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Reincarnation

I believe it's possible to reincarnate and get what you want in your next life what you can't have in this life. If someone already has someone in this life, is it possible to have them in your next life?
—Guest Courtney

Living with Reincarnation

I can remember as far back as my childhood that I had lived before, in another time. I don't know how to explain it, but I feel like it's a movie. I sometimes zone out, as best I can describe it, and I can see, smell and feel things of the time I lived. It feels like I don't belong here, like something pulling me back to that time. It's an uneasy feeling to have and to live with. I don't dare tell anyone, and most likely I will take this to my grave. Please, if there is someone out there who can help me figure this out, please contact me.
—olivabrown

Why I think there is reincarnation.

Reason 1: I was born in 1957. Suppose I die some time between now and 2057. Now, I would like to consider two dates - one in 1947 and the other in 2067. On both these dates, I don't exist at all. As far as I am concerned, these two days are identical. Therefore, if I came into existence 10 years after the first of these two dates, why can't the same thing happen 10 years after the second date? What can happen once surely can happen again? Reason 2: That I do not exist can never be known. That I exist can never cease to be known. This means cessation of existence is logically impossible.
—Guest Ramesh Kumar

I doubt it, but I have had so much proof

Well, I could say I don't believe reincarnation, but, If I said so, I would be lying. Since I was very young, I had some dreams about past lives and I was always aware of it, knowing that I asked to be here because I need to find someone. Throughout the years I had a lot of dreams, of different lives, where the same young man was there with me. We shared a great love, but we were never happy for too long. In what I think it was my last life, I accidentally died -- drowned in a frozen lake while trying to rescue a seal, which was trapped in the iced waters. He came in my rescue. He took my body out, but I was already dying or dead. I remember I saw myself in a bed, and I watched myself as if I was above, completely absent from my body. I saw him nearby and I felt his pain. I didn't want to go. I made him a promise I could no longer keep and, though we were really very young (less than twenty; perhaps around 16), we had a great love and we felt this strange connection that had...
—Guest Shootingstary

reincarnation soulmates for couples

I spent my whole life feeling a void, searching yet feeling that some man was looking for me. I had dreamed him, but his face was a blur. I made excuses for that gut feeling and felt like this man was still looking for me. I had dreams of him, and sometimes a fragrance that I have yet to identify was lurking in the elevators in places of business, as if that man was there before I got there. It was as if I recognized the scent to be meant for me because others have told me that there was no scent in the elevator, that I was daydreaming. This went on for years and destroyed my marriage (not that I cared anymore). I found this man! He's from Liverpool, U.K. He's remarkably older than I, yet lively, upbeat, intuitively smart, a gentleman. He does things in advance, like he has done these things for me before. When we first met, never spoken before until that day and said, "I love you," I thought he was an old fool, but his eyes gave him away to me, as if he'd met me many years ago. Our lives were on separate continents, yet it's like he had actually shared a life with me years ago.
—bornforhim

My opinion of reincarnation

There is no such thing as reincarnation. The Bible states plainly that it is appointed once to die and after that the judgement.
—Guest Barbara

Spirits Among Us

It is like your guardian angel concept, good and evil spirits, your choice, your life. Live life in the most honest way, belief in a higher power will prevail. Give away, what was given freely and one will prevail. Sudden lose of life, confuses energy, lose of perception brings upheaval of soul. Lost.
—Guest Paul S.

A scientific view from a researcher...

The first law of thermodynamics says "energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be changed from one form to another." Now, our body is made up of matter and energy (heat energy as we are warm, kinetic energy as we move, etc.). The question then is what happens to the energy in our body when we die as after death we do not move, eat, breath, etc. This "energy" has been called by different names and one of the most famous names is "soul." Our soul or our energy diffuses into the energy that exists in and all around us (some of us call this all-pervading energy God). This means that in the essence we are all the same, but we have different identifications (name, religion, country, etc.) because we are only focusing on the "matter" part of the body while the most important thing is the "energy" part as when this does not exist in our body, this is when we say someone has "died." Now this energy or soul does not necessarily reincarnate just after death.
—Pryadurchinee

if..

If reincarnation is real, then how would we explain the booming of the world population? Is there new mind created? I have read a Buddhist book about this question and it said that the universe is so big that there is possibility that the minds are from other planets in the universe being reborn on Earth. I find it rather hard to accept this.
—Guest heinre

reincarnation

Ever wondered why when you get a book about reincarnation it mentions karma also? It is because they are related. Why is someone born healthy or lucky while someone else is always unhealthy or unlucky? Is God partial to some over others? if not, then you have to say everybodies fortunes or gifts and talents come about by actions done in previous lives. If we all get what we deserve then we must have performed actions of a certain merit that gives us an reaction that is pleasant or uncomfortable. We live in a universe governed by cause and effect, in other words, karma and reincarnation.
—Guest willie

EVP Recording at Hotel

I hear a women being raped. A very angry man, with no reguard to the womens request to "Get off of me" He completes his act and know feels the emotional state he has put himself in. Asking for help, he is taken by a demonic force and placed in purgatory for the rest of his dead state. I believe Spirits are in what Catholic religion states as a place between heaven and hell. There is always time for forgivness, but demons refuse to face the issues in which they are in.Paul S cadd7@aol.com Believe in a higher power or perish, with a lower power. I believe there are good spirits around me. Because I basically live a honest life. He who hesitates does not have peace in the here after.
—Guest Paul

Enjoy it while you can

I think reincarnation is entiely possible, but I aslo think we should enjoy our current life to the full, and let the afterlife take care of itself.. why worry? Sonner or later we all pass on, we can worry about what's on the other side when the time comes. Just my own personal 2 cents worth.
—Guest Gameryo

More on It for you

Keep in mind too, my friends, that the Hindu or Buddhist idea is very different from that of the old Druid understanding. The druids knew it better, and the Romans killed them to keep this information away from you. The teaching of Reincarnation was protected though, you should read what happened to Alexander the so-called Great when he tried to invade India! The REAL story. Lol. Nah, reincarnation is plainly common sense. When you die, you do not reincarnate right away, and nor do you go to Heaven forever and ever after only one life. You die and then take a break. For vicious, young and mean soul-types, they will have to be born in harsher places, like starving in Africa, and the older souls who have earned stripes can have better experiences. Keep in mind the world has seen many things, and we are even our own ancestors, if you get me :) You are not your body. "Science" has come to mean "physics only" in this age... but science used to mean knowledge. Read, think... KNOW.
—Guest LibraCelt

It IS True

It is all true. Don't listen to frightened people who have no mysticism who are too lazy to think and/or investigate these things. My main answer? How can you stop existing? And next, why would God or gods only give you ONE chance. Why do babies die? Rubbish, you live more than once, simple fact. Liars and dissenters will tell you otherwise because they like to control you by your fear. Listen to your heart of hearts. I personally remember themes, eras and places that call to my heart. Why do I love Japan, for example, I have never been there as this 30 year old white Canadian man! And I'll remain humble and not list my memories, I couldn't do them justice with only 1000 characters to write. Anyhow, you can tell a soul's age and experience by what they say. People who refute things with the voice of fear who cannot even type decently do not intimidate, they are young and simply know too little. Worse, if they are liars.. lol, rubbish. Confusion goes away when you STUDY :)
—Guest LibraCelt

Something to think about

I personally think all this reincarnating stuff and evolution stuff is STUPID!i mean whats the point of life if u keep on reincarnating?n im sorry to burst ur bubble o happiness about thinking u c urself in the past life in a dream but that sounds like vu du stuff 2 me!now dont stop reading because its not what u want to hear,PLEASE read the whole thing!it actually could save ur life from believing all that past life stuff!now people believe in evolution,there is NO scientific evidents 4 it but scientists and public schools say its right,and nothing else!but think about this,if apes arent forming to humans anymore what made them stop?there r NO fossils of ape/human creatures!what made the earth explode?suddenly some RANDOM thing happened?and the earth exploded!im sorry but there is NO evidence!but think about creation,Noahs Ark was actually FOUND!n think about all those things that happened to u or some1 u know.im goin 2 finish on another comment....
—Guest Kaitlyn

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