--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had a roommate once years ago who was very into > New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went > weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home > bursting to share with me the past lives the > spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to > Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of > Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), > etc., etc. > > One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your > life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" > > Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I > wonder > why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about > that > one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next > time." I can only see the value of farting around with past lives is not in the intellectual understanding of them, but the unstressing of samskaras that they have created and that are carried on in the chitta. Other than that, who cares. > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
