Reincarnation Thoughts

it's kind of interesting you used the term \"old soul\"...when i was in the navy my 3rd apprentice as well as all my friends always called me that

in high school it was the same thing, everyone said i was too mature, because i saw things differently then them and acted differently.

it can be difficult looking younger then i actually am, and thinking older then i am...

i've had psychics do readings on me and been told by them that i possess \"wisdom beyond my years\", under normal circumstances i would be skeptical of most psychics, however these 2 had been able to identify my personality without having ever met me before, i know the whole \"cold reading\" trick and i wanted to make sure they weren't using it...they never asked me anything. i've done enough research of my own on psychic's to know that some people that claim to be psychic are frauds but there are enough legitimate ones to warrant a degree of belief.

it's possible sometimes that the people we meet, we've already met before and are simply drawn back...

Yes there is a theory I read once that said we all travel through time and lives as a close knit group. it claimed that our close friends and family have been around each other through many incarnations, playing different roles each time around. The person who is your sister today, may have been your tent buddy during the civil war, and you may have been her wife during her incarnation as a witch doctor in Africa...interesting theory

My wife shares much of what you were saying, she has been described along the same lines. She has much insight to many things, receives signs, dreams, and often knows of deaths in the family a day or two before, that sort of thing. A psychic once called her 'an old soul' and said that she is psychic, Calling her a 'telephone'.
Incedently, she considers most psychics as frauds. and her biggest wish...is to loose her ability (burden she calls it) for ever.

The idea of reincarnation and past lives is a very interesting topic indeed.

that's eerie again...the day my brother died i knew the moment it happened(i felt it but didn't know what the feeling was untill 936pm that night), then the day my dad died i had that same feeling again at the exact time it happened, even his 3 dogs seemed to know at the same time i did. within a few mins of that my mom called from the hospital to tell me (what i already knew)

as i said with the deja vu, it's happened way too often to be a fluke...especially after i wrote down a couple of them only to see it happen years later exactly as i wrote down...

she really shouldn't think of it as a bad gift/ability, nor should it be thought of as a burden, sometimes these are given to us for a purpose, we just need to find that purpose and what was once a burden becomes a blessing. not obtaining that purpose could (in buddhism) be a possible cause for being reborn.

it comes in handy when driving...i've avoided many accidents by knowing what was about to happen....if you'd like to see a pretty good movie on the subject watch \"next\" with nicholas cage in it.

that's eerie again...the day my brother died i knew the moment it happened(i felt it but didn't know what the feeling was untill 936pm that night), then the day my dad died i had that same feeling again at the exact time it happened, even his 3 dogs seemed to know at the same time i did. within a few mins of that my mom called from the hospital to tell me (what i already knew)

as i said with the deja vu, it's happened way too often to be a fluke...especially after i wrote down a couple of them only to see it happen years later exactly as i wrote down...

she really shouldn't think of it as a bad gift/ability, nor should it be thought of as a burden, sometimes these are given to us for a purpose, we just need to find that purpose and what was once a burden becomes a blessing. not obtaining that purpose could (in buddhism) be a possible cause for being reborn.

it comes in handy when driving...i've avoided many accidents by knowing what was about to happen....if you'd like to see a pretty good movie on the subject watch \"next\" with nicholas cage in it.

Just to throw another concept into the arena - given 'time' is a human invention and concept - should it then not be the case if everything is cyclic in nature - sooner or later - were going to 'bump' into the same 'spirits'.

Also - if the human population is ever increasing (as it is at present) where to the 'new' spirits come from? are we getting lots of blank sheets with some 'recycled' ones thrown in?

if you look at the hindu concept of reincarnation we don't always come back in the same form ie human...some come back as bugs, or other \"lower animals\" karma dictates the form you return in...just a thought

Yup - which poses another issue in my little grey cell - if folk 'remember' being a knight or samurai (all the usual predictable things) then why does no one remember being a mouse or chicken or dog or t-rex....

Just a weird observation of mine :lol:

MTFBWY - A

lol cuz my brain wasn't big enough to hold memories..(t-rex peabrain):laugh:

In my last life - I was a hamster - ill tempered, short sighted and slept all day, ate all night and hoarded what I liked best :lol:

BTW - I doubt t-rex was such a peabrain - very few if any mid to top ranked predators are/were dumb and while olde rex wasnt the biggest hunter around - (s)he sure had the tools for the job

most predators rarely are dimwitted....they simply get viewed that way....wouldn't it be hilarious to travel back in time and discover that dino's were rocket scientists...and died cuz they were too smart for their own good