Death is necessary, for there to be progress. The pope had to die,
because he can not learn and change. The death of Yasser Arafat was
a blessed event, a huge improvement. He was another Hitler, who
wanted to kill all the jews, and committed the Palestinians to 50 years of
endless hopeless war. When dictator Franco died, Spain improved.
Fidel Castro will die, and so will Osama Bin Laden and Musab al-Zarqawi and Kim Jong 2.

It has been said, that people's ideas do not change, but instead,
the people with the old idea die off, and the people who have grown
up with the new idea take over.

Also, I wonder if where the pope has gone, he still will not learn anything. At least, he might watch the ELS changes being made, that he refused to make.

   Scientists use to believe that when brain cells die that's it, no more can be created.  More recently they have found that in some circumstances brain cells can regenerate.  So why can't there be such a thing as continual cellular regeneration throughout the body?  Just because the majority doesn't do it?  Then people would argue no one has done it, right, because they don't know any individuals...  Just like no one has resurrected the body from complete physical death.

  Yet, if a man can die and imprint a cloth with an image that is now universally recognized by the scientific world to have been created by no normal human means (at least not created by human hands), with no reasonable explanation except by something like an intense high energy light reaction, then why isn't such possible?  You have as much material evidence as you will ever get, or could want.  Real world, factual scientifc evidence that supports ancient writings of people seeing a person killed, but come completely back to life in a physical form than can be touched, seen, heard..

  Boris, since you are our resident skeptic and a great balance to the group, how does one explain such a seemingly strange coincidence as cited above from a materialistic point of view?

  TruSeeker wrote, "Good luck your in quests."   Same to you friend.  May you find what you seek, wherever you are.

yeah truthseeker don't leave - but you will have to harden up a bit and not feel the need to defend your views.

on a forum as out there as this one I am surprised there aren't more conflicting viewpoints.  you should expect that there will be people that don't share your exact views.

although in my view this forum has become more a debating ground than an aftelife exploration discussion board.

i hope more people get back to posting accounts of their explorations.  philosophical debate and question posing is OK but perhaps its better to get back to our roots so to speak and find some answers for ourselves.

Scott

Boris wrote :
>>> Death is necessary, for there to be progress. <<<

Correct, as death is part of the reincarnational scheme, hence, because the souls of humanity have chosen to evolve via physical reincarnation, hence death is a necessary aspect of this learning process.

Could you still be able to focus productively on your current incarnation's lifetimes and relationships, if you could remember all the difficulties, issues and relationships from all of your past lives as if they were the present?

Ideally, in a mature, evolved soul/consciousness, that would be the case. But until the majority of humanity is able to reach that stage of consciential maturity, reincarnation will continue to have it's uses.

The purpose of reincarnation, is clearly examined in these two pages of Wagner Alegretti's "Retrocognitions" :

http://infinity.hispeed.com/Heart.Of.God/IAC/IAC_Retrocognitions_66_67.gif

http://infinity.hispeed.com/Heart.Of.God/IAC/IAC_Retrocognitions_68_69.gif

Hi Roger,

You have a good point there. This board started out as an afterlife board and as I remember, there were a lot more people posting their retrievals than there are now. Myself included. I haven't felt 'called' to do any lately and I do know that I do them during my sleep but I don't recall them or I'd be posting them.

It could be that not many here are able to do retrievals yet. I remember there being a lot of discussions, questions, etc. on how to do them in the past and I'd like to see that come back. Perhaps people are afraid to post their 'attempts' at retrievals.

I'd like to invite everyone who is working on doing retrievals to post your experiences even if you feel they aren't real. There are always those here who will gladly help one to understand or give assistance in understanding.

Love, Mairlyn