" I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim > that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama > guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see > that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any > *number* of famous people. Wasn't anyone ever the > scullery maids and the cooks and the janitors? :-)"
Not to mention the "math" problem that there are so many more people alive today than any time in history. (Let me guess, other planets with people on them waiting to get on to earth?) I guess the people who remember their past lives just happen to come from here. But with only one billion estimated in 1802 in the world, our current 6 bill makes the odds that only those people remember not one but often many past lives pretty far out doesn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population Here is a chart of the world's population that is very revealing. If reincarnation was real we should be getting so many detailed reports from these other planets, really wacky stuff. But then I might just be missing that section in the bookstore! Instead we get reports about people being one of the tiny groups of people we know about! I think your skepticism is warranted. For me the stories of memories of past lives are a testament to the wonderfully generative and compellingly creative quality of our minds and memories. There is a great story about Bridy Murphy who had gone to a world's fair and seen a detailed medieval village in miniature as a child. Years later she remembered details about her "past" life in those times it was taken as proof of the theory until the true nature of her "memories" were uncovered. Our minds are fascinating! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > Who knows? It's interesting to think that one's physical > > remains from previous lives are probably still scattered > > around the world in various graves. > > I was once standing in a museum, on a "field trip" > there with a buncha other Rama students, and found > myself fascinated by an Egyptian mummy. It wasn't > that pretty a mummy :-), just a buncha bones and > brown skin wrapped in rags, but I was fascinated > anyway. At that moment Rama walked by, poked me > in the side, and said, "Yep, that was you." > > That and the proverbial three bucks...Starbucks, etc. > > I personally have no memories of the Egyptian period > or any intuitive "feel" for having been there, so it > might even take five bucks at Starbucks. :-) > > As a kid I had dreams five or six times a month for > maybe ten years of myself swordfighting, using a long > sword held two-handed, in a fighting style unlike > anything I'd ever seen in the movies. It took me > seeing my first Japanese samurai film to "get" the > fighting style, and where and when the dreams might > have been glimpses of. Might have been. I can't be > sure, of course. I've had similar dreams of life in > Tibet, again starting from an early age, again > before I knew that there was such a place as Tibet > or what it looked like. > > The only one I'm fairly sure of is that I paid my > dues as a Cathar perfecti at one point. When I go to > the Cathar chateaux and other areas frequented by > them here in France, I tend to have rather intense > visual flashbacks, and can often tell the people > touring the chateau with me what we'll find in the > next rooms and what they'll look like, before we > get there. None of us has been there before this time > around. They're usually freaked out by this; I have > begun to accept it as fairly normal. Go figure. > > That said, all of these flashes don't really mean > much of anything, do they? They don't help us much > with our self discovery this time around much, unless > we can pinpoint some samskara in the past that still > needs work in the present. > > I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim > that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama > guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see > that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any > *number* of famous people. Wasn't anyone ever the > scullery maids and the cooks and the janitors? :-) >
