about the Titanic and it's fate. I had always been fascinated by it, for some strange reason. As soon as i discovered about it, the dreams stopped. Odd! And, i've always been afraid to swim, never learned. As well, i think that whatever your fear in this life, has something to do with a past life. In this life, strangely enough, i felt as though my mother and my aunt were connected to me in my past life somehow....maybe we were sisters? Well short of sounding off the wall, so to speak, this is just my opinion. But, i also feel that the folks you come in contact with and meet, were somehow connected to you in a past life. I've also felt very much drawn to the "Victorian era" life. Always loved old-fashioned furniture and feel as though i may have lived in that time as well. Makes one wonder if we are re-incarnated more than once? Do we keep coming back and does this repeat itself? It's strange that we have no memory of our past lives, if that was so. But, on the other hand, why do we sometimes have just a flash of our last life, not enough to identify with it, but just to wonder...What are some of your thoughts on re-incarnation?
 

I believe reincarnation is a possibility. It isn't any less believable than heaven and hell.
 

I believe in the possibility/probability of reincarnation also. I have been drawn to South Asian things from childhood, and I have a memory fragment of being a young brown girl/woman, walking down a beach with the sea on my left hand side. Somehow, I

know I am in Egypt. I think that sometimes memories from past lives leak into this one. There is an American psychlogist who
is researching children, worldwide, who report memories, sometimes intricate and detailed accounts of earlier incarnations. I

recall seeing a documentary about a young Scottish boy who remembered living on the island of Barra . He could describe the landscape, although he had never been there. Apparently, there are thousands of stories such as this. Most children forget

these memories by the age of seven, but there is a ten year old American boy with phenomenal memories of his deceased grandfather's life---they have been checked out. He consistently states that he IS his grandfather. Interesting.
 
The brain plays tricks on all of us every day. We humans love to make stories. Think about how reincarnation might work. First of all, despite all of the NDE stories, there is no hard physical evidence for any kind of life after death. All we are is the brain. A physical organ requiring a physical body to support it. When its gone, we're gone. Forever! Although there is no evidence for it, lets assume that somehow a "spirit" escapes the body at death. So its floating around out there with uncountable millions and billions of others watching women's wombs for the arrival of a sperm to create a new life for it to inhabit. "Hi there Cleopatra! Still looking?" There are probably hundreds of people who believe they were once Cleopatra. With the countless repetition of the Titanic story, there must be many more thousands of people walking around thinking they were on it than there were ever actually on board the original.
There are certainly a lot of believers out there. They are in good company. George Patton thought he was reincarnated several times as a various famous military leaders.
For myself? Absolutely not a believer. This is a very uncertain world. I've had a good life. Not interested in pushing my luck by coming back to try it again as someone else.
 
To play Devil's advocate, what is interesting about most peeps memories of past lives---over eighty percent of them recall living mundane, everyday existences. Not famous world figures/rich/noble etc. Often poor peasants, who lived rather brief grisly lives. Nothing romantic here. Lol.
 
I agree with this sentiment. While it is not necessarily about our lives, I think is worthwhile to live as if there is no reincarnation in order to make the best use of the life that we are living now.

I shall pass this way but once;
any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being;
let me do it now.
Let me not defer nor neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.

Etienne de Grellet
Quaker Missionary
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So far I've had absolutely no personal experience that there is such a thing, so to me its all just theories and speculation or maybe wishful thinking.

My guess is that its something that is widely believed in in poor countries, hoping for a better life next time, or maybe to explain why they are suffering in this one (bad deeds/karma from a previous lifetime). Like divine retribution. So people that died in wars and holocausts had bad karma because they did bad things in past lives? I don't buy it.
 
I like to fancy the possibility that spirits are sent back to earth for spiritual lessons. Like a brawny braggart who comes back as a feral dog, a self absorbed woman comes back as a Persian, a hunter comes back as a deer, the truly evil come back as vermin.
 
I believe there are "old souls"....my father was one....people who are close to having finally "done it right".

I'm pretty sure I have one heck a lot more go-arounds before I finally get to stagger off the celestial merry-go-round. If I can just get to that beautiful white horse with the red saddle and golden mane before I throw up.......
 
Warrigal said:
I agree with this sentiment. While it is not necessarily about our lives, I think is worthwhile to live as if there is no reincarnation in order to make the best use of the life that we are living now.
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I agree whole heartedly with the quote you posted.
It can be stated so simply. What a wonderful world if we all did it. Somehow it seems to be beyond our grasp. Thankfully, there are those in the world who never stop reaching for it.
 
fureverywhere said:
I like to fancy the possibility that spirits are sent back to earth for spiritual lessons. Like a brawny braggart who comes back as a feral dog, a self absorbed woman comes back as a Persian, a hunter comes back as a deer, the truly evil come back as vermin.
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I don't believe it, but I love your thinking. :yeah:
 
I can't imagine much of anything to much more AWFUL than living 'just one life'....what a narrow limited experience that would be... and then the old scary religious fables of a Heaven and or a Hell.... then 'if you are good' you get to go to heaven, wear a white robe and strut around on golden streets singing eternal praises to this narrow idea of a 'god' who demands constant praise. Oh my.... how you can control people if you keep them in enough fear.... and teach them to think 'realistically'... :)
 
So much in life hinges on that one word ... "Believe" What a tricky word.

We believe what our brains chose to believe.

Then throw into the cauldron reasonable doubt and possible doubt.

Along with "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Reincarnation? Get your coins out.
 
Actually there is "hard physical evidence" of life after death -- Jesus came back from the dead and appeared to His disciples and spoke and ate with them. They wrote about it and I trust their eyewitness accounts.
 
Guitarist said:
Actually there is "hard physical evidence" of life after death -- Jesus came back from the dead and appeared to His disciples and spoke and ate with them. They wrote about it and I trust their eyewitness accounts.
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Not meaning to be disrespectful of your beliefs in any way, but I believe that qualifies as hearsay, not physical evidence,
 
mena said:
So much in life hinges on that one word ... "Believe" What a tricky word.

We believe what our brains chose to believe.

Then throw into the cauldron reasonable doubt and possible doubt.

Along with "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Reincarnation? Get your coins out.
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I agree, but I will keep my coins in my pocket until someone comes up with a plausible mechanism as to how it might work. When do all of these floating entities enter another body? Is the embryo a blank slate having none of the characteristics of its parents? Are there just so many spirits that just keep recycling forever? With the constantly shifting numbers of the population, there would have to be spirits without available bodies to inhabit, or bodies without spirits to occupy them. Just a few thoughts.
 
Bettyann said:
I can't imagine much of anything to much more AWFUL than living 'just one life'....what a narrow limited experience that would be... and then the old scary religious fables of a Heaven and or a Hell.... then 'if you are good' you get to go to heaven, wear a white robe and strut around on golden streets singing eternal praises to this narrow idea of a 'god' who demands constant praise. Oh my.... how you can control people if you keep them in enough fear.... and teach them to think 'realistically'... :)
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Egad, Bettyann. Where did you receive your religious instruction?

Anyway, what's wrong with just one life? Life is a great gift whether it is long or short and IMO it is much better than existing as a rock.
 

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