It seems odd that we never hear that someone, in a past life, was a chinese peasant who lead a dull life cultivating rice. The statistical probabilities of such a previous life are enormous. But no, most past lives seem to be full of glamour and adventure, frequently at important moments in history. We hear narratives filled with Holywood style stereotypes.
That's just the media for you.. Read any reincarnation book and you'll find the dull life stories you're looking for. Destiny of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton for example.It seems odd that we never hear that someone, in a past life, was a chinese peasant who lead a dull life cultivating rice. The statistical probabilities of such a previous life are enormous. But no, most past lives seem to be full of glamour and adventure, frequently at important moments in history. We hear narratives filled with Holywood style stereotypes.
This story was discussed here a while ago and the background investigation showed that he had had ample opportunities since he was born to acquire the information. Exploitation of the story by parents from then on? Seems the obvious answer to me.
I don't believe in reincarnation.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuwLZDxt6Y
Love thy neighbour folks we reincarnate!
I don't believe in reincarnation.
And I didn't in my previous life, either.
Crash Davis (in the movie Bull Durham asked the same question.)It seems odd that we never hear that someone, in a past life, was a chinese peasant who lead a dull life cultivating rice. The statistical probabilities of such a previous life are enormous. But no, most past lives seem to be full of glamour and adventure, frequently at important moments in history. We hear narratives filled with Holywood style stereotypes.
There was this newspaper article once of a woman who was outraged that a "psychic" had told her she in an earlier life had been a German named "Hans", who worked in a concentration campIt seems odd that we never hear that someone, in a past life, was a chinese peasant who lead a dull life cultivating rice. The statistical probabilities of such a previous life are enormous. But no, most past lives seem to be full of glamour and adventure, frequently at important moments in history. We hear narratives filled with Holywood style stereotypes.
If non-physical planes exist, the extras come come from there. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(cosmology)Reincarnation...ok. Someone please explain. There are lots, lots, lots (I mean lots) more people alive today than ever before. Assume reincarnation, where to all of the extra bodies/souls come from?
That's one possibility; a second is that there could be other inhabited planets in the universe. So, for example, while the population of Earth is currently increasing, the population of the hypothetical planet Thetan in the Andromeda Galaxy may be currently decreasing. For all we know, there may be billions and billions (to borrow from Carl Sagan) of inhabited planets in the universe, and souls may be constantly shuttling among them and other planes of existence.So, they just sort float around in there until a body opens up?