--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- 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. >
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