If so what are your thoughts on it? Do you believe in the "School" type of philosophy where each life we learn things, and after we learn all there is to know then we "Graduate" into a higher level of soul? Have you read Roger Woolger, Carol Bowman, or any of the other "leaders" in reincarnation study? If you aren't a "Believer" are you open to the idea, or not?
2007-06-23 06:30:59 · 12 answers · asked by Michelangelo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As for evidence read findings of Dr. Stevenson, Carol Bowman, Roger Woolger, Dr. Brian Weiss, Edgar Cayce... Is that enough proof?
2007-06-23 06:50:01 · update #1
As to walk-ins yes I have heard of them, but don't believe in them.
To the population question I actually have an answer. About increasing populations - Dr. Ian Stevenson looked at the estimated total amount of people who have lived here on earth - ranging from 69 billion to 96 billion.
He figured that each soul/person on the earth - which was currently 5 billion when he made this calculation - would have had 15 to 20 past lives.
2007-06-23 06:54:42 · update #2
Yes In fact I do have memories, but that really doesn't affect whether you believe or not which is the real purpose of this question... now is it?
2007-06-23 08:13:16 · update #3
Yes I believe in reincarnation, it is a process of successive life's each building on the experiences of the past and Earth is the school house fro our physical learning for our souls.
It's not about salvation but about the eternal growth and development of our soul, our true selves.
2007-06-23 06:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I tend to be a mathematical person. The world population is continually growing. Where are all these extra souls coming from? The population in the past (say a thousand years ago) isn't large enough for everyone living now to have had a past life.
Basically though, I think there's a lot more to the world than we're aware of and anything is possible.
2007-06-23 13:38:30 · answer #2 · answered by giraffedolly 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe in reincarnation. I have personal proof. I really don't think it's about karma so much as we are stuck in repeating matrix. It's a type of prison made of energy like everything else. Once we know and understand we are trapped here you can break the cycle. Just knowing changes everything. Peace and love> BTW Have you ever heard of walk-ins?
2007-06-23 13:45:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.
2007-06-23 13:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think reincarnation is a possibility....it's even in the Bible, but they say it's born again in your heart...who's to say it's not physical? We are only interpreting words that were written down 2000 years ago. We can be wrong, after all, because we are human. Agree?
2007-06-23 13:34:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am very open to this idea but I have not decided whether I am a believer or not. I have heard a few stories from very close friends and its very freaky, but it pushes me to believe more and more. Its just a little difficult to accept things without doing research.
2007-06-23 15:58:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe in reincarnation. However, I dont think that you remember your past lives and that you have a choice if you would like to be reincarnated or not.
2007-06-23 14:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by shadow_punk15 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no. do YOU remember having a past life? I think that beleiving that you die and then come back life over and over again is wishful thinking by someone who loves life
2007-06-23 14:26:46 · answer #8 · answered by anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am deffinately open to the idea however, i have never read that book. i believe that our bodys will never pass on to another life but our souls will.
2007-06-23 13:34:17 · answer #9 · answered by halster7 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I firmly disagree with reincarnation. We are appointed once to die and then the Judgment of God. Sounds to me like going in circles ... like a dog chasing his tail.
2007-06-23 13:36:23 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋