Reincarnation
 

What were you last time around? Ever meet someone for the first time that you already knew? Have any inate fears that you can't explain?

sniper
 

ok so this was a really hot topic....im not sylvia brown... i just keep having this vision as i fall asleep at night nad wanted to know if anyone else is nuts....er, i mean, has an opinion about this.

I'm lying on the groud in the dark and the rain, and i'm looking through the scope of a rifle......then i nap jerk, and have to start over falling asleep....


Anyone read "Many lives Many masters?"

Re: sniper
 

I just read the review on amazon. It sounds interesting.

Wouldnt it be great if we could come back again?

What do you think you have learned from this lifetime (so far)?

dreams and fears
 

you should read that book, cougar. that's how Dr Weiss got involved in past life regression. He had a patient who was ALL messed up with phobias and anxieties, and he unearthed something like 83 past lives....he was a skeptic, and this turned him....at the same time, it unveils a psuedo religion that coincides with my own pick- and- choosist belief system.....

you probably died in a flood in another life. and possibly witnessed a train derailment or something.....

I have a fear of being buried alive >>>>ick!
and also having my eyes gouged out.........oooooooo!

anyone else?

Fears: falling from heights, even small ones, like stepstools. (I'm not afraid of heights, per se, just falling from them. I've actually enjoyed very high places, just so long as I'm sure i'm not likely to plummet from them.

Fire.

Where/who I've been before: I know of more than a few. No Cleopatra/Nefertiti/famous historical individual nonsense. But Buddhist Teacher/Mystic, Native American craftsperson - basketweaver or somethin' like that, WWII German U-Boat captain.

I fear centralized gov'ts and saltwater taffy.

What does that mean?

Stay the hell out of New Jersey, slang.

HOW DO YOU KNOW?
 

wolf,
how do you know? did you sit down and whip out a basket one day? do you get little twinges like i do? were you regressed? what did you have for breakfast? did you get flash backs from the hunt for red october?

Inquiring minds want to know

There appears to be a website that will tell you about your most recent past life incarnation ...

Past Life Diagnosis

Mine, which is clearly wrong: (I am not now, nor have I ever been a Canadian, dammit).

It's more of a feelgood enlightenment fortune cookie.

Hmmm...

I do not know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.

You were born somewhere around territory of modern Spain approximately on 375. Your profession was artist, magician, fortune teller.

Your brief psychological profile in that past life:
Natural talent of psychologist, you knew how to use the opportunities. Cold-blooded and calm in any situation.

Lesson, that your last past life brought to present:
Your problem -- to learn determination and persistency. Every misfortune should crash upon your strong will.

Now you remember?

Maybe you were though. Perhaps you didn't like the liberalness and socialism...and that is why you are the way you are now. :)

YOU STOLE MY PAST LIFE. GIVE IT BACK, DAMMIT!!!!

Ha ha! Hoser! :)

Waitaminnit ... thinks carefully and slowly .... Spaniards make crappy beer.

Nevermind, eh?

Heres mine ,
Diagnosis:
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I do not know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.
You were born somewhere around territory of modern East Australia approximately on 800.
Your profession was map maker, astrologer, astronomer.
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Your brief psychological profile in that past life:
Timid, constrained, quiet person. You had creative talents, waited till that life to be liberated. Sometimes environment considered you strange.
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Lesson, that your last past life brought to present:
It always seemed to you, that you perceptions of the world are somewhat different. Your lesson -- to trust your intuition as your best guide in present life.
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Now you remember?

I can relate to that .

Yeah, like you know anything, Canuck.

Oh yeah? Well, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD, you sangria-swilling, paella-slurper, eh!

Doesn't it make a difference how you ferment them?

At least we have our own King and Queen.

I notice that everyone is getting very New Age-y poof-poof past lives.

I wonder if that thing is capable of generating "You were a soldier during World War II, and you died in an airplane bombing Hamburg". What about "You were a Czechoslovakian Jew, a mediocre businessman, and you died in Buchenwald" or "You were a black slave in the Congo who worked the farms of King Leopold", or "You were a slave who died en route to America"?

I suppose that I have the dates a bit off -- no one else seems to have been incarnated in their past life more recently than 1000 years ago.

Can that website say that anyone came from Athens? Rome? Roman legionairre, someone who watched the games in Collosseum?

Oh. pagansunsite.com?

I suppose that they're catering to their clientele.

Why limit past lives to just being human?

I bet I was an aardvark in a past life.

I used to enjoy creating poetry, and though it doesn't translate into a human language, it was mostly about snapping up crunchy insects and how that is the true meaning of life.

Neither was any one else in that area, in 975 AD, just Injuns and maybe Vikings.;)

Diagnosis:
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I do not know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.
You were born somewhere around territory of modern South Japan approximately on 825.
Your profession was trainer, holder of the fine animals, birds, insects.
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Your brief psychological profile in that past life:
Person with huge energy, good in planning and supervising. If you were just garbage-man, you were chief garbage-man.
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Lesson, that your last past life brought to present:
You are bound to learn to understand other people and to meet all life difficulties with joyful heart. You should help others, bringing them spirit of joy.
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Now you remember?
A Japanese female? No wonder I have a sideways slant on things.

I was regressed one time...it was interesting...I can't say how accurate it was (yes, I DO believe strongly in reincarnation...it just makes sense to me)....anyway, I saw two situations:

In the first, I was somewhat Victorian-looking....hair up, the clothes, etc.....I was sitting at a roll-top desk writing a letter, and I was waiting for someone who'd gone.

In the second, I was sitting on some kind of couch, and again I was waiting for someone who'd gone away.

*shrug* Apparantly, I'm waiting for someone....I wonder if I've found them yet....?


Sidhe

Diagnosis: I do not know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.
You were born somewhere around territory of modern West Russia approximately on 1400.

Your profession was handicraftsman, mechanic.

Your brief psychological profile in that past life:
Seeker of truth and wisdom. You could have seen your future lives. Others perceived you as an idealist illuminating path to future.

Lesson, that your last past life brought to present:
You fulfill your lesson by helping old folks and children. You came to that life to learn to care about weak and helpless.

      On a related note, back when I was in High School this new age type chic started talking about her past lives. All of them famous of course. So I walked up and said, "I remember my last life."
      She, quite animatedly asked to know more. I said, "I was a potato farmer in Idaho. It didn't go well, as I was a lousy farmer. The farm wound up getting foreclosed on and my wife took the kids and left. I drank pretty heavily after that, which led to my death in a ditch a couple of years later."
      Oddly, she got rather pissed at me. Not sure why, my tale seems rather probable, especially compared to hers...

      Now, by this desription it looks like I was right.

I don't really care what I was before. Besides, if the thing tells me that I was a short order cook in Cleopatra's kitchen, that just makes me wonder where the hell have **I** been over the last 2,500 years between "appearances."

I'm much more interested in where I'm going to be next so I hacked into the diagnosis engine and made some "adjustments" to redirect the thing to look ahead instead of backwards.

Diagnosis: I do not know how you feel about it, but you will be a female in your next earthly incarnation. You will be born in deep interstellar space approximately 813 years from now. Your profession will be that of an engineer in the floating city you will call home.

** Well that's all well and good, but here's what really got me excited:

Your brief psychological profile in your future life:
Person with huge energy, good in planning and supervising. If you become just a bio-hazard reduction specialist, you will be the Big Kahuna of bio-hazard reduction specialists that successive generations of bio-hazard reduction specialists will honor and respect and build huge stone monuments to. Planets, no wait, entire galaxies will be named in your honor! OK, maybe not entire galaxies but I'm pretty sure that the local deli on deck 6 is going to name a sandwich after you.

Your lesson -- to learn humility and faith in spiritual principles. You should believe in High Reason. Now, will you remember this 813 years from now ?

Oh, well, maybe I was better off not knowing. :3eye:

Like so many other "beyond our understanding" concepts, the idea of reincarnation sits in the "possible, but improbable" bin in my brain.

I have known some people who staunchly believed in reincarnation, and who believed that they had vivid memories from past lives, and there are some parallels which tend to peg my skepticism guage at max:

1. Past lives are almost always exceedingly interesting and romantic in some way... heroic, tragic, famous, close to someone historic, etc. As sad as it is, the HUGE majority of people in history are "normal," but no one wants to fess up to having a "normal" past life.

2. People who believe in reincarnation often hold a host of other beliefs which I definitely don't share... like the ability to openly converse with the dead at any time, (a two-way conversation), thinking that drinking water from a colored bottle will cure a particular ailment, astrology, etc.

3. They will become extremely offended at the mildest suggestion of a hint that their "past life memories" are possibly manufactured by their mind. Such a reaction indicates not an open mind, but one which is sealed shut and guarded with deadly Indiana-Jones-style booby traps. Frankly, if somebody believes in something outlandish, but then violently rejects even discussing a possible alternative explanation, delusion is indicated.

4. Sometimes they start telling me about MY past lives, because we knew each other in a past life. Cough.


I like the idea of reincarnation, but today I have no reason to believe that it is a fact. Perhaps tomorrow. Perhaps in my next life.

I too questioned this and was told "We have many, many past lives but we only remember the interesting ones". How could I argue with such wonderful logic.:haha:

I wonder how they'd react to the bleak reality that the life they're living now is pretty forgettable compared to the ones they describe. Makes this time around pretty damn pointless, doesn't it?

Ya know, I've been thinking that a lot lately.:(

now, you know you'll be coming back as a movie theatre manager, don;t you?




i'm such a dick

God damned karma.

Well, I didn't mean that quite as it sounded, My point is that I think some people are trying to justify their "boring" lives by imagining that they've lived glorious ones before. But that's escapism. Every life is valuable, and interesting. The value of one's life isn't measured by it's proximity to memorable events or influential people. I say carpe diem! La la la la la la Live for Today!

Besides, too many times people have related past lives which would have been dreadfully boring to live, and would only be interesting now as a historical curiosty. "I helped build the pyramids" and such nonsense. Well, speak some Egyption then... you claim that you did it every day for fifty-odd years, you should remember a word or two. No? Hmm. You remember that the slave-master had a unibrow and smelt of ricotta cheese, but you can't remember the Egyptian word for "Hello." Do you remember the Egyptian word for "Bullshit?"

I'm not saying that reincarnation is necessarily bullshit, only that some peoples' claims to past-life memories seem to be poorly-spun bullshit. Some claims may be legit, I can't know.

This is one heck of a lot better than that reincarnation quiz that told me I was a Canadian in a previous life ...

<TABLE WIDTH="304" BGCOLOR="#51336D" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" ALIGN="CENTER"><TR><TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="CENTER"><TABLE WIDTH="300" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#333333" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"><TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://quizme.stvlive.com/" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://quizme.stvlive.com/pastlife/quizme.gif" ALT="Quiz Me" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="35" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BORDER="0"></a><BR><FONT FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica" SIZE="2" COLOR="#6FA6B2">wolf was<BR><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#77CAD0"><B>a Valued Monkey Trainer</b></font><BR>in a past life.<P><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="http://quizme.stvlive.com/pastlife/quiz.php" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none; color:#C0ABEF;">Discover your past lives @ Quiz Me</a></font><BR><BR></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Now, HP, you should understand that the reason people can't recall the Egyptian words for "crock of shit" is that they didn't think of themselves as speaking Egyptian in that particular time/space ... the thought forms of the concepts are the same, and are expressed metalingually rather than purely linguistically.

Oooh. This is TOO funny. Couldn't resist doing slang's. Glad I did.

Show this to Spartacus and his friends. They shall quake in fear!

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Heh, heh, heh.:)

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Eh?

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What Syc said....

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It is amazing how accurate these things are, isnt it??

I decided to go ahead and see what I was in my past THREE lives, and here's what I got....hahahahaha.....(the second one's pretty close to home, though...I've always been able to sketch and draw well...)

As for the other two...:rolleyes:

Lady Sidhe was
a Well-Behaved Psychic
in a past life.

Lady Sidhe was
a Popular Artist
in a past life.

Lady Sidhe was
an Important Pick-Pocket
in a past life.


Sidhe