Reincarnation

[halomanuk]

No comment..it's too big a question for a basic poll.

[Jane Welland]

Rather against my will..

And any common sense, logic etc that I might hope to posess - Yes.

Interesting that whilst most people have remained firmly on the fence here, the poll results show that most have also voted 'yes'. Hmm.

Jane x

[kensei]

I believe it was Eleanor Roosevelt who said something like, "I don't think it would be any stranger for me to turn up in another life than it was for me to turn up in this one."

[Mrs. Fiddymont]

Anything is possible, but basically I don't believe in reincarnation.

However I do know that in my (most recent) past life I was the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

And before that I was Marie Antoinette.

Very odd. In all my previous incarnations I seem to have been a female of royal blood...and I always came to a bad end.

Maybe my current commoner status has broken the "curse"??

[BLUE WIZZARD]

Anyone remember the Bridey Murphy Case? I do, 'cos I was there!

Graham

Happy birthday Graham you have to be older than dirt.

Her tale began in 1806 when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At the age of 17 she married lawyer Sean Brian McCarthy and moved to Belfast. Bridey told of a fall that caused her death and of watching her own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness. Somehow, she was reborn in America, although Bridey was not clear how this event happened. Virginia Tighe herself was born in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland, and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent.

BW

In my next life i'd like to be second to none of the famous Marylin Monroe & have an affair with a second to none hetrosexual Dirk Bogard......Knowing my luck i'll come back as a fishwife that looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp with an affair with fat filled larder!

[Steve S]

Maybe.......'Tho I have a feeling that while I should have been Cromwell,I was probably a conscript who died of the pox.........

[Victoria]

We all have our opinions on whether or not reincarnation is true,
but opinions are only opinions, of course.. and lead nowhere much.
More reliable are the words and experiences of many esoteric
traditions that are within all the worlds major religions.

From the Geeta, The Gospel of The Lord Shri Krishna;
"There was never a time when I was not, nor thou;
there will never be a time when we shall cease to be"

"As the soul experiences in this body, infancy, youth
and old age, so finally it passes into another. The wise
have no delusion about this"

"As a man discards his threadbare robes and puts on new,
so the spirit throws off its worn out bodies and takes
fresh ones"

"The end and beginning of beings are unknown. We see
only the intervening formations"

Similar references can be found in most traditions.
Just thought I'd throw this in .. carry on with the opinions!

There are so many documented instances of people apparently being able to tap into the past of someone else long dead, that it does make a dismissal of reincarnation very difficult to anyoen with an open mind. This is not the same as 'believing' however.

There may of course be other explanations for this ability - which is very rare - to make links through time; there are just possibly dimensions and senses of which have only the merest inkling.

There is the Psychometrics ' To measure with the mind ' the world is built up on layers ( you know volcanoes exploding that has created the land, and it's in layers) there are layers of timeline earth, you know dig a bit down and we have the roman period, then another layer down we have the Iron age etc. pretty much with the human mind, it's just digging around and unearthing some info with a connection, a person or an object etc. However for time or demensions, i think it's perhaps still science but not been explained yet or discovered, so we call it prophecy or psychic, something like that, oh and of course ' imagination ' very human i think. Personally i think reincarnation could be a bit like waiting for a bus for some, you hang a round a bit before you get another ride on a journey on another road. Belief is really powerful, but to do with yourself and motivates your actions. Also i personally go with the ' Open mind ' as being inquisitive, expolority and researching characteristics.
just thought i'd give my 5 pennies worth.

Personally i don't believe in if you were a human in this life in the next life you'll be a duckbilled platypus. Some Psychiatrist's have given some evidence of reincarnation, however there is the counterfits, one of amazing people just picking up info like an extened version of ' That guy next to me i'm sure he's a golf player ' to which the guy next to him asks would you like a round of golf pal?. Still there was a Psychiatrist who did an extensive research into a group of women on the Cathars and reincarnation, but it was found that he did a lot of transference perhaps of his own thirst to find evidence of reincarnation from the Cathars during therapy sessions, there are people knocking about which are very suggestible persons. However, it's still being explored of the possibility of an Irish group of people who bear scars that resemble people having been burned in a terrible way, however they have not had any type of accident in this life for such scarring to occur, plus they have memories that have come in flashbacks of pieces of information of where research had to commence to establish what was being said, as a result the research so far seems possible that these people from Ireland have been reincarnated. However, as the world and universe seem to work, reincarnation seems a logical explaination that ties in with it, personally i don't think everyone gets reincarnated, but it may be part of an evolutionary process, especially when we can use things or lose them. Edgar Cayce keeps being mentioned with some, one day i might look into it.

[Sara]

There are so many documented instances of people apparently being able to tap into the past of someone else long dead, that it does make a dismissal of reincarnation very difficult to anyoen with an open mind. This is not the same as 'believing' however.

There may of course be other explanations for this ability - which is very rare - to make links through time; there are just possibly dimensions and senses of which have only the merest inkling.

[Graham]

Anyone remember the Bridey Murphy Case? I do, 'cos I was there!

Graham

[Robert]

Of course, one can rule nothing out. But I think the odds are against it.

For instance, the world population of minds, or souls or whatever you want to call them, is constantly increasing. Hence new minds are emerging from new wombs. So why do we need reincarnation to explain anything? Unless of course it's maintained that the new minds are reincarnated from a previous existence inside animals or insects. But I find this notion even harder to get to grips with.

[Suzi]

I live in hope..............Mind you it must depend on who or WHAT I come back as.................

[Sam Flynn]

.... come back and ask me the question in 200 years. I might have a different view by then