23 month old daughter talks about heaven

[earl]

Originally Posted by citizenzen

I plugged in my birthdate and it came up with...

I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Turkey around the year 1625. Your profession was that of a farmer, weaver or tailor.

While I appreciate its concerns for my feelings, I can't help but roll my eyes over it and other posts regarding this subject. At least they gave me a simple past life. Not everybody could be Genghis Kahn.

It's one thing to appreciate the unknown and mystery, it's another to attribute these things to past lives, angels and spirits. But I've found is that people are desperate to believe and will cling to anything as evidence to support this view.

As for babies talking about the afterlife...

They have been exposed day after day to concepts that their family believe in and talk about. They are smart enough to take on a language in this short life. Why would anybody be surprised that they're able to take on some other things as well?

Well, CZ, one wouldn't expect you to believe anything you haven't experienced for yourself that breaches the predominant materialist paradigm. earl

[citizenzen]

Originally Posted by earl

Well, CZ, one wouldn't expect you to believe anything you haven't experienced for yourself that breaches the predominant materialist paradigm. earl

Let's just say that I'm curious why nobody here thought that while a baby is learning a new language they may also be picking up on numerous other cues from their surroundings as well.

That certainly seems rational to me.

[earl]

Well, never trust a baby. They do babble. earl

[path_of_one]

Of course babies pick up on other cues in their surroundings. That doesn't really explain children whose surroundings are training them into not believing in reincarnation, yet they may still eventually conclude they have had a past life.

I have various reasons for believing I have had past lives and I remember some limited bits of information about it. It's just the explanation that makes the most sense to me given my life's experiences from early childhood until now. More to the point- it's the most helpful explanation and allowed me more mileage out of it for personal growth.

But to each their own. The one thing that I find a bit problematic are the parents that are always telling a kid who might have something like this going on to stop "imagining" things. But then, I find the tendency of parents to treat their children like idiots who are devoid of any capacity to contribute to their own growth process repugnant.