---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> ---In [email protected], <steve.sundur@...> wrote : Seems to me that knowledge of previous lives would be immensely useful, why do we forget it? Why do you think it would be so helpful? I think it could be counter productive. Putting it in an evolutionary context, the vast majority of people that ever lived were hunter gatherers. I think it would be highly useful to automatically know how to find water, how to avoid leopards etc. we are born as we are with minimal instincts and mental development (compared to other animals) because evolution favoured a more sophisticated culture which our brains need to learn from our parents. Any extra help would make this so much easier surely? That doesn't strike me as a very good hypothesis. I think a support network is already in place in terms of our survival skills when we are born because our community and family. That is how knowledge gets passed on. The past life theory holds that we are most likely to be born in a different time and a different place, so past life memories would be of limited value in that way. Nowadays, if evolution were known to be true we still had the skill and remembered everything we could bury a pot of cash and pick it up in our next life. Or get revenge on whoever it was that ran us over thus ending this one. You might say it just isn't set up to work like that but you'd just be multiplying entities beyond neccessity again. Occams razor. Anyway the burden of proof is always on the people with radical ideas so I'll wait until someone figures out a way of proving it. But not in denial though. I am not exactly sure what you are saying about entities, but if the past life theory is true, then there's either a flaw that we don't have recall of our previous lives, or there is just a benefit to starting off fresh. But if evolution is true, then each generation builds on the previous, so when you are reborn, you plug into the current progress. What is the point of carrying a lot of unnecessary (outdated) information. I have no real sympathy for it but the stories of the children that do remember things are fascinating. The Scottish boy who thought he lived on an island was taken there and behaved very oddly when they took him into what he thought was his house. It was quite upsetting to watch. I can see why anyone would have a job doubting his story. Lots of people wanted to get all James Randi on it and that would probably be impossible given the unpredictability and rarity of the phenomenon, not to mention it being potentially unfair on a three year old. I always look for the ways in which things can't work but remain curious as it's one of those things that I'd take to be sure-fire proof that we don't know anything about what's going on here at all. And that would be cool indeed.
