Good evening,
I'm a new fish here and a former firm believer in reincarnation. Obviously former, as I wouldn't be here if still were firm. I'd be in Sedona, AZ or somewhere...
Anyway, I have a personal experience that I thought might be benificial to this discussion. One thing that has irked me for a long time is this very idea that children can't lie nor have cryptoamnesia. And I have a personal witness to back myself up.
The very first dream I can recall (and I can vaguely recall being put into a carseat [I'll have to check with my mom that we actually had a carseat at the time.]) is the crucifixion of Christ. There he stood on a mountain peak dressed in white, long nut-brown hair about his shoulders, with his hands to his sides, palms up. He was ressurected as I could see the nails in those palms. The rock behind him turned the platform he was standing on (Anyone know what this kind of wall is called?) to reveal a faceless Roman soldier behind it. He looked like a typical Imperial Roman soldier.
Now, taking the details and symbolism of this dream and my age into account, doesn't it sound that I possibly could've witnessed the Crucifixion firsthand? It does, doesn't it. Yet, I never, to the best of my recollection, claimed any past life of such kind. Nope. I was a born n' raised Mormon. The nut-brown hair and white robes of Christ are direct from various paintings of Jesus including Del Parson's well used one here in Utah. The Roman soldier didn't look like anything different than those soldiers commonly depicted in various media.
Cryptoamnesia in the form of a dream. The first dream that I can remember, and I can remember pretty far.
What it boils down to for me is this: I have never encountered a universal theory of reincarnation. Even the idea of the intact human personality traversing the astral planes to a new body deosn't seem to be entirely agreed upon. Why? No body of imperical evidence. If our subconcious minds (the fulcrum of past life evidence) were truly in tune with whatever mechanisms of reincarnation, wouldn't we think that we'd be agreeing upon, more or less, the same thing? I include the most skeptical in that "we". Even taking the story of the blind men and the elephant, all the blind men have to do is to switch places in order to see they are sensing the same animal. With what I've seen from years of dealing with various reincarnationists, they are often many parsecs apart from each other in theory.
I've spent years amongst reincarnation belief and still feel lost in space looking for sure footing and a point of physical reference.
Glad to be here, and I look forward to posting more in the upcoming future!
Andy
I'm a new fish here and a former firm believer in reincarnation. Obviously former, as I wouldn't be here if still were firm. I'd be in Sedona, AZ or somewhere...
Anyway, I have a personal experience that I thought might be benificial to this discussion. One thing that has irked me for a long time is this very idea that children can't lie nor have cryptoamnesia. And I have a personal witness to back myself up.
The very first dream I can recall (and I can vaguely recall being put into a carseat [I'll have to check with my mom that we actually had a carseat at the time.]) is the crucifixion of Christ. There he stood on a mountain peak dressed in white, long nut-brown hair about his shoulders, with his hands to his sides, palms up. He was ressurected as I could see the nails in those palms. The rock behind him turned the platform he was standing on (Anyone know what this kind of wall is called?) to reveal a faceless Roman soldier behind it. He looked like a typical Imperial Roman soldier.
Now, taking the details and symbolism of this dream and my age into account, doesn't it sound that I possibly could've witnessed the Crucifixion firsthand? It does, doesn't it. Yet, I never, to the best of my recollection, claimed any past life of such kind. Nope. I was a born n' raised Mormon. The nut-brown hair and white robes of Christ are direct from various paintings of Jesus including Del Parson's well used one here in Utah. The Roman soldier didn't look like anything different than those soldiers commonly depicted in various media.
Cryptoamnesia in the form of a dream. The first dream that I can remember, and I can remember pretty far.
What it boils down to for me is this: I have never encountered a universal theory of reincarnation. Even the idea of the intact human personality traversing the astral planes to a new body deosn't seem to be entirely agreed upon. Why? No body of imperical evidence. If our subconcious minds (the fulcrum of past life evidence) were truly in tune with whatever mechanisms of reincarnation, wouldn't we think that we'd be agreeing upon, more or less, the same thing? I include the most skeptical in that "we". Even taking the story of the blind men and the elephant, all the blind men have to do is to switch places in order to see they are sensing the same animal. With what I've seen from years of dealing with various reincarnationists, they are often many parsecs apart from each other in theory.
I've spent years amongst reincarnation belief and still feel lost in space looking for sure footing and a point of physical reference.
Glad to be here, and I look forward to posting more in the upcoming future!
Andy
