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Evidence of past life?
jll
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How do you explain this case?
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Here's another one:
Glad we got all that settled.
P.S. Coming to any definitive conclusions on such matters based on a few videos is an excellent example of grasping.
As I read in a book once, "Belief is not required. You will reincarnate whether you believe in it or not." that is how I tend to believe of when we die, regardless of whether it's actually reincarnation or not. I don't think Christians go to heaven, Buddhists are reborn, Hindus reincarnate, atheists just poof out. What we believe does not change what truly happens after we die. It just makes it easier for us to get on with life when we feel we have an answer to the question.
Anyhow, I'm off track. I really enjoy these types of stories. I remember watching some shows about it on tv many years ago (I think it was Unsolved Mysteries, the one with Robert Stack) yet most often people with very vivid memories couldn't find historical support so I always found that interesting. I've read a lot of books on it and regardless of exactly what I feel about it, I find it fascinating.
"But when the Blessed One says to me, 'At the break-up of the body, after death, one who gives, who is a master of giving, reappears in a good destination, the heavenly world,' that I do not know. That is where I go by conviction in the Blessed One."
"So it is, Siha. So it is. At the break-up of the body, after death, one who gives, who is a master of giving, reappears in a good destination, the heavenly world."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.034.than.html
Somes books I like to recommend on this subject are Life before Life, Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation and 20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Again, it's all fairly circumstantial, but it sure is interesting and has helped shape my beliefs on the matter.
Sorry to answer your question with the question it's the best answer I can come up with, and thanks for yours.
Overall, despite a few problems with details, Miller's work has held up over the decades as at least having gone in the right direction.
Some time has past and I've remembered some things about my childhood. My mom said she was a little shocked that I talked so much about death at such an early age. I remember when I was very very young I believed in past lives. I mean really young. I also remember thoughts I would have in elementary school like thinking it was against the rules to talk to girls. I remember when I was a little older in school we had school assemblies and we were taught to sit cross legged in the gymnaseum. I remember wanting to sit for hours and boast to my friends about how much I love sitting like that and that I want to do it for a long time. I remember laying down on the stage when I was playing with my friends playing dead and that the thought came up in my mind that I was meditating on death. When I joined karate I started crying and noone knew why because it was over our class changing to red robes. We did one day of meditation in karate and it made me very happy and peaceful and wondered if everyone else became like that and why we didn't do it more if they were. A monk on youtube said that some people become peaceful very quickly and easily when they first start meditating because they meditated alot in previous life, that they did the work.
It's hard to admit but I pretty much do believe that I was a monk. But of course it doesn't matter.