tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7768785649146147425..comments2024-03-29T10:24:20.171+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Reincarnation BC - Resurrection AD? - some speculationsBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-32755625569384726152018-10-23T23:57:48.839+01:002018-10-23T23:57:48.839+01:00As a certified past life regression hypnotist (und...As a certified past life regression hypnotist (under Dr. Brian Weiss), I have done a number of regressions...It is shocking how real and graphic they can be....One subject, a professional psychotherapist in this life, plunged into a life where she was abandoned, then murdered as a child..Another was a mother living in a wagon on the tundra, married to the same soul as in the present life..She starved to death..Her next experience was in a future life, on a spaceship or space station, in which she could only describe some of the equipment and its purpose, but had no knowledge of how it worked.... Oftentimes, the subject knows why they have chosen that life, usually for a particular type of experience that will be educational for the soul...For my part, I have had a great many lives, and learned a lot from them, but evidently not enough, since I keep incarnating.....pyrrhushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150605108788285274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35273114027578763692018-10-22T19:13:42.739+01:002018-10-22T19:13:42.739+01:00I suspect most evidence for reincarnation comes fr...I suspect most evidence for reincarnation comes from misinterpretation of dreams (visions derived from the dream state, regardless of whether during physiological sleep). I don't know that reincarnation is impossible, the Mormon doctrine about the fate of spirits of prenatal children who die before being born suggests that this may also be possible for those who are born before dying but otherwise fail to be considered to have experience mortality.<br /><br />But I <i>do</i> know that humans can touch not only the general 'universal' unconsciousness in dreams, but even the specific dreams of people far separate from themselves in life experience (and possibly in time and space, though I have not verified such). Because the information thus gathered must be recontextualized through the unconscious assumptions and mental capacity of the recipient (not suggesting that the contact is one-way, but that this must happen <i>each</i> way), it's quite easy to see how it might result in such dreams seeming to be about lives in the distant past even if they are not (though, as I mention, I am not sure they cannot be).<br /><br />Not all people <i>do</i> touch the dreams of others (at least not with any great frequency), there are factors of psychological defenses and openness that can limit such contacts. This may be best for most people, a dream that is open to other dreamers is probably open to worse things (I may be one of those).Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2312094479546542922018-10-22T15:09:09.205+01:002018-10-22T15:09:09.205+01:00My experience of past lives seems to be of clearly...My experience of past lives seems to be of clearly embodied persons living an incarnate life. In my case a common soldier in Rome, a sinful medieval priest in the Pyrenees, and an American Indian living near Hudson's Bay in the 19th century. I don't reject premortal existence - if intuitively feels to me like it fits in somehow, but I have only a vague sense of it. Some of that sense could simply be the the awareness we live in between incarnations. I like the possibility of Angels and demons being beings with agency who have chosen not to incarnate. Likewise the Gnostic Aeons might fit into some similar state of existence. I also experience animals as having souls and think their relationship to humans is far more complex and intimate than most people today. Most farmers, unless they are complete clods, know their connection to animals is significant and mysterious and not at all what conventional science asserts. lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-87626729275431920042018-10-22T09:00:07.917+01:002018-10-22T09:00:07.917+01:00@Crow - It is about Beings - but creation was done...@Crow - It is about Beings - but creation was done by a Man (a fully-divine Man - i.e. God) for a purpose connected with raising up Men to full divinity (and angels are also Men, and demons) - so there's nothing much wrong with a precoccupation with 'humans', so long as we recognise that everything that is in creation, is alive and conscious and has purpose. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11030582556502850152018-10-21T22:56:05.560+01:002018-10-21T22:56:05.560+01:00The universal mistake made by humans is in being e...The universal mistake made by humans is in being exclusively preoccupied with humanity as the be-all and end-all of existence. <br /><br />It isn't about humans, any more than it is about 'you' personally. <br /><br />Humans have some extraordinarily quaint ideas about life and its nature. <br />Which is probably their most distinctive attribute. From this unfathomable error comes all other errors. <br /><br />Squawk!<br />The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.com