Reincarnation...yes I do believe in it but not that we are reborn in toto.....I think that it/the lifethread is passed down through genetic inheritance.....i.e. you are just like your great uncle arthur etc.  I sort of think that the things we do not sort on in our life are inherited to be dealt with by either our children, neices, nephews, cousins etc. I am hazy about this but here are some interesting things......I wanted at an early age to be a english lit teacher and poet and ballet dancer.....but coming from Medical family thought it better to try and do science and in particular dentistry and predictably failed.  It wasn't until years later I discovered my father's mother who died before I knew her was in fact an english lit lecturer at uni and a poet but life cut her short at 36......Add the fact that I was a promising ballet dancer but wrecked my knee aged 24....my neice who I have only met once is now dancing as a minor (10 yr old)  in the Chigaco Ballet company (nutcracker etc) She even looks like me. She told her mother she wanted to do dentistry because it paid good money and she could continue to dance by working part time.......my sister did not know that is what I thought as a child.  This time the 'ballet gene' has the right nurturing and hopefully will succeed.  But do you see what I mean about reincarnation......interestingly, though I am an agnostic, the line 'sins of the father visit the children' I think is more or less correct....i think not only sins but gifts/talents that have not been sorted out yet or need further enhancement.  Science genes, dna will eventually proove this and is already well on the way.

 

There are also people outside my family that I have instantly recognised as lifelong friends and have been right. What I also find very odd is that most close friends have irish blood in them.  Tiny Sundew is a wonderful woman who I instantly liked. She has no obvious Irish in her as she is a native aussie with some Chinese...guess what? She also has Irish blood. I also without knowing it often freak people out because for some reason I know their past experiences......hey ho...all grist for the mill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My understanding is that re-incarnation is largely derived from the Hindu faith. They believe that we return repeatedly until we have lived a pure life. Once we acheive purity we can go to Heaven. They have sveral levels of spiritual achievement. We return to this life at a certain level of existance depending on the spiritual level we lived in the previous life. If we lived a fairly pure life then we return at a higher level in this life. If we lived an unpure life we return to a life of struggle. We will only raise to a higher level if we have learned not to make the same mistakes we made in our previous life. That is Hinduism as I recall and to a degree it makes good sense to me.

 The most interesting thing I discovered while searching, is that all religeons are pretty much the same at their core. The differences come into play as you head into the various rules of each faith. 

 I am into Western Taoism which is not a religeon but, rather a philosophy of life. Eastern Taoism is a religeon with various Gods and what-not.

Trig...amazing story.  I've had the 'I've been here but never been here' experience...and I can think of one person in particular in my life where from minute one we knew each other's thoughts, likes, dislikes, could finish sentences...seriously not usual.  In our conversations we've talked about past lives...and maybe we knew each other...

 My bet is yes you did, and will again Jen.

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From: <NOBR>switchgears1_</NOBR> Sent: 17/01/2007 2:42 PM Yes, I believe in a kind of reincarnation.   Here's a simplified version. There is only so much life source/soul to go around. At death, that length of the thread is washed and reused. When my nephew was 3 years old, he spoke old english. He learned at the same rate of an ordinary child, but when he began to put sentences together it was very different.   When he was three, I was laying on my stomach on the floor looking at a catalogue. He was laying on my back looking over my shoulder. I was looking for a gift for a girl I was dating and was considering a bracelet.   He said, "Would it pleasure you to give Caroline a bracelet?"   That's pretty deep for a 3 year old.

 

 

my sister as a child always spoke with an english accent , from the moment she learned how to talk (and still does to this day) yet, as children we never watched TV as we grew up on a farm and no one in my family has an english accent as we are all french.

As a Buddhist, I believe in reincarnation.

My religion and faith have changed BUT, I still believe.