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.
 
I've been reading a lot of parents claiming there child as said something that points towards them living another life, if you take it at face value though there are a few issues that no one seems to think about made up case here, Little Billy remembers living as man before and choosing his parents, the parents don't seem to realize that the other life was a completely different personality given that a personality is formed from life experience, it's essence may have been what they now call little Billy but Little Billy is a completely new personality, ow what about the people who loved the previous personality in the made case he has been wiped out of existence

What it points too is that we are souls and they physical life is just an act we are performing in, once it's over we move on to the next act, so all the ties that bind us here in the physical are just part of the act sure they are important, but when we die that's it, Uncle Jim is not looking down at us, Uncle Jim has moved on, nor will he be there to greet us

Hope this rambling has been clear enough it was a shower thought
 
Robbrent said:
I've been reading a lot of parents claiming there child as said something that points towards them living another life, if you take it at face value though there are a few issues that no one seems to think about made up case here, Little Billy remembers living as man before and choosing his parents, the parents don't seem to realize that the other life was a completely different personality given that a personality is formed from life experience, it's essence may have been what they now call little Billy but Little Billy is a completely new personality, ow what about the people who loved the previous personality in the made case he has been wiped out of existence

What it points too is that we are souls and they physical life is just an act we are performing in, once it's over we move on to the next act, so all the ties that bind us here in the physical are just part of the act sure they are important, but when we die that's it, Uncle Jim is not looking down at us, Uncle Jim has moved on, nor will he be there to greet us

Hope this rambling has been clear enough it was a shower thought
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That what I think as is my brother watching over me or is he with another family on the Heavens from a previous life or has he been reincarnated in another life maybe as a female in another or different world or his doing all these at once.
 
Sabresonic said:
That what I think as is my brother watching over me or is he with another family on the Heavens from a previous life or has he been reincarnated in another life maybe as a female in another or different world or his doing all these at once.
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Perhaps the brother part is only part of the act we go through, essentially our true essence is a nameless soul

So my late father was only my Father in this physical world, when he died his soul essence returned from whence it came, but his soul essence was not him or at least his personality which was built from human experience, and that essence could have another body and another totally different personality
 
Sabresonic said:
That what I think as is my brother watching over me or is he with another family on the Heavens from a previous life or has he been reincarnated in another life maybe as a female in another or different world or his doing all these at once.
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Perhaps all at once, since there are constant hints that the afterlife is outside of time somehow.
 
Reading through a few more on Social Media, but it does belie the questing if Uncle Bill was reborn as Uncle Sam to a different family then Uncle Bill will not be watching over the family left behind, Unless Uncle Bill cares for all the people left behind from his various incarnations, it could get into a very large group of people, in fact Uncle Bill could have god like status with so many families out there
 
Robbrent said:
Reading through a few more on Social Media, but it does belie the questing if Uncle Bill was reborn as Uncle Sam to a different family then Uncle Bill will not be watching over the family left behind, Unless Uncle Bill cares for all the people left behind from his various incarnations, it could get into a very large group of people, in fact Uncle Bill could have god like status with so many families out there
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A certain complicated niche theology explains this conundrum. It concerns the soul existing in more than one dimension/plane of existence or summat. So you can be dead here, and a spirit on the Astral Plane, and also be reborn into a new body. Yeah.
 
escargot said:
A certain complicated niche theology explains this conundrum. It concerns the soul existing in more than one dimension/plane of existence or summat. So you can be dead here, and a spirit on the Astral Plane, and also be reborn into a new body. Yeah.
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I mean it's a ridiculous theory to try and explain the conundrum but who knows
 
So how do you explain this ?

In the past I have been around a lot of new born babies, my own, my grandchildren, and friends.

You would think a newborn would be born with a “ clean slate in their mind “, but every newborn I know showed a definite personality immediately.

My two daughters are as different as night and day, and my grandkids are all different.

So where do newborns get there immediate personality ?

Is this a form of reincarnation ?
 
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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Yes I have had this but sometimes the other person gets unnerved by it and 'shuts off'.

Another variation I had was watching the BBC drama 'World on Fire';

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_Fire_(TV_series)

The first time the German Wehrmacht soldiers appeared on screen a thought popped into my head; "They've finally got the colours of the uniform correct"

I mean what the...? I don't think I have ever seen an original battle grey German uniform and the colour photos that exist are not that brilliant, so where did that come from?
 
Paul_Exeter said:
Yes I have had this but sometimes the other person gets unnerved by it and 'shuts off'.

Another variation I had was watching the BBC drama 'World on Fire';

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_Fire_(TV_series)

The first time the German Wehrmacht soldiers appeared on screen a thought popped into my head; "They've finally got the colours of the uniform correct"

I mean what the...? I don't think I have ever seen an original battle grey German uniform and the colour photos that exist are not that brilliant, so where did that come from?
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I actually put down some of the incidents of 'recognition' down to similarity with self.

You see someone and get a jolt of recognition, but that could be because either that other person reminds you of someone you already know (but in a subliminal way so you don't realise, maybe their smile or the way their teeth line up or their laugh...) or they remind you of you. Of the version of you that you have in your head, so other people don't remark on it, but they somehow make you think of yourself.

Humans seem predisposed to prefer the familiar, so feeling an immediate kinship with someone who actually does seem familiar in some way would make sense.
 
Paul_Exeter said:
Yes I have had this but sometimes the other person gets unnerved by it and 'shuts off'.

Another variation I had was watching the BBC drama 'World on Fire';

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_Fire_(TV_series)

The first time the German Wehrmacht soldiers appeared on screen a thought popped into my head; "They've finally got the colours of the uniform correct"

I mean what the...? I don't think I have ever seen an original battle grey German uniform and the colour photos that exist are not that brilliant, so where did that come from?
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The Carl Sdon case still fascinate's me.
 
charliebrown said:
So how do you explain this ?

In the past I have been around a lot of new born babies, my own, my grandchildren, and friends.

You would think a newborn would be born with a “ clean slate in their mind “, but every newborn I know showed a definite personality immediately.

My two daughters are as different as night and day, and my grandkids are all different.

So where do newborns get there immediate personality ?

Is this a form of reincarnation ?
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Great point charliebrown. Some would say its entirely genetics and such, but these babies, as you point out, have complete and immediate personalities. Throws a curve ball to so many parents who have a second child and realise it has a personality light-years away from the first.

In my extended family babies are pretty frequent - and that means many trillions of baby pictures. There was one picture, though, of a new relation I saw at 4 weeks. The expression on the baby's face said - "!'m back". Before I had a chance to mention this to my sister, she said to me it looked like the baby was saying - "Hello again everyone".
 
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