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Interesting History Channel episode about reincarnation

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Reincarnation is one of the religious subjects that I have visited from time to time over the past 30 or so years. It isn't an idea that I really bought into for most of those years, but a couple of things have made me rethink the subject, not due to the religious aspect, but due to a couple of scientifically-bent experiences I've seen and read about. A few years ago, I read a book written by a psychiatrist who had a patient whom brought the subject to his attention during the course of his therapy with her. This morning, the History Channel ran an episode of Science of the Soul, on the subject of reincarnation, in which a boy in LaFayette, La had some highly indicative experiences regarding the idea of reincarnation. For anyone interested, I suggest watching it. I found it very interesting.

Anyone here seriously consider reincarnation a possibility or even probable? If so, based on evidence, or on belief? Care to share any experiences or serious written material on the subject?
 
I used to believe in reincarnation, but that was in a previous life.
 
Darnit. I missed it!
 
Darnit. I missed it!

I'm sure it will re-run. HC is great about it. If I see it coming up, or can find a schedule which has it, I'll be sure to let you know. It was really quite interesting, and not at all hocus-pocus stuff.
 
I'm sure it will re-run. HC is great about it. If I see it coming up, or can find a schedule which has it, I'll be sure to let you know. It was really quite interesting, and not at all hocus-pocus stuff.

A re-run of a show on reincarnation? Now that is irony.
 
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This seems to be an ethical necessity for anyone who recognizes subjective life. It's impossible to tell whether or not something is conscious, so we have to give everything the benefit of the doubt.

Furthermore, the matter which composes us would qualify as potential life as well, so yes, incarnation is a perpetual process. The only real question is at what level we're aware.
 
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This seems to be an ethical necessity for anyone who recognizes subjective life. It's impossible to tell whether or not something is conscious, so we have to give everything the benefit of the doubt.

Furthermore, the matter which composes us would qualify as potential life as well, so yes, incarnation is a perpetual process. The only real question is at what level we're aware.

I don't know if you've watched the mentioned program, but some of the episodes deal with consciouness vs unconscious experience, and other similar phenomena. The particular episode this morning told the account of a young boy in La who started having violent dreams when he was age 2, then started talking about crashing and burning in a plane. Apparently, these weren't average "nightmares". Other things that he would say, out of the blue, led his father on a search for something to make sense of what the boy was experiencing. It really was a fascinating story.
 
I did not see the program, but I have been interested in the plausibility of reincarnation since reading the story of Bridey Murphy many decades ago. To me, that the Murphy case was questionable was not a problem at all, and I was delighted later on reading of cases of children in India who remembered their previous incarnations consciously. A huge number of such cases has turned up. Two that are very accessible on the web are those of the boy Taranjit Singh and the girl Swarnlata Mishra. These are among the cases studied by researcher Ian Stevenson.

Try: "There is physical evidence of reincarnation 83" (There is Physical Evidence of Reincarnation). The reason this site is good is that it is very short, covers various kinds of evidence used in assessing the cases, and has an ad for books by Stevenson, who first covered about twenty detailed case studies in one book and then went on to look at lots of evidence specifically with children.

Not saying I'm a believer, but it's fascinating. I can't help but think of some of it in relation to the more successful remote viewing experiments.
 
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fyi it's not LaFayette, it's Lafayette. Not pronounced la-fye-ette either, we pronounce it laffy-ette.
 
Here's a skeptical analysis of an ABC news report on the boy.

Though I do believe in the soul, I believe that the body contains memory, and one of the blessings of death is that when you are parted from your body you forget utterly your life before, and enter into Heaven in pure bliss with no weight of sadness dragging you down, until the world is remade and your body perfected for you to rejoin. That is the only reincarnation I believe in.
 
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