LaTigresse
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Forgive me for my previous sarcasm. I believe in reincarnation and former soul incarnations. But I do see a fragment of truth in what DG is saying. No one wants to believe they were not some romantic figure. The reality is that IF you believe in past lives, you must also understand that just as today, all days past had less than wonderful human beings. SOMEONE today, no matter how wonderful they are now, some of us had to be those horrible individuals. Which some teachers in this type of belief feel is what holds us back from remembering. Our minds today, may not be able to process the people we were in the past, the acts we committed. Imagine if you will, Holly being the tender hearted woman she is today, finding out that she was once a person that destroyed innocent young lives in a horrible way! What could that do to her today to find this out? So the irony that DG was eluding to, that those that believe only wish to believe or be told they were shining stars of the past. Or at the very least a humble gentle soul. But never to know that perhaps, a past life causing pain, then another suffering similarly......those are what we do not wish to hear. They are not romantic or pretty. However, if you believe in the concept you have to open your mind to the fact that someone today was Prince Vladd in times past. The reason I doubt we are always the same sort of person is that the concept of multiple lives is growth. It has been suggested that it might be that, one that suffers a horrible life today at the hands of another, was in a past life the one that created the suffering. Who knows but to me it makes sense. Learning through our physical lives on our path to enlightenment.
< Message edited by LaTigresse -- 1/8/2010 12:22:17 PM >
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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