Does anyone know anything about past life experiences?
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..Very good. An open mind is a proper approach. With your mind wide open, seek and consider the science that supports past life experiences.
If you come up with anything, please let the rest of us know about it.
yea i guess so
The devil and his demons are able to deceive past lives through people to make otheres believe this is for real.
Just keep that in mind.
In 1824, a nine-year-old boy named Katsugoro, the son of a Japanese farmer, told his sister that he believed he had a past life. According to his story, which is one of the earliest cases of past life recall on record, the boy vividly recalled that he had been the son of another farmer in another village and had died from the effects of smallpox in 1810. Katsugoro could remember dozens of specific events about his past life, including details about his family and the village where they lived, even though Katsugoro had never been there. He even remembered the time of his death, his burial and the time he spent before being reborn. The facts he related were subsequently verified by an investigation.
Is It Just Crytomnesia?
Many in the scientific community suspect that most cases of past life recall is in fact a phenomenon known as cryptomnesia. This is an instance of abnormal or extraordinary memory. In these cases a person, usually under hypnosis, is able to recall with astonishing detail something he or she has read, seen or heard for even the briefest of moments. It's as if the brain has taken a photograph of that moment and stored it in the subconscious. In one documented case, a psychiatrist's patient was amazed when his hypnotized patient began writing a passage in an old form of Latin. An investigation revealed that the patient had overseen the passage in a book that someone sitting next to him in a library was reading.
Past life recall is one of the most fascinating areas of unexplained human phenomena. As yet, science has been unable to prove or disprove its genuineness. Even many who have investigated claims of past life recall are unsure whether it is an historical recollection due to reincarnation or is a construction of information somehow received by the subconscious. Either possibility is remarkable. And like many areas of the paranormal, there is a propensity for fraud that the serious investigator must watch out for. It's important to be skeptical about such extraordinary claims, but the stories are nonetheless intriguing.
Past life recall generally comes about spontaneously, more often with children than adults. Those who support the idea of reincarnation believe this is because children are closer to their past lives and that their minds have not been clouded or "written over" by their present lives. Adults who experience past life recall often do so as the result of some extraordinary experience, such as hypnosis, lucid dreaming or even a blow to the head.
Here are some outstanding cases:
Virginia Tighe / Bridey Murphy
Perhaps the most famous case of past life recall is that of Virginia Tighe who recalled her past life as Bridey Murphy. Virginia was the wife of a Virginia businessman in Pueblo, Colorado. While under hypnosis in 1952, she told Morey Bernstein, her therapist, that over 100 years ago she was an Irish woman named Bridget Murphy who went by the nickname of Bridey. During their sessions together, Bernstein marveled at detailed conversations with Bridey, who spoke with a pronounced Irish brogue and spoke extensively of her life in 19th century Ireland. When Bernstein published his book about the case, The Search for Bridey Murphy in 1956, it became famous around the world and sparked an excited interest in the possibility of reincarnation. Over six sessions, Virginia revealed many details about Bridey's life, including her birth date in 1798, her childhood amid a Protestant family in the city of Cork, her marriage to Sean Brian Joseph McCarthy and even her own death at the age of 60 in 1858. As Bridey, she provided numerous specifics, such as names, dates, places, events, shops and songs - things Virginia was always surprised about when she awoke from the hypnosis. But could these details be verified? The results of many investigations were mixed. Much of what Bridey said was consistent with the time and place, and it seemed inconceivable that someone who had never been to Ireland could provide so many details with such confidence. However, journalists could find no historical record of Bridey Murphy - not her birth, her family, her marriage, nor her death. Believers supposed that this was merely due to the poor recordkeeping of the time. But critics discovered inconsistencies in Bridey's speech and also learned that Virginia had grown up near - and had known well - an Irish woman named Bridle Corkell, and that she was quite likely the inspiration for "Bridey Murphy." There are flaws with this theory, too, however, keeping the case of Bridey Murphy an intriguing mystery.
Reincarnation has also been one of the central tenets of many Eastern religions, and one can return to this existence in a new physical form, whether it is human, animal or even vegetable. The form one takes, it is believed, is determined by the law of karma - that the higher or lower form one takes is due to one's behavior in the previous life. The concept of past lives is also one of the beliefs of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology, which states that "past lives are suppressed by the painfulness of the memory of those former existences. To restore the memory of one's whole existence, it is necessary to bring one up to being able to confront such experiences."
• General George S. Patton believed that he had been a soldier in many previous lives, including in the service of Alexander the Great.
• Benjamin Franklin may have been professing his belief in reincarnation when he wrote that he would return "in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the author."
• Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were contemporaries and both professed believers in past lives.
• Edgar Cayce, the American psychic, believed that he was a resident of Atlantis in one previous life
i think that past life experiences is some thing that prepare for the future
I notice that people believe they were princes/princesses. rich, highly successful, wonder workers, skilled doctors, explorers in past lives.
But most likely they would have been farmers/peasants, hunters, housewives, soldiers or craftsmen/women in the past. That's what most people did in the past.
It is an interesting subject. I have read books and personally had dreams I felt were past life recollections. There is evidence found that there were books on reincarnation that were deleted from the Bible. The best book I ever read was Many Lives, Many Masters. It was written by Brian Weiss, a psychotherapist, who did not believe in past lives until one of his patients regressed on him. I read his other books as well. If you are not sure you believe and are open minded, I would recommend that book.
I have never met anyone that was anything other than a VIP in a former life, kings, queens, gods, never a peon, ditch digger or such
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