Does anybody have any theories on past lives?

Question

Just out of curiosity. I don't care if you think it's stupid or if you don't believe it, just want to know some theories on it.

Answer 1

My own hyrbid theory is that some souls live a long time. And after a little rest the soul goes back to human form for another go-around. I'm not really sure when it ends but I think that's something for individual souls to choose.

Answer 2

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. Thus, our souls are energy transferring from one life, if you will, to the next. Though our outer shell may change our souls. That core part of us, the essence is the same. However, like any other chemical substance or energy that is mixed with something, fuses together. Becoming something else, evolving. I think that's what life and past life's are about. Overcoming trials and tribulations. When you learn or experience something you grow. It strengthens you. Prepares you for the future when it applies. So, you keep living and learning, striving toward the goal of all knowing completion life after life.

Answer 3

^I believe in reincarnation, so of course I believe, and it's not stupid, I have read many documented cases over the years,to many things rang true for it to be a hoax.

Remember we are made of energy and you can't kill energy.

I've always felt, deep inside that I was Native American, in a past life, I've felt this way since I can remember, it's hard to explain, but I truly do believe. Maybe that's why I always rooted for the Native Americans in Cowboy and Indian movies.

When I would try to explain this to my friends they didn't understand, that's putting it nicely and finally I would joke and say, well who do you think told the Indians that Custer was coming. That's another thing, I always despised General Armstrong Custer for what he did, why else would I despise him that much, I put him on the same list as Hitler.

Answer 4

I do believe in past lives, but I think that after you die you have to choose to be recycled back into life, which most souls don't do. I think that if you are an "old soul" you may occasionally experience feelings and random flashes of insight from your past life/lives, but I don't think you can tap into bouts of knowledge from the nineteenth century or anything like that. I also believe that if someone really wants to, they can change themselves and "start over" in their current life.

Answer 5

Ever notice how someone is always making money on the idea you had a past life. Some want to help you find out about it, for a fee. Some want to help you get over it, for a fee. Some want to convince you it never happened, for a fee.

Guess what I think, it's all a money scam.

Answer 6

When viewing reality in linear time we tend to think of our experience as past, present and future. To view reality as experiencing in the NOW, where linear time does not exist and the frequency of consciousness goes beyond the physical mind, such as dreams, meditations, and out of body experiences, is to understand that everything one's soul is experiencing is happening simultaneously in the loops of time or geometry of creation.

Reincarnation is the core of the doctrine of Spiritism, a tolerant religious movement started in France in 1857. According to Spiritists souls will reincarnate to perfect themselves toward communion with God. The evolution of the soul is one of the main laws of the universe; it cannot be truly stopped, only delayed. Spirits have new chances to learn and evolve by reincarnating into new bodies. Forgetfulness of the past, including previous lives, is a gift through which souls get a chance to overcome their past, paying their debts to their enemies and themselves, and acquiring newer experiences for the future.

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 7

Yes, Yes. We have lived before and we take turns being different people.

What do you wish to do next? Your present experiences will factor-in.

I believe I was a terrible racist individual before I came into this current life. Now I remember what it is like being thought of as "less" everything.

That is alright because it is the assignment that I volunteered for. I hope I remember this experience in my next life.

Remember this: YOU WILL EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU CONDEMN!

Answer 8

I think that past lives are a legitimate thing. My father and I visited a psychic and she told my dad that he had been an airplane pilot in the past. She also said that he had been in an Indian tribe. Now, my dad had been to many psychics before this one, and they all claimed that they saw a tee-pee (I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling) in his past.

Answer 9

I havn't been studing this subject, but asking questions from my grandma. She believes that our spirts are passed on. We have many odd stories in our family, but anyway... she says that we get to choose our lives before we live them. WOW. That blew me away. People choose to have their life so that they have to learn a certain lesson. Ma says that we live once in each astrological sign to learn the lessons of each. I haven't completely wrapped my head around everything, but what really made me think was that people choose their life to learn a lesson. For instance, people who are vicitims of murder, rape... etc. They choose that life because they love the spirit of the person who did it to them to help that person learn their lesson. I don't know if I really believe that but it's an example for you!

Answer 10

The idea was also entertained by some Ancient Greek
philosophers. Many modern Pagans also believe in
reincarnation as do some New Age movements, along with
followers of Spiritism, practitioners of certain
African traditions, and students of esoteric
philosophies.

It later became a part of the Kabbalistic teaching. The
teaching occurred among the early Christians,
especially the Gnostics, Manichaeans, and the Carthari.
In AD 533, reincarnation was declared a heresy by the
Council of Constantinople.

Reincarnation in Buddhism. Reincarnation in Taoism.
Reincarnation in modern thinking.
http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation.html
http://www.pastlifetimes.net/psychic_phone_readings_psychic_research_empowered.htm

Edgar Cayce claimed to be in touch with many of his
past lives.
http://www.skepdic.com/reincarn.html

There are eight words used in the theosophical
philosophy in connection with Reimbodiment, which are
not all synonymous, although some of these eight words
have almost the same specific meaning. They are:
Pre-existence, Rebirth, Reimbodiment, Palingenesis,
Metensomatosis, Transmigration, Reincarnation.
http://www.crystalinks.com/reincarnation.html

QUOTES FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE ABOUT REINCARNATION
REINCARNATION IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
REINCARNATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
REINCARNATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
REINCARNATION IN THE JEWISH KABBALAH
http://www.reincarnation.ws/

From the Totem Pole our American Indians to the hideous
effigies of Deity in Asia; from the Chinese Joss to the
beautiful Altar in the Christian Cathedral, the same
fact is in evidence, that from somewhere down through
the remote and obscure ages, humanity has been invested
with the truth - the truth that there is another life.
http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_reincarnationir.htm

Today belief in reincarnation is popular in New Age and
Neopagan circles.
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation

Under hypnosis, numerous people recall the details of
previous lives, even to the point of taking on the
personalities of their former selves - and speaking in
foreign languages!
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa041700a.htm

Cases of children who claim to remember previous lives;
http://www.prebirthexperience.com/The%20Life%20Beyond.htm
http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/v19/n4/bookReview-Life-Before-Life.html

How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child,
Written by Carol Bowman
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553574852&view=excerpt

Past-life recall of adults: Recognition of people at
first sight; Recollection triggered by objects,
pictures or books; Recollection triggered by similar
situations; Recollection under extraordinary
circumstances.
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/rein/tendamcontents.htm

A large number of books on para-psychology
describe cases of persons who claim to remember
previous lives:
http://istina.rin.ru/eng/para/text/639.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/ian-stevenson

Leon Denis and Gabriel Delanne became the main pillars of the
reincarnationist school in France. The general evidence they relied on
was fourfold: (1) infant prodigies, (2) spontaneous recollection of past
lives, (3) exploration of memory under hypnosis, and (4) the claims
announced of coming reincarnation.
http://www.answers.com/topic/reincarnation

A LAWYER PRESENTS THE EVIDENCE FOR THE AFTERLIFE:
Victor Zammit. LEADING BRITISH LAWYER ACCEPTS AFTERLIFE
Dr. Aubrey Rose, a leading British Human Rights lawyer,
has stated in his recent book "The Rainbow Never Ends"
that he totally accepts the evidence for the existence
of the afterlife.

From some twenty years of afterlife research: There is
nothing more important, nothing as critical, as
significant and vital as communicating with afterlife
intelligences which has now become the greatest
discovery in human history."
http://www.victorzammit.com/

As one study in Northern India showed, reincarnation
memories were reported only once out of 500 people
interviewed. Thus, reincarnation cases are not as
common as Westerners have a tendency to think, although
higher rates of reincarnation memories have actually
been documented among some indigenous peoples,
including Native Americans.
http://www.esalenctr.org/display/confpage.cfm?confid=9&pageid=93&pgtype=1

AMNESIA - The universality of reincarnation and the
preservation of psychological structure: A biological
theory.
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/amnesia.html

Repressed memories of past life experience can lead to
depression in the aging population, according to a
professor at Kansas State University.
http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/listdepression41201.html