Reincarnation
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I am sharing this as my personal interpretation and research question, not as a demand that others accept it.
I do not personally remember any past lives. My own view is that reincarnation is deeply connected to the fear of death. I think it may be one of the ways human beings try to answer the terrifying question of what happens when the body dies. In that sense, I see it as similar to why some people talk to dead loved ones, feel that the dead are still present, or believe communication with the dead is possible. It may be a way of keeping identity, love, memory, and meaning alive after death.
What interests me is not just whether reincarnation is true or false, but why humans create sacred meaning around death, belonging, and continuity. In my own life, one core text I am studying is from my 1983 baptism certificate: “God has made you a member of the holy Christian church.” I am not trying to make archaeology prove Lutheran doctrine. I am trying to understand how God-language, ritual, belonging, symbolic meaning, and family history fit together across time.
From a science-first point of view, I am especially interested in how early human symbolic behavior, burial, myth, the Lion Man, and later traditions show the human capacity to create sacred meaning. So my response to the question is that I do not have a past-life memory to share, but I do think reincarnation may be one of humanity’s oldest kinds of answers to death, grief, and the desire for life to continue in some form.
I do not personally remember any past lives. My own view is that reincarnation is deeply connected to the fear of death. I think it may be one of the ways human beings try to answer the terrifying question of what happens when the body dies. In that sense, I see it as similar to why some people talk to dead loved ones, feel that the dead are still present, or believe communication with the dead is possible. It may be a way of keeping identity, love, memory, and meaning alive after death.
What interests me is not just whether reincarnation is true or false, but why humans create sacred meaning around death, belonging, and continuity. In my own life, one core text I am studying is from my 1983 baptism certificate: “God has made you a member of the holy Christian church.” I am not trying to make archaeology prove Lutheran doctrine. I am trying to understand how God-language, ritual, belonging, symbolic meaning, and family history fit together across time.
From a science-first point of view, I am especially interested in how early human symbolic behavior, burial, myth, the Lion Man, and later traditions show the human capacity to create sacred meaning. So my response to the question is that I do not have a past-life memory to share, but I do think reincarnation may be one of humanity’s oldest kinds of answers to death, grief, and the desire for life to continue in some form.
My first experience with past lives was in 1997. It's happened many times since then. This is one of the things I came here to do, uncover these experiences and heal them.
In a meditation I had a visual of someone laying prone with a man standing over them. The prone person was waist high. He had on peacock armbands and a head dress. There was a priestess there and I had the feeling I was being held spread eagle. This was in color which is rare for me.
My wife is a gifted medium. A few days after this we were sitting in our dining room finishing up a reading for ourselves. When she was done it popped into my head to ask her about this visual. As soon as I had the thought I felt this inrush of emotion that took my breath away and I uttered an unintelligible sound. I looked at her and I couldn't speak.
What happened was I was being sacrificed. In that lifetime I didn't understand what & why was going on. The priest was my cousin from this lifetime and the priestess was my wife from this lifetime. The inrush of emotion I felt that took my breath away was terror. It was the emotion of terror I felt when it happened that I couldn't understand.
This experience and this emotion had been in the energetic ether waiting for me to ask about it to let it come back to me so I could accept what happened. I forgave my cousin and wife and this cleared this past life experience from my energy.
This has happened with other past lives many times over the years. What I was taught what I learned was we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime those unresolved emotional experiences we don't or are unable to process. They become a part of our energy. When we find them and face them we can heal them and in doing so we let them go. As we let them go our connection with the Source grows clearer and stronger.
Brian
In a meditation I had a visual of someone laying prone with a man standing over them. The prone person was waist high. He had on peacock armbands and a head dress. There was a priestess there and I had the feeling I was being held spread eagle. This was in color which is rare for me.
My wife is a gifted medium. A few days after this we were sitting in our dining room finishing up a reading for ourselves. When she was done it popped into my head to ask her about this visual. As soon as I had the thought I felt this inrush of emotion that took my breath away and I uttered an unintelligible sound. I looked at her and I couldn't speak.
What happened was I was being sacrificed. In that lifetime I didn't understand what & why was going on. The priest was my cousin from this lifetime and the priestess was my wife from this lifetime. The inrush of emotion I felt that took my breath away was terror. It was the emotion of terror I felt when it happened that I couldn't understand.
This experience and this emotion had been in the energetic ether waiting for me to ask about it to let it come back to me so I could accept what happened. I forgave my cousin and wife and this cleared this past life experience from my energy.
This has happened with other past lives many times over the years. What I was taught what I learned was we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime those unresolved emotional experiences we don't or are unable to process. They become a part of our energy. When we find them and face them we can heal them and in doing so we let them go. As we let them go our connection with the Source grows clearer and stronger.
Brian
Something else to consider is the concept of the Akashic Records from Theosophy, but much older. In short, we may sometimes have the ability to tap into the larger shared experiences from people through time. With that in mind, past life experiences may not necessarily be from our own life's but also from other people's. Just a thought. 
I believe what will happen has been written (Akashic) what path we choose to get there is our freewill. Disagree with you on your comment regarding past life experiences being possibly someone else's. Our experiences travel with our energy. Thanks brianSomething else to consider is the concept of the Akashic Records from Theosophy, but much older. In short, we may sometimes have the ability to tap into the larger shared experiences from people through time. With that in mind, past life experiences may not necessarily be from our own life's but also from other people's. Just a thought.
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When I was young I used to assume that reincarnation was the most likely theory because my mom said it was. The reading material she kept around seemed to support that and it was more or less what I believed. I used to think it was likely also because when I would read novels or history or watch movies or tv shows I would find history "familiar" in a personal way.
My grandfather believed quite dogmatically in conditional immortality so that was always in the background.
(mainstream religion was not our forte)
Apparently, though, I found out years later, both theories exist non-dogmatically in Judaism.
My grandfather believed quite dogmatically in conditional immortality so that was always in the background.
(mainstream religion was not our forte)
Apparently, though, I found out years later, both theories exist non-dogmatically in Judaism.
It's fine to disagree - I just put it out there as something to consider as part of the wider discussion.
This is especially as sometimes what might be perceived as past life experiences can overlap in time, suggesting either misunderstanding as to what those experiences are - or something less direct in play.
For me, it comes from personal experience with past lives. Thanks brian
My understanding comes from healing things from my past lives as they were brought to me this lifetime. BrianIt's fine to disagree - I just put it out there as something to consider as part of the wider discussion.
This is especially as sometimes what might be perceived as past life experiences can overlap in time, suggesting either misunderstanding as to what those experiences are - or something less direct in play.