Do you believe in reincarnation/past lives?

I've met quite a few hippies who believe in reincarnaton and past lives, but personally I just don't buy it...it doesn't make any sense to me. What do you believe?

 

in his wisdom, the Noodly One created existence in a drunken adventure

 

I'd say yes because when I was younger I would very occasionally have dreams where I would notice having some sort of a weird hole in my throat, then I'd wake up scared to touch my throat in case there was a hole there. Anyway, it occurred to me much later on, after hearing about incisions being made in people's throats to allow them to breathe if they can't through their nose and mouth, that that might have happened to me in a past life, y'see, and being a child I would have remembered it if it had only been one life ago.

 

That's very interesting, Geranium. However, I have to ask, is it not possible that this is just a normal recurring dream? I had many dreams as a child about a strange, outdoor 'swimming-pool' type place, for lack of a better term, but I do not see why I should assume that this is connected to a 'past life'. My mother also recalls me saying something as a child about being in a horse and carriage, but it seems rather ludicrous to jump to the conclusion that I rode in a carriage in a past life...is it not much more likely that this was merely something I saw on TV or formulated myself? I always have had an overactive imagination and tendency to over-analyse.

By the way, I'm not attacking your beliefs or you, for that matter. Just speculating...I like to keep an open mind and draw conclusions based on what seems rational to me. People say that rationality goes out the window when the topic is spiritual, but in my opinion everything has some sort of rationality or logic to it, be it the type we as humans generally utilise or some other form (there are many forms of logic, believe it or not), otherwise it would be unable to function. So please don't take this as an insult or personal attack, I am just trying to explore the possible flaws in the case for reincarnation.

Peace. eace:

 

Don't worry, it's not taken personally I get what you mean and really I have no way to answer the question, since my idea is truly no more than speculation either. There does seem to me to be logic behind the idea that reincarnation does happen. What I was trying to describe was not so much a couple of mostly long-forgotten dreams as a patchy memory of actually lying in a hospital bed with a breathing tube in my throat. I know that nothing of the sort has happened in this life yet still it seems so vivid, like a memory.

However, it is equally possible that it's nothing more than streak of lunatic imagination In all honesty, I don't know. But reincarnation seems a funny little idea and it makes me laugh a little to think about. So umm yeah, I'm not sure we'd ever be able to know Still I wish I could give a better explanation.

paix eace:

 

Yes I believe in reincarnation. It makes sense and there is so much in the world to experience and learn for just one life time.

Life seems pointless otherwise.

 

I'm almost positive that I remember a past life. I was born and raised in Ohio and I've never been outside the United States, but something about the language Gaelic really calls to me. I can't speak it or translate it, per say, but when I hear it sung I feel like I understand it. When I was a little kid I used to have these recurring dreams of lush, rolling hills and old castles.

 

I had a recurring dream when I was about 5 or 6 where I would be walking don a hallway and see a girl with really long blonde hair with really sgraggly clothes and I'd ask her who she was and she alays would say she was really me...

 

one of the things that point its way about reincarnationis the common event of people having phobias,the only way i can see things sometimes would point to reincarnation

 

I believe it... but mainly it's just because I don't want to think that our souls evaporate into nothingness... which could just as easily be the case. Or that we might not even have souls.

If I had solid proof of reincarnation, I'd kill myself right now. I can't deal with normal shit in this life.