tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post9139761875156254016..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Christian explanations should be 'saving the appearances' - the case of reincarnation, mainstream Christianity and MormonismBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-23049139805153781922015-11-13T12:08:56.620+00:002015-11-13T12:08:56.620+00:00@BB - The reference to intuition concerns young ch...@BB - The reference to intuition concerns young children before Western culture has had a chance to socialize them into nihilism etc. I think it would be found that it is normal for naïve young children to have some kind of implicit assumption that they were incarnated (in the sense of 'put into' bodies) rather than created. That, and the pattern of beliefs across history and the world (plus the facility with which people can be converted to a belief in reincarnation etc), suggests that this is the default assumption - even if many Western people have it suppressed, or simply forget it. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-38180350689282774372015-11-13T12:02:18.993+00:002015-11-13T12:02:18.993+00:00I have zero intuition that I existed before about ...I have zero intuition that I existed before about 3 years old. My wife says she has very vivid dreams that she was a couple of different people from the past.<br /><br />I wonder if it is a personality type thing. In Myers-Briggs measurements I am off-the-scale sensing and not at all intuitive.<br />Bruce B.noreply@blogger.com