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Rule -> RE: past lives (9/20/2006 7:25:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
my own experience suggests to me that time itself is an illusion and as a result of that, everything that is, exists in the same moment, but this is something we do not experience because we see ourselves as separate from everything that is.
To the divine, being 'outside' of time, everything that is, indeed exists in the same eternal 'moment'.
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
The same experience suggests to me that rebirth is real, and that rebirth into any time and place is possible
Indeed, mythology is quite clear: rebirth does happen. However, there is also a suggestion concerning evaluation of worthiness, with being discarded and lost to oblivion as a consequence if not worthy.
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
, but that the people we are now are unique combinations of elemental "soul" aspects that have come from and will go to different combinations when we die.
Quite. My thoughts exactly. Our minds are composed of different, independent parts and if rebirth occurs, those parts may be redistributed and recombined in a new combination with 'foreign' parts.
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
This leads to the strange situation that we might recall memories from past lives that have not yet happened in our timeline, where we are now.
Quite. Hypothetically.
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
I wonder if anyone has "future memories" like that? Deja vu would not count for this, in the sense that we experience these instance in this life, though they might point to the idea that everything is in the same moment in reality.
I have had few deja view experiences. Usually they strike hard, but fleetingly. Observing and memorizing something before becoming aware of the same, may be one explanation.
There is or was a Dutch author who had memories of majestic buildings in a large city and who wrote about them. After the Berlin wall had fallen he visited the city and then he realized that his memories were about Berlin and that their origin was a visit to Berlin that he and his parents had made in his very early childhood - possibly during or before the second world war.
Memories - whether false or correct - are important, because they define who we are. Other than that - unless the memories are in some way relevant - these are the cards that we have been dealt and those we should play. Never mind the hands that we may have been dealt in hypothetical other lives.
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