Hi Jean,

It could very well have been me. Right now I'm reading a book I've had for a couple years and never got around to reading it.  It's "Beyond The Ashes" by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom.  He's written another book that I have too and haven't read yet. It's "From Ashes to Healing."  It's about people who remember past lives in the holocaust. 

He used to have a yahoo group and it was hard to get on because you had to state why, etc., so I told about my having the obsession with it and it turning out to be one of my disk members that died in the ovens when she was 6 and I was 6 here in the US, only I said soul group and I got on. It was an amazing group but there were also the debaters and those people who caused trouble so he just plain shut the group down.  He has a website if you want to do a search on him. The last I heard he was writing a book on Jewish themes in Star Trek. 

I guess a lot of people killed in the ovens came right back into the earth life and have had a lot of trouble/memories because of not taking the time to heal before coming back in.  One person saw himself being burned alive because the gas chamber didn't kill him.

For some reason lately I've been thinking about the holocaust again, thinking about how our government is so similar in many ways to Hitler what with Homeland Security, etc. I could go on and on but better quit before I say too much. I'll probably have people jumping on me now as it is. 

Much Love,
Mairlyn

Marilyn-

I suppose if you can be the reincarnation of St. Peter, the Bush administration can be the reincarnation of the Third Reich.

I find such a comparison to be odious.  Because when you think about it, it ends up diminishing the true horror that was Nazi Germany in the 1930s. 

For those who have no knowledge of history, they probably think the Nazis were really not all that bad if they are likened to our own DHS.  Which, by the way, is essentially an innocuous, ineffective agency.  Far, far different from the vicious Hitler killing machine.

I've spent over 30 years working in DC for the Feds and I know several of the folks at DHS.  They are honorable, decent people who are doing their best to prevent another 9/11.

However, they don't have the tools needed to be fully effective and will never be able to ensure we don't have another terrorist attack.  To imagine that DHS or other top administration officials are plotting some sort of Hitler-like regime is pure fantasy.

People who see dark conspiracies around every corner reflect a deep seated paranoia.  Life's circumstances shape all of us.  If we have been mistreated or emotionally abused for many years, our world view is going to be negatively influenced.

If someone has always known hunger or poverty, even becoming a millionaire won't make him feel comfortable.  He will always feel that a life of deprivation is just a heartbeat away.  Or if someone had been horribly mistreated and abused physically or emotionally, he will always mistrust others, especially an authority figure.

I think I understand why you feel the way you do.  Your fears are groundless, but me saying that is no comfort.  There's an old saying that speaks a profound truth- "A coward dies a thousand times, a hero dies but once."

Peace.