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Feb 5th, 2008 at 9:52am
 
I had a wierd thought a few moments ago and would appreciate some help on the thought.

Reincarnation?
How long before a soul reincarnates, if at all?
Does it keep certain attributes out of its former incarnation?
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Reply #1 - Feb 5th, 2008 at 1:40pm
 
hi nanner,I have heard it could be a few weeks or maybe 100 years.time in the spirit is a lot defferent than here on earth.Why do you want to reincarnate,after you pass on?George
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Reply #2 - Feb 5th, 2008 at 8:09pm
 
Yeah - I think I`ll come back again for a spin or two. Afterall theres so much to learn here.
How about you or  anyone else?
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Reply #3 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 3:19pm
 
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Nanna,

I remain a skeptic as far as reincarnation goes and do not like the idea at all. I know my not liking it will not alter anything if it is true.

But if you guys insist you are going to be reincarnated, God will give you your wish. As for me, I am not coming back to earth when I I finally pass over. I am moving on into  the light forever.

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Reply #4 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 4:47pm
 
I dont think you will have a say in that action alan.not unles you are in the highest realm.we all go to the spiritworld and stay for a long time if we wish,but in time you will feel the pull to be reburned here again.George
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Reply #5 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 4:53pm
 
  Grin Hek George to come back and be "reburned" I really hope not. Only kidding I know you meant to type reborn

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Reply #6 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 5:07pm
 
Dr. Robert Schoch has a new book, "The Parapsychology Revolution," that critically assesses Ian Stevenson's research on past life recall in young children.  I heard Schoch discuss his conclusions on Coast to Coast a couple of nights ago.  While he considers Stevenson's research the most interesting of its kind, he rejects the conclusion that such alleged 'memories" point to prior incarnations.  Instead, he argues that these children have more likely retrieved these memories by ESP.  I don't own the book, but want to buy it. 

In a couple of Ian Stevenson's cases, the  prior personality was still alive at the time of the child's birth.  So the child's takeover of the prior personality's memories is either possession or ESP, not evidence for reincarnation.  Also, Swedenborg's astral explorations initially produce several past life memories.  But as he ascends to higher planes, he learns that these are false memories created by an unconscious merger with other discarnate spirits whose  memories he has tapped and confused with his own memories.  Swedenborg's guides offer to descend to the lower reincarnation planes to prove this point, but the denizens of these planes are  too stuck in their belief system to pay attention to such demonstrations. 

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Reply #7 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 5:51pm
 
As opposed to relying on book knowledge, I propose that people try to find out about reincarnation through spiritual means. I've asked several times, and have received the answer that it doesn't occur in the over and over manner some people believe.

Especially not in the eastern manner where you supposedly have to incarnate thousands of times, until you finally become sick enough about doing so, that you are willing to commit spiritual suicide and think yourself out of existence.

We get attached to things in this World because we believe this is how we'll find happiness, peace and love. What if we are clear minded enough so upon death we can move on to a higher realm and find out where happiness, peace and love are really found? Why would we need to return for the reason eastern gurus teach?  People who reach higher realms during NDEs, seem to have no inclination to return to the physical World.  When I had my night in heaven experience, I didn't get the feeling that I still need the physical World.

Some people have the idea that you have to incarnate into this World over and over again in order to come closer to God.  Perhaps believing such a thing is similar to believing that spirits in a lower realm are more likely to come closer to God than spirits in a higher realm,  because somehow being seperated from him is what allows you to come closer.

In a way, I can see why eastern gurus believe that you have to become really sick of this World until you become enlightened, because how could you get to the point where you are willing to commit spiritual suicide by thinking your way out of existence, if you weren't sick of your existence and ready to call it quits?

If our attachment to our identity is as strong as the over and over viewpoint suggests, then how is it we are supposedly able to let go of our identity with all of its memories, when we incarnate? Either we're attached to them or we aren't!

This World is a very difficult place to incarnate. There are so many negative influences and so many people who end up going down the wrong path. This leads them to lower realms for who knows how long. Perhaps some spirits never make it out of a lower realm, and as Bruce wrote, have the chord pulled from them when it is time for a disk to move on. If this is the case, wouldn't the majority of souls eventually end up in such a realm, if they had to incarnate thousands of times as some people contend? Sounds a bit risky to me.

People who speak of disks/I-there/soul groups/whatever term is used, speak of how members of such groups share their lessons with each other completely. If this is the case, where is the need of particular selves incarnating over and over again?

Some people will take a few passages from the gospels and try to claim that Jesus Christ basically said the same thing as Eastern gurus. I don't believe this is true.  It seems to me that he came to tell people as you sow so you reap, so they need to live their lives in the right way so they can move onto a nice place afterwards. He didn't tell people, you'll have to incarnate over and over again until you get so sick of it, that you're willing to think yourself out of existence. He did say that there are many mansions in my father's kingdom. I wonder who would occupy such mansions if there aren't any souls to do so.

Perhaps there are some exceptions. Some souls do incarnate more than once. But hundreds or even thousands of times? Why?
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Reply #8 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 7:36pm
 
Hi nanner Reincarnation is definetly not on my list for going into the spirit world,when i get there i dont intend to come back here,i just want to stay in the spirit world forever as thats where the real love is.

Love and God bless   love juditha
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Reply #9 - Feb 6th, 2008 at 10:09pm
 
<<If our attachment to our identity is as strong as the over and over viewpoint suggests, then how is it we are supposedly able to let go of our identity with all of its memories, when we incarnate? Either we're attached to them or we aren't!>>

Excellent point. 

Also, I would guess that for a lot of people, their feelings about reincarnation are affected in large measure by the quality of their own lives.

A person whose life is full of joy and satisfaction would probably hope to be born again.

A person who has known only sadness and pain would probably hope to be born only once.

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Reply #10 - Feb 7th, 2008 at 12:00am
 
It would be strange if reincarnation went in the opposite or even an angular direction than we speculate it to be. For us "here", we usually think of reincarnation as a "future" scenario. But considering that time itself probably changes in different dimensions, i.e., states of being, then one could possibly reincarnate in the past. Apart from that it's "our" position", there's really nothing that certifies this point in time, space and reality as being the premium vantage point. 

But one scenario that I heard was truly strange: you come back and live the same life over again with adjustments learned from previous rounds. Yikes! Once you live this life in perfection, satisfaction and all the other better outcomes, then you move into a different life/higher state of existence. It's a weird version of get the homework right - then graduate. 

Though I must admit that if the "repeat" is true then it would go toward explaining a lot of what we go through now in a variety of ways. One example: Déjà vu. Another is this forum: all of us may have done this very same "forum thing" before.  But wait a minute, it gets even weirder: it's not just the possibility that we were doing the forum thing the same as we're doing it now, we may have switched identities if the general reality context remains the same but the elements within it change positions.

Nanner, is that you or is/was/or will it be, me? LOL
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Reply #11 - Feb 7th, 2008 at 1:02am
 
theres one more way to look at reincarnation but it's difficult. its to look at it from the oneness angle. perhaps the disc angle.

it is that a Soul, your total being is comprised of between 500 and 1500 lives inserted into a fictional type movie, as probes, and all this action is a simultaneous action of all, and the time periods they exist in as physical beings vary. so no linear time in that respect.

this would account for the peculiar way some of us can view another self within the obe or dream vista. Monroe visited his future self as a point in question. I've viewed several selves of my own. I've visited with an Italian man and knew for certain he and I were the same person and we re-united briefly. I had need some advice from this other self and I received it.

but to answer Nanners question about reincarnation I can't answer that, as I cannot conceive of being not myself. the idea of becoming part of the stew is repugnant to me. I want to remain myself for all time. just stubborn that way I guess.
another friend of mine want to merge into all that is and maybe we create that circumstance through the wish.

then maybe we do go to the 7th level where it's nothing but peaceful floating in bliss. somehow that turns me off too.
I think we need restful periods logically speaking but I also think there's something about a human being which has a lust for life and desires to be more than it ever could be.

theres a song title comes to mind: Give me one moment in time, when I'm more than I thought I could be, then for that one moment in time, I will be free.

so George is right and wrong. we do reincarnate my opinion, but it only SEEMS like re-intering because its all happening at once. then George cannot see how what he decides is important too, because there is no element of force on the other side, it's your own idea to be or not to be.

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Reply #12 - Feb 7th, 2008 at 3:22am
 
  Tis a tricky subject, because time is a tricky subject, we don't fully understand time, especially relative time.  Nor do most truly understand what we really are, being involved with physical and with human bodies, we have a strong tendency to view stuff as set things, with bounds and metes, etc. 

  My sense is that both types of reincarnation happen, though the literal, more Eastern perspective of John Doe reincarnating as Joe Donn, tends to be more rare.

  More often, it seems that an immense Light being who exists outside of linear time/space, projects various innate aspects of itself into various time/space cycles, and so all these selves are very connected and part of a larger self, thus they can have memories from these different other selves, because its really One self, and to a large extent these memories and that process is manipulated by the Greater Light being. 

  The end results aren't really that much different so perhaps the distinctions aren't that important either.   

  Since we are on a Bruce Moen site, i would point out that he seems to believe in some type of reincarnation, since he mentions bits and pieces here and there, like in the story of Curiosity the probe, or when he was a child having a memory of messing with some other guy's gal, etc.

   For me, i believe in some kind of reincarnation because i've had some pretty powerful verifications with others, and the info that they have received as well.   

  One example.  Years ago, i had this very vivid dream of being in a huge Library.  At first, i'm looking at it from a detached, observer perspective, but also from the perspective of this man who in the dream i know unequivocally is "me", or that we are aspects connected to the same greater Self.  A very wise, oldish looking man hands this man-me/we, a large book. 

  I open it up, and there is like a 3D movie playing, and as i'm watching i see this rough, trapper/pioneer type trudging through the forest in a snow storm.   As i'm watching, i realize that this person is also "me" too, and i start to experience this real life "movie" in a book as well, as still having the two other perspectives.    I know the man gets mauled by a bear, but the bear doesn't kill him, but he's there dying.   

  A Native American healer woman, who is a half breed, finds him shortly after and tries to nurse him back to life.  For some odd reason, i connect the singer Tori Amos to her, maybe there was a resemblance somewhat or maybe because i knew consciously that Tori had Native American blood in her, but is more white looking.   

    Years later, i meet this lady on an astrology site, and we find out that we have a lot in common (spiritually and physically), and that she lives very close to where i use to live when i lived in MA.  A little while after talking and becoming friends, her husband seems to die out of the blue, which hit her really hard because they were very close.  I tried to be there for her, but honestly it wasn't very easy dealing with such heavy vibes at times, but i felt this underlying but unusually powerful sense of duty or responsibility to her and decide that no matter what, i will be there for her.  When i go up to visit some family and friends, we decide to meet up.

  We had talked very little about other lives, and when we did it was in the very general sense.  Later on, when revisiting MA, we hang out again, and she seemed to be doing a little better.  We go out to a bar because someone she knows was playing in a band that night. 

  As we're sitting there, she looked a lot like Tori Amos for a moment or so, and all of a sudden that dream came flooding back into my head along with a lot of these other impressions of her, us, and our other life influence. 

  I decide to ask her if she felt like had some deeper connections to Native American culture, and she said yeah she did, and it was strong at one time.   I start telling her about this dream that i had had years before, and i started telling her that she was the half breed Native healer who had found me and nursed be back to life, that we had a relationship but that i had hurt her a lot in that life, through my insensitivity and casual manner.   I mentioned that she was a very good healer in that life, very attuned to the nature forces and had almost a telepathic like connection with animals in that life.   

  As i'm telling her this, she starts looking at me more and more strangely, seemed to be getting whiter.

    After i finished, she took a few moments and then started telling me that many years ago, her spiritual mentor, an older lady, decided to give her an unusual b-day present.  Her mentor knew an older lady, who for years was involved with the A.R.E, and who did other life readings and she was generally known as a pretty accurate sensitive.    She stopped doing these readings years ago, but my friends friend thought that she'd might do one for her.

  So, she got a reading from this older lady, and the older lady mentioned two particularly strong other life influences.  One was when she was a half breed Native American woman who was a healer, and very good at it, very in touch with nature.    This was quite early on in the white settler days, so there weren't a lot of half breeds around yet, and because she was half breed, she felt different but she was respected by her tribe because of her healing and pyschic abilities.

  She met and fell in love with a white pioneer type, who ended up breaking her heart and she felt a lot of resentment towards him, towards men, and towards white people because of him.  The sensitive lady said that she had unfinished business with this man, and that he would come into her now life.   The man who in that life, spent much time among both the Natives and the Whites, and also didn't seem to completely fit in either side also though blood wise he wasn't half breed. 

    After all this was laid out, we just kind of looked at each other, and we both knew deep down that all this was true.   For myself, it explained my deep, pervasive sense of responsibility to her, my desire to be there for her no matter what during a very difficult time in her life.   
It's odd, but we became friends right before her husband died via an accident.   It's like i was meant to be there, like it was all pre set up.   A lot of her other friends, seemed to have given up on her, because all she ever wanted to talk about was her grief, her husband, and his death.  She became very, very depressed at one point and for awhile was that way. 

  Me, i don't tend to be the best friend in the world normally, i'm kind of detached and non committal though i do genuinely care about friends, but i tend to hold people at a distance on a personal level.    I tend to lose touch fairly easily with people.   

  There was nothing glamorous about this other life info, it was filled with a lot of pain, remorse, and guilt on my part.  It did help me to accept more fully some other life info that i had been struggling with for awhile, but at that point i didn't care about those connections.   It just made sense to me my deep feelings of responsibility to this lady and my resolve to be there for her no matter what and though at times i really wanted space from her and all that very heavy energy.   

  Truly, as the lady had said, we had unfinished stuff between us, and more towards my end, since i, or an aspect of the greater We, had treated her so selfishly and her feelings so casually, and hurt her so much.   

  In the end, "reincarnation" is all about relationships between people, and about balance and becoming the responsible, loving, and serving Light Being that you were originally to begin with, but masked over.   

   In a sense, i believe all of "this", this life and other lives, is basically an illusion of the Soul and that our "real" life is in Spirit, and being a fully conscious Co-Creator with Source...but meanwhile, other lives do have their influence on us in our so called present lives, and at times they have quite a strong influence.

  I've had other experiences and unlikely match up of info, here and there, and so for me, i just don't doubt it any more.   I don't look at it the same way as i use to say 10 years ago, BUT i know that my core, essential essence includes many other selves in many other space/time cycles.   There is no real "separation" between me and them, but at the same time there are differences and we all are unique as each snowflake is.   

   To me, this whole Disc, probe creation, other lives thing, is a remarkably similar microcosm process of what THE Creator did with us, our Spirits, in the beginning.   

  Like with the Creator, with us, the Whole is greater than the sum of its parts/aspects.  Truly it is "as above, so below."    We, our Souls and all this, is naught but a reflection of Creator and its original creation, and that whole process.   We're One with each other and with the Creator, and yet we are different, self aware, and unique selves.  And we've created and then projected other, new and unique aspects of our Self, both in physical and in nonphysical.    And in the end, we're all connected, all One.   

  As far as more traditional, literal reincarnation, like i said, this seems to be much more rare.   In my own experience, as far as i know, its only happened once with me.   And it involved the trapper dude that i had just talked about. 

    He reincarnated directly, and not surprisingly their lives were very unusually similar in many respects, even to having the same first and last name and visiting many of the same places, and having a similar wastrel, unloving, and irresponsible pattern involving much materialistic hedonism (sex, gambling, drinking, fighting, etc, not nice guys in the least bit).    

  Except that the 2nd self, at the end of his life, he sacrificed his life so that others could live.   This kept him out the hells of the nonphysical when he passed over, whereas the first one spent some time in one of those hells before directly incarnating his essence.

  So, like most things, its not a black and white issue.  People have a tendency i've noticed, to turn such things into either--or, and very little inbetween.   To put boxes on the life process essentially...   Just remember that when you are putting boxes on the life process and on us, you're putting boxes on the Soul, and on the Creator too.    These are infinite, they do not fit into any little boxes though i too tend at times to put some here and there. 

  THE only law there is, the law of energy resonation aka like attracts and begets like, and the reality of freewill.   All the rest is totally limitless, and anything goes in a sense.   

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Reply #13 - Feb 7th, 2008 at 4:35am
 
I want to respon to everyone on this subject, however Rondele is first in mind right this min.

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A person whose life is full of joy and satisfaction would probably hope to be born again.

A person who has known only sadness and pain would probably hope to be born only once.

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Rondele honey - I dont nessecarily think that a person whom has had an overzealious life will automatically want to incarnate again verses a person whom has had a desolate lifestyle will decline another shot at it. Let me explain:

See, although you can see that little shinning face with a smile next to this post. This soul has really had a pretty much run for her money in this incarnation. Beginning with being molested at the age of 4 up till 10, all the aftermath to moving into her own apartment at the age of 14 - working after school till evening time, so to be able to afford it and not have to live on the streets. I`ve been beaten and shot at. Stabbed in the right leg by a family member.

....And primarily while growing up in a southern town of the east coast where during the 60`s there was still alot of prejeduce going on, I didnt fit in, in either white nor black catagory on the bus  for I was german...lol.. my school books were torn more than once, my locker spray painted with a swatsticker on a monthly basis. The bonestructure on my fists still show the aftermath of a few fights from my younger days, that weren`t based on little old non-sense fusses, but rather because some decided that a german girl needed to be hung for to make a point that "non southerners" or immigrants are`nt welcomed there.

I`ve lost two children of my own and had a divorce which nearly killed me..lol.. Had been condemned by court to pay all marital bills on my own, whileas my now exhusband, of a (21 year friendship and 7 year marriage with myself) decided to replace me and have a child with a friend of mine, thus been exempt (in germany) from having to pay the marital bills and all that happened while I was in rheumatic Rehab 7 years ago. The largest insult to me had been that he asked me to stay living in our house together with him (so I would continue to pay the bills, hinse he be unemployed), my friend and their baby?!! Now thats really sick in the head!..lol.. The bump in the night would not have been the friendly ghost named casper! LMAO. I am still paying off our bills and if I don`t my other alternative is to go to jail or chapter 13. Chapter 11 or 13 here, carries lots of bad consequences!

Hmm, I`ve lived in Condos with my own pool, had 3 houses so far... but at one point in my life I lived in the backwoods of Kentucky with no running water or electricity (not by choice either, for my mother drove me up there and DROPPED ME OFF TO SOME 33 YEAR OLD MAN I had never even seen before...lol...!)

Theres times where my cubbord had so much food in it that when just looking at it so over filled that I had no appetite anymore, but then there were a few times that I literally went thru the garbage of my neighborhood and ate left overs found there, for I had no money for food. 

My career field had always been in management in the USA, meaning that I also had alot of responsibility for others to carry not just for myself. Coming from a very desolate family background, having no family members to be emotionally nor physically rescued by -
I would say this soul has had a hard life. Yes, she`d do it again. Not because she`s sadisticly impressed, but magnificantly capable of understanding that it all "helped" her in the long run, she looks at the big picture.

Now I am sharing this openly with you, for I feel that you might want to look at it from my tiny view. Ergo: I`VE HAD A GREAT LIFE FULL OF EXPEREINCES! Yes, regressing thoughts make me wonder what in the heck was my soul thinking at the time of incarnation, however when I took the moment to sit down and think about it, I can recall admitting that its been really neat to expereince the feeling " forgiveness" towards my aggressors, its been really neat to have experienced the emotion called "hate", quite frankly I`ve always managed to experience "love and to give it to others inbetween too", the experience of "understanding" and so so many other emotions...

THIS LIFE has made me what I am today, whom I love dearly... and considering that, I really am glad all those things had happened. It was for me a growth period, just as your life has been for you, or for others.

So I slightly disagree that its affected in large measure by the quality of their own lives. For I moreso believe its if the persons consciousness allows them to feel like a "victum" or a "survivor" and then what a person does with the acquired knowledge of such a route counts the most for decisions.. I am the latter of the two and I try my very best to teach love - one starts by learning to love oneself and then give that to others. 

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Reply #14 - Feb 7th, 2008 at 4:46am
 
Hey Desert good point, you brought up.
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Nanner, is that you or is/was/or will it be, me? LOL


Whomever can identify themselves, but has not "lived" the discribed incarnation of mine (which all I did had been write about 15% of) is most likely the person whom traded places with me this go around...lol..

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Thats always depending on "if you listen and watch your surroundings and reality carefully" and not make the same mistakes others make.

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