Stephen, you are making a huge assumption when you say that past lives
are not remembered. I suggest you read the books by Dr. Ian Stevenson
(MD). Prof. Stevenson spent his career at the University of Virginia
investigating reincarnation using a scientific approach. Naturally, his
extensive investigation has been largely ignored because, as you point
out, it defies physical and conventional understanding. Nevertheless,
evidence exists for past-life memories, especially in children. This
life might not be a waste after all.
Ed
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
OrionWorks wrote:
Philip sez:
...
People are where they are because it's where they
are, as "part of the dream." My approach is, "live
with it." go out, have a coffee and a bagel (or some
nice organic bread) and get on with life. There's
room enough for everyone, and everyone can make good,
as long as they work for everything, and don't try to
plunder what the next man has.
This strikes me as incredibly naive. And yet, it is precisely how I
try to live my life each day. I often feel like I'm not very good at
it - living up to this interpretation of the Golden Rule. It is
nevertheless a worthy goal to strive towards each day, one day at a
time.
Perhaps in ten or twelve more lifetimes I'll get the hang of it. ;-)
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way; there isn't any "practice
effect" among incarnated beings.
Memory is organic, mediated by the hippocampus and related brain
"hardware". Consequently at the end of your life, you'll leave that all
behind; in your next life you won't remember anything about Steve
Johnson, and, considering how outnumbered humans are among the sentient
creatures, chances are you won't even remember anything about what it's
like to be human. You'll just have to start over from scratch, and make
the best of it as a gerbil or whatever your consciousness happens to be
stuck in next time around.
How we're supposed to get anywhere with a system like this beats me.
Baklava, anyone?
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
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