[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread george_deforest
Peter wrote: I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that helps you unstress impressions from previous lifetimes. It was pretty interesting. The past lives that came up were a roman general (I was involved in logistics and troop support, not direct combat.) I died of a heart

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and, i'm pretty sure i was a monk in medieval Ireland, this one feels the most certain. In that case, you'd almost certainly enjoy the wonderful book, How the Irish Saved Civilization.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: At that moment Rama walked by, poked me in the side, and said, Yep, that was you. Did any of the older Rama students point out that the historical Buddha didn't teach reincarnation? There has to be a reincarnating soul monad in order to reincarnate. I wonder if the Zen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread new . morning
Do you two, and others who have identified some past life: do you identify with that person? Some jyoptishis (probably with some psychic abilities) have told me what I was in the past. While it seems to fit, I don't particualry relate or identify with that person. Similar with my past lives /

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Janet Luise
And then there's Yoga Vashista with that world within world in a room where all the so named past lives were all taking place at the same instant... After all isn't TIME just a division for us un-united beings who are still dealing with individualized self-interest? Meher Baba talks about a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread new . morning
With the film analogy, Rick's. recently posted exchange with friends come to mind. Like two actors meeting 30 years after having done college drama together. Guy1: So you are still doing community theatre like when I last saw you? Guy2: Yeah, its the greatest. Its by far the fastest track to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the film analogy, Rick's. recently posted exchange with friends come to mind. Like two actors meeting 30 years after having done college drama together. Guy1: So you are still doing community theatre like when

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Duveyoung
I read a quote from Lawrence Olivier about what makes actors tick. He said, Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. So, actors are normal people after all, eh? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:20 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Finally the young actor asked Olivier, Larry...how do you DO this? Olivier looked at the young fellow and said, It's called ACTING. You should try it someday. That was to Dustin Hoffman, supposedly. Also a great actor, just different--

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:20 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Finally the young actor asked Olivier, Larry...how do you DO this? Olivier looked at the young fellow and said, It's called ACTING. You should try it someday.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Can't say I ever quite grokked what the Method method was all about. Whatever it's about, though, sure seems to have produced a lot of great acting. Probably a lot of divorces and breakups, too. And that's the result of the acting method

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Can't say I ever quite grokked what the Method method was all about. Whatever it's about, though, sure seems to have produced a lot of great acting. Probably

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 10, 2007, at 12:54 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Can't say I ever quite grokked what the Method method was all about. Whatever it's about, though, sure seems to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread george_deforest
new.morning wrote: Do you two, and others who have identified some past life: do you identify with that person? Some jyoptishis (probably with some psychic abilities) have told me what I was in the past. While it seems to fit, I don't particualry relate or identify with that person.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helen Wambaugh did a lot of data gathering using a simple recollection technique in large groups over a couple of years. She obtained past-life recall memories for 30,000+ people. The overwhelming response she

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure it was 30,000 people, more like 1,000, at least from what I found on the Web. In any case, her findings were quite striking in a number of respects. She had apparently set out to *disprove*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip When your old, toothless and tettering like me - help me booduh gay-reb dora-jay - (provided for Vaj) then remembering anything is like a convincing proof that the cause of this moment is the preceding moment.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that helps you unstress impressions from previous lifetimes. It was pretty interesting. I have not done SSRS's eternity process although I have talked with teachers who have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Peter
--- emptybill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that helps you unstress impressions from previous lifetimes. It was pretty interesting. I have not done SSRS's eternity

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of emptybill Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:40 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations If you go back and follow your link to the wiki page

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-10 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 11:39 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations Some of these method guys and gals really DO get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who knows? It's interesting to think that one's physical remains from previous lives are probably still scattered around the world in various graves. I was once standing in a museum, on a field trip there with a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any *number* of famous people. Wasn't anyone ever the scullery maids and the cooks and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the math problem that there are so many more people alive today than any time in history. (Let me guess, other planets with people on them waiting to get on to earth?) I guess the people who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Mark Twain once said, I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna. This is a keeper.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 8:10 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations I'm always amused by the New Age tendency

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any *number* of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I am positive I was mostly one of the unwashed and forgotten masses doing menial work during the majority of my near countless past lives.:-) And this life is different? :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: And I am positive I was mostly one of the unwashed and forgotten masses doing menial work during the majority of my near countless past

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread Janet Luise
Not to mention the math problem that there are so many more people alive today than any time in history. (Let me guess, other planets with people on them waiting to get on to earth?) Yes, Meher Baba said there were so many more people on earth now because they wanted to be on earth at the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: snip Or, for that matter, if you've got some idea who *you* might have been in a previous incarnation, do tell. How do you know that it isn't genetic memory (if there is such a thing) or a past

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread bob_brigante
One of Patanjali's sutras (not one of the sutras taught by the TMO currently) is about knowing past lives: III. 18. By the practice of the threefold discipline on the inherent tendencies, and by the direct perception of such tendencies, knowledge of previous existence arises.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread emptybill
If you go back and follow your link to the wiki page, then go down to the last three (3) lines just above the references section at the bottom, you will see the following information: According to 2002 data:[14] · The number who have ever been born is 106,456,000,000 · The world

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread emptybill
Helen Wambaugh did a lot of data gathering using a simple recollection technique in large groups over a couple of years. She obtained past-life recall memories for 30,000+ people. The overwhelming response she catalogued does not fit our usual prejudgments bases upon the self-deluded musings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread martyboi
I know someone who claims he is sometimes aware of living several lives simultaneously right now - and sometimes there's even a little leakage, so that he has trouble keeping it all sorted. Did that event happen to the me in this body, or to the me in another one of the bodies? So perhaps,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread Peter
I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that helps you unstress impressions from previous lifetimes. It was pretty interesting. The past lives that came up were a roman general (I was involved in logistics and troop support, not direct combat.) I died of a heart attack in that one. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread new . morning
I have had at least 18,000 or so past lives. I remember many of them, some sort of blur together. Some totally forgotten. Some are quite similar, others are as different as day an night. Each day is a new life, a new beginning, a new chance to look at things freshly, a new opprotunity to be free

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each day is a new life, a new beginning, a new chance to look at things freshly, a new opprotunity to be free of yesterday's stuff. The life I lived 30 years ago is quite different from my recent and current lives.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations

2007-06-09 Thread curtisdeltablues
@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 8:10 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous