Past lives?

by Lutece 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  rem

  Justhuman,

  Is the story you are speaking of merely anecdotal, or was it researched by scientists? There have been many such cases studied and none have been shown to be authentic. In fact, one parapsychologist claimed to have found many good cases (Stevenson, 1975, 1977) but his research was shown to be poor. Scientists who later studied his "most authentic, evidential and thoroughly investigated" case concluded that the Indian child had acquired through normal means the information that Stevenson took as evidence of reincarnation. (Barker, 1979; Hines, 1988)

  Other cases that seem to provide evidence of reincarnation until more closely examined can be found in many scientific publications. Regarding these cases, one scientist remarked, "all the most famous reincarnation cases are minutely examined and on the basis of meticulous research all of them are found wanting." (Edwards, 1986, p. 34)

  I would love to see some conclusive scientific evidence of reincarnation, but at this time it simply does not exist. All we have right now are anecdotes and stories that have proven to be manufactured.

  rem
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  Leolaia

  Please see the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer. Hyponosis has been scientifically shown to corrupt memories and is not a good tool in recovering old memories. Be careful, if you don't want to change and distort your own memories of your childhood and so forth.

  Leolaia
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  shotgun

  Rem your the resident Spock on the Forum, always able to give logical reasoning usually with documentation....I like it!

  Check out the thread on haunted houses.
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  Lutece

  Be careful, if you don't want to change and distort your own memories of your childhood and so forth.

  hahaha, my mom tries to convince me all the time what a great JW childhood I had, LOL

  Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have memories changed for the better......hmmm
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  Leolaia

  "great JW childhood"??

  Should put that into my list of silly oxymorons.

  Leolaia
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  Robdar

  Hello Lu

  I have done past life regression many times. It has always been interesting. Once, I even got information regarding weaponry. It was quite accurate but it wasn't anything that I wanted to know about.

  The thing to be careful of when trying to recall past lifes is that many times you will regress to the point just before your death. This can be very traumatizing. Espcially if the death was a violent one. You may even have very physical and emotional responses to the experience.

  Even after playing with the subject for many years, I am not sure if I really believe in past lives. It could be genetic recall. It could also be that certain theories regarding time and space are true. Who knows?

  As a Hindu friend once told me: "Robyn, even if we have lived many times, even if we live many times more, this life is the only one that we have right now. It's best to make the best of it." He was right.

  R
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  Beans

  This is why I am not affraid of death, I am certain at that point in time all will be answered. For some reason I totally believe in dejavooooooo, I am always in a situation where I have dreamt of the situation I am in and that it protects me from harm by avoiding what could have happened! Freaky!
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  xenawarrior

  Um, Beans.......

  I think you did have a past life as Leisure Suit Larry.

  Nice to see you posting sweetie !!!

  XW of the "one life is enough for me- I'm causing enough trouble" class
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  Stacy Smith

  Well I respect everyones opinion on this but for me I don't think I was here before and when I'm gone I think I'm done.

  So that live for this life deal works fine by me.
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  Satanus

  I'm fairly sure that we preexisted, but reincarnation has always been a question for me. I really don't like the idea.

  I tried a bit of regression. I seemed to feel and get pictures of other lives. But, were they mine? I don't know. Swedenborg, who claimed to do a lot of astral traveling, and experienced other lives, later decided that they weren't his. He concluded that he was tuning in to other souls' lives, not his own. I suppose rem will shoot down swedenborg, but that's ok.

  SS