He doesn't want to talk about the Cathars anymore. You are forgetting
your take-down of Barry over on alt.religion.gnostic where Barry got
poked fun at for not realizing that "bogomils are derived from
Paulicans, Paulicans from Manicheans, Manicheans from Gnostics. thus
Cathars are derived from Gnostics. Moggers can understand this simple
fact, 'cletantra can't." - Klaus Schilling
On 11/13/2013 5:26 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*FWIW, when Barry first announced on alt.m.t that he was leaving the
U.S. to live in Europe some years ago (2004? 2003? can't remember), he
told us he was taking this step so he could write (or finish?) his
novel about the Cathars.*
*
*
*We haven't heard anything about that novel since, as far as I can
recall.*
*Seraphita wrote:*
Re "I'm in the same room of a castle, or in the courtyard of a large
city like Carcassonne . . " and
"Papal Palace in Avignon, realizing that I had not only been there
before but been tortured (probably to death) there.":
Aha! So you are claiming you were a Cathar in a previous life. As in
"The Cathars & Reincarnation" by Arthur Guirdham (first edition 1970)
up to "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and
present-day France and published in 2005.
Two possibilities:
1) your imagination has been hyper-activated by reading too much on
this popular theme.
2) you really were a Cathar and your present incarnation is a
continuation of the spiritual life you led back then. So your interest
in FFL.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, s3raphita wrote:
>
> I was going to say this: If I was to find myself suddenly in a
past-life - let's say in Elizabethan London - I'd take careful note of
what clothes the people around me wore, what food they ate, what the
houses looked like, etc. and then when I returned I'd check
against the
best-available historical evidence. Here's the thing though: if
you were
to have a past-life recall can you alter what you're thinking or
doing?
If it's a far-memory of "you" in a previous life is the you that's
"you
in the 21st century having the recall" able to change anything?
I cannot speak to hypothetical situations like yours. I can only say
what it was like for me.
For me it was *not* like lucid dreaming, which I have practiced and
gotten good enough at that I could change things in the dream to suit
myself. The flashes I've had were all short-lived -- thirty seconds to
at most a couple of minutes -- during which I was completely
immersed in
the scene. I *did* seem to have some volition, in that I could
decide to
try to talk to someone, and pull that off, but it was not the "I'm in
control of this vision" kinda thang one experiences with lucid
dreaming.
I never sought any of these flashes, nor am I interested in doing so
now. They just happened, almost always when I was in the physical
location where the original events took place. That's the part
that's so
much FUN about whatever it is. I'm in the same room of a castle, or in
the courtyard of a large city like Carcassonne, and one moment I'm
"here
and now" and the next I'm "here and then."
The overall scene doesn't change, just the details -- like what people
are wearing, eating, etc. I guess I could have been more Sherlock
Holmes-y about it, but frankly each time it's happened it's come
as such
a surprise and been so thoroughly entertaining that I just allowed
myself to be entertained.
