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Reincarnation (The Phenomenon; The Process; Theories)

I am a member of a Facebook group dedicated to children who remember past lives, there are some good cases but it would seem a lot of wishful thinking and jumping to conclusions without the full facts also people not willing to actually research where their child might have seen or heard something that is later presented as a fact

I guess that's the danger were people are allowed to post freely without a peer group raising lots of questions (like here, you can post a story but there will be plenty of people who will ask the right questions and do research) there is another group dedicated to reincarnation in general but it gets a bit ridiculous I never knew there could be so many Reincarnated Titanic survivors or Egyptian High Priestesses, never any bin men or road sweepers for some strange reason
 
Robbrent said:
I am a member of a Facebook group dedicated to children who remember past lives, there are some good cases but it would seem a lot of wishful thinking and jumping to conclusions without the full facts also people not willing to actually research where their child might have seen or heard something that is later presented as a fact

I guess that's the danger were people are allowed to post freely without a peer group raising lots of questions (like here, you can post a story but there will be plenty of people who will ask the right questions and do research) there is another group dedicated to reincarnation in general but it gets a bit ridiculous I never knew there could be so many Reincarnated Titanic survivors or Egyptian High Priestesses, never any bin men or road sweepers for some strange reason
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I think children’s past lives are the most convincing but you still have to look at it objectively.
 
Robbrent said:
I am a member of a Facebook group dedicated to children who remember past lives, there are some good cases but it would seem a lot of wishful thinking and jumping to conclusions without the full facts also people not willing to actually research where their child might have seen or heard something that is later presented as a fact

I guess that's the danger were people are allowed to post freely without a peer group raising lots of questions (like here, you can post a story but there will be plenty of people who will ask the right questions and do research) there is another group dedicated to reincarnation in general but it gets a bit ridiculous I never knew there could be so many Reincarnated Titanic survivors or Egyptian High Priestesses, never any bin men or road sweepers for some strange reason
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Road sweepers and bin men reincarnate in better worlds as a reward for their great contribution to society. That's why they don't come back.
I am joking of course ... Your point is very relevant.
 
AmStramGram said:
Road sweepers and bin men reincarnate in better worlds as a reward for their great contribution to society. That's why they don't come back.
I am joking of course ... Your point is very relevant.
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Although its interesting to note that the majority of cases seem to be people who have died young or quite suddenly, almost like they need to do their allotted time here on earth, I've not seen may cases where they had a long drawn out death (the claimed previous life that is)
 
MorningAngel said:
I think children’s past lives are the most convincing but you still have to look at it objectively.
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I agree, but we also have to take into account that children's minds are like sponges, their hearing is acute, and they can take in information very very fast. So in areas where an adult might need coaching, a child can pick up information extremely fast - so hearing part of a TV programme, or adults discussing a subject can be 'written' by a child's mind into a narrative, which could lead to adults believing that a child had knowledge they could not possibly have accrued by normal means.

But I have heard of cases where this doesn't seem to be the case (my friend's son going to a church in Wales and talking about something happening there 'when I was here before'.)
 
Apart from my post on this thread (#104), I’d also like to mention I’ve come across what I’d describe as ‘Fellow Travellers’. You meet them fleetingly in daily life. There’s a recognition even in a supermarket that you’ve met that person before and known them well previously and they recognise you. There’s a familiarity of a connected soul. There’s a click but you don’t take it further because that’s crossing the streams. There’s loads of us oldies out there.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Apart from my post on this thread (#104), I’d also like to mention I’ve come across what I’d describe as ‘Fellow Travellers’. You meet them fleetingly in daily life. There’s a recognition even in a supermarket that you’ve met that person before and known them well previously and they recognise you. There’s a familiarity of a connected soul. There’s a click but you don’t take it further because that’s crossing the streams. There’s loads of us oldies out there.
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I've had this too, a momentary recognition or an instant rapport with someone. I think I wrote on here about meeting my ex partner's ex partner (his previous girlfriend) and having a jolt of recognition. We got on so well it was strange. I've had it through photographs too, seeing a picture of someone and thinking 'oh, there you are!'
 
When my youngest was at kinder it was my turn to help one day.
One of the little boys who became friends with my daughter later came up and started taking as if he knew me and asked about his big sister.
When I spoke to his mother later she said that he didn't have one so I was a bit puzzled.
I was surprised later on when she told me that she and her husband had put in their will that if anything happened to them that he was to come to me..
They moved a couple of years later and I was told that he had told them that I was his mother from another life.
I wrote somewhere about the dream I had had of him but never told anyone about.
 
From one of the Reddit threads on spooky things kids say -
For a long time I have believed in Reincarnation, but didn't have the proof until it happened to my own family. You'd better sit down for this one.

ok to preface this, I must say that I heard a psychic say a few years back that when people reincarnate, many times they do so in family groups. Well, my youngest daughter was never the type to joke or say something that wasn't true. When she was three years old, she was playing quietly in the living room. I was in the kitchen, sitting at the kitchen table.

Then, my daughter walks into the kitchen and says "Mommy, a long time ago, I was a boy and I had yellow hair." Instead of trying to downplay her statement, I said "Oh really? How interesting." I wish I had asked more questions, but alas...

Anyway, years later, my daughter became a mom herself, having a beautiful baby boy, who was like a miracle baby. When my grandson was around three years old, my daughter called me on the phone and said, "Mom, I don't know why he's doing this, but "Michael(not his real name) keeps asking where his brother is. He says, 'Where's my brother? Where's my brother'?" And then she said she told him, "Honey, you don't have a brother", to which he replied, "Yes, I do. My brother has yellow hair."

Well, I don't have the nerve to tell my daughter that her son may have been her brother in a past life.
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Reminds me of something I've mentioned before: a friend of my mother known as Cookie lost a young son in a road accident.
Many years later Cookie's other child, a daughter, started a family.

Her first child was a boy who a psychic told Cookie was actually her dead child reborn into the family.
Dunno if this was shared with Cookie's daughter and the menfolk but it seems likely if she mentioned it to my mother.

Cookie absolutely believed it.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Apart from my post on this thread (#104), I’d also like to mention I’ve come across what I’d describe as ‘Fellow Travellers’. You meet them fleetingly in daily life. There’s a recognition even in a supermarket that you’ve met that person before and known them well previously and they recognise you. There’s a familiarity of a connected soul. There’s a click but you don’t take it further because that’s crossing the streams. There’s loads of us oldies out there.
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Same with me. I just take it for granted. As you say, the familiarity of a connected soul.

It also (at least partially) solves the mystery of friendship. I've worked places alongside people I've loads in common with, yet they remain acquaintances no matter how long you work there. Then you bump into an apparent stranger in your local or similar and it is pretty much instant friendship - the recognition. Most of my long term friendships have started like that - someone walks in a room and you just know they will be a good friend. Weird, but a fact.

I keep coming across the idea that we get to choose each life before we incarnate - as per your post#104. Seems very feasible and would explain a lot of things.
 
Sometimes though the feeling of connection/recognition can be down to something a little more mundane. Unconscious signals we are giving off about a shared current life experience for instance. Please note this is not to gainsay what @Benzie and others have said above! I certainly don't discount that explaination at all!
 
There seems to be a plethora of tales of Children mentioning a past life (Social media, Redit etc) , they are entertaining to read but without further investigation they just remain that, one on a Redit thread mentioned the child saying they died in a fire in a car wash, to me that was quite specific and it would have sent me down a rabbit hole of research
 
Robbrent said:
There seems to be a plethora of tales of Children mentioning a past life (Social media, Redit etc) , they are entertaining to read but without further investigation they just remain that, one on a Redit thread mentioned the child saying they died in a fire in a car wash, to me that was quite specific and it would have sent me down a rabbit hole of research
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Me too
 
When he was little the eldest son of one of my friends told her he had died in a car fire.
One day at school he was inconsolable and said that his father had just died. He explained that it was the father he had before.
My friend was Sri Lankan but he was born here.
 
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