The story of a five-year-old boy from Glasgow who has been telling stories of a past life on the remote island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides ever
since he could talk. His mother, unconvinced by a psychologist\\\'s explanation, decides to visit Dr Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia,
before travelling to Barra to see if any of the tales of a \\\'previous life\\\' can be verified.
www.youtube.com...
another fascinating story
Reincarnation Reality or Myth?, page 2
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reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 03:19 PM by purehughness
reply to post by meremortal
Cool find dude, really interesting
It's often put forward that children are much more perceptive than adults, like what Aldous Huxley wrote in 'The Doors of Perception'. They have more doors open, and we as adults have a lot of 'clogged' doors, closed because of all our day to day worries that prevent us from seeing the world as we should.
Maybe the fact that children have this insight means that they are more apt to remember past lives, but this soon fades out?
Cool find dude, really interesting
It's often put forward that children are much more perceptive than adults, like what Aldous Huxley wrote in 'The Doors of Perception'. They have more doors open, and we as adults have a lot of 'clogged' doors, closed because of all our day to day worries that prevent us from seeing the world as we should.
Maybe the fact that children have this insight means that they are more apt to remember past lives, but this soon fades out?
reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 08:54 PM by YouAreDreaming
reply to post by tempest501
It just so happens, I remember existing before this life. This memory I call pre-life memory and I have had it before I was born. I will share what I remember and what I know in hopes it helps you in understanding this phenomena.
In my former life, I was a soldier that died in a war, shot dead in a trench as I looked down the site of my bolt-action rifle. What killed me is most likely a bullet in the head, although I think maybe artillery shrapnel could have also be the culprit.
It was an instant kill as that moment when I was alive I had all the fullness of life gazing through my eyes to a sudden state of total shock as something happened to me. Death happened to me.
Dying was much like turning off a TV, as my visual screen basically closed to a point of singularity into pure blackness, then there was a sudden rush as I exited that former body into what people call the after-life.
I stood on the battle field still watching the war ensue, but I also saw other spirits of dead soldiers. I was in a state of total shock, I could barely think for myself, but I existed.
This being of pure light intercepted me, emitted a beam of energy and dragged me up through all these "layers" to a point by which the being would then start talking to me, reasoning with me and illustrating by a tour where I was and what was going on.
This tour would end with this being sending me back to be human again. This life right now.
The memories are very dream like now, fractured and broken and images with faces without names. It is not like a computer or DVD where I can seek and relive parts of that former life. It is very damaged, broken information from this perspective.
That said, I have no doubt at all, this was a past life. I know for fact it was and have always known my whole life.
The reality is, at least for me, I have reincarnated. Now I have read literature and seen videos of other people who also claim this to be so. I do not doubt it. Based on my memories, my experiences and what I know, reincarnation is very much the truth.
There is a lot more to it, but I wanted to share what I have experienced and given the fragmented, shattered nature of the memories... it is no wonder people have a hard time remembering or even accepting such memories as being anything but a dream, or something other then past life.
Believe what you want, the truth is inevitably going to reveal itself anyways.
We do reincarnate.
[edit on 11-10-2009 by YouAreDreaming]
It just so happens, I remember existing before this life. This memory I call pre-life memory and I have had it before I was born. I will share what I remember and what I know in hopes it helps you in understanding this phenomena.
In my former life, I was a soldier that died in a war, shot dead in a trench as I looked down the site of my bolt-action rifle. What killed me is most likely a bullet in the head, although I think maybe artillery shrapnel could have also be the culprit.
It was an instant kill as that moment when I was alive I had all the fullness of life gazing through my eyes to a sudden state of total shock as something happened to me. Death happened to me.
Dying was much like turning off a TV, as my visual screen basically closed to a point of singularity into pure blackness, then there was a sudden rush as I exited that former body into what people call the after-life.
I stood on the battle field still watching the war ensue, but I also saw other spirits of dead soldiers. I was in a state of total shock, I could barely think for myself, but I existed.
This being of pure light intercepted me, emitted a beam of energy and dragged me up through all these "layers" to a point by which the being would then start talking to me, reasoning with me and illustrating by a tour where I was and what was going on.
This tour would end with this being sending me back to be human again. This life right now.
The memories are very dream like now, fractured and broken and images with faces without names. It is not like a computer or DVD where I can seek and relive parts of that former life. It is very damaged, broken information from this perspective.
That said, I have no doubt at all, this was a past life. I know for fact it was and have always known my whole life.
The reality is, at least for me, I have reincarnated. Now I have read literature and seen videos of other people who also claim this to be so. I do not doubt it. Based on my memories, my experiences and what I know, reincarnation is very much the truth.
There is a lot more to it, but I wanted to share what I have experienced and given the fragmented, shattered nature of the memories... it is no wonder people have a hard time remembering or even accepting such memories as being anything but a dream, or something other then past life.
Believe what you want, the truth is inevitably going to reveal itself anyways.
We do reincarnate.
[edit on 11-10-2009 by YouAreDreaming]
reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 10:03 PM by YouAreDreaming
reply to post by I think Im normal
You present some good questions, and I may not have any answers to them. But I will tell you what I think based on my experiences.
When I died, I argued with this being of light about coming back to this life. From my former-life perspective, I did NOT want to come back. I told the being that it was crazy down here, everybody killing everybody and that whole reality left me disgusted and scared.
The being assured me that this time it would be different, but didn't give me a choice not to come back. It was a forced incarnation, no denying that. At least, my former-self really did not want to come back at all. This other being however, had the last say. It knew the system, knew the game and my lack of knowledge and ignorance was more then enough for it to simply slot me back in.
I would scream and that started the fragmentation of my former self, I like to call it the blender. It's like being blended up and poured into a new mold.
I believe this emotional conflict is why my new life didn't want to let go. I resisted heavily as a child because I would go out-of-body and go back to this being protesting being put back in.
All I ever got for the reason, "This time it will be different.".
Well, here I am. In the flesh. My former-self just a faded memory, and this time I have lived twice as long as that former life. Is it different? Very much so. The being did keep it's word. I don't think it could be any more different then as it is now.
What does it all mean? What's the point? It's a very psychological mind f*** if you don't mind me saying. There is a reason, there is a point however.
You say that the last life is like a dream. You are right. It was just a dream. This life is just a dream. That is correct. It also is a dream. We are just the thoughts of some deity. You are correct. We are thought, we are a dream within a dream.
What we really are is consciousness. We are part of a Universal consciousness individualized as a part of it, to be a player within ONE of many reality systems it/we have created using thought.
What we all need to remember is, even though we are individualized parts of this universal consciousness, we still are this universal consciousness.
In this life, I have come to realize that that being who I could call God which sent me back, was not someone else. That being was me, sending me back here. And doing so, so I could continue onward to evolve into the being that I met that fateful day when it sent me back.
A really twisted temporal freakshow if you ask me. That being already knows this whole life from head to toe, planned it all carefully and in great detail. As it has every lifetime that it has committed itself too.
Why all this reality that we subject ourselves too? Some good questions, ask yourself to show you. Let yourself answer those questions.
You have all the answers, just waiting for you to realize them.
You present some good questions, and I may not have any answers to them. But I will tell you what I think based on my experiences.
When I died, I argued with this being of light about coming back to this life. From my former-life perspective, I did NOT want to come back. I told the being that it was crazy down here, everybody killing everybody and that whole reality left me disgusted and scared.
The being assured me that this time it would be different, but didn't give me a choice not to come back. It was a forced incarnation, no denying that. At least, my former-self really did not want to come back at all. This other being however, had the last say. It knew the system, knew the game and my lack of knowledge and ignorance was more then enough for it to simply slot me back in.
I would scream and that started the fragmentation of my former self, I like to call it the blender. It's like being blended up and poured into a new mold.
I believe this emotional conflict is why my new life didn't want to let go. I resisted heavily as a child because I would go out-of-body and go back to this being protesting being put back in.
All I ever got for the reason, "This time it will be different.".
Well, here I am. In the flesh. My former-self just a faded memory, and this time I have lived twice as long as that former life. Is it different? Very much so. The being did keep it's word. I don't think it could be any more different then as it is now.
What does it all mean? What's the point? It's a very psychological mind f*** if you don't mind me saying. There is a reason, there is a point however.
You say that the last life is like a dream. You are right. It was just a dream. This life is just a dream. That is correct. It also is a dream. We are just the thoughts of some deity. You are correct. We are thought, we are a dream within a dream.
What we really are is consciousness. We are part of a Universal consciousness individualized as a part of it, to be a player within ONE of many reality systems it/we have created using thought.
What we all need to remember is, even though we are individualized parts of this universal consciousness, we still are this universal consciousness.
In this life, I have come to realize that that being who I could call God which sent me back, was not someone else. That being was me, sending me back here. And doing so, so I could continue onward to evolve into the being that I met that fateful day when it sent me back.
A really twisted temporal freakshow if you ask me. That being already knows this whole life from head to toe, planned it all carefully and in great detail. As it has every lifetime that it has committed itself too.
Why all this reality that we subject ourselves too? Some good questions, ask yourself to show you. Let yourself answer those questions.
You have all the answers, just waiting for you to realize them.
reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 10:12 PM by Seventhdoor
reply to post by tempest501
Here are my current thoughts on reincarnation:
There are three main levels of the projection of consciousness. There is dreaming, wherein the astral body is either within or very close to the physical body.
There is astral projection, wherein a person enters the astral/dream plane consciously, either from a waking state or during sleep and becoming lucid.
Then there is the out of body experience. The first everyone experiences, the second takes some practice but people have naturally experienced those as well. The third people tend to only experience as part of a traumatic event when they are close to bodily death. I would do some research in the area of OOBE to get an idea of how vividly people can recall events, words and places while they are physically dead (heart and brain) and the doctors are trying to revive them.
I can actually leave my body as in an OOBE so i certainly believe that we have a level of being which is not connected to the physical. Furthermore on June 10th of this year I spontaneously obtained memories of a past life which gave me knowledge of things I had absolutely no way of knowing (things about ancient Greece which I only later found and confirmed in very scholarly works which contained knowledge I would have never been exposed to anywhere by anyone). Before then I had been rather skeptical but open minded, now I am at least certain that memories or information can be transferred from other places and times. But I'm also an Adept of a Rosicrucian Order, so the study of consciousness and spiritual reality is what I do.
Here are my current thoughts on reincarnation:
There are three main levels of the projection of consciousness. There is dreaming, wherein the astral body is either within or very close to the physical body.
There is astral projection, wherein a person enters the astral/dream plane consciously, either from a waking state or during sleep and becoming lucid.
Then there is the out of body experience. The first everyone experiences, the second takes some practice but people have naturally experienced those as well. The third people tend to only experience as part of a traumatic event when they are close to bodily death. I would do some research in the area of OOBE to get an idea of how vividly people can recall events, words and places while they are physically dead (heart and brain) and the doctors are trying to revive them.
I can actually leave my body as in an OOBE so i certainly believe that we have a level of being which is not connected to the physical. Furthermore on June 10th of this year I spontaneously obtained memories of a past life which gave me knowledge of things I had absolutely no way of knowing (things about ancient Greece which I only later found and confirmed in very scholarly works which contained knowledge I would have never been exposed to anywhere by anyone). Before then I had been rather skeptical but open minded, now I am at least certain that memories or information can be transferred from other places and times. But I'm also an Adept of a Rosicrucian Order, so the study of consciousness and spiritual reality is what I do.
reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 10:33 PM by Historical-Mozart
reply to post by YouAreDreaming
Very cool posts, YouAreDreaming, very cool. Got you some stars -- the ATS kind -- not the shot-in-the-field kind. Pardon my gallows humor.
Very cool posts, YouAreDreaming, very cool. Got you some stars -- the ATS kind -- not the shot-in-the-field kind.
reply posted on 11-10-2009 @ 10:38 PM by I think Im normal
reply to post by YouAreDreaming
Good reply, It could be the very reason for things such as Deja Vu, dreams you have of things you have never seen and such.
Good reply, It could be the very reason for things such as Deja Vu, dreams you have of things you have never seen and such.
reply posted on 12-10-2009 @ 02:00 AM by v01i0
reply to post by tempest501
Complex similarity of human brain is the reason of experiencing something like reincarnation. Reincarnation in the sense that our souls would be switched to another body, does not exist for me.
Yet, there is somekind of past history build in our brains, and I call it racial memory of human kind. It includes instictive reactional behaviour and so on.
When active, these layers of brains can produce something like images of past lives (if one has powerful imagination). And in the sense that we are long product of nature, our species has existed perhaps for millions of years, we - as archetypical personalities - actually have existed before. But I reject the idea of reincarnation as it is commonly understood.
People live and learn in certain types of environment - receiving and returning specific types of variables (which are not infinitive), therefore same type of personalities exists. The cultural oppression also presets us with many kind of readily given patterns.
All this and many other things ensure that there are some people who has experiences of past lives. In my opinion, they have not really existed before in the sense they claim, but have vivid imagination and sincerely believe so, yet all they experience is their ancestral memory with colours of their imagination. They may have indoctrinated themselves either un- or purposefully because such doctirine exists in the form of reincarnation.
-v
Complex similarity of human brain is the reason of experiencing something like reincarnation. Reincarnation in the sense that our souls would be switched to another body, does not exist for me.
Yet, there is somekind of past history build in our brains, and I call it racial memory of human kind. It includes instictive reactional behaviour and so on.
When active, these layers of brains can produce something like images of past lives (if one has powerful imagination). And in the sense that we are long product of nature, our species has existed perhaps for millions of years, we - as archetypical personalities - actually have existed before. But I reject the idea of reincarnation as it is commonly understood.
People live and learn in certain types of environment - receiving and returning specific types of variables (which are not infinitive), therefore same type of personalities exists. The cultural oppression also presets us with many kind of readily given patterns.
All this and many other things ensure that there are some people who has experiences of past lives. In my opinion, they have not really existed before in the sense they claim, but have vivid imagination and sincerely believe so, yet all they experience is their ancestral memory with colours of their imagination. They may have indoctrinated themselves either un- or purposefully because such doctirine exists in the form of reincarnation.
-v
reply posted on 12-10-2009 @ 06:02 AM by fleetlord
reply to post by tempest501
The answer to this question as I believe is: When you first born, you have no memories, being a new soul. Everything you do in life fills up your brain. You die, leaving your brain behind. Then you are reborn with no memories, since your past-life brain didn't follow you. Imagine, a baby with the brains of 30 people.
Also, it could be that you do remember your past lives, but a childs mind erases it as more things come in (walk, crawl, eat...) Plus, the brain of a child couldn't hold all the memories of an adult, so only a few can fit in. The sad thing about that is that you forget it before you learn to communicate.
[edit on 12-10-2009 by fleetlord]
The answer to this question as I believe is: When you first born, you have no memories, being a new soul. Everything you do in life fills up your brain. You die, leaving your brain behind. Then you are reborn with no memories, since your past-life brain didn't follow you. Imagine, a baby with the brains of 30 people.
Also, it could be that you do remember your past lives, but a childs mind erases it as more things come in (walk, crawl, eat...) Plus, the brain of a child couldn't hold all the memories of an adult, so only a few can fit in. The sad thing about that is that you forget it before you learn to communicate.
[edit on 12-10-2009 by fleetlord]
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