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Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by Darkblade71
I know there have been recorded cases of people having past lives verified,
but dunno personally where to dig those up for you. If you wanted I am sure you could find some information.
Trust me, I do know where to "dig those up", because I've done a lot of reading on the subject, and so far as I know, there are no known cases of people having past lives verified, where the investigation process is the scientific method, and there is no opportunity for cultural contamination. Careful analysis of the most credible of claims invariably has shown investigator bias, poor evidence and/or instances of cultural contamination.
Could be genetic memories....
I am open to that.
There is only one spirit that channels and that is satan and he has many confused with his channeling.
Originally posted by Darkblade71
reply to post by intrptr
I leave it all open as possible. I don't know, I just love to speculate on things. I suspect that genetic programming plays a role, but that in no way leaves out the spirit realm as we are weaved into a giant tapestry that is way bigger and far beyond my understanding. I just get little puzzle pieces that I have to put together for myself over the years.
Originally posted by swanne
reply to post by adjensen
I remember dying in a plane crash. Yet I'm not a new ager, I'm a hard-core atheist whose hobbies are physics and electrical engineering. And I met many good people on ATS who remember weird events which are not part of their life records neither.
Originally posted by adjensen
I would dispute that statement -- I've never seen an example that cannot be explained by cultural contamination. So far as I can see, the only credible evidence would be someone who claimed to have lived a prior life in a foreign culture and demonstrated otherwise unexplained language competence (for example, an American, who claims to have had a prior life in China, and who can speak, read or write Chinese without any training.) I've never heard of such a case.
Originally posted by mysticnoon
Originally posted by adjensen
I would dispute that statement -- I've never seen an example that cannot be explained by cultural contamination. So far as I can see, the only credible evidence would be someone who claimed to have lived a prior life in a foreign culture and demonstrated otherwise unexplained language competence (for example, an American, who claims to have had a prior life in China, and who can speak, read or write Chinese without any training.) I've never heard of such a case.
As to being able to speak foreign languages if recalling past lives in other cultures, it is the present mind which remembers, so the thoughts and perceptions are via the current thoughts.
Originally posted by deadeyedick
Many people now remember past lives. I am wondering if anyone has memories of before life only existing as a spirit and being able to look down a few feet onto human life. I have started to get visions of my pre-life and even knowledge of decisions that were being made by other spirits on what life would be best for them. There were certain cultures that were more popular for incarnating into and some were dreaded. Many were eing led by more powerful spirits to the dreaded places. Their were many spirits that had no spiritual debt that were taking a lot of the popular vessels and i heard they will be punished if they do not use it right.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by camaro68ss
Here's the story. As far as I can tell, he didn't forget about it. It just didn't bother him so badly after he came to terms with it.
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Originally posted by adjensen
reply to post by windword
If you can cite a well documented case of someone waking up from a coma fluently speaking a language that they've never had exposure to, I'd like to see it.
Speaking with a known accent and people that are savants (though I think you mean "prodigies")
obviously do not require reincarnation for an explanation.
Originally posted by adjensen
If you lived a former life, speaking Chinese, and in this life, you speak English, if you can recall the events of your previous life, you should also be able to remember the language, as that was as ingrained as any event you could recall.
I posit this not as a negative, but as the only positive affirmation that I can think of -- if you want to say that such a phenomenon is impossible, then you're saying that no positive affirmation is possible.
if you were a brain surgeon in a past life, it does not follow that you will instantly acquire the skills of a surgeon simply by recalling a few minutes of that life. The same goes for foreign languages.
Perhaps his talent was a remnant of some past love.