Hi Alan, yes I have details, but they are inner, heart connection details, not cold hard facts to share. science has not caught up to spiritual areas of the soul yet.

just briefly, if you've read Robert Monroe, he has something to say about it. for myself, it doesn't make sense to have only one go around here...knowing my intrinsic energy signature as a spirit, it didn't seem possible to have only one life's experiences in a single body. There's so much to gain here on this particular planet..it's like no other in the entire universe, the diversity available for purposes of gaining more consciousness and attain graduation.  Graduation is nothing more than having attained the awareness you now have a choice, upon transition whether to return to another life. No one will decide for you, as the karma is burned off (wrongs righted)

For me, the whole objective of incarnation is for sheer adventure of the challenge of "becoming."
and of busting through the veil of forgetfulness of who I am, who I have been, who I still am and coming to terms with the present personality in context of the many "me's". it's humbling, but it's also reinforcing the idea to live this life to the fullest as there will never be another life like this one, and this personality I am now. so gratitude is what happens for any sort of life at all. There's souls standing in line for a chance to live here in physical. We're blessed in that sense..we got in, theres a reason.

for folks who don't like Earth lives I understand. I used to feel the same way. the thing is we evolve here, we change our minds. Instead of avoiding challenges, we change our minds to accept them. It's the same way with being a spirit..we enter in here to become more of what we already are, and like the mountain climber says "I climb mt Shasta because it's there."

We have lives because they are opportunities for soul growth. There are beings who have never come here..it's difficult. They are not forced to come here. It was a choice. Accept responsibility that at one time you wished to be here. Now you don't. If you accept that once you did, it's easier to go forward thinking positively and counting your blessings instead of looking at your cup as being half empty, it's really half full.  Yet I don't think a belief in reincarnation is necessary for spiritual growth to occur, more important would be to live life according to being of assistance to life rather than adding to the mayhem we see around us.

love, alysia

Hi alan.I have had lots of dreams of past lives,but nothing like the dream of bevaley.I had a friend,who my wife used to visit.he and his wife had a daughter by the name of beverley,who died at the age of 23 years of cancer.in the past 10 years beverley was on my mind almost all of the time,untill one night I was awakened by a voice saying beverley.I said what about her.then I was shoned a very clear photo of milissia,a young girl who worked at the bingo.The next time I went to bingo,milissa was there.I talked to her about my dream of beverley.And seeing her photo.she told me when she was 23,it was the worst year of her life.she said doctors could not find anything wrong.She was having pains in her body and thought she was going to die.after when she turned 24,the pains left her.I said you have another body out in the grave yard.She was shocked.I said why dont you go and visit your other body.she said I may some day.George

Greetings,

I agree that these various experiences all point to or 'blur together' a greater reality.
We humans named the segments of our experiences as OB, deja vu, etc. We named from our limited human perspective. And when we named them we separated them from the flow.
Some day we'll get back into the flow and wonder why on earth it was divided into parts. 

Love, Bets

Greetings,

Dear Alysia, you've provided several wise  thoughts that stand out bold to me, but I'm most amazed by this:
" never clobber the [Interpretor-] ego...it's just trying to do what you told it
to do; survive in a world where duality, destruction and construction march
side by side,  and it all looks so real until the observer starts observing the
patterns of behavior we get stuck in."

When I read that I felt sorry for being irritated with that part of me so I thought to love it, send it PUL. Doing that set off a response of amazing relaxation/ resolution. I think you've healed something , Alysia---thank you very much!

Love, Bets

Alan,

Here are just 5 of my many reasons for skepticism about reincarnation even in cases of alleged verifications:
(1) the evidence from mainstream clinical hypnotists against the legitimacy of past life
    regression
(2) the flaws in Ian Stevenson's research in the past life recall of young children (e. g. two
    cases in which the allenged prior personality was still alive at the time of the birth of the
    alleged reincarnating soul).  
(3) the transparent absurdity of Robert Monroe's OBE "memories:"  (e. g. a past life as a
    pilot on another planet whose plane flies so low it must dodge the spears of cave men; a
    life in which his current [late] wife, Nancy, was tied up by Catholic priests, so that Monroe
    could ritually rape and stab her).
(4) the number of subjects who "recall" past lives as famous people (e. g. Napoleon) in mass
    past life regressions

(5) But my biggest reason for skepticism is Swedenborg's astral refutation of reincarnation.
    He initially recalls past lives during his astral travels.  But when he reaches higher planes,
    he is taught that past life memories are illusions created by unconscious mergers with
    other discarnate spirits.  During such mergers, the memories of these spirits get
    misidentified as those of the astral traveler.  Swedenborg's guides offer to demonstrate
     this illusion to those in the lower planes who embrace reincarnation.  But the denizens of
    these planes refuse to cooperate with this demonstration.

Don

  Hi Alan,

  I guess i've tended to be much less skeptical about the whole reincarnation issue than yourself.  I've had some verifications here and there of hunches, dream info, and info that sensitives told me (which when pieced together added up to a very similar picture). 

   But hard core verifications as in scientific method...well don't know if this likely, and i haven't experienced it. 

  One of the more affecting experiences and verifications i had, happened rather spontaneously and out of the blue.   

  Many years ago, i had this really vivid dream wherein i was at a large library and a very wise seeming older looking man handed another man, whom i knew was "me" and/or an aspect of our Greater self, a large book.  I was experiencing the dream as a detached observer and from inside this man too. 

  The man opened up the book and a very vivid and real life, 3D type movie began to unfold.   To make a somewhat long story short, both "me's" started to observe this other man, a rough trapper type (a white, euro-american) guy trudging through the forest.  As both we's were watching this "movie" we started to experience it from the perspective of the settler/trapper guy too and i knew he was a part of us as well.  He got mauled by a bear, the bear didn't kill him though, and a Native American half breed healer woman found him and tried to nurse him back to life.   For some reason, in the dream she strongly reminded me of the singer songwriter Tori Amos and i jotted that down in my dream journal even though i thought it was rather odd and out of place at the time.   I don't remember if she looked like her or what.  Remember she was half N.A. and half White. 

  A few years or so later, i became friends with a lady on an astrology site, we had many deeper commonalities (as well as more superficial things, like i found out i use to live right near where she was and had been living for awhile), and we both felt rather familiar to each other but we didn't talk much at all about past life stuff. 

  Not too long after becoming friends, her husband whom she was very close too, died accidentally and out of the blue.  She was very devastated and became very grief stricken and became very wrapped up in her own self and pain.   For whatever reason, i felt a very strong, deep, and pervasive sense of obligation or duty to her and i told myself that i would be there for her no matter what, and honestly that wasn't always easy at times.   Normally, i'm not very good at keeping up communications especially through email and online kinds, i'm a rather detached and very Aquarian like in my relationships. 

  We ended up meeting in C1 a few times overall when i visited that area i use to live at because of family and friends.   One night when at a bar together, while talking, for some reason she looked a lot like or reminded me very strongly of Tori Amos.   This dream had been years before, i hadn't consciously thought of it for a long time, but all of a sudden the dream clicked in my head and i started getting this stream of impressions about her, us, our other selves all connected to that dream from a few years back. 

   I "knew" beyond a doubt that she was the half breed Native American woman and very talented healer in the dream who had tried to nurse that other self of mine back to life, and i got info that i did not remember from the dream, like that we had a relationship and that i ended up hurting her a lot (emotionally).   I got more detailed info than that as well, but i decided to ask her if she felt she had strong connections to North Native American at all. 

   She said yeah, and at one point it was pretty strong and especially along healing stuff.   I decided to just let go with all the impressions i was getting, and gave her all the main points in the above and some other info about "us" then, and as i was telling her she got a very strange expression on her face.  After i finished and some silence, she told me that many years ago her spiritual mentor an older lady, decided to give her a unique b-day present.   She knew an even older lady who use to give intuitive other life readings and who was involved with the A.R.E. for many years, and decided to ask her if she would give our mutual friend a reading even though she didn't do that anymore for the most part.    She agreed and two major lives and their influences came up in the reading.

   One was when she was a very gifted and intuitive Native American/White mix healer who became involved passionately with a settler, white man, but who ended up hurting her a lot.   She was told she and the man had unfinished business and that she would meet him again in this life.  In that life, both felt like outsiders and parts of two worlds.   Though the settler didn't have Native blood, in many ways he fit in more with the tribes, but yet he was still apart and not fully accepted by them and he because of his close relations with the "heathen" Natives, he was not fully accepted by the White folks either.    She being half breed had a hard time, but because of her gifts in healing and her general intuitiveness she was important to her tribe.

  Anyways, a lot of the major and minor parts all fitted together and lined up. 

  Was it just a coincidence?    To further complicate things, the man i viewed in the library was given psychic info regarding some of his other lives and one of his influening ones was as a settler/mercenary during very early American period, who became deeply involved with the Native Americans (both in positive and very destructive ways on both sides), and in particular a woman who was a half breed healer whom he had a relationship with and hurt a lot and the woman who had had this life, was told she became very embittered towards Whites, and especially white men after her experience with whom and what the psychic source called a "wastrel". 

  I had this dream at a time during greater inner turmoil and doubt regarding some info i had been getting regarding other lives of mine.   I had had some strong hunches, had been to a couple of sensitives, had some other dreams, etc. which all strongly led me to believe that some of my hunches might be true.   

  But at the same time, i was worried it was just ego crap and that i was possibly deluding myself even though i had experienced a lot of synchronicity and matching info on many levels in many areas previously, even BEFORE i had any conscious belief in a particular other life or before i consciously entertained same.   

  This dream came when i basically threw my hands up and said i give up, this is causing too much inner turmoil. 

  Anyways, the dream and the later experience with that particular friend, now makes a lot of sense on many levels, particularly my unusually strong inner need and desire to be there for her no matter what, the deep obligation i felt to her as if i was righting some deep wrong to her.   And its interesting how i came into her life, right before all that really challenging stuff happened and i ended up being one of the few people, if not the only person to consistently keep in touch with her for a long while after. 

  Now, was it hard core verification?   Probably not, but it was deeply meaningful to both of us and we both deeply felt the truth of this synchronicity.  To me, reincarnation and karma is all about relationships and balance.   The physical offers unique experiences and conditions, maybe not completely necessary to begin with but when one does become involved because of the nature of energy, attachments, etc., we tend to get somewhat stuck in relation to the physical and the relationships we have here. 

  Or like Bruce said in his story of Curiosity the probe, one of the pig pulls to the physical and to having other lives, was simply these emotional things and relationships, debts, etc. that Curiosity kept on creating in its relationships with other Probes and yet always feeling the need to balance and right once created.   That's the God part of us, the part of us which knows exactly what is right and loving and which desires perfect balance and perfect love. 

  Someone once asked a well known psychic source this, "What will convince me of reincarnation?" 

  The source just simply and succinctly answered, "An experience."    I've had enough experiences to realize that while the whole thing may be a bit more complicated than certain Eastern belief systems have promoted, and that we can sort of take in memories from other Souls/Discs, our own Souls/Disks still have their own physical lives and the karma connected to them independent of any memory melding type thing.  And instead of completely linear lives and gradual evolution through space/time, its much more like a Disk thing that Bruce talks about wherein a Greater self which exists outside of space/time, projects many various aspects of itself into various space/time cycles and not necessarily in a linear way that we tend to think and perceive from. 

  The truth is not either or, but both and all inclusive.  But to each their own and nobody is going to convince anybody else with the most logical arguments and/or the sharing of one's own personal experiences, or with collected data.  In order to believe, you have to be open to begin with, in order to have an experience it really helps to have some openness to begin with.   People can get really caught up in endless straw man arguments (on both sides), and more and more lately such stuff seems like a waste of time to me.  And yet, part of the reason we exist is to self express and to share and so maybe it's not a complete waste of time. 

Alan,I have read somewhere there were 5 billion people on the earth at the time of the great flood.George