Can some people really recall details of their past lives?Where is the logic or the need for reincarnation?
in my view, If there is no reincarnation, then God's love and forgiveness are not unlimited, it has a limit, our sins. But if, as Jesus stated and John confirmed, God's love is endless and limitless, there should be a way in which the spirit can erase all his wrongdoings and errors. And that way is reincarnation.
The Sanskrit word for rebirth or reincarnation is 'punarjanam' and 'samsara' (the round of births and deaths or transmigration of the soul).
S. Rajmohan,a famous research scholar at the Ramakrishna Mission, Chennai, India,writes : "For death is nothing but the dissolution of the body, which is a mere cage for the jiva (soul). At the time of death, the self entrapped in the snare of the five elements leaves one body and enters another."
The Bhagvad Purana states: "Just as commodities like gold and other articles change hands, a jiva (soul) wanders from one species of existence to another." So we are reborn and get a life in accordance with our past karmas or deeds.
Wrote Sri Aurobindo in The Life Divine: "The law that deprives us of the memory of the past lives is a law of the cosmic wisdom and serves, not disserves, its evolutionary purpose... A clear and detailed memory of the past lives, hatred, rancor, attachments, connections would be a stupendous inconvenience; for it would bind the reborn being to a useless repetition or a compulsory continuation of his surface past and stand in the way of his bringing out new possibilities from the depths of the spirit."
Most Buddhist sects agree with reincarnation. The Tibetan Book of The Dead describes the soul's passage after death and how it comes back to human form. The story of the Dalai Lama is the best example of children's past life memory. Each of the Dalai Lamas, over many centuries since the birth of the first in 1351 AD, followed the same line; each one was an incarnation of the last, retaining the spiritual wisdom acquired over many lifetimes.
However, scientists discount reincarnation. They attribute reincarnation claims to:
Fantasy: Work of imagination to avoid some unpleasant situation such as an unhappy home.
Fraud: Where either the child or the family fabricates a case to achieve some personal goal.
Genetic memory: The claimed memories of previous life are passed onto him through genetic transmission.
Cryptomnesia: The subject's knowledge about previous life is not in question, but he may have come by it normally.
Paramnesia: A memory disorder in which a person on seeing a new place or meeting a stranger feels that he has been to the place or has met the person before.
In fact, Dr Anil Aggarwal, Professor of Forensic Sciences at Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi says: "Nowadays you have test tube babies, so where is the soul involved in this? Moreover, if you look into cloning, this totally washes out the theory of rebirth."
Men of science demand proof. Elucidates Dr Aggarwal: "We can't see air, but we can measure it by instruments. So even if we can't see the soul, we should at least be able to check its presence with something. Until you can prove the concept of the soul, you can't prove rebirth."
Research
Research indicates that a person's previous (parallel) incarnations can apparently shape certain aspects of their emotional dispositions as well as their physical body. For example Burmese children who now remember previous lifetimes as British or American air force pilots shot down over Burma during World War II. All of them have fairer hair and complexions than their darker colored siblings.
Some people still bear marks or scares from other lifetimes. Some people have fears and phobias as results of past life experiences. It is as if the template of the modern body remembered the experiences of the former body and reformed a new body with the old problems and physical markings.
Thomas Huxley, the famous English biologist, thought that reincarnation was a plausible idea and discussed it in his book Evolution and Ethics and other Essays. The most detailed collections of personal reports in favor of reincarnation have been published by Professor Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, in books such as Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation.
Stevenson spent over 40 years devoted to the study of children who have apparently spoken about a past life. In each case, Professor Stevenson methodically documented the child's statements. Then he identified the deceased person the child allegedly identified with, and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that matched the child's memory. He also matched birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records such as autopsy photographs.
In a fairly typical case, a boy in Beirut spoke of being a 25-year-old mechanic, thrown to his death from a speeding car on a beach road. According to multiple witnesses, the boy provided the name of the driver, the exact location of the crash, the names of the mechanic's sisters and parents and cousins, and the people he went hunting with -- all of which turned out to match the life of a man who had died several years before the boy was born, and who had no apparent connection to the boy's family.
Stevenson believed that his strict methods ruled out all possible "normal" explanations for the child¹s memories. However, it should be noted that a significant majority of Professor Stevenson's reported cases of reincarnation originate in Eastern societies, where dominant religions often permit the concept of reincarnation.
There are many people who have investigated reincarnation and come to the conclusion that it is a legitimate phenomenon, such as Peter Ramster, Dr. Brian Weiss, Dr. Walter Semkiw, and others, but their work is generally ignored by the scientific community. Professor Stevenson, in contrast, published dozens of papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Some scientists, such as Paul Edwards, have analyzed many of these accounts. In every case they apparently found that further research into the individuals involved provides sufficient background to weaken the conclusion that these cases are credible examples of reincarnation. Philosophers like Robert Almeder, having analyzed the criticisms of Edwards and others, suggest that the gist of these arguments can be summarized as "we all know it can't possibly be real, so therefore it isn't real" - an argument from lack of imagination.
The most obvious objection to reincarnation is that there is no evidence of a physical process by which a personality could survive death and travel to another body, and researchers such as Professor Stevenson recognize this limitation.
Another fundamental objection is that most people simply do not remember previous lives, although it could be argued that only some, but not all, people reincarnate. Certainly the vast majority of cases investigated at the University of Virginia involved people who had met some sort of violent or untimely death.
Some skeptics explain that claims of evidence for reincarnation originate from selective thinking and the psychological phenomena of false memories that often result from one's own belief system and basic fears, and thus cannot be counted as empirical evidence. But other skeptics, such as Dr Carl Sagan, see the need for more reincarnation research
Did you ever feel like you had been somewhere before or had already met certain people? I think that most of us go through this at least once or twice in our lifetimes. While most of us pass this off as just one of those crazy things that can't be accounted for, there are some that credit this to having lived before and having been to a place in a past life or having met people in a recent past life? I don't know how you, as the reader of this article, feels about this subject, but I can assure you that reincarnation is quite real to some people. Some people say that it is impossible on religious grounds and that we (our souls) go to either heaven or hell, depending on whether we have led good lives or not. Others feel that we are given chances, to correct our mistakes and misdeeds by being put on Earth again. The amount of chances being either limited to an unknown amount or unlimited and only recurring until we live our life correctly. When this happens, we then go to heaven. So what does this really mean? One interpretation is that Earth is hell and we are constantly sent here to suffer and correct our misdeeds. Another interpretation is that Earth is a place, neither heaven or hell, but more like purgatory, where we are given many more chances and ultimately most of us will land in heaven.
Could there ever be any proof that someone was reincarnated and had lived at least one past life? First of all there are three different things that could cause people to know things about past lives. I am not talking about people that just plain lie. The first thing would be that they actually lived past lives. Secondly that they acquired the memories, somehow, of people who died and lastly they heard about people who died, or even read about them and somehow they now feel that these facts are coming from their own memories. Hardly anyone, except me, believe that it might be possible to acquire the memories of a deceased person. The reason I believe it, is that our atoms go back into the ground all around us when we die and even some may go into the air. I fell that since insects can pass chemical memory, maybe through some unknown process, humans can do the same after they die. It might be just as easy as breathing in a few atoms form the air around us. There is also the fact that sometimes we read or hear about something, maybe when we are young and convince ourselves that it is our own memory. People can do this easily, especially if they dream about something enough. It then may become their memory. Of course this is always the chance that the person who thinks they were reincarnated, might be.
A six year old boy represents a fascinating case for reincarnation. He talks of a plane crash, where he was the pilot. The plane crashed off a Japanese island in World War II and the boy has all the memories of that day as the pilot of the plane. He has constant nightmares of being shot down. They are so violent that his parents have to wake him up. The nightmares began when the boy was only two years old. As is my custom, I do not use the names of people in these types of articles. As the boy grew older, more details about the crash would come out in his dreams. Those that believe in reincarnation also believe that the dreams of past lives are a lot more apt to appear in young children and that adults unconsciously block out these thought and dreams. As the boy grew he began to name the plane's designation and the name of the carrier it came from. The boy who was now six years old was taken to an aircraft museum and finally had to be taken out of the World War II section, because he wouldn't leave on his own. He would take his collection of toy planes and keep crashing them into the furniture. One day, when his father was reading a book of World War II, which had a map of Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima, the boy saw the book and while on his father's lap, pointed to the map of Chichi Jima and said that is where his plane was shot down.
The boy's father was having problems with all this, he just didn't know what to do. He decided to try and find someone who was on that flight and he succeeded. The man had flown an Avenger fighter Plane. The boy thought he had been a pilot with the group. He found out that 21 pilots had been lost. The father began to look through old World War II records to find out what happened to these people. It was then that he came across the name of a Lieutenant whose first name was James. He remembered that his son always signed his crayon drawn pictures of World War II planes with James 3. The pilot had been shot down over Chichi Jima. Since he was three years old the boy would walk around saying he was the third, James 3. The problem was that this person was not flying a Corsair, the plane that the boy said he was shot down in. The father investigated further and found a photo of the pilot standing in front of a Corsair. It seems that he was part of a special unit that flew them that had been disbanded just before he began to fly Avengers. The boy just knew too much about this pilot and there is no way of knowing how this young child could have acquired all this information. The boy also knew the names of other members of the squadron. Could this be a case for reincarnation? Some people think that this is not only a case for reincarnation, but the classic case.
The belief in reincarnation spans every country on the globe It is even studied in Iceland. In an informal survey of the Nordic countries, 43% of the people said that they believed in reincarnation. Is there a larger belief in reincarnation around the world than we suspect? It could be very possible. One researcher said that surveys of religious beliefs do not only reveal religious beliefs, but that they also reflect basic assumptions about the nature of man. Could it be more than an assumption, could it be a piece of information that is set deep inside our minds, that we don't even know exists. If reincarnation is a fact and that is far from having been proven, then why couldn't we know this fact? It might be lodged in our unconscious. Reincarnation is an element in some eastern religions and is accepted by many who practice a religion that doesn't espouse it.
Will we ever be able to prove reincarnation? While there are many tantalizing clues that lead some to believe in it, there is no conclusive proof that what they are experiencing is a memory of reincarnation. It is especially dubious when the reincarnation experience is brought out through hypnotism. People are just too susceptible to the hypnotist, who may not be implanting thoughts on purpose, might just muddy the waters. As for children having memories of past lives, we might just find out some day, that memories that some say are proof of reincarnation are the product of some other phenomena. By the way, I wonder if anyone who thought that they were reincarnated found out that the person that they thought they were in a previous life was still alive?
facts//Our soul's are like oceans where we are shimmering, clear and fresh with life, but deep within us run powerful undercurrents of past soul memories and desires. These deep currents are of a cumulative affects of ages within a soul's life and its many incarnations on earth.
Patterns and habits have formed deep within our inner consciousness and shape the ways we interact with people around us as well as our hates and loves.
The people that you have a strong connection to in this present life have been involved in many of the soul's past lives. This includes, brothers, sisters, parents, friends or enemies etc.
Through the same eyes that a person sees life, the individual soul sees it with the memory of past ages in passion, adventure, caring, love, and fondness are all due to a past role an individual soul has played in our past life. On the other hand if we react toward another person with unfounded revulsion or hatred, our soul is remembering past actions against us or our our loved ones.
Nearly all souls today were together in past lives and history.
The souls who came to our planetary system and entered the realms of consciousness are the larger groups. This group can be divided into subgroups called "the generations" containing souls who move through the natural cycles of earth life together. These groups are further subdivided by race, color, philosophies, ideas, beliefs and such which draw souls of alike to them.
Those who belong to one soul group can move to another if they desire a different experience. There is no separation and prevention of letting a soul experience what it truly desires.
Although soul groups are fairly well established they do not have greater influence over the individual soul or free will.
A group of souls may find themselves together and not desiring to be so. In this instance the soul is drawn into a karma of another soul unwillingly at the request of the soul who has not learned and maybe stuck or in a rut. This forced karma draws the unwilling soul and involves them in the lesson and experience that the unlearned soul needs to push them forward and make the necessary changes in their lives and karma. This experience or lesson in drawing an unwilling soul into their karma is to force the lesson on themselves and to learn. This is usually used when past karma and lessons involving known past souls has not worked and the soul involved has not learned or advanced from this experience being stuck request this forced experience. This is known as a "Forced Healing".
Soul Mates are nothing more than a soul or souls which whom we have shared many life times together. We understand each other like no one else can. This kind of past history gives soul mates the capacity to help each other in ways other souls can not and in which a deep bonding has occurred through out the ages. Soul mates will recognize each other immediately and will form some type of relationship.
They know us and how to help us reach or obtain our highest potential or spiritual level. Their deeper inner knowledge gives them a distinct advantage even though they must work to correct and make work the present day relationship pushing away and tearing down all walls and barriers with this soul mate. In all cases the souls will join together to further and advance one another in a close intimate relationship or loving relationship.
Each soul mate brings to the union something the other is missing, whether love, spirituality or something else and each rounds the other out.
When soul mates are together they form a dynamic bond and provide a source of strength that is hard to find in the world or destroy.
Another important factor is that soul mates is every Soul's Original Companion from the Creator who gave us life.
In reincarnation, every action, every thought every idle word sets up reaction according to the Universal Law. Because of our separation from the Universal Consciousness we are unaware of the dynamic force behind even the littlest thing. When we focus on "ourselves" instead of the "Whole Universal Consciousness" we separate ourselves from the Divine Consciousness causing the effect of Karma to occur.
As companions and creations of God, with our free will we are "free" to live and choose as we grow, and as we desire that is the Universal Law.
Most karmic reactions come from the individuals own deep memory. Decisions goals, and reactions are all based on our souls pasts lives.
The law, "what one gives, one receives" is without exception. Somehow, "one's" greatest weakness has the potential to become "one's" greatest strength, whether physical, spiritual, or mental can become "one's" greatest opportunity.
Yet no soul is given more than it can bear to carry , that is the hidden blessing in the limitations of time and space.
Reincarnation is not a way to avoid judgment or responsibility, but a way to allow the soul enough time to correct it's mistakes and develop. This even includes "forced healings, lessons or experiences" that are requested by the soul who is stuck to push it forward so it can advance spiritually and to the "Oneness of the Christ/Universal Consciousness".
Amazing facts of sports, accidents animal and manay other funny and amazing facts.
In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen ("Cymbeline"), with 591 lines.
In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times!
In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.
In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motorhome if you live in a trailer park.
In Saratoga, Florida it is illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit.
In Salem, Massachesetts sleeping in the nude in a rented room is forbidden, even for married couples.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All mammals have tongues.
Alexander H. Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk
ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"A motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring to a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would institute a rules change."
Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole.
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the worlD
Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.
Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.
'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smoke able. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.
There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking.
The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say. you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanks seraph
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."
The song "When Irish Eyes are smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
