Quite right Ed. For an interesting story on this, read any of the biographies of Edgar Cayce - "The Sleeping Prophet"
P.. ----- Original Message ---- From: Edmund Storms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:10:08 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds 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 >> www.zazzle.com/orionworks >> > >
