--- In [email protected], meltem uzun <umeltem@...> wrote:
>
>  Hi, I'm a new member... My baby son died two weeks ago. And I'm 
> wondering about rebirth of him. I've always believed in 
> reincarnation. And everyday every moment i call him to the world,
> to life again... Just do not know if there are some methods of
> it... or it is really possible... If you tell about your ideas
> i'll be so happy...  thank you... meltem

meltem, so very sorry to hear this. Condolences and virtual
hugs to you.

My views only: There's no way we can know whether reincarnation
is really possible or how it might work. Some people have pretty
vivid experiences of what they believe are their past lives, but
the imagination can do powerful things. There are also cases
for which there seems to be actual evidence, in which a person 
appears to know things about the past that they couldn't have
known if they hadn't been there. Again, though, it's virtually 
impossible to prove.

For me reincarnation is hypothetical. I can't say I'm convinced
of it, but I can't rule it out either. It does seem to have
explanatory value in many respects for what we observe of how
people are and how the world works, and it can be a very
comforting idea when you've lost someone precious. I don't see
any harm in entertaining this idea, especially during the time
of your most acute grief.

Whether there are ways of calling your son back to the world,
I have no idea. My personal feeling is that whatever one might
hope for in this regard, it would be better not to have the
expectation that one will see it fulfilled. The most one can
do, it seems to me, is to send one's yearning out into the
universe, and then gently let it go.

My heart aches for you. I'll hold you in my thoughts.


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