Never Having to Say You're Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation in America

Christian Post ^ | 09/02/2010 | Albert Mohler Jr.

[Abin Sur]

Yep. And somebody in the world was once Hitler in their past life. I wonder who?

That reminds me of a short story I once read. Time travelers from the far future show up in Hitler's bunker and convince him to leave with them (they leave a duplicate body so as not to cause a paradox). It seems that with all their science, they have determined that that's no afterlife, no Heaven or Hell...so they create a Hell just for Adolph. The story ends with Hitler seeing his destination, and screaming.

[I still care]

I remember that, but that was perhaps the beginning of the tree that bears this rotten fruit.

[Little Ray]

Actually the one the best “documented” cases of “reincarnation” was Bridey Murphy. She was neither rich, nor famous.

I don’t know what lies beyond the veil. I just trust in Christ, and pray that his grace will cover me. But I do like Kipling:

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They will come back—come back again, as long as the red Earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?

The Sack Of The Gods
Rudyard Kipling

[Abin Sur]

I remember that, but that was perhaps the beginning of the tree that bears this rotten fruit.

In the United States perhaps, but you can go beyond that to Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer in 18th Century Europe.

People have been believing in supernatural nonsense (redundant, I know) for as long as we've been people.

[caww]

It seems that in our culture today anything goes at every level of society, that includes religion. Reincarnation indeed offers an escape from ones responsibilities for the choices they make...they can always blame a past life experience playing out in this life. It is a huge cop-out!

Eastern Gurus have had for years a clear agenda to implant eastern practices within our society as well as the churches. Yoga and the like within our schools and organizations was one of the first steps...and we see this now being practiced.

There was a recent photo of Michelle Obama praying in that manner common to those who do various Yoga and or Eastern practices. Which evidences her understanding of Christianity is lacking greatly. The idea one is not actually practicing a eastern religion is hog-wash....the chants etc. are indeed calling on a particular false God or entity....mantra.

The US is ripe to believe whatever deception is out there as they depart from the basics of Christianity thought and practice. Reincarnation is in direct opposition to Christianity....as well the Eastern religions who have introduced it to this country. When a nation turns it's back on God you can be sure a counterfeit will replace Him and generally one whose focus is on self...which is the hallmark of all Eastern religions.

[SeekAndFind]

RE:
Time travelers from the far future show up in Hitler’s bunker and convince him to leave with them (they leave a duplicate body so as not to cause a paradox).

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Did you get the chance to watch the modern version of Twilight Zone ( in color ) where a woman was given the chance to return to the past and undo history by being the baby sitter of Adolf Hitler when he was a baby in order to kill him while he was an infant ?

It was narrated by Academy Award winner Forrest Whitaker.

[dartuser]

he published an account of his treatment of a woman by hypnotizing her and assisting her to remember several past lives.

Why did she need his assistance if she was the one that experienced it? This is a total crock of sheite.

[ml/nj]

Just why is it most of the people remembering past lives are someone famous or rich? Wackos.

You might read Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives by Dr. Jim Tucker who is associated with the University of Virginia, or even just read the reviews at Amazon. I have a scientific education, and no tradition of belief in reincarnation, but I thought Tucker's evidence assuming it to be real, was pretty interesting.

None of the accounts Tucker gives has anything to do with anyone rich or famous.

ML/NJ

[Da_Shrimp]

Adults who have been regressed can easily be dismissed - they’ve read novels, seem plays, studied history and so under hypnosis regurgitate any old thing. What interests me, though, are cases of spontaneous memories, apparently of past lives, from young children. Not saying I believe in it, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

[Abin Sur]

Did you get the chance to watch the modern version of Twilight Zone ( in color ) where a woman was given the chance to return to the past and undo history by being the baby sitter of Adolf Hitler when he was a baby in order to kill him while he was an infant ?

It was from the third Twilight zone series (2002). The episode is called "Cradle of Darkness".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Darkness_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

I only have the first and second Twilight Zone series, I may have to pick up the third.

[martin_fierro]

I came back as ... myself!

[Abin Sur]

A good summation of reincarnation from The Skeptic's Dictionary:

http://www.skepdic.com/reincarn.html

[Tijeras_Slim]

That’s what you get for choosing the shortest line.

[SunkenCiv]

[Psalm 144]

Just why is it most of the people remembering past lives are someone famous or rich?

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Or noble or dramatic.

No one remembers being a toothless ratcatcher in Elizabethan London, or pulling a honeywagon in Korea in 1920.

[this_ol_patriot]

I don't know that show but these things usually end up bad.

For example the baby sitter kills the original baby Adolf Hitler but the parents steal a replacement baby from an orphanage and name him Adolf Hitler too, who then becomes the Hitler we know, meanwhile the orphanage burns down sans “Hitler” so the tyrants life is actually saved by the babysitter.