Just a thought here... when people die, is it possible for them to be reincarnated a few years later and start a new life on Earth as someone else?

Or when you die, you just go into the Afterlife and thats it?
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-Option #1: Would be a scary prospect to a lot of traditionally-minded
people, or those who had their heart set on "eternal security."

-Option #2: Would be like George Orwell's "1984" to a lot of freedom-loving, risk-taking, pleasure-relishing types.

My hope? That both would be available as options (with oblivion
as a third) so nobody's style would be cramped while they watched
their neighbor's dreams come true. (If there is a "God", I hope he's not more of a killjoy, legal-beagle, or favorites-player than I am..!)

B-man

Hi Sacredfire..first, welcome to the board!

I do believe reincarnation is possible.  And, I also believe that we choose certain life paths before incarnating here.  Most likely not all the details, but things such as who are our parents, what part of the world to live in and gender.

Contracts with others perhaps, to be partners, siblings, or just acquaintances.

Hi Sacredfire-
One possible interpretation of feedback from people who do explorations in the spirit world or report past lives tec, is that after this life we can, at least in theory, go into the spirit world,  become creative agents in our own proper right, which we share with God, and then stay there forever. What seens to happen is that we, ourselves, cling to material things through which we, ourselves, force our own rebirth into a state that more or less echoes our last time around.

The "echo" mechanism is karma, of course, and arises directly from our attitude through which we remain attached to the earthly plane.

This specific concept amuses me in particular, because it offers a way to understand both the "everlasting" nature of the afterlife (if we were only able to be everlasting) as well as the cyclic nature that leads from death to death.

There seems to be no special reason to prevent you from exploring this yourself - that is, by investigating the "spirit world", that rest will folow soon enough anyhow.

dave

Wow, thanks guys! It's really great to have these replies 

I don't remember anything in my past life... but if theres any methods that could help me remember, I'd like to know 

And thanks again guys! This forums great!  Life beyond death really is intriguing! At least I know that death does not mean the end, but perhaps a new beginning =]