--- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > An interesting tale from India. > > > > > > http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php? id=14488118&cid=2485&name=Don't > > >>
> Yep, it's almost Forrest Gumpian in nature. Almost everyone who describes past lives > seems to have been somebody famous. > This is getting to be a cliche, and it's not even true. Dr Ian Stevenson devoted 40 years to studying cases like this with a methodology as sound as you'll get under the circumstances and how many turned out to have been famous in their previous lives? er none. Have a read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research It's not actual "proof" of course but it is interesting. One of the main criticisms is that most of the cases studied are from cultures where reincarnation is the prevailing belief and people would even unconsciously encourage, but one of the most interesting stories I've come across was set in scotland and concerned a 5 year old who was convinced he was from an island called Barra where planes land on the beach which sounded far fetched to a regular visitor to scottish islands like myself. Read more if you like. http://www.pureinsight.org/pi/index.php?news=4244 A sceptic (like me) would say that maybe he got this information from a TV show. In fact would I consider anything rather than that souls survive death because, like the levitation debate, it would require tearing up the rule book and starting again.
